To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

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Republicans Are Stuck With Their Assault On Abortion

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Nice try, Lindsey Graham. The senator from South Carolina has been reading the polls, clearly. After decades of railing against abortion and populating the U.S. Supreme Court with justices eager to ditch a right to an abortion, Republicans like him are discovering that the broader public never signed up for losing that option. On the […]

A Fact-Checked Verdict On ‘Her Emails’

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The Washington Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler has delivered a conclusive verdict on the subject that delivered the presidency to Donald J. Trump: What about her emails? His analysis follows a column I wrote last week examining whether any of Hillary Clinton’s emails contained government secrets that would have justified her criminal prosecution, as Trump has […]

The People’s Queen

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It feels strange, as an American, to admire a queen, but there is nothing strange about admiring Queen Elizabeth II. It is precisely because of how human she has been, how human her life has been, that a nation of anti-monarchs such as we should mourn the passing of this great woman. Because she was […]

Confused By Workers Quitting?

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For more than a year, America’s corporate chieftains have been moaning about the “Great Resignation:” the recent phenomenon of workers just up and quitting their jobs. And now comes “quiet quitting:” workers who don’t leave their jobs, but only do what they were hired to do, quietly rejecting the endless extra [unpaid] tasks and weekend […]

How Many Of Her Emails Were Classified? Actually, Zero

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Nearly every day, fresh revelations emerge concerning the national security material purloined from the White House by former President Donald Trump, and the negligent treatment of that classified information by him and his aides. So far, we have seen no adequate public reckoning of why he took those papers, what he meant to do with […]