Articles filed under Commentary
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How to truly honor Dr. SeussMar 10, 2021 12:00 am - It is hard to imagine anything more exhausting than the constant indignation of so-called conservatives, who somehow sustain a state of rigid, barking anger over the sta...
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Immigration reform changed my life. But there are still 11 million immigrants in the shadows.Mar 09, 2021 10:00 pm - Within hours of inauguration, President Biden proposed a sweeping set of reforms to U.S. immigration laws, including a plan to allow immigrants in the country unlawfully...
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Vaccines are the way forward out of the pandemicMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - Vaccines are the most effective public health intervention in human history. Our world is far better because of them. If we wish to resume the lives that we had before t...
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Earmarks expose self-serving politicians, distract us from bigger problemsMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - By Veronique de Rugy A fight is brewing over bringing back earmarks - provisions that are inserted into spending bills by individual members of Congress to send money to...
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It's the end of the rideMar 07, 2021 12:00 am - White House press briefings are no longer must-see TV. With former President Donald Trump gone, if you want to watch the daily briefings, you can't just turn on cable ne...
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Antidote to MarchMar 07, 2021 12:00 am - In the New England where I grew up, March was an unpopular month - wet, muddy, cold and, with the occasional late-spring snowfall and mud, really ugly. Nobody ever wrote...
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Is there any reason to think this time will be different?Mar 05, 2021 12:00 am - When public policies have produced disastrous results, and when alternative policies have resulted in immediate, seemingly miraculous improvement, why would anyone want ...
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Hoodwinked by false godsMar 05, 2021 12:00 am - By now, Friday, March 5, 2021, the revolution will have reached its full flowering. Donald Trump was reinstated as the president of the United States, President Joe Bide...
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White House in denial about border crisisMar 04, 2021 12:00 am - During the 2020 campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Donald Trump's border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations for 100 days and al...
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Who gets what, when, and howMar 04, 2021 12:00 am - "Yay for science," Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said quietly as famed photographer Annie Leibovitz got the shot...