Opinion Columns
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Trump's critics are playing into his handApr 23, 2017 1:00 am - For those of us convinced that Donald Trump's defects of character, lack of knowledge, encouragement of social division and disregard for democratic norms outweigh any g...
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On North Korea: Bluster in search of strategyApr 23, 2017 1:00 am - Every American administration takes a while to settle into a basic approach to the world. President Trump's team has had a rockier start than most, with many important p...
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O'Reilly's Ouster Is No Victory for WomenApr 21, 2017 1:00 am - Bill O'Reilly is finally out at Fox. But let's not kid ourselves about the reason. Last summer, 21st Century Fox and the Murdoch family that controls it forced out Fox N...
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Murder while you watchApr 21, 2017 1:00 am - The Facebook video of a homicide was surely inevitable. This isn't the same as saying that video murders soon will become all the rage, but it was more likely to happen...
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A reminder that humankind's finest impulses show in all generationsApr 20, 2017 1:00 am - It seems to be a routine function of the generations to disparage the young. I don't share this inclination, or at least I try to resist it. One reason? Show choir. Not...
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Trump's long march problemApr 20, 2017 1:00 am - A new president needs to staff his administration with people who will be loyal to him. Donald Trump's problem is that he does not have enough loyalists to staff the Whi...
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Worse than racistsApr 19, 2017 1:00 am - As a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains - over some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of time - of any racial group in mankind's history. ...
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Trump's hard-hearted budget weakens American powerApr 19, 2017 1:00 am - There was an unseemly glee on the part of some Trump supporters in the use of the MOAB - Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb - against a target in Afghanistan. A powerful na...
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Know your enemyApr 18, 2017 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer So, Donald J. Trump has now exercised his powers as commander in chief, sending Tomahawk missiles to destroy parts of the al-Shayrat air base used ...
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A case for preventing children's scraped kneesApr 18, 2017 1:00 am - When not furrowing their collective brows about crèches and displays of the Ten Commandments here and there, courts often are pondering tangential contacts between the g...