Articles filed under Commentary
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Congress should act now to modernize air traffic controlJan 22, 2018 12:00 am - As forecasts predict air travel will increase by 65 percent over the next two decades, the need to upgrade America's antiquated air traffic control system has never been...
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Autonomy, inclusion and the abortion debateJan 21, 2018 12:00 am - Forty-five years after Roe v. Wade was decided, the right to abortion that the Supreme Court discerned remains controversial and disputed. The expectation of legal abor...
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France inspires world on immigration debateJan 21, 2018 12:00 am - By Fareed Zakaria Emmanuel Macron is today the most admired world leader among liberals, centrists and cosmopolitans around the globe. He has managed to win the French p...
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We need strong Congress as well as strong presidentJan 19, 2018 12:00 am - Presidents need oversight and scrutiny; they need a Congress that will press them and insist on consultation. They get very little of that pressure today. Because we liv...
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Responses to Trumpism are greatest concernJan 19, 2018 12:00 am - In my youth, our mothers would have compared the problem with American party politics today to the problems of picking a man. Of course, mothers in the 1960s compared EV...
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Charitable, perhaps, but a deeper look at Trump's immigration commentJan 18, 2018 12:00 am - CAMDEN, S.C. - While recently perusing unread books gathering dust on my shelves, one tome caught my eye and, upon being loosed from the grip of neglect, fell open to a ...
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Slusher: Politics, profanity and the daily newsJan 18, 2018 12:00 am - Let's be clear. Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president to give responsible public media fits trying to figure out how to provide accurate quotations or description...
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Paul Manafort has a point in his case against MuellerJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - It's not a popular thing to defend Paul Manafort, the international influence peddler who ran Donald Trump's presidential campaign for a short time in 2016. Just search ...
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Trump is at war with the central ideal of the RepublicJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - Sometimes it is necessary to begin with the obvious. The claim that America needs more Norwegian migrants and fewer Africans from "sh-thole countries" is racist. It is n...
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Labels matter but real value of census designations is dataJan 16, 2018 12:00 am - According to conservative thinkers Ward Connerly and Mike Gonzalez, the Census Bureau should stop collecting data about race and ethnicity. Writing in a Washington Post ...