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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 1h

Opinion: I will not stop, not until every hostage, living or fallen, is home in Israel. I ask the world to do the same.

Hamas still holds my son's remains hostage. Please don't call this over, yet. | Opinion

I will not stop, not until every hostage, living or fallen, is home in Israel. I ask the world to do the same.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3h

Opinion: If California bans Veterans Guardian and companies like them, many veterans will be left with no allies to navigate a system that puts them last.

VA puts veterans like me last. California law will ensure we're left behind. | Opinion

If California bans Veterans Guardian and companies like them, many veterans will be left with no allies to navigate a system that puts them last.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 5h

Opinion: A drug that sends as many as 1 in 25 women to the emergency room ends not only the lives of unborn children, but some of the women who take it, too.

FDA's abortion pill approval is reckless decision that will harm women and babies | Opinion

A drug that sends as many as 1 in 25 women to the emergency room ends not only the lives of unborn children, but some of the women who take it, too.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 14h

"Strangio makes a good point – we need to be working together toward an inclusive future," writes columnist @sarapequeno.bsky.social. bit.ly/3KJpYI1

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 16h

Opinion: If President Donald Trump told congressional Republicans to make a deal with the Democrats to end the shutdown, they would do it in a heartbeat.

GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop | Opinion

If President Donald Trump told congressional Republicans to make a deal with the Democrats to end the shutdown, they would do it in a heartbeat.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 20h

"Jay Jones wants to be the attorney general of Virginia. It’s a job he should never get," writes columnist Ingrid Jacques. bit.ly/471xQvV

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 1d

Opinion: Republican lawmakers supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS nomination, but some now understand the real-world ramifications of his policies.

Kennedy's crusade threatens Trump's agenda, and could cost Republicans the midterms | Opinion

Republican lawmakers supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS nomination, but some now understand the real-world ramifications of his policies.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 1d

Opinion: What do you think about claims by Trump and RFK Jr. about Tylenol and autism? What about leucovorin? Readers react in our latest Opinion Forum.

I'm autistic. Trump thinks people like me need to be cured. We don't. | Your Turn

What do you think about claims by Trump and RFK Jr. about Tylenol and autism? What about leucovorin? Readers react in our latest Opinion Forum.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 1d

Opinion: When a California official visited our high school, we thought she'd push Gov. Gavin Newsom's redistricting politics. Instead, she got personal.

A politician came to our school. It's what she didn't do that made a difference. | Opinion

When a California official visited our high school, we thought she'd push Gov. Gavin Newsom's redistricting politics. Instead, she got personal.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 1d

"For once in my life, I can say this: Somebody is lying, and it’s not Marjorie Taylor Greene," writes columnist @rexhuppke.bsky.social. bit.ly/46ZHuPQ

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 1d

Opinion: You'd think Bari Weiss would be beloved by the left. Yet her success with The Free Press, the publication she founded, is causing a meltdown.

Bari Weiss took on the tribalist, liberal media. And she's winning. Big time. | Opinion

You'd think Bari Weiss would be beloved by the left. Yet her success with The Free Press, the publication she founded, is causing a meltdown.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d

Opinion: How do I help my son who is struggling? We have to break the cycle. Encourage boys to speak and share their feelings. Understand their point of view.

We've spent generations helping girls succeed. We're leaving boys behind. | Opinion

How do I help my son who is struggling? We have to break the cycle. Encourage boys to speak and share their feelings. Understand their point of view.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d

Opinion: I asked a patient why she waited so long to come to the hospital. She told me it was because she was an undocumented immigrant, and she feared ICE.

Trump would have doctors like me leave undocumented patients to die. We won't. | Opinion

I asked a patient why she waited so long to come to the hospital. She told me it was because she was an undocumented immigrant, and she feared ICE.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d

"The 'Art of the Deal' president might have just secured his most significant agreement yet − a peace deal between Israel and Hamas that few believed was possible," writes columnist Nicole Russell. bit.ly/4h5sPY7

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d

"Sex, sexuality and gender are topics better left for parents to handle," writes columnist Nicole Russell. bit.ly/3IzmuaD

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d

Opinion: For $129, you can buy a giant disc on a string that apparently can't even surveil you properly.

Friend or foe? New AI necklace is a scary sign of where we're headed. | Opinion

For $129, you can buy a giant disc on a string that apparently can't even surveil you properly.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d

Opinion: An informed consent law in Michigan would ensure that patient wellbeing remains the focus of medical practices, even when trainees are present.

Medical students shouldn't be performing pelvic exams patients don't know about | Opinion

An informed consent law in Michigan would ensure that patient wellbeing remains the focus of medical practices, even when trainees are present.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d

Opinion: Mass shootings using an assault weapon resulted in nearly six times as many people shot and more than twice as many killed, according to Everytown.

I'm a Republican. It's time to renew the federal assault weapons ban. | Opinion

Mass shootings using an assault weapon resulted in nearly six times as many people shot and more than twice as many killed, according to Everytown.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d

"Trump's attacks only serve to continue the worsening cycle of lawfare that erodes America's view of the Justice Department. The continued escalation of weaponized prosecution against your political enemies will quickly backfire on everyone involved," writes columnist Dace Potas. bit.ly/3KDTS0u

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d

Opinion: I’ll always remember where I was on Oct. 10, 2025, the day Donald J. Trump was viciously denied the Nobel Peace Prize.

If a humanitarian like Trump doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, who does? | Opinion

I’ll always remember where I was on Oct. 10, 2025, the day Donald J. Trump was viciously denied the Nobel Peace Prize.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d

"This is all several steps beyond insane, and thank goodness Democrats like Pritzker have the spine to stand up to the president’s weaselly authoritarianism," writes columnist @rexhuppke.bsky.social. bit.ly/4mTKoLV

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 4d

Opinion: 77% of the 24.3 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare live in states that Trump won in last year's presidential election.

Democrats have upper hand in shutdown because Republican voters like Obamacare | Opinion

77% of the 24.3 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare live in states that Trump won in last year's presidential election.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 4d

Opinion: President Donald Trump has made life in America so profoundly bizarre GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is starting to make sense.

I can't believe it either, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is starting to make sense | Opinion

President Donald Trump has made life in America so profoundly bizarre GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is starting to make sense.

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 4d

"Underlying these attacks on LGBTQI+ people is a consistent refusal to take scientific, medical and historical evidence seriously," writes Haley Norris, an analyst for LGBTQI+ policy at @americanprogress.bsky.social. bit.ly/3ICEPnb

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 4d

Opinion: Each party tries to blame the other, but I seriously doubt that any voters go to the voting booth with the shutdown at the top of their agenda.

When will the shutdown end? Republican delays mean this may be longest yet. | Your Turn

Each party tries to blame the other, but I seriously doubt that any voters go to the voting booth with the shutdown at the top of their agenda.

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