Regimes, however intellectually disreputable, rarely are unable to attract intellectuals eager to rationalize the regimes behavior. Americas current administration has national conservatives. They advocate unprecedented expansion of government to purge Americ…
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To have a recession or not that is the question. It also encompassed last weeks most important political news, notwithstanding all the public attention understandably focused on the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. There is growing evidence of a p…
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Great news! President Trump will go down in history as the president who got gun control done. Trump disclosed Friday that he now supports background checks for gun purchases. He acknowledged that past efforts to get such measures through Congress havent far…
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This editorial was originally published on July 22. AN IMPORTANT test of civil society in Russia is unfolding on the streets of Moscow. It suggests that despite the authoritarian rule of President Vladimir Putin over nearly two decades, a significant number…
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In this edition: The Iowa State Fair aftermath, Tom Steyer's Iowa debut, and the Iowa gotcha gauntlet. I'm glad we can all stop speculating about what the vegan candidate will eat at the state fair, and this is The Trailer. People participate in the corn po…
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Former Obama White House counsel Gregory B. Craig faces trial Monday for allegedly lying to the Justice Department in a prosecution that has shaken up the capitals billion-dollar foreign influence industry. In charging Craig one of Washingtons most prominent…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. It was Simone Biles they came to see. If there were any doubt, the answer was in the decibels of the squeals and shrieks that shot through the rafters of Sprint Center each time her name was announced: Now on beam, Simone Biles ... followed…
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President Trumps proclivity for spouting exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods has continued at a remarkable pace. As of Aug. 5, his 928th day in office, he had made 12,019 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checkers d…
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Every second Saturday in August, my mother and her siblings host a family barbecue, a simple gathering under the enormous pecan tree in the side yard of the house where they grew up in Severn, N.C. In the mix are great-aunts and great-uncles, along with two o…
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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Jeffrey Epstein, pictured here in 2004, was found dead in jail cell on Saturday aged 66 Just hours after the high-profile financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday, unsubstantiated theories about his deat…
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