Erik Wemple: AP piece is a clinical fact-check, not a slam (Gazette)
By By Erik Wemple It's written by the Associated Press, the storied newswire, and it carries the label "fact check." Its opening line is rather declarative: "President Donald Trump can't be counted on...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria: The Middle East morass (Gazette)
NEW YORK - Donald Trump returned from his first overseas trip convinced that he had unified America's historic Arab allies, dealt a strong blow against terrorism and calmed the waters of an unruly...
View ArticleSusan Estrich: Trump undermines own Justice Department, own cause
By By Susan Estrich The president is angry at his attorney general. The attorney general is reportedly ready to go. And this time, even Kellyanne Conway's husband is telling the president he is wrong....
View ArticleEugene Robinson: Trump needs to get a grip (Gazette)
WASHINGTON - The statements President Trump issued on Twitter in recent days lead to a chilling conclusion: The man is out of control. I know that is a radical thing to say about the elected leader of...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: GOP's anti-democratic quest to kill health care (Gazette)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell once had passionate views about how carefully Congress should consider sweeping changes to the health-care system. "Fast-tracking a major legislative overhaul...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria: Why the country is frighteningly polarized (Gazette)
Wednesday's shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice was a ghastly example of the political polarization that is ripping this country apart. Political scientists have shown that...
View ArticleAnastasiia Vorobeva: The right to doubt when it comes to Russia
By By Anastasiia Vorobeva I remember the first time the Crimea news broke - all the talking, worrying, and calling friends and relatives living in Kiev to ask if it was really as bad as they showed it...
View ArticleCathy O'Neil: The tech industry doesn't care about your problems
By By Cathy O’Neil Bloomberg The entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley are undoubtedly finding many ways to make the world a better place - with tunnels, flying cars, interplanetary travel. Yet I can't help...
View ArticleDon Okun: Men shouldn't forget the president's misogyny
By Rob Okun"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything - Grab them by the p***y. You can do anything." - Donald Trump Father's Day is an appropriate time to remember that the man...
View ArticleBrandt Ayers: Is Flynn King Trump's Becket? (Gazette)
Watching a tortured Richard Burton in the 1964 classic movie "Becket," as he ripped off the sutures of loyalty to a man in favor of loyalty to primacy of Church over State, my wife and I were showered...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: With health care bill, the GOP is mounting a historic heist
WASHINGTON - The "health care bill" that Republicans are trying to pass in the Senate, like the one approved by the GOP majority in the House, isn't really about health care at all. It's the first...
View ArticleLeonard Pitts Jr.: Must black death be broadcast to be believed? (Gazette)
I wasn't going to write this.On this subject, I felt I had already spilled enough outrage onto enough pages to last a lifetime. I needed a break from the emotional carnage. Then I saw the dash-cam...
View ArticleSusan Estrich: The message from GOP is 'Be well' (Gazette)
By By Susan Estrich The message of the Republican health care bill is clear. You have nothing to worry about - as long as you can be sure that you will always be well. And you must be employed by a...
View ArticleSusan Estrich: Amyloid, Alzheimer's and the future (Gazette)
Some years ago, my colleague and client Dr. Paul Aisen, an internationally recognized researcher of Alzheimer's disease and the director of the Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute at USC,...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: The big lies about health care (Gazette)
WASHINGTON - To succeed in gutting health coverage for millions of Americans, Senate Republican leaders need to get a series of lies accepted as truth. Journalists and other neutral arbiters must...
View ArticleFroma Harrop: Democrats need to shake their depression (Gazette)
Elvis said, "When things go wrong, don't go with them." Depression warps one's thinking. It saps energy and magnifies problems, making it hard to deal with them calmly. Democrats' overreaction to the...
View ArticleDavid Rothkopf: How Bush, Obama and Trump ended Pax Americana
By By David Rothkopf WASHINGTON - What if three very different U.S. presidents were to succeed each other in office, each focused like a laser on undoing what he saw as the gravely damaging policies...
View ArticleDrew Altman: A health care plan that won't work in the real world
By By Drew Altman Monday's report on the Senate health care bill from the Congressional Budget Office said 22 million people would lose coverage under the plan and that coverage in the non-group...
View ArticleTyler Cowen: Put down the iPhone and appreciate its genius
By By Tyler Cowen Bloomberg View Ten years after the introduction of Apple's iPhone, and the broader category of smartphones, it's worth stepping back to see what we have learned. As with most major...
View ArticleFroma Harrop: You should know, the flag is not a rag (Gazette)
We've seen American flag bikinis - stars on the bottom and stripes on top or the other way around. Flags are used as bandannas and curtains. They decorate paper napkins, on which we wipe hamburger...
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