Articles filed under Politics
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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...
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The price of rejecting realityJul 03, 2018 1:00 am - One of President Donald Trump's most persistent and pernicious lies is that immigrants cause an increase in crime. That's not true. So his whole approach to immigration ...
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China to cancel more U.S. soy shipments as extra tariffs loomJul 03, 2018 1:00 am - Chinese companies are expected to cancel most of the remaining soybeans they have committed to buy from the U.S. in the year ending Aug. 31 once the extra tariff on U.S....