Articles filed under Robinson, Eugene
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No impossible dream
Jan 20, 2013 4:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: Don't listen to those who say President Obama's bold plan to reduce gun violence -- including an assault weapons ban -- has no chance in Congress. I seem to recall that health care reform was deemed impossible, too. Until it happened.
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Hot enough for you?
Jan 11, 2013 10:43 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: All right, now can we talk about climate change? After a year when the lower 48 states suffered the warmest temperatures, and the second-craziest weather, since record-keeping began?
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An urgent resolution on guns for 2013
Jan 3, 2013 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: Politicians, beginning with the president, must show the courage to stand up to the gun lobby. They must do it for the children of Newtown. They must do it for all the 11,000 men, women and children who otherwise will not live to see New Year's Day of 2014.
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Still here? Happy New Bak'tun
Dec 25, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: What is it that humans find so compelling about impending oblivion? We go out of our way to look for the most obscure and cryptic clues that The End is nigh.
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Wonderland on a cliff
Dec 18, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: Are you as sick of the "fiscal cliff" as I am? Actually, that's a trick question. You couldn't possibly be.
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Country suffers from lack of ideological competition
Dec 12, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: Here's the sad thing: Republicans get this stuff so wrong that Democrats aren't even forced to go to the trouble of getting it right.
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As an architect, Niemeyer soared
Dec 9, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: Just this once, I wish I could write with pictures instead of words. That would make it easier to explain why the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday at 104, was one of my heroes.
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A legacy we dare not leave
Dec 3, 2012 3:42 PM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: You might not have noticed that another round of U.N. climate talks is under way. Here in Washington, we're too busy to pay attention to such trifles. Meanwhile, evidence mounts that the legacy we pass along to future generations will be a parboiled planet.
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Cracks in the anti-tax wall
Nov 27, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: This is a big, complicated country that faces big, complicated challenges. There are no simple, one-sentence solutions. It is ridiculous to think we could ever tame the national debt through budget cuts alone, without a penny of new revenue.
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The GOP's listening problem
Nov 23, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: Step out of the echo chamber, Republicans. There's a big country out there, and it's trying to tell you something. For the sake of party and nation, try listening.
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