Articles filed under Commentary
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Amash's independence shows voters they don't have to settle for binary choiceAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan - It is difficult to discourage and impossible to manage Justin Amash because he, unusual among politicians, does not want much and wants nothing ...
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Learning from the Great DepressionAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - What is striking about the latest bouts of financial turmoil - the recent wild swings in global stock and bond markets - is that they provide a sobering reminder of the ...
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America, we must work together to stop togetherAug 19, 2019 1:00 am - As a freshman in college, after the Las Vegas shooting in 2017, I wrote a poem titled "Please Mr. President" that was published in The New York Times and then the Daily ...
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The significance of the 'backyard war' brewing with ChinaAug 18, 2019 1:00 am - In my July 4 op-ed for the Daily Herald, I introduced the concept of "backyard wars" as limited but violent expressions of ongoing rivalries between great powers. I obse...
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The emotional resonance of 'Amazing Grace'Aug 18, 2019 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson The concert film "Amazing Grace" accomplishes something I thought impossible - capturing the Holy Ghost on celluloid. Over two days in 1972, director ...
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Trump's China policy: incoherent, value-freeAug 16, 2019 1:00 am - A concern for human rights and democracy has often been seen as an add-on to our country's foreign policy, an attractive veneer over the usual realpolitik. But President...
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China does not have the upper hand in Hong Kong. Trump does.Aug 16, 2019 1:00 am - By Marc A. Thiessen President Donald Trump has warned China that it must respond "humanely" to the protests in Hong Kong if it wants a trade deal, for the first time sug...
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Like it or not, age will be an issue in 2020 presidential campaignAug 15, 2019 1:00 am - Here are the ages that the top presidential candidates will be on Inauguration Day, 2021: Bernie Sanders, 79; Joe Biden, 78; Donald Trump, 74; and Elizabeth Warren, 71. ...
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How should Americans engage globally?Aug 15, 2019 1:00 am - By Lee H. Hamilton I've been struck recently by news coverage of climate change and humans' degradation of the planet. Two opposing themes keep appearing. One is the sen...
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How important is today's racial discrimination?Aug 14, 2019 1:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: ...