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President Donald Trump has vowed to campaign in 35 of the most competitive battleground races in the final sprint to November’s midterm elections. Instead, he will begin October by stumping in Alabama and Oklahoma, two of the most Republican states in the nation. Trump is sure to draw crowds to the venues. But the rallies are another sign of the uphill fight that his party faces as they pour cash into red states once considered safe, trying to shore up candidates facing an unhappy electorate that has soured on Trump and his policies.

If there is one thing about Democrats I’ve learned, it is this: if you let the most naive of them off the leash, they will wander far and wide…

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As I prepare to leave Idaho, and particularly Pocatello, I have been borderline maudlin. It is time to go, and new adventures are calling, but…

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FILE - Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, center, speaks to journalists after laying flowers at the mausoleum of USSR founder Vladimir Lenin in Red Square, in Moscow, marking the 156th anniversary of his birth on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov, File)

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The diagnosis was not a surprise — well, yes it was, because, like many men with a health issue, we try to deny it or delay treatment when eve…

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If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the …

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Before leaving for Patagonia last December, I was in limbo regarding whether to continue my part-time legal consulting and mediation practice.…