Articles filed under Commentary
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Kennedy's retirement offers Trump a path to uniting his partyJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - Luck - pure, dumb luck - is an underestimated advantage in politics, and Donald Trump is one lucky man. He ran for the Republican nomination against a fractured field, i...
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Slusher: It's not always so easy to know what is, is not newsJun 28, 2018 1:00 am - It could be said this week that if you want to understand news, you would consider Jimmy Fallon. Here's what happened: In 2016, the late-night comedian playfully tousled...
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Will Trump waste another chance to build the wall?Jun 28, 2018 1:00 am - Building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border was Donald Trump's premier campaign promise, and he is running out of chances to keep it. Trump has been president for nearly a...
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A congressman, the president and a political cartoon that isn't funnyJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - If I were a cartoonist ..., I would often say to my friend Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who died 11 years ago. He'd listen patiently as...
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More and more, politics is women's workJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Some names to remember as the political year unfolds: Abby Finkenauer, Debra Haaland and Mary Gay Scanlon. Finkenauer, a 28-year-old state legislator, is the Democratic ...
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Trump's tests of loyalty are really tests of characterJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Donald Trump's mentor, the colorful controversialist Roy Cohn, once said: "I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves." If this ...
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Zakaria: Trump lost the battle on immigration, but will he win the war?Jun 24, 2018 1:00 am - Democrats are exultant that Donald Trump had to reverse his policy of separating immigrant families at the border. And there is good reason to celebrate: The policy was ...
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Gerson: Religious leaders finally exert resistance to TrumpismJun 24, 2018 1:00 am - On the issue of child separation, President Donald Trump had to be dragged kicking and screaming into basic humanity. His initial goal was to create terror in migrants w...
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It may take a calamity to force governments to act on pensions.Jun 22, 2018 1:00 am - In Illinois, even the best-funded public pension systems aren't well funded at all. Lawmakers have known about this growing crisis for more than two decades but still re...
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Hey, leadership, let Congress workJun 22, 2018 1:00 am - There aren't many people who would argue that Congress is working well these days. It's been 24 years since it passed a comprehensive budget without resorting to omnibus...