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Posting Ten Commandments is a Performative Act

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Louisiana passed a law last week requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom in an act of performative religiosity. It...

Fate Doesn’t Reward Dreamers

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Have you ever whispered “I love you” to someone so softly, so quietly that you almost didn’t want them to hear? Have you cried...

What’s next for Spaceport America?

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It was glamour and glitz again as Virgin Galactic sent its last space tourists into the heavens this month. Now the company will fade...

Is Europe ahead of the United States?

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In the 27-member block of the European Union, conservative candidates identifying with the right won in Germany and France and are polling ahead in...

Religion Still Has Power in American Politics

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In 1996 I took a year off from journalism to attend seminary in Atlanta. The plan was to cram as much theology, sociology of...

Keeping Affordable Housing Affordable

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I’m haunted by an online post I saw recently. A young woman said she’d been homeless for months and living in her car. She...

Vacationing In-State On The Cheap

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I’m a big fan of vacations on the cheap, which is good, since I’ve seldom been able to afford anything first-class. Besides, top-dollar travel...

Don’t Let Them Do a Price Check on You, Know Your Worth

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By Javier Sanchez My very first job in high school was working as a checker at a big box discount grocery store. It was a...

New Mexico Betting on Losers

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By Paul Gessing Left, right, or center, economists tend to agree that “corporate welfare” is not good public policy or good economics. A recent Rasmussen poll...

Celebrating a Century of Route 66

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SANTA ROSA, N.M. — If you’re not aware of it yet, you will be soon enough. Route 66 is turning 100 years old in...

Doing journalism feels different in 2024 than it did decades ago

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For much of the past two weeks, I’ve found myself spending more hours than I can count responding to the arrest of a reporter...

Farm bill advocates to Congress: Get a move on

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The House Agriculture Committee recently delivered a draft farm bill. It was eight months after the old farm bill, about to expire, had to...
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