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What it means to be truly liberal on the abortion issue

Donald Trump has mastered the authoritarian act, and that’s how he attracted his brigade of humble followers. Some on the left seem to envy this ability to force obedience through threats an...

DATE: Apr 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

The thankfully short ascendancy of Steve Bannon

President Trump didn’t exactly boot Steve Bannon from his ruling circle of relatives and Wall Street hotshots he might like to have as relatives. True, he threw Bannon off the National Secur...

DATE: Apr 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

Mired in the present, U.S. will miss clean energy future

When Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908, America had almost no paved roads outside the cities. One of the early owners’ biggest headaches was tires punctured by horseshoe nails left o...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

Liberals find community, and that could be big

During the presidential campaign, many Hillary Clinton voters in Atlanta’s suburbs thought they were alone. That was an easy conclusion to draw because few felt comfortable putting Clinton s...

DATE: Apr 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

Froma Harrop: There is little dignity left in coal

It was a pathetic scene, coal miners flanking President Donald Trump as he signed an order to dismantle the Clean Power Plan. Trump’s imagineers have turned coal miners into a Madison Avenue...

DATE: Mar 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

How Steve Bannon failed his father and not AT&T

Marty Bannon did all the right things, mostly. He raised five children, lived modestly, worked hard and bought as much stock in his employer, AT&T, as he could. When AT&T’s stock price plung...

DATE: Mar 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

The Republic House plan to poison Obamacare

Arsenic was a poison favored by Victorian mystery writers. The victims would be fed small amounts, not suspecting the cause of their increasing discomfort. At a certain point, the arsenic bu...

DATE: Mar 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

The LA movie that should have won best picture

My candidate lost, and yes, I still can’t get over it. I speak of the 1997 movie “L.A. Confidential.” A riff on the creepy film-noir movies of the 1950s, its dark brilliance lay clouded in t...

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

GOP elders proposed carbon tax is a good idea

Address climate change and send Americans a check at the same time. That’s the nut of an intriguing idea put together by a group of Republican elders. The plan would curb emission of greenho...

DATE: Feb 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

A principled center coalition will fight Trumpism

Here’s a little story from the bad old days of the New York subway: On seeing a well-dressed man drop a wrapper on a subway platform, a well-dressed woman urged him to pick it up. ...

DATE: Feb 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

Hitting our heads against a beautiful border wall

Illegal immigration from Mexico is yesterday’s problem. Last year, more Mexicans left the United States than entered, according to the Pew Research Center. But if Donald Trump were to follow...

DATE: Jan 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

Boycotts can be considered a form of speech

“Boycott campaigns have a long history in this country and elsewhere.” Liberals have organized a campaign to boycott Simon & Schuster over its planned publication of a book by alt...

DATE: Jan 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop