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GOP leaders ignore their Capitol Hill border expert
WASHINGTON -- In Texas, a super PAC aligned with GOP House leadership is eagerly promoting Rep. Will Hurd's work on ... Read More
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Trump continues attack on Comey, again defends Flynn
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Friday defended former national security adviser Michael Flynn and slammed former FBI Director James B. Comey, implying his own Justice Department should have blocked publication of ...Read more
Judge OKs accord between Trump, Jupiter club members, but tab may rise
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Long-running litigation between President Donald Trump and members of his golf club in Jupiter came to an anti-climatic end on Friday with both sides declaring victory when a federal judge ...Read more
Federal judge delays ruling in Stormy Daniels lawsuit against Trump and his personal lawyer
LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge postponed a ruling on a request by President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who is now the subject of a federal investigation, for a 90-day delay of a lawsuit filed ...Read more
Christine M. Flowers: Honduran woman's asylum case highlights humanity and opportunity
Her husband was murdered in front of her eyes.
Then they shot her.
She went to the police, testified against the killers, and watched as they were convicted and sentenced to prison.
And then the threats started, against...Read more
Ramesh Ponnuru: How to bolster Social Security with no new taxes:
Social Security is structured so that average benefits grow from one class of retirees to the next. We could bring the program a long way toward solvency without cutting benefits from their current levels. Merely ...Read more
The United States is mortgaging its future
American exceptionalism has meant many things over the years, often referring to our spirit and commitment to individual liberty.
Today it could refer to our exceptional fiscal recklessness.
In its newly released April ...Read more
Dahleen Glanton: America's problems with race start (but don't end) at your Starbucks bathroom
Why are Americans still fighting over toilets?
I often wonder how that little porcelain receptacle we all use to take care of our most intimate personal business found its way to the core of our social consciousness.
The...Read more
Editorial: Firing Starbucks manager won't address Philly police's overboard response to her 911 call
Demonstrators on Tuesday continued to demand the firing of a Rittenhouse Square Starbucks manager whose 911 call led to two African American men who wouldn't make a purchase being detained by police after they refused to ...Read more
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Creator's Children: The Rise of Astwihad
Valerie Welsh$4.99
Having decimated the peaceful Trident race in the Deneb Star System, Astwihad and his clones are now targeting their next conquest; Earth!
Galaxie, Guardian of the Milky Way, must use all her cunning and knowledge to safeguard Earth and all those under her ...
Editorial: Trump is taking a smart calculated risk with North Korea talks
In July 1971, President Richard Nixon jolted the international status quo -- and set diplomatic nerves worldwide fluttering -- by announcing he would visit China. "Never in history, to our knowledge, have diplomatic ...Read more
Editorial: Congress grilled Facebook, but now it needs to act
Congressional lawmakers tried to put on a good show while grilling Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the misappropriation of detailed personal data from as many as 87 million users by Cambridge Analytica, the political ...Read more
Editorial: Hold the applause on President Trump's promises on pot
President Donald Trump's vow that he will not interfere with Colorado's pot industry is welcome news for all states that have legalized marijuana, including Washington.
Yet state officials are wise to view this new ...Read more
Editorial: Steve Gleason deserves Congressional Gold Medal
Former NFL star and Washington State Cougar Steve Gleason has made an even bigger impact off the field, as an advocate for health research and helping individuals with neuromuscular diseases live full lives.
U.S. Sens. ...Read more
Noah Smith: It's up to Republicans to make marijuana legal
If only Nixon could go to China, as the saying goes, then maybe only Republicans can legalize weed.
Marijuana has now been legalized for medical use in many states -- only Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota still ...Read more
Hal Brands: Congress again throws in towel on Trump's war powers
Something odd is happening in the relationship between Congress and the executive branch regarding the use of military force. For decades, or even longer, countless senators and representatives have complained that ...Read more
Sleazy Washington press stoops to a new low
Playboy Enterprises just announced that it has purchased a table at this year's White House Correspondents Association dinner. Swell. Just what we need.
The dinner, as you've probably heard, is an annual ritual of ...Read more
Space: the new frontier of warfare
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Sitting at the controls of a Boeing space-flight simulator, "docking" the company's planned "Starliner" craft with an imaginary space station, you begin to understand why the Pentagon is so ...Read more
America does have a 'deep state' -- of law
NEW YORK -- The most remarkable parts of James Comey's memoir are not about Donald Trump. We already knew most of the interesting revelations, and some of the others are gossip and color commentary. But in his discussion ...Read more
Trump's foreign policy is more like international lurching
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is succeeding wildly at one thing: sowing utter confusion about its foreign policy.
Perhaps "foreign policy" is the wrong term. "International lurchings" might be more apt. Allies ...Read more
Why the authoritarian right is rising
A fortnight ago, Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party won enough seats in the Hungarian parliament to rewrite his country's constitution.
To progressives across the West, this was disturbing news.
For the bete noire of ...Read more
Evangelicals can't advance human dignity by dehumanizing others
WASHINGTON -- If the stages of a social movement are emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization and decline, the reaction against the Trump evangelicals among other evangelicals is still in the emergence stage. But one ...Read more
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