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BARONE: Which party will recover first from its current self-harm?

Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections. Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two of the ...

LLOYD: Do we take enough time to truly value the words we use?

For as long as I can remember, I've had a fascination with words. I grew up in a home where reading was a regular activity, both individually and out loud to the entire family. Books, stories, religious works, encyclopedias, newspapers and other materials were regularly read and shared. I had ...

STOSSEL: Bureaucrats in the way

Is your business "needed"? Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is "needed." Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs. Bureaucrats said she hadn't ...

Guest opinion: Things we don’t see: Addiction

Have you ever sat and listened to someone tell their story about how their addiction started? I have talked to many people. I can tell you, nobody wakes up one day and chooses addiction. Drug addiction in the US is a massive public health crisis, with nearly 49 million Americans or about 1 in ...