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Egan: Old-fashioned war is diplomacy by other means

ARRAS, France – In the springtime of 100 years ago, nations that shared a Christian heritage slaughtered one another over a few miles of mud. In just one battle, the great powers of Europe f...

DATE: May 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

A road trip through rusting and rising America

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — In his dystopian Inaugural Address, President Donald Trump painted a picture of America as a nation gripped by vast “carnage” – a landscape of “rusted-out factories scatte...

DATE: May 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Douthat: Trump is not a populist, rather an establishment sellout

Which side are you on? Are you with Donald Trump, or with the Washington insiders who want to undo his election? Do you favor the legitimate president of the United States, or an unelected “...

DATE: May 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Kristof: Donald Trump versus women’s health

When video surfaced last fall of Donald Trump boasting about sexual assault, outrage erupted. But if Trump’s words about women were offensive, his policies are incomparably more consequentia...

DATE: May 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Egan: To Trump, the West is a separate, foreign country

In his three calamitous months in office, President Donald Trump has visited a property that is part of his business empire nearly once every three days. And while President Barack Obama had...

DATE: May 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Friedman: Republican party has lost its moral compass

Since President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, one question has been repeated over and over: With Democrats lacking any real governing power, are there a few good elected...

DATE: May 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Kristof: Meet Dr. Willie Parker, a Southern Christian abortion provider

No issue in America is more toxic than abortion, and that’s partly because it is today so closely associated with religion. While many feminists see abortion as a matter of choice, some Chri...

DATE: May 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Krugman: Judas, tax cuts and the great betrayal

The denarius, ancient Rome’s silver coin, was supposedly the daily wage of a manual worker. If so, the tax cuts that the richest 1 percent of Americans will receive if the Affordable Care Ac...

DATE: May 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Friedman: Owning your own future

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Political analysts will long debate over where Brexit, Trump and Le Pen came from. Many say income gaps. I’d say ... not quite. I’d say income anxiety and the stress over...

DATE: May 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Douthat: House GOP go off the cliff, will the Senate catch them?

Over the last seven years, the Republican Party has engaged in increasingly elaborate political suicide attempts. The party has nominated cranks and erstwhile witches and Todd Akin in winnab...

DATE: May 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Trumpcare bill embraces an Orwellian future

There have been many bad laws in U.S. history. Some bills were poorly conceived; some were cruel and unjust; some were sold on false pretenses. Some were all of the above. But has...

DATE: May 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Friedman: Is Trump crazy like a fox, or just crazy?

Has the first 100 days of the presidency made Donald Trump nuts? I don’t ask that question as a doctor. I don’t do medical diagnoses. I ask it as a newspaper reader. You read all ...

DATE: May 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

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