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		<title><![CDATA[Jackie Calmes: What would Dolly do? Trump should learn from her life and legacy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, scrolling the TV channels, I happened upon a
documentary about Dolly Parton and started watching. Before long I
thought: "Boy, I needed this."

That evening came at the end of another week of wallowing in all
things Donald ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4285469</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: The Supreme Court is wrong on who controls elections]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S.
Constitution is clear that the states — and the states alone —
handle elections and the U.S.
Supreme Court is wrong to even open up the possibility that President
Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots can go
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4285169</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Should you need government permission to work?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea that states must shower subsidies on favored interests to
create jobs and juice their economies has, unfortunately, taken root
across the political spectrum. But Republicans and Democrats could save
the taxpayers plenty of treasure if ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4285167</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gustavo Arellano: Dolly Parton stood up for undocumented immigrants when few others would]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[My favorite Dolly Parton song is nowhere near her most famous and not
even among her best.

But if you want to honor the
late country music legend's legacy — a testament to the Gospel's
radical notions of love, acceptance and uplifting the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4285166</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Data centers should lower homeowners' property taxes, not raise them]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[More people would accept a nuclear power plant in their community
than a data center, according to recent Gallup
polling. Who would have predicted that even five years ago? 

The facilities needed to power the rise of artificial intelligence as
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4285165</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rochelle Olson: In an all-woman governor's race, how does the conversation keep coming back to men?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently tumbled into a social media post about the depths of underappreciation for
Curtis Sittenfeld’s 2020 novel “Rodham.”

I could relate. I’ve not read the book despite being a huge fan of
the Minneapolis-based author since her 2005 ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4285164</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lorraine Ali: Could Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's new travel show be making travel less safe?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a tale of two documentaries.

One is a lightweight reality series that follows a family’s trek
across the United States. The other is a powerful exposé on the safety
breaches that have caused deadly crashes and accidents on Boeing
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4285163</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[David M. Drucker: Can Congress pass big reforms anymore? Paul Ryan isn't sure]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democrats and Republicans, in Congress and the White House, once
collaborated on fraught legislation to address major public policy and
fiscal challenges: Social Security reform in 1983, Welfare reform in
1996, the Troubled Asset Relief Program of...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284926</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Combating a rising tide of visa fraud]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The State Department recently announced
it had revoked more than 175,000 visas since President Donald Trump took
office. Thanks to “continuous vetting,” it’s been able to yank the
visas from foreigners who abused our hospitality by ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284925</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Zen and governing in a time of politics as performance art]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[News reports and social media constantly remind us that today’s
political system rewards conflict, viral moments, and ideological
performance over thoughtful and courteous debate.

Tune into the melee, and it is as if every high-ranking official...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284922</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: (Don't fear) money in politics]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In late June, the
Supreme Court ruled against limits upon state political party
spending in federal elections. The specter of Money in Politics, already
looming large, grew several sizes. It begs the question, naturally: just
how much will all ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284918</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[COUNTERPOINT: Fossil fuel-driven climate change is worsening wildfire seasons]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like so many others, I spent late July choking on smoke as wildfires,
worsened by fossil-fueled climate change, raged across Canada and the
United States, as well as France, Greece, Spain and Turkey. People,
including firefighters, lost their ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284917</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: The freedom we celebrate at Burning Man]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, tens of thousands of people travel to Nevada’s Black
Rock Desert for a week devoted to radical self-expression—the freedom
to shed everyday constraints, explore, create and live more fully on
their own terms.

For one week, Burning...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284916</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Abby McCloskey: There's only one way to make AI safe for kids]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, complete with various safety
features. But this implies that the main concern of kids using AI is
their access to damaging content. If only.

Don’t get me wrong. The AI-assisted suicides, deepfakes and
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284915</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: US standing on human rights is falling fast, driven by failures at home]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening to politicians, it can be difficult to know how the U.S.
government is performing in terms of human rights.

Some have pointed to a number
of potential
human rights
abuses
committed by the U.S. government inside and outside its borders ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284913</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[POINT: The planet isn't burning, but the climate change narrative is]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barely a month after Canadian wildfire smoke drifted over large
swaths of the United States and set off climate alarmism, the panic has
crossed the Atlantic. 

In France, fires west of Bordeaux forced more
than 220,000 people to flee. In Spain, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284912</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: The Supreme Court needs to remind Trump he has no power over elections]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday allowing President Donald
Trump’s executive order on mail voting to go forward is stunningly
insensitive to the context: Trump is trying to exercise control over
elections when he has absolutely no ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284905</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Sacramento should save the program that is saving the grid]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your power bill is too high. Electricity prices have risen by as much
as 40%
since 2020, far outpacing overall inflation. And after decades of
nearly flat growth in energy consumption, data centers are driving up
grid demand for the first time in
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284903</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Eat local, help farmers, avoid pathogens]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened
more than 27,000 people in 47 states, causing more than 800
hospitalizations and two untimely deaths, many people are blaming the
federal government for letting its guard down on the monitoring of
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284403</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Canadian trade war doesn't help GOP candidates]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[History tells us that Republicans have an uphill climb this November
to keep control of the House — and perhaps the Senate. President
Donald Trump isn’t doing them a favor with his latest tariff threats
against Canada, this country’s second-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4284402</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/26/2026</pubDate>
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