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Commentary: 'Fighting' disease is the wrong metaphor
When Alex Trebek, the longtime "Jeopardy" host, revealed to the world that he'd been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic ... Read More
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'I'll be here a lot,' Trump says of Pennsylvania in safe GOP district
MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. -- Air Force One landed here Monday evening ahead of a special House election as AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" blared inside an airport hangar. Minutes later, with Air Force One parked in front of small tree-...Read more
Editorial: President Donald Trump's war crime pardons would be an affront to America
Recent reports in The New York Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune indicate President Donald Trump is considering pardons for several American military members accused or convicted of war crimes. One of them is San Diego...Read more
Trudy Rubin: Why Democrats should watch how the immigration firestorm is playing out in Italy
ROME -- In the plaza in front of the Tiburtina train station on the eastern half of this city, 100 African migrants huddle at night in rough blankets and sleeping bags provided by sympathetic citizens. Two scared, skinny ...Read more
Commentary: Chutzpah, thy name is Kris Kobach
Talk about chutzpah.
Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state who helped lead the inane Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (which discovered diddly), delivered a list of 10 demands to the ...Read more
Editorial: Trump's continues petty flame war against California, but fire season is coming
Get out your rakes. President Trump is attacking California's forest fire management again.
Wildfire season is almost here and, in an ongoing effort to make sure California is punished each and every day for not being a ...Read more
California rail authority sues Trump administration over terminating grant
LOS ANGELES -- California's high-speed rail agency announced Tuesday it is suing the federal government over the Trump administration's decision to terminate a $929 million grant for the state's beleaguered bullet train.
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We don't know what Trump's tax returns are hiding. But the hints are troubling.
When you look at the short span of President Trump's political career, one question jumps out: How much of his craziest, most paranoid and norm-violating behavior is motivated by a desire to keep his financial arrangements...Read more
Trump held off punishing Huawei until China trade talks stalled
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration held off on blacklisting Huawei Technologies Co. out of concern the move could disrupt trade negotiations with China and only took action after the last round of talks hit an impasse,...Read more
Trump paved the way for Alabama's abortion law
WASHINGTON -- The ship has sailed, the train has left the station, the horse is out of the barn, the genie is out of the bottle, and the toothpaste is out of the tube.
Enter President Trump.
"As most people know, and for...Read more
Editorial: This SAT 'adversity score' merits a failing grade
Decisions about admission into college are based on a gamut of factors. Potentially among them: a student's understanding of parabolas, perihelions and the Reconstruction -- that is, his or her academic preparation and ...Read more
Walter Shapiro: What Justin Amash can teach Nancy Pelosi
At worst, Justin Amash will be the answer to a trivia question about which House member bucked a president of his own party to call for impeachment. At best, Amash will someday be hailed as prescient in trying to save the ...Read more
Editorial: Lightfoot's tough love: Will you stick with her, Chicago?
There was a moment during Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's inauguration speech at Wintrust Arena when she turned her back to the crowd and faced the risers of aldermen seated behind her. It was right after she said this ...Read more
Stuart Rothenberg: Will the Supreme Court save the GOP from itself on abortion?
Social conservatives cheering the rash of state laws limiting legal abortion might want to be careful what they wish for.
That's because Democratic prospects for 2020 are likely to improve as uncertainty about the future ...Read more
Editorial: Should privilege and disadvantage play a role in SAT scores?
When the University of California threatened to drop the SAT as a college entrance requirement more than 15 years ago, the College Board eliminated the analogy questions and introduced a new essay portion. The changes ...Read more
Editorial: Trump's mixed signals could lead to a clash with Iran
Apprehensions about an imminent military confrontation between Iran and the United States have subsided for the time being, after a tense period in which the Trump administration, citing heightened threats, sent an ...Read more
Editorial: A billionaire's generous graduation gift should get us all thinking about student debt
As commencement speeches go, this one was definitely not a snoozer. Billionaire investor Robert F. Smith told the Morehouse College graduating class of 396 seniors -- to their total surprise -- that he and his family would...Read more
Godless American colleges continue to descend into left-wing madness
Most Americans are not aware how morally and intellectually destructive American colleges -- and, increasingly, high schools and even elementary schools -- have become. So, they spend tens of thousands after-tax dollars to...Read more
This is the pro-life movement's moment to move against the Godless progressives
Since 1973, when Roe vs. Wade ushered in what would eventually lead to abortion on demand, including partial-birth abortion and even the failure to protect babies politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-2210766">Read more
The missing option in American politics
WASHINGTON -- In a country that spans a continent, in a party that produced Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, there is still no serious political challenge to the ideological supremacy of a corrupt, deeply prejudiced ...Read more
Bullies like Trump cannot be appeased. They must be confronted.
WASHINGTON -- Justin Amash finally said out loud what many other Republicans know but will only whisper: "President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment." ...Read more
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