2010 OR BUST….The Washington Post editorial page has been the target of plenty of chin scratching over the past few years from people who wonder just what’s going on in Fred Hiatt’s shop, but today’s effort really outdoes itself. If I hadn’t clicked the link and read it for myself, I think I would have figured it was an Onion parody or something.
A new survey of students at regional public universities by the think tank Third Way offers some surprising insights.
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Past presidents have tapped their unarticulated prerogative powers in times of necessity and for the national good. For Trump, it’s a permission slip to do as he will.
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Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago. As America wrestles with its 250th birthday, this commemoration also cuts to the heart of who we are.
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Both the Social Security and Medicare trust funds face exhaustion by 2033 because more of the nation’s total income goes to the rich, and much of their growing share goes untaxed.
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Millions of Americans face a job crisis: They’re employed but not moving up and they don’t know what to do. Here’s some of what we need to ease the problem of stalled careers.
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James Wilson, later a Supreme Court justice, signed the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He presaged Lincoln by insisting the former owed much to the latter.
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There are no shortcuts around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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