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The City That Refused to Play Amazon’s Game

San Antonio told Jeff Bezos to beat it over a year before New York sent him packing.

Instead of looking at the real reasons students struggle, one Arkansas lawmaker wants to deny them school lunch funding.

I gave GM 20 years of my life. In return they took my job — and the government keeps rewarding them for it.

Jussie Smollett may have lied, but real hate crimes and harassment are on the rise. I’ve lived through it myself.

Can Bernie send “Count Trumpula” back to the shadows?

Hovering parents don’t need lectures. They need a more equal nation.

Safe injection sites and medication-assisted treatment may be controversial, but they work. We need them now.

If you can’t humble yourself to consider the feelings of those you’ve harmed, you can’t remain in office.

Indigenous Alaskans consider the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sacred land. So should other Americans.

I treated wounded GIs from Vietnam. I saw carnage that seldom makes its way into harrowing war stories like “They Shall Not Grow Old.”