Opinion Columns
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The price of rejecting realityJul 03, 2018 1:00 am - One of President Donald Trump's most persistent and pernicious lies is that immigrants cause an increase in crime. That's not true. So his whole approach to immigration ...
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It was too easy to blame President Trump this timeJul 03, 2018 1:00 am - COLUMBIA, S.C. - It was far too easy to assume the worst - that the inevitable, finally, had come to pass. When news broke Thursday afternoon that a shooter had opened ...
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The attorney general does not represent United MethodistsJul 02, 2018 1:00 am - I'm getting tired of having to explain that I'm not THAT kind of Christian. Typically, I've met someone new and I'm explaining that my church isn't one of those churche...
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Court is chipping away at legitimacy of our electionsJul 01, 2018 1:00 am - The American experiment with democracy rests on the simple premise that voters have a reasonable chance of having their voice heard and represented in the halls of gover...
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Court case uncovers targeting of journalist in SyriaJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - While newspapers across the nation struggle to find space for foreign news, a strange story involving the death of a famous war correspondent six years ago in Syria is p...
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Kennedy's retirement offers Trump a path to uniting his partyJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - Luck - pure, dumb luck - is an underestimated advantage in politics, and Donald Trump is one lucky man. He ran for the Republican nomination against a fractured field, i...
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Slusher: It's not always so easy to know what is, is not newsJun 28, 2018 1:00 am - It could be said this week that if you want to understand news, you would consider Jimmy Fallon. Here's what happened: In 2016, the late-night comedian playfully tousled...
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Will Trump waste another chance to build the wall?Jun 28, 2018 1:00 am - Building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border was Donald Trump's premier campaign promise, and he is running out of chances to keep it. Trump has been president for nearly a...
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A congressman, the president and a political cartoon that isn't funnyJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - If I were a cartoonist ..., I would often say to my friend Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who died 11 years ago. He'd listen patiently as...
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More and more, politics is women's workJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Some names to remember as the political year unfolds: Abby Finkenauer, Debra Haaland and Mary Gay Scanlon. Finkenauer, a 28-year-old state legislator, is the Democratic ...