Opinion Columns
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Skating on electoral thin iceOct 22, 2012 7:40 pm - I’ve voted all my life in either Washington, D.C., or New York state. Most of that time, my vote didn’t matter one bit and this year is no exception. New York, where I n...
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Why the chill on climate change?Oct 22, 2012 5:00 am - Not a word has been said in the presidential debates about what may be the most urgent and consequential issue in the world: climate change. President Obama understands...
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Seeds of our dysfunctionOct 22, 2012 5:00 am - Seeds of our dysfunction Elections supposedly prevent convulsions, serving as safety valves that vent social pressures and enable course corrections. November’s electio...
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Exhausting the insignificantOct 22, 2012 5:00 am - Oh, to be 12 again, the better to enjoy the presidential debates. Or rather, the better to appreciate the Twitterverse, where America’s obsessive-compulsive, attention-...
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The great gaffeOct 21, 2012 5:00 am - Fight night at Hofstra. The two boxers, confined within a ring of spectators — circling, feinting, taunting, staring each other down — come several times, by my reckonin...
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The weird political war between the generationsOct 21, 2012 5:00 am - A weird war between the generations is growing, and the Republican candidates are the mongers. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both accuse President Obama of taking money out ...
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Whole binders full of women?Oct 19, 2012 5:00 am - Everybody is writing about how a different Barack Obama came out Tuesday night from the one we saw in the first debate. True enough. On Tuesday, the president took the s...
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Liberalism’s shrinking agendaOct 19, 2012 5:00 am - In its heyday — say, the 1960s — American liberalism had an obvious identity. It was ambitious, reformist and frankly moral in its appeal to a common good that included ...
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Obama punches backOct 18, 2012 5:00 am - HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Not a close call. President Obama won the second presidential debate as clearly and decisively as he lost the first. For anyone who disagrees, three si...
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Empty talk on SyriaOct 17, 2012 5:00 am - In the frantic search for bipartisan agreement in Washington, I can report something of a breakthrough. Although they will not admit it, both Mitt Romney and Barack Obam...