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Who is the most despicable character in the Trump administration? Trump... That is obvious but still remarkable. Donald Trump has assembled around him a whole army of Darth Vaders, and…
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Call it the Trump effect, that giant sucking sound we have been hearing for the last 15 months. It is the sound of all the air being sucked out of the room where democratic politics,…
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In the five decades since King’s death, he has been turned into an icon, a national holiday in his name established. But in the process, the radical social activist has been transformed…
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Last week it was Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt’s turn to provide yet another example of the ethical shabbiness that prevails within the Trump machine.…
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As National Security Adviser, John Bolton on his own has no power to, for instance, start a war. But Trump does, and he has threatened to do so often. But Bolton will be a multiplier of…
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The last two weeks have given clear support to the thesis that a hot head, a cold heart, and a stunning capacity for lying is at the core of Donald Trump, (awful) president and (worse)…
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Our problem in the United States today is that the barbarians are already in Rome. They sit in the Senate. They control the palace. They make the laws and interpret them. They make…
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Although it seems like a century since he took office, Donald Trump has been president for less than 15 months. In search of the most important things about the president —attitudes,…
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... would propose arming schoolteachers to prevent horrific massacres like the recent carnage that claimed the lives of 17 students at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in…
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Having passed a tax law that richly rewards the very rich, the Republicans now want the rest of us to pay the freight. The GOP tax “reform” creates a huge fiscal hole that Republicans…
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