Articles filed under Politics
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Getting Congress back on trackJul 05, 2019 1:00 am - The other day, someone I've known for years offered a pointed bit of criticism. "It's easy for people like you to make long lists of things Congress should do to improve...
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Sangari guest view: To understand foreign policy, understand backyard warsJul 05, 2019 1:00 am - In geopolitics, great powers customarily regard smaller states on their borders as being "in their back yard" and thus take a dim view of political and economic meddling...
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Why there migth be cause for concern with U.S. labor marketJul 05, 2019 1:00 am - As the U.S. election cycle gets underway, expect much debate over just how strong the economy really is after becoming the longest uninterrupted expansion in America's h...
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York: Resistance to Donald Trump takes a threatening turnJul 04, 2019 1:00 am - The toxicity of the resistance to President Donald Trump has risen in recent days, with the nation's most respected newspapers publishing rationalizations for denying Tr...
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Next step for Illinois: Graduated income taxJul 04, 2019 1:00 am - The new fiscal year began this week on July 1, and with it, the 2020 state budget went into effect. This is a budget that, for the first time in years, Illinois can be p...
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Some of the new state laws that have flown under the radarJul 04, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - While Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been touring the state to promote his signing of capital infrastructure and marijuana legalization legislation, sev...
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Trump's endless self-regard is being exploited on the world stageJul 03, 2019 1:00 am - I worked for a leader who was sometimes accused of lacking in the smarts department. But no one I know who spent time with President George W. Bush was left with that im...
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Fact check: Would Medicare-for-all mean hospitals for none?Jul 03, 2019 1:00 am - "If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is, 'How would it have been for you last year if every one of your bills were paid at t...
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Border agents confiscated lawmakers' phones; Joaquin Castro captured photo, video anywayJul 03, 2019 1:00 am - When the delegation of Congressional Democrats arrived in Texas Monday to tour border facilities holding migrants, they were told in briefing packets and by Customs and ...
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Democratic debates reveal a galaxy of starsJul 02, 2019 1:00 am - CAMDEN, S.C. - By now, the winners and losers of the first Democratic presidential debate(s) have been thoroughly hashed, roasted and served up overdone. Bottom line: Wo...