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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

Trump’s foreign policy all over the map on Syrian crisis

The Trump foreign policy team has been all over the map on what to do next in Syria – topple the regime, intensify aid to rebels, respond to any new attacks on innocent civilians. ...

DATE: Apr 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

The coming incompetence crisis in Washington

I just read that the Trump administration has filled only 22 of the 553 key positions that require Senate confirmation. This makes me worry that the administration will not have enough manpo...

DATE: Apr 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Hillary Rodham Clinton, after the election, is free to speak her mind again

In the most wrenching, humiliating way possible, Hillary Clinton has been liberated. She is now out of the woods again, and speaking her mind. In her first interview since the ele...

DATE: Apr 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Dealing with Syrian situation is now up to Trump

With each passing day our new president is discovering that every big problem he faces is like Obamacare – if there were a good, easy solution it would have been found already, and even the ...

DATE: Apr 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Administration should face opium addiction despair

The health care bill failed. The odds of successful tax reform are remote, and in any case an actual proposal is months away. If we lived in a normal country our president would use the curr...

DATE: Apr 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Civilization is built on art and humanities, not just microchips

So what, if President Donald Trump wants to deport Big Bird..? We’re struggling with terrorism, refugees, addiction, and grizzlies besieging schools. Isn’t it snobbish to fuss ove...

DATE: Apr 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Gail Collins: Trump remembers the ladies

Women’s History Month is coming to an end. Donald Trump must be absolutely exhausted. “... the White House has been hosting events all throughout March,” press secretary Sean Spic...

DATE: Apr 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Thomas Friedman: Trump is a Chinese agent

The big story everyone is chasing is whether President Donald Trump is a Russian stooge. Wrong. That’s all a smoke screen. Trump is actually a Chinese stooge. He is clearly out to make China...

DATE: Mar 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Frank Bruni: Devin Nunes is dangerous

Rep. Devin Nunes obviously fancies himself Jason Bourne. To sneak onto the White House grounds for that rendezvous with an unnamed source last week, he switched cars and ditched aides, vanis...

DATE: Mar 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

David Brooks: Can elephants learn from failure?

The Republican health care bill failed because it was a bad bill that had almost no authentic public support. It took benefits away from tens of millions of vulnerable people to give tax bre...

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

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