Articles filed under Politics
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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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Supreme Court upholds Trump travel banJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump's ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, rejecting a challenge that it discrimi...
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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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'What was her first choice? A jacket that says womp womp?' Late-night comics bash Melania TrumpJun 22, 2018 1:00 am - When Stephen Colbert heard that Melania Trump was visiting a shelter for migrant children in Texas on Thursday, he said he thought, "okay, this is what first ladies ofte...
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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...
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What Republicans suspect about the FBI's Trump-Russia probeJun 21, 2018 1:00 am - The struggle to uncover the FBI's conduct in the Trump-Russia probe has made some congressional investigators deeply suspicious of the bureau. But what do those investig...
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Foreign policy needs better focus closer to homeJun 21, 2018 1:00 am - To many shocked Americans, the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border is simply a breakdown of everything America stands for. To me, it is even more. To me, it...