Articles filed under Politics
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Trump's economic gamble: Solid job gains vs. risky trade warJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - From the safety of a resilient U.S. economy, President Donald Trump lit the fuse Friday on a high-risk trade war with China. History suggests that a cycle o...
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Trump weighs top picks for Supreme Court amid last-minute maneuveringJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump returned to Washington on Sunday after a weekend weighing the strengths and weakness of four leading candidates for the Supreme Court...
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Democrats focus on abortion in court fight, sensing Republican jittersJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - PEWAUKEE, Wis. - The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy has given conservatives their first hope in decades for a court that would strike down Roe v. Wade. At the mom...
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Giuliani advises Trump not to pardon Cohen, says 'it would just confuse everything'Jul 08, 2018 1:00 am - Rudolph Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, said Sunday that he has counseled the president against granting a pardon to his longtime fixer Michael Cohen, ...
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Offenders should still be treated with humanityJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - An administration not known for policy creativity is unlikely to have useful internal policy debates. But in the Trump administration, prison reform is a welcome excepti...
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Hysteria order of the day for Supreme Court speculationJul 06, 2018 1:00 am - If Chicken Little and Cassandra had a baby, they'd name him Jeffrey Toobin. Anyone watching CNN lately has probably heard Toobin's prediction that if a conservative fill...
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Donald Trump's mainstream immigration policyJul 06, 2018 1:00 am - Perhaps no Trump policy has provoked more emotional reaction than the practice of separating illegal border crossers from the children they brought with them to the Unit...
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The moral implications of the GOP's Trumpian turnJul 05, 2018 1:00 am - With President Donald Trump's forthcoming nomination of a Supreme Court justice likely to rally and unify the Republican coalition, some commentators are (again) declari...
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Those words of the Pledge pack a powerful meaningJul 05, 2018 1:00 am - You know the Pledge of Allegiance, probably by heart. You may recite it only occasionally, or get the chance several times a week. Sometimes, I'm guessing, you say it me...
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Assaults on meritocracy forebode return to elitism of the pastJul 04, 2018 1:00 am - LONDON - In recent weeks, you might have heard about two seemingly unrelated issues that are actually quite connected. In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled his des...