Articles filed under Commentary
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Trump's big problem: He talks too muchSep 28, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump's speech in Alabama Friday night lasted one hour and 23 minutes. A transcript of his remarks runs to just over 12,000 words. To say the speech wandered a...
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Trump's divisive sports comments hurt chances for his agendaSep 27, 2017 1:00 am - If a president of the United States is so offensive that his conduct or actions or speeches result in one of America's pastimes to becomes a national topic of political ...
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Trump and the swamp monstersSep 26, 2017 1:00 am - Alabama's Senate race is seriously scrambling Republican politics. Two GOP candidates will meet on Sept. 26 for the right to oppose Democrat Doug Jones in December. One ...
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Where in the world is Dail Dinwiddie?Sep 26, 2017 1:00 am - COLUMBIA, S.C. - Twenty-five years ago on Sept. 24, 1992, Dail Boxley Dinwiddie vanished. Phffft. Just like that. She was 23, a darling girl, anyone would say. Because e...
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We must find our moral outrage on Myanmar refugee crisisSep 25, 2017 1:00 am - I asked a Rohingya refugee I met in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, India, how I should pronounce the word Rohingya. His response was "call us Burmese not Rohingy...
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Trump's embrace of a post-American worldSep 24, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump's speech to the United Nations was well delivered. But it was a strange mishmash of topics and tones, in parts celebrating realpolitik but then also asse...
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The most important story we'll ever cover. Until tomorrow.Sep 23, 2017 2:00 pm - As Cubs TV analyst Jim Deshaies put it: "This is the most important game of the year ... until tomorrow." The comment came during Thursday's first game of a crucial seri...
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Trump's welcome flirtation with the UNSep 22, 2017 1:00 am - NEW YORK - When you discount the rhetorical overkill, the most surprising thing about Donald Trump's address to the United Nations Tuesday was how conventional it was. H...
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The New Center seeks volunteersSep 22, 2017 1:00 am - By Kathleen Parker NEW YORK - This city's annual gridlock festival, otherwise known as the United Nations General Assembly, is a proper metaphor for America's current st...
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Correspondents get the story right -- in Vietnam and AfghanistanSep 21, 2017 1:00 am - Ken Burns' brilliant television exposition "The Vietnam War" not surprisingly brought forth in me, as with many other Americans, old and troubling memories. From the fir...