Opinion Columns
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Trump fails the testAug 17, 2017 1:00 am - The American presidency is really two jobs. As head of government, the chief executive leads his party and fights his political battles. Head of state is a very differen...
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Trump-backed immigration bill has many critics, but voters like itAug 16, 2017 1:00 am - Some Democrats and their advocates in the press have been quick to denounce the RAISE Act, the new immigration reform bill proposed by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and Da...
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Trump's worst economic ideaAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts President Trump has made countless ignorant and inaccurate statements during his first six months in office. No, his inaugural cro...
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Feel-good ideas that need a hardheaded examinationAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - Extracting more money from evil, exploitative capitalists has become a rallying cry for much of the grass-roots left. In the meantime, though, it's largely ignoring othe...
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Though culture has changed, higher education still the same process of discoveryAug 14, 2017 1:00 am - It's that time again. All over the United States, a fresh crop of high school seniors are heading off to some college campus to pursue a "higher" education. Here on our...
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For wisdom on North Korea, Trump should pay a visit to the White House libraryAug 13, 2017 1:00 am - Donald Trump doesn't spare much time for reading. "I never have," he explains. "I'm always busy doing a lot." But what he is now busy doing is managing a global crisis w...
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Construction nightmares? Depends on your route to workAug 12, 2017 2:00 pm - So, I was running late Friday, and the first light I encountered turned yellow well before I had hit the intersection. Opted not to chance it. A few blocks later, a guy ...
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The art of the bluffAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - How did we get here? Why does it appear that we're on the brink of a war in Asia, one that could involve nuclear weapons? North Korea has had nuclear-weapons capacity fo...
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State Department divided on missionAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - By Byron York As part of what he calls a "redesign" of the State Department, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has surveyed more than 35,000 State employees on the most f...
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Coalition of the governingAug 10, 2017 1:00 am - Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, wrote to her Republican counterparts extending "the hand of friendship" and offering "to work in a bipartisan fashion" to fix ...