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That gives you access to all of our premium content, including the subscriber columns we're promoting today. Here's our premium content from today. 👇 cm.usatoday.com/specialoffer?o… Trump's loyalty tests and affinity for white nationalism still infect the GOP. Correcting course will take more than denouncing Russia and Putin, writes @JillDLawrence. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

The conflict in Ukraine is becoming increasingly dire — and confusing.

So we have a variety of voices on the situation to help you understand what's going on. We have first-person accounts of what it is currently like in Ukraine. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

.@ConnieSchultz's latest column is on "Inventing Anna" and the on-screen portrayal of a woman in journalism. usatoday.com/story/opinion/… Last week, she wrote on the Catholic Church's baptism crisis in Arizona. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

1/ Kelly Maher is a subsistence farmer.

Most of the food she eats comes straight from her backyard. usatoday.com/story/opinion/… 2/ She has poultry, pigs, goats and a big garden at her home outside of Denver.

But she's facing supply chain issues too. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

1/ Our democracy isn’t a given. It isn’t self-executing. We, as citizens, have to nurture and tend it. We have to work at it. And in that task, we have to vigilantly preserve and protect our most basic tool of self-government, which is the right to vote. usatoday.com/story/opinion/… 2/ At the time, various state legislators across the country had already passed a variety of laws designed to make voting harder. It was an attack on everything John Lewis fought for, and a challenge to our most fundamental democratic freedoms. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

1/ She was a single mother in law school when she found a lump in her breast.

She was scared. She didn't want cancer, and she didn't have health insurance. 2/ For three years, she lived with the lump. It was on her mind every day.

She finished school, passed the bar and found a job. After her insurance took effect, she went to the doctor. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

1/ Daniel Darling was the senior vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters until he wrote a column where he recommended Christians get the COVID-19 vaccine.

He was then fired. usatoday.com/story/opinion/… 2/ It was reported that his public comments violated the organization’s policy of neutrality on COVID-19 vaccines.

He said he doesn’t believe he violated the organization’s policy, but that he doesn’t have any animosity toward his former employer.
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THREAD: The situation in Afghanistan has worsened. Thousands are trying to get out and President Joe Biden says another Kabul attack is 'highly likely'. USA TODAY Opinion offered columns that examine the developments. (1/9) 2: One veteran talks about how he and other vets are ashamed of Biden’s handling of the withdrawal. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…