Articles filed under Commentary
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Looking at the glass half fullNov 26, 2012 4:00 am - Like many people, I have a tendency to spend more time thinking about what’s wrong than what’s right, what’s missing rather than what is there, what I don’t have instead...
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Why was there war in Gaza?Nov 25, 2012 4:00 am - Why was there an Israel-Gaza war in the first place? Resistance to the occupation, say Hamas and many in the international media. What occupation? Seven years ago, in f...
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Health coverage a ‘gift’ to ourselvesNov 25, 2012 4:00 am - One of the more curious “gifts” in Mitt Romney’s list of ways Barack Obama allegedly bought off voters was letting young people up to the age of 26 stay on their parents...
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The GOP’s listening problemNov 23, 2012 4:00 am - I have a sinking feeling the Republican Party is taking all the wrong lessons from the election. Short-term, that’s a boon for Democrats. Long-term, it’s a problem for t...
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Post elections, attitude will be keyNov 22, 2012 4:00 am - An intriguing conversation about the next step in the fiscal drama is taking place among our elected leaders. At this early point it is mostly at an exploratory level, b...
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For this, we give thanksNov 22, 2012 4:00 am - Among the things for which Americans can, on this weekend of feasting, be thankful is Washington’s resolve to temper severity with mercy: It will seriously — this time w...
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The callousness of HamasNov 21, 2012 4:00 am - Of all the points of disagreement between Israel and Hamas, maybe the most profound is this one: Israel cares more about sparing innocent lives — including those of Pale...
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Making capitalism work for allNov 21, 2012 4:00 am - It is a particularly bad election when a party’s principal source of confidence is also its main form of a self-deception. Republicans generally believed that a presiden...
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Mexico’s own immigration debateNov 20, 2012 4:00 am - MEXICO CITY — If you think the debate over immigration from Mexico into the United States is complicated, just take a trip south of the border and look at it from that s...
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An officer and a gentlemanNov 20, 2012 4:00 am - Something very wrong has just gone down. It’s played out so much like a soap opera, for those following the twists and turns of who sent whom a shirtless photo, but at i...