Opinion Columns
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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...
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Too big to maintain?Oct 17, 2012 5:00 am - DALLAS — If in four weeks a president-elect Mitt Romney is seeking a Treasury secretary, he should look here, to Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of...