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The debate regarding the value of a college degree has resurfaced in the news recently. With tuition continuing to increase at universities and colleges across the country, many people have, as NBC News political reporter Ben Kamisar described, "grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream." Kamisar cited an NBC News ...Read more

Does it sometimes seem as though too many people have never learned the lessons of the schoolyard? If you capitulate to a bully, you will be bullied forever. If you stand up to him, he will back down. What's true on the playground is also true in the office, in politics and in international relations.

Standing up to bullies is not free of risk....Read more

After U.S. Border Patrol agents fatally shot Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti on Saturday, federal officials described him as a "domestic terrorist" and "would-be assassin" who "wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement." But the only evidence to support those characterizations was the fact that Pretti was carrying a concealed ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Now that Gregory Bovino has been jackbooted from his position as U.S. Border Patrol "commander at large" -- and unceremoniously demoted back to his former job as sector chief in El Centro, Calif. -- it's tempting to breathe a sigh of relief at the thought that evil has left the building.

Fellow Americans, you might want to hold ...Read more

When I read the news of civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passing away this month, I looked at a list of other civil rights visionaries who have died who were, like Colvin, not as well known. This includes Autherine Lucy, the University of Alabama's first Black student; Lucille Times, who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ...Read more

Throughout 2017 and into 2018, I hoped that a moment would come when Republicans would see Donald Trump clearly. But years ago, I accepted that the scales-falling-from-the-eyes revelation will never come for the MAGA faithful. They are too invested.

Still, as a recent Chicago Tribune report found, a small but significant percentage of 2024 ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- With so much going on, it's helpful to know not just what a column is about but also what it's not about.

This column is not about whether former Vice President Kamala Harris should have chosen Pennsylvania Gov. John Shapiro as her running mate in the 2024 election, or whether the rising star in the Democratic Party would have ...Read more

President Donald Trump, who has periodically threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act before reconsidering, performed that familiar two-step again last week. "I don't think I need it right now," Trump told reporters the day after he said he might deploy active-duty military personnel against "professional agitators and insurrectionists" in ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Americans have finally arrived at the point where we can take a deep breath and tally up the good, the bad and the ugly of President Donald Trump II at the end of year one.

First, it is crazy to think that it has only been about 365 days since Donald Trump's second inauguration. It seems much longer.

Part of the reason for that ...Read more

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MLK's Still-Powerful Message

In pausing to reflect on the Christ-centered teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this year, I reread his sermon "Loving Your Enemies" that he delivered...Read more