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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

In Trump, we have a political pond-skating president

You’ve got to give him credit – Donald Trump is a lot more adaptable than many of his critics. Many of them reacted to Trump’s shocking election victory in the fall with the view,...

DATE: May 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Lessons from 100 days of President Donald Trump

Here are a dozen things we have learned in President Donald Trump’s first 100 days. 1. Trump has had the worst beginning of any president since, oh, perhaps William Henry Harrison...

DATE: May 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Brooks: Increasing loss of faith in civilization is ominous

Between 1935 and 1975, Will and Ariel Durant published a series of volumes that together were known as “The Story of Civilization.” They basically told human history (mostly West...

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

Friedman: So a Hindu, a Muslim and a Jew play golf in Dubai

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump has already played an incredible amount of golf in his first 100 days. He says he needs the break. I sympathize, because I need a break f...

DATE: Apr 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

New tax plan is ‘voodoo economics’ all over again

According to many reports, Donald Trump is getting frantic as his administration nears the 100-day mark. It’s an arbitrary line in the sand, but one he himself touted in many pre-inauguratio...

DATE: Apr 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

A closer look at administration’s ‘pro-life’ policies

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — When President Donald Trump and his (male) aides sit at a conference table deciding to cut off money to women’s health programs abroad, they call it a “pro-life” move...

DATE: Apr 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Coal museum sees future in solar; Trump does not

Did you catch this gem on CNN.com from April 6? “The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham, owned by Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, is switching to solar pow...

DATE: Apr 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

N.Y. college plan tries, fails to do good with government

Donald Trump sets the bar very high, but the award for the worst public policy idea of the year goes to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo presides over a state with a rich diversi...

DATE: Apr 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Why don’t all jobs matter?

President Donald Trump is still promising to bring back coal jobs. But the underlying reasons for coal employment’s decline – automation, falling electricity demand, cheap natural gas, techn...

DATE: Apr 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Publicity stunts do not add up to sound policy

Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal? Back in December, President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufactu...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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