Opinion Columns
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What America will we pick?Oct 30, 2012 5:00 am - This election is only tangentially a fight over policy. It is also a fight about meaning and identity — and that’s one reason why voters are so polarized. It’s about who...
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An appeal to America’s heartOct 29, 2012 5:00 am - The last days of the 2012 presidential election are a study in contrasts. Barack Obama has chosen to end his final campaign with an appeal both sour and small — Big Bird...
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‘Access’ to birth control doesn’t countOct 29, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney is running ads explaining that he does not object to birth control. But no one questions his stance that women should have, as the ads say, “access” to contr...
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Obama stoops, doesn’t conquerOct 28, 2012 5:00 am - “L’etat, c’est moi.” — Louis XIV “This nation. Me.” — Barack Obama, third presidential debate OK, OK. I’ll give you the context. Obama was talking about “when Tunisian...
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America, finally home?Oct 25, 2012 5:00 am - The death of George McGovern on the eve of the presidential candidates’ foreign policy debate underscored a momentous political reversal spanning four decades. McGovern’...
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Give peace a chanceOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - ORLANDO, Fla. -- Forget “horses and bayonets.” The most important word uttered during the third presidential debate was “peace.” Mitt Romney, the un-bellicose, used it ...
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Obama outpoints Romney in third debateOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - BOCA RATON, Fla. — The “horses and bayonets” moment is probably the headline. But the larger story of the third and final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign p...
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Relentlessly reassuring RomneyOct 23, 2012 5:42 pm - “The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull,” said Dean Acheson. During the final presidential debate, Mitt Romney was every bit the statesman. On foreign p...
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World Series of politicsOct 23, 2012 5:00 am - Who are these undecided voters? The one thing that seems clear is that there aren’t many of them. The harder question is how anyone who really does plan to vote could st...
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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...