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Barr’s Misconduct Should Not Shield Trump

Columnists Joe Conason - April 10, 2023 0

In the days since Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled his office’s 34-count indictment of former President Donald J. Trump, arguments about the likelihood of conviction have erupted on every cable news program, as the former president spews fusillades of lies and threats. Most of this noise is pointless and hardly worth engaging. The only opinion that matters may someday be announced by a jury foreperson in a court of law. Yet there is one […]

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Donald Trump Is Not Our Type, Believe Me

Columnists Froma Harrop - May 16, 2023 0

The Trump rally promoted by CNN [but paraded as a “town hall”] included the inevitable references to the former president’s piggish remarks about women. Kaitlan Collins dug in on the famous Access Hollywood videotape in which the former president claimed that a rich celebrity could grab a woman by her privates and get away with it. He responded that [a] this statement is obviously true, and [b] he was one such privileged celebrity. This rally […]

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Drug Price Gouging A Product Of Our Political System

Columnists Froma Harrop - October 1, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP If Hollywood had created Martin Shkreli as the monster from Wall Street, we would have accused it of unfair characterization. But Shkreli – a 32-year-old hedge fund director in T-shirts, dabbler in the punk rock music world – has saved Tinseltown the trouble. Shkreli has also done the American people a service by showing in high def how the pharmaceutical industry gouges us. The pharmaceutical industry is angry with him for the […]

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Islam, Public Schools, and the Challenge of Teaching About Religions

Columnists MaryAnn Martin - November 14, 2015 0

BY CHARLES C. HAYNES In recent weeks, fights have erupted in Georgia and Tennessee over how Islam is taught in public schools. Charges of “Islamic indoctrination” are countered by charges of “anti-Muslim bigotry” as people shout past one another at school board meetings and in the media. Not only has anti-Islam rhetoric become politically acceptable in this campaign, it may actually be good politics in the fight for the Republican nomination. Before this dispute becomes […]

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Trump’s Extremism On Abortion Cannot Be Hid

Columnists Froma Harrop - April 25, 2023 0

Ron DeSantis had it coming, but Donald Trump’s attempts to paint the Florida governor as a scarier right-winger than he is deserve to fail. What DeSantis has done in Florida – virtually ban all access to abortion – Trump has come close to doing to the entire country. Trump is just better at playing all sides. Trump said that the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a basic right to abortion, […]

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