Articles filed under Opinion
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Missing an openingSep 26, 2012 5:00 am - This presidential race is not over. Mitt Romney remains close in most swing states, though durable polling deficits in Ohio and Virginia are enough to trouble even the ...
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The GOP’s brain drainSep 26, 2012 5:00 am - In 1980 Ronald Reagan won the Republican nomination. He beat a future president, George H.W. Bush, two future Senate majority leaders, Howard Baker and Bob Dole, and two...
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Collapse of the Cairo DoctrineSep 25, 2012 5:00 am - In the week following Sept. 11 this year, something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Obama’s foreign policy. It was to rese...
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When blue-collar whites turned RepublicanSep 25, 2012 5:00 am - Liberals strain to understand why so many blue-collar whites have made their home in the Republican Party. Yes, the GOP better connects with this group on social and lif...
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Refusing to undo the damageSep 24, 2012 5:00 am - I used to joke that there was no hat that Michael Dukakis could have put on in a school or hospital that would have doomed his campaign the way that helmet did (with the...
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From Utah, with LoveSep 23, 2012 5:00 am - SALT LAKE CITY — A specter is haunting the Congressional Black Caucus, the specter of integration. It is discomforting enough that the now 43-member CBC has included a R...
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Romney’s class warfareSep 23, 2012 5:00 am - Now, at least, there can be no doubt about who is waging class warfare in this presidential campaign. Mitt Romney would pit the winners against the “victims,” the smug-a...
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Preaching to the choirSep 21, 2012 5:32 pm - Some people see a problem, and look for a solution. Others look at a problem, and see an opportunity. If you’ve ever wondered why some issues never get resolved, one re...
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Buckle up for the robot revolutionSep 21, 2012 5:00 am - Robots don’t take bathroom breaks, and that’s one reason why, all else being equal, they may make better factory workers than the human version. But all else is getting ...
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The broad view on young people’s disdain for newsSep 20, 2012 5:00 am - To us in print journalism, it’s hard enough to hear that young people don’t think newspapers are important. But there’s something more ominous on the horizon that extend...