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Leonard Pitts: Nickel prophets are a dime a dozen

Posted 9/14/2017 in National Columns

Froma Harrop: Chuck, Nancy and Donald: the part that mattered

Posted 9/13/2017 in National Columns

Donald Trump's deal with "Chuck and Nancy" has rained new angst on his party (the Republican Party).

Editorial cartoons for 9-11-17

Posted 9/11/2017 in National Columns

Leonard Pitts: Nothing to see here, say climate deniers

Posted 9/9/2017 in National Columns

Katia and Jose? Seriously? As if it were not bad enough that Houston is still drying out from Hurricane Harvey and South Florida is hunkered down in the face of Hurricane Irma, last week found the newly formed hurricanes Katia and Jose, respectively spinning in the Gulf of Mexico and whirling west across the Atlantic.

Froma Harrop: Time to remove Trump from the pilot's seat on trade

Posted 9/9/2017 in National Columns

Nuclear threats by North Korea frighten us and terrify South Koreans, who could suffer devastating losses in a conflict. But Donald Trump apparently sees the crisis as an occasion to threaten South Korea's economy, as well as its leadership's manhood.

Lenore Skenazy: The great GMO freakout

Posted 9/9/2017 in National Columns

It all began when a neighbor of filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy's sent a text asking whether she could borrow some organic milk. Kennedy texted back, "You can borrow some milk, but I don't have organic."

Patrick J. Buchanan: Trump dumps the do-nothing Congress

Posted 9/8/2017 in National Columns

Donald Trump is president today because he was seen as a doer not a talker. Among the most common compliments paid him in 2016 was, "At least he gets things done!"

Other Editors: Coast residents can do more than empathize with Harvey victims

Posted 9/8/2017 in National Columns

Twelve years ago Tuesday, Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast and changed our lives forever. In past years, the Sun Herald marked Aug. 29 by writing about the storm and the recovery of the Mississippi Coast.

Editorial Cartoon: 9-8-17

Posted 9/8/2017 in National Columns

Editorial Cartoon for 9-7-17

Posted 9/7/2017 in National Columns

Editorial Cartoon: 9/6/17

Posted 9/6/2017 in National Columns

Bernard Goldberg: Jumping the shark: the news media way

Posted 9/6/2017 in National Columns

It was the fifth season of the sitcom "Happy Days" and producers figured they needed something to boost the show's sagging ratings. So they had the gang leave industrial, blue-collar Milwaukee and head to Southern California, where everybody is beautiful and the sun always shines. And on Sept. 20, 1977 Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, better known to his pals simply as Fonzie, put on a pair of water skis, hopped into the Pacific Ocean and jumped over a shark.