Last week the Trib published an abridged version of Republican Sen. Ben Sasse’s seemingly benign lecture about civics versus politics, deliver…
We’ll resist the temptation to credit Providence with the latest allegation of corruption leveled at Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton by vete…
If Democrats questioning Amy Coney Barrett’s qualifications to be the next Supreme Court justice this week are shrewd this time around, they’l…
Maybe it’s our imagination, but Dr. Jackson Griggs acted as if he were talking about pumpkin festival frolic in getting tested for COVID-19 as…
Any contention that President Trump at last “gets it” and now understands COVID-19 better than his presidential opponent is true only in the s…
Last week, amidst the interruptions, insults and lies spewed by his Republican opponent in the presidential debate, former vice president Joe …
Veteran CNN political analyst Dana Bash, briefly embracing the vulgarities that have come to characterize political leadership in the Age of T…
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Republicans’ stunning 2020 reversal of their very own 2016 principle that no Supreme Court justice should ever be confirmed during a president…
During last week’s joint congressional committee hearing on COVID-19’s impact on the U.S. economy, Republican Congressman David Schweikert ask…
This editorial started out to bestow praise on local Republicans, Democrats and other community groups for helping register voters in McLennan…
Putting aside questions of hypocrisy, fair play and unbridled aggravation of political and societal polarization that threatens the very insti…
Anyone who has followed American conservatism the past four decades knows the love-hate relationship conservatives have with Social Security a…
We’re confident most local Trump supporters won’t take the bait, run out this fall and vote for Trump once by mail, then again in person, notw…
Tradition dictates the weary newspaper editorialist offer some insight or wisdom about labor, commerce and the American way come Labor Day wee…
This time of year generally finds our shared attention falling on football and, at least during even-numbered years, politics. Given it’s 2020…
Two weeks of national political conventions punctuating a long, hot summer of protest-fueled unrest, plague and legislative gridlock offered m…
Perhaps it's appropriate that continued uproar over the U.S. Postal Service fell between the end of last week's Democratic National Convention…
Let us state straight up and without nuance: This newspaper opposes the push by at least some on the political left this summer to simply “def…
In the days and weeks to come, longtime Wacoans strolling or motoring past the old, mostly empty Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center will remembe…
Last week’s revelation through a Tribune-Herald investigation that more than 42 percent of 64 deaths from COVID-19 in McLennan County were con…
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s selection of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate Tuesday was widely expected, …
As Alice in Wonderland famously remarked of the surreal world swirling about her, President Trump’s executive actions signed this past weekend…
Considering the extraordinary times in which it transpired, the firing of Waco-McLennan County Public Health Director Brenda Gray by city of W…
As with so much else that has transpired in America in recent years, historians chronicling the ongoing pandemic will devote much space to how…
For all of his mistakes in reopening Texas’ economy this past spring, Gov. Greg Abbott’s actions since state COVID-19 positivity rates and hos…
In today’s opinion section, former aerospace engineer and teacher Gary W. Johnson of McGregor briefly outlines how our political system has fo…
From the onset of COVID-19 in McLennan County, communication to the public about efforts to track and mitigate the coronavirus pandemic has of…
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