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Beyond the human brain

Updated: Jun 19, 2013 12:05am

By DAVID BROOKS

New York Times News Service

It’s a pattern as old as time. Somebody makes an important scientific breakthrough, which explains a piece of the world. But then people get...

Your Views for June 19

Updated: Jun 19, 2013 12:05am

Shields: Washington snobbery

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 12:05am

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Your Views for June 13

Updated: Jun 13, 2013 12:06am

Pro-GMO articles

The series on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) was supposed to “examine the controversial topic” but turned out to be more of a promotional piece for big agribusiness...

The scowling face of the state

Updated: Jun 13, 2013 12:05am

WASHINGTON — As soon as the Constitution permitted him to run for Congress, Al Salvi did. In 1986, just 26 and fresh from the University of Illinois law school, he sank $1,000 of his own money,...

Your Views for June 12

Updated: Jun 12, 2013 10:07am

Goodwill is just fine

In the Tribune-Herald’s May 31 “Your Views” section, there was a mention that Goodwill Industries of Hawaii is “gone” from the Big Island. We would like to clarify that...

The internship: Not the movie

Updated: Jun 12, 2013 10:07am

The New Yorker last week carried a cartoon of a man delivering a commencement address to a graduating class, all in caps and gowns, and his advice was: “It’s an intern-eat-intern world out there...

Keeping violence all bottled up

Updated: Jun 12, 2013 10:07am

By MATTHEW PATE

Stephens Media

Last week, I focused on the irrefutable fact that most people who are murdered in the United States are killed by someone using a handgun. Predictably...

Cartoon for June 12

Updated: Jun 12, 2013 10:07am

The world as seen by cartoonist Marshall Ramsey, The Clarion-Ledger

Recent events reignite need for federal shield law

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 12:05am

A federal shield law should have been passed years ago. In the wake of recent Department of Justice intrusions on news gathering, a federal shield law is paramount. The free press’ ability to hold...

Your Views for June 11

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 12:05am

Bo a ‘good man’

Bo Johnson is my big brother. He has been missing in Hawaii (June 8, Tribune-Herald). The last time his family heard his voice was on Monday, May 27. He has a family: 11...

Krugman: The big shrug

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 12:05am

By PAUL KRUGMAN

New York Times News Service

I’ve been in this economics business for a while. In fact, I’ve been in it so long I still remember what people considered normal in those...

Troubling IRS stories continue

Updated: Jun 10, 2013 12:06am

The story of Catherine Engelbrecht of Richmond, Texas, should put to rest any suggestion that the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups was simply the work of overzealous or...