Opinion Columns
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U.S. aircraft carrier visits Vietnam - in peaceMar 26, 2018 1:00 am - "The fruits of decades of effort … to build bilateral trust," is how United States Ambassador to Vietnam Dan Kritenbrink describes the dramatic visit of our aircraft car...
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A hard rain's gonna fall in Silicon ValleyMar 25, 2018 1:00 am - We might look back on 2017 as the last moment of unbridled faith and optimism in the technology industry. The revelations about Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook dat...
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Is Trump's coziness with Putin causing the White House to panic?Mar 25, 2018 1:00 am - As a former presidential staffer, I have little patience for leaks. Any president deserves and requires the ability to conduct policy discussions in private. Leaks are a...
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Women to the swampMar 23, 2018 1:00 am - How many times have we heard that this is the year of the woman? Let's just say, several. Each decade for the past century or so seems to have presented a fresh feature ...
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Born in crime, 'New Russia' flouts western conventionsMar 23, 2018 1:00 am - Just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, I was in Moscow, talking to our respected and well-informed American ambassador about the future of that long-tortured nati...
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If Flynn and Manafort don't face collusion charges, then who was colluding?Mar 22, 2018 1:00 am - Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller is authorized to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with th...
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Slusher: A deeper look at what elections say about choicesMar 22, 2018 1:00 am - The Illinois primary is now behind us, but I find myself thinking about the upcoming June primary in Maine. Here's why. Elections are about choices. Still, one question ...
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Congress is giving up; will anyone step up for change?Mar 21, 2018 1:00 am - We're at a watershed moment in American political history. Our Congress - I'm talking about the people's body, the institution created by our founders, and not just the ...
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We are not 'globalists'; we are AmericansMar 21, 2018 1:00 am - At one haunted moment in American history - early in 1939, not long after Kristallnacht - Senator Robert Wagner, a New York Democrat, and Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, a Mas...
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North Korea talks create nuclear crisis in Middle EastMar 20, 2018 1:00 am - LONDON - If confirmed as secretary of state, Mike Pompeo will arrive at a department that has been battered by proposed budget cuts, hollowed out by resignations and vac...