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Jonathan Helton: Abolish redundant board slowing Lahaina’s recovery

State and Maui County officials have waived some of the regulations slowing down Lahaina's wildfire recovery, but there are still hurdles that need to be addressed. One is the county's Urban Design Review Board. That board, staffed by nine volunteers who are either engineers or architects, ...

Jeff Robbins: Pumping up Putin: Moscow's little helper lends a hand

America has been disgraced by the Oval Office's current occupant in ways so numerous as to bring sands on the seashore to mind, but warranting special recognition is his relentless effort to sell Ukraine down the river. Since it invaded Crimea in 2014 and then with its full-scale invasion of ...

Victor Joecks: Cornell 7: The end result of modern feminism

When college students live out the ideals of modern feminism, the results are horrifying. Last month, a Jane Doe filed a lawsuit alleging that she had been gang raped by Cornell University students. "Cornell 7" refers to the number of men she has accused of inappropriate behavior, although ...

Cal Thomas: The Greece speech

Back in my college days (American University, Washington, D.C.), required reading included the works of Greek playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Long after graduation they remained on my bookshelf. It was believed for generations that these men, along with philosophers Plato, ...

Robert B. Reich: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

I'm allowing myself to believe that sane people may be in charge of Congress starting next Jan. 20. I know, I know: Polls have gotten our hopes up before only to have them dashed on the rocky shores of political reality. But this time it does seem as if congressional Republicans will finally ...

Michael Barone: How populist politics succeeds and fails

Why is populism, broadly defined, on the brink of historic victories around the world, while populism in the form of President Donald Trump's Republican Party is poised to lose one or both houses of Congress in the United States? The troubles Trump's Republicans face are not a mystery. It was ...