Keith Peterson
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The impact of abortion on the November electionSep 28, 2024 3:00 pm - When I was the chief editorial writer for this newspaper in the 1980s, we did not want to touch the issue of abortion if we could help it. The issue was divisive and emot...
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The stark contrast in worldview of Trump, HarrisSep 21, 2024 4:56 pm - Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have two vastly different views of the world. Trump sees a world of countries trying to unfairly take advantage of the United States, or of...
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The complicated, multi-faceted challenge of immigration policySep 14, 2024 2:36 pm - When Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015 with a diatribe against Mexican rapists, he struck a nerve within the American electorate. A decade later, im...
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Sep 07, 2024 3:15 pm - President Biden served 36 years as a senator from Delaware, the most corporate-friendly state in the nation. He was, by any measure, a business-friendly moderate in the D...
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The issues that could define a Trump presidencyAug 31, 2024 3:06 pm - The Economist had a curious headline this summer: “Trumpnomics would not be as bad as many fear.” The reasoning was interesting. The editors did not believe former Presid...
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Election campaign 2024 is a complicated pictureAug 24, 2024 2:37 pm - “It’s the economy, stupid!” James Carville’s iconic sign in Bill Clinton’s campaign headquarters reminded every member of the team what the key issue in the 1992 election...
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Fifty years later, what great minds’ predictions teach usAug 04, 2024 4:00 am - What will America and the world be like in 50 years — in August 2074? Will we be driving flying cars? Have we cured cancer? Do people live on the moon? Will the world be ...
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Both campaigns must commit to avoiding violent rhetoricJul 28, 2024 4:00 am - On a lovely spring day in 2009, I found myself at a reception on the roof garden of the venerable Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington with a view of the White House spread out ...
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Can we still focus on what matters in the presidential campaign?Jul 17, 2024 4:00 am - On Oct. 21, 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt motored through the five boroughs of New York City in an open car as a pelting rain fell throughout the day. There were a c...
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No time to waste in solving Social Security crisisJun 29, 2024 3:05 pm - In Thursday night’s presidential debate — such that it was — the moderators asked each candidate what they would do to shore up Social Security. President Biden responded...