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Opinion

GOP has seen the John James movie before

Editorials and columns

Michigan Republicans face a simple question in the Aug. 4 primary.Do they want to nominate a candidate for governor who gives them the best chance of winning in November? Or do they want to replay a political script that has already produced the same ending? If the answer is the latter, then ...

My visit to the data center

Editorials and columns

Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ. A "cloud," by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of ...

What Americans can learn from World Cup fans

Editorials and columns

The World Cup showed why you shouldn't be ashamed of America's heroes and heritage. While only Argentina and Spain made Sunday's World Cup final, citizens of many countries enthusiastically cheered on their teams. Norwegian fans became an internet phenomenon for their "Viking Row" cheer. ...

The new normal: Abnormal

Editorials and columns

There's poison in the air outside my house, a bitter smoke of ashes and hot freeway, and it is keeping us all inside. Yesterday morning, the kids' summer camp announced that the planned trip to the pool had been cancelled. They would do activities indoors all day. "How high can it get?" ...

Workers of the world aren’t uniting behind the DS

Editorials and columns

What did the country ever do to white college graduates to make them feel so disaffected from its economic and political system? The wave of socialist victories in Democratic primaries is being driven by well-educated white voters who are more extreme than the rest of the Democratic coalition. ...