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The number of workers in manufacturing has declined, but not because America stopped making things. It's because we got incredibly good at making things.

President Trump said he would direct the Treasury to stop making pennies. I immediately thought of my late grandmother.

Attention is a muscle that requires building. This could be seen as the central task of education.

The high court's leader 'takes his seriously job and truly cares' about precise language, a letter writer argues.

Readers respond to a Boiling Point column about wildfires and rising utility bills.

To the editor: As we learn of hundreds of young men hauled off in shackles -- with zero due process -- to a brutal El Salvadorian prison, it is clear that cruelty is not a byproduct, but rather the point for this administration ("They were called ...

The Trump administration's horrific war on higher education evokes the McCarthyist purges of the mid-20th century. But diversity statements are just another loyalty oath.

The first branch of government should stop or empower Trump's use of the Enemy Aliens Act. Instead, Congress chooses to heckle from the cheap seats.

Republicans don't seem the least bit bothered by the latest breach, a letter writer says. Another cites the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

The Trump administration is playing a losing game of whack-a-mole trying to silence the growing chorus of critics.