Opinion Columns
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Biden has fallen so hard in the polls, he may not be able to get upJan 03, 2024 2:00 am - In an interview with the Financial Times, the longtime Washington political analyst Charlie Cook noted that President Joe Biden's job approval rating has been stuck below...
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How Hamas weaponized sexual violenceJan 03, 2024 2:00 am - That is what The New York Times called it after a two-month investigation in which they reviewed video and photographic evidence, and interviewed some 150 people: "weapon...
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The tyranny of the Phillips CurveJan 02, 2024 2:45 am - Repeat after me, class: Growth does NOT cause inflation. Write it on the blackboard 100 times. For decades, the economics profession has been trying to tell us all just t...
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Choosing the ‘good part’ in 2024Jan 02, 2024 1:00 am - As 2023 draws to a close, one of the things that I improved this year was my time management. I was much better organized with my work schedule in terms of outside writin...
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American Muslims struggling to find their placeJan 01, 2024 1:00 am - Living as a Muslim in America in the past few weeks has been sobering and depressing. Muslim and Arab families when they get together share their nightmares of seeing sco...
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The pendulum shifts in CaliforniaDec 29, 2023 9:56 am - In 2020, after Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon won office with nearly 54% of the vote, advocates for so-called reforms in the criminal justice system c...
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No wiggle room in determining Trump’s eligibility for presidencyDec 29, 2023 3:30 am - Over the years millions of American parents must have told their children, "In America, anyone can become president." Of course, that's not quite true. To become presiden...
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The politics of incumbent rejectionDec 28, 2023 8:41 am - At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent trailing, both parties ...
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Democrats’ lawfare vs. Donald TrumpDec 28, 2023 1:00 am - The story of the 2024 campaign so far is the effort by Democrats and their appointees to use criminal charges and lawsuits to force former President Donald Trump out of t...
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The intellectual elite’s institutional rotDec 20, 2023 8:17 am - Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic temperaments or alarmist a...