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Sometimes Voters Just Want Competence

Columnists Froma Harrop - September 19, 2018 0

BY FROMA HARROP In our highly polarized era, we too often judge election results from the confines of partisan politics. That’s not nearly as useful on the state and local levels, where elected officials have roads to fix, kids to educate and budgets to balance. Voters want people who can do the job. Ideology can […]

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Here We Go Again

Columnists Susan Estrich - September 18, 2018 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I have been to this movie before. I know how it ends, and it doesn’t end well – not for anyone, by the way. This much we know: A woman writes a letter in July. It’s about something that happened in high school. Pick your words. An assault? An attempted assault? A […]

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How About Medicare Advantage For All?

Columnists Froma Harrop - September 18, 2018 0

BY FROMA HARROP A resurfaced Barack Obama has uttered those three little words: “Medicare for all.” Does that mean that the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, was a bad idea? Not at all. The ACA was a triumph in that it cut the number of uninsured Americans by 20 million. And it hardened the idea […]

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You’re No Bob Mueller, Judge Starr

Columnists Joe Conason - September 18, 2018 0

BY JOE CONASON In hawking his new memoir, Kenneth Starr displays all the dignity, fairness and proportion that characterized his pursuit of Bill Clinton’s impeachment two decades ago. Which is to say not much. Still, after being unceremoniously dumped from his jobs at Baylor University for covering up a sexual assault scandal, and with no […]

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Gentrification Begets Gentrification

Columnists Jim Hightower - September 13, 2018 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Gentrification is a function of power, not natural law or economic inevitability. It occurs when wealthy, politically connected interests make decisions in closed-door meetings to take over the neighborhoods of people who have little money and power and thus no effective voice or recourse in the taking. The takers usually make a […]

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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

Creeps Hunt Kids On Social Media

Sometimes Voters Just Want Competence

Here We Go Again

How About Medicare Advantage For All?

You’re No Bob Mueller, Judge Starr

Gentrification Begets Gentrification

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