Opinion Columns
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Is profiling OK?Apr 05, 2017 1:00 am - Profiling is needlessly a misunderstood concept. What's called profiling is part of the optimal stock of human behavior and something we all do. Let's begin by describin...
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Fox scandals are a fetid reminder that sexism lurks in the workplaceApr 05, 2017 1:00 am - Reading the accumulated sexual harassment accusations against Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and former network executive Roger Ailes is like a quick dip in a sewage treatm...
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Why science should be important to CongressApr 03, 2017 1:00 am - As the only Ph.D. scientist in Congress, I am honored to take my perspective as a scientist to Washington and make thoughtful policy decisions based on facts. It also me...
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How Trump could fix health careMar 31, 2017 1:00 am - The recent Republican debacle on health care could prove to be an opportunity. It highlighted, yet again, the complexity of America's system, which continues to be by fa...
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There's little dignity left in coalMar 31, 2017 1:00 am - By Froma Harrop It was a pathetic scene, coal miners flanking President Donald Trump as he signed an order to dismantle the Clean Power Plan. Trump's imagineers have tur...
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How to handle the Russia messMar 30, 2017 1:00 am - By Lee H. Hamilton The recent announcement by FBI Director James Comey that his agency is investigating links between members of President Trump's campaign and Russia ha...
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Whatever Trump does next, it has to be about jobs and wagesMar 29, 2017 1:00 am - What will President Trump do after the Obamacare debacle? For 48 hours, some Hill Republicans - and Trump himself - spoke as if the president and the GOP could smoothly,...
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Educational sabotageMar 29, 2017 1:00 am - By Walter E. Williams Nationally, black junior high and high school students are suspended at a rate more than three times as often as their white peers, twice as often ...
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How Trump can get his groove backMar 28, 2017 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson The central promise of the Trump administration - the repeal and replacement of Obamacare - has failed. The central premise of the Trump administration...
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Governing by ultimatumMar 28, 2017 1:00 am - By Kathleen Parker In a week that felt like a month, Americans got a clear view of Donald Trump's governing style and also of his fabled deal making approach. Or rather,...