Opinion Columns
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The empathy factor in 2020Apr 30, 2019 1:00 am - In 2008, when Sarah Palin entered the stage to debate her fellow vice presidential candidate, Joe Biden, she asked him first thing: "Hey, can I call you Joe?" It was a c...
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An impeachment circus will only help Trump, not defeat himApr 28, 2019 1:00 am - Consider, for a moment, what the growing talk of impeachment among Democrats sounds like to the tens of millions of people who voted for Donald Trump. Many of them suppo...
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A collision of two public-policy crises resulted in A.J.'s deathApr 28, 2019 1:00 am - Monsters are real. And sometimes, when grownups don't act, the monsters hurt children. The nation watched in horror as a story about a missing Illinois 5-year-old turned...
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Purists pose the greatest threat to Democrats' chances in 2020Apr 26, 2019 1:00 am - Two Democratic candidates for president pose a distinct threat to their party's chances of defeating Donald Trump next year. One is Bernie Sanders, and the other is Eliz...
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'Community' flourishes on the porchApr 26, 2019 1:00 am - CAMDEN, S.C. - With the arrival of spring and the advance of summer, American life shifts toward the porch - at least for those lucky enough to have a sheltered outdoor ...
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The personal cost of the Trump-Russia probeApr 25, 2019 1:00 am - Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is over, but the reverberations of the Trump-Russia affair live on. One such aftereffect is the reluctance of some importa...
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What would make Congress better?Apr 25, 2019 1:00 am - A couple of weeks ago I was speaking to a group of students and decided to start with a point-blank question: Is Congress doing a good job? There were perhaps 100 people...
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Justice Kavanaugh and the complainers at GMUApr 24, 2019 1:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: ...
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Honor of the presidency now depends on the actions of CongressApr 23, 2019 1:00 am - Politics is an odd profession. Usually it involves the posturing inherent to partisanship and the self-abasement of endless fundraising. But occasionally it entails the ...
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President Moon holds key to success in North, South KoreaApr 23, 2019 1:00 am - The April 11 summit in Washington between President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and President Donald Trump of the United States deserves much greater attention than has b...