Opinion Columns
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The system is workingMar 26, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump has virtually no experience running a government or reading the Constitution. But now he's getting a painful civics lesson about one of the principle pre...
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Slashing State Department's foreign exchange programs will harm U.S. Slashing State Department's foreign exchange programs will harm U.S.Mar 26, 2017 1:00 am - The headline number in the budget proposed by the Trump administration is a nearly 30 percent cut in funding for the State Department. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson c...
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Daughter's heroin death: A painful but crucial story to tellMar 25, 2017 2:00 pm - The first time Diane Dungey talked to Gary Fusz, he wasn't planning to write an essay of 1,600 words on the loss of his daughter to a heroin overdose. It was a few weeks...
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Neil Gorsuch steals the weekMar 24, 2017 1:00 am - Watching the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, one might easily find oneself wishing he were president of the United States. Alas, he's...
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Dear Trump supporters: Maybe you try to understand usMar 24, 2017 1:00 am - The windowsill over my kitchen sink is an altar of sorts, full of small framed photos of our grandchildren and other mementos to keep me grateful. The square ceramic ti...
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How pundits got key part of Trump-Russia story all wrongMar 23, 2017 1:00 am - A key talking point in the theory that Donald Trump and the Russians conspired in the 2016 election is the allegation that last summer, during the Republican convention,...
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Transgender challengesMar 23, 2017 1:00 am - Determining one's own sex or that of another used to be a simple matter. First, there was the matter of appearance, whether a person looked like a male or looked like a ...
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The world watches the shrinking of the American presidencyMar 21, 2017 1:00 am - It is difficult to overestimate the geopolitical risks of this moment - or the (both disturbed and eager) global scrutiny now being given to the American president. Agg...
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Death by a thousand cutsMar 21, 2017 1:00 am - From Ronald Reagan's "welfare queen" to Donald Trump's "Detroit single mom," the unmarried mother remains a constant fascination to Republicans wielding budget-cutting s...
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Retreat at Mar-a-Lago: Passing the baton to ChinaMar 19, 2017 1:00 am - By Fareed Zakaria We do not yet have the official agenda for next month's meeting at Mar-a-Lago between Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. But after 75 years...