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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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Trade wars are lose-lose propositions. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 resulted in a trade war that helped plunge the world into the Great Depression. And Trump’s “easy to win” remedy…
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In the aftermath of the shootings in Parkland, Florida, and the activism of high school students, corporations are bailing out of their deals with the NRA. Preventing gun violence is…
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My heroes are the young people who survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and all the students across the country who are mobilizing in…
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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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One hundred students from Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled in buses to Tallahassee. Inside the Florida Capitol they were met with reality. There to…
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The third choice is one that can make it harder for Trump to damage this country. All one has to do is get active. This coming November 6, 34 Senate seats, all 435 seats in the House of…
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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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Seventeen dead high school students and teachers in Parkland, a small community just north of Miami that has been called one of the safest in the country. And the cause? A teenage…
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For decades, Republicans have postured as deficit hawks. Senator Rand Paul, in a marathon speech against his own party’s budget bill, asked how Republicans could decry deficits when…
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