To Comfort The Afflicted
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    Good Men With Guns Won’t Save Us

    Columnists Froma Harrop - 0

    BY FROMA HARROP It was a remarkable 13 hours in American history. A mass shooting in Dayton, OH, taking nine lives was overshadowed by a massacre in El Paso, TX, costing 22. Others are dwelling on the El Paso gunman’s alleged online “manifesto” about Hispanics’ growing political clout in Texas – and Donald Trump’s use […]

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    Will Democrats Be Democrats Or Fraidy-Cats?

    Columnists Jim Hightower - 0

    BY JIM HIGHTOWER “Trust me!” bellowed the billionaire Donald Trump to working-class voters in 2016, promising he’d be the champion of what he called “the forgotten Americans.” Trust him? He’s a lifetime real estate huckster infamous for ripping off workers and opposing union labor. You’d have better odds trusting a coyote to guard your last […]

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    Democrats, Get Out Of Your Own Way

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    BY JOE CONASON Robert Mueller’s testimony disappointed anyone seeking drama, but his performance isn’t the problem. What keeps congressional Democrats from fulfilling their constitutional duty to confront a lawless president is their own political inertia. In his own careful and stolid way, Mueller laid out the facts and arguments provided in his 448-page report [although […]

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    Build A Wall To Keep Them In

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    BY FROMA HARROP Last winter, I found myself in a hospital intensive care unit for three days. I was hooked onto all kinds of boxes, bags and bleeping machines. Stuck in the bed, I watched a lot of bad TV. The people who came into my room became my only contact with the human world. […]

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    Democrats, Send The Wonks Home

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    BY FROMA HARROP Wonks can be useful people. Having studied the deep innards of public policy, wonks are essential to constructing programs that can function as desired. They help write complicated laws. But whereas wonks may know all the parts that make a clock work, they are usually not good at selling the clock. You […]

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