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Opinion

Ceasefire arrangement

Columnists

The ceasefire in the Iran War was arranged partly through maneuvers rooted in past American diplomatic efforts. One involved Pakistan as a conduit to Tehran and Beijing. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled a well-trod path, as Henry Kissinger did in 1971, using Pakistan as a lever to ...

Kump Corner: 16th annual Kump Education Research Seminar

Columnists

The idea that on April 30th we will hold our 16th Annual Kump Education Research Seminars is a great delight to the old researcher in me. We started this seminar tradition when I was teaching in the Education Department at Davis & Elkins College, and we invited student teachers from ...

Artemis mission was anxiously awaited

Columnists

If you’re reading this today, I am in George Town, the capital city of the Cayman Islands in the middle of my third Royal Caribbean cruise.  I’m writing this column before shipping off from Port Canaveral in Florida along the Space Coast, a short drive away from the launchpad where the ...

Purple Up

Editorials

Educators across the state understand each child comes to the classroom with different experiences. They try to meet the needs of individuals even while they’re teaching many students at once. Some of those children are part of military families, with their own set of challenges. During ...

39-Day War?

Columnists

Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025? The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump’s ceasefire announcement and, hours ...