It was a beautiful North Carolina spring day in 2000 at the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, and Governor Jim Hunt was sprinting down the giant ruby-red stairs. I was his then-young press aide, and we were running late because he had been on the phone with President Bill Clinton. Naively, I noted something about their […]
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The Trump Boomerang Effect: Bari Weiss, Meet Ozymandias
While Trump muscles the media and renames the Kennedy Center, history will get the last laugh. Just ask the good people of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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NATO’s Myopic Accounting Ignores Maritime Superpower Greece
The alliance demands its members spend 2 percent of GDP on defense, but its green-eye shade focus ignores Athens’ massive sealift capacity.
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The GOP War on Nurses
To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics.
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Donald Trump’s Go-it-Alone America
Trump’s uniquely toxic brand of “self-reliance” threatens the collective strength that truly makes America great.
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Death By Lightning Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters
Donald Trump wants to bring back the spoils system. The Netflix miniseries is an entertaining tale of why we should never do that.
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Brown, Bondi Beach, and the Reiners: The Murderous December
Shocking slayings and the background of Trump’s dysfunction cast a pall over the holidays.
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A New Path for a Free Palestine
Israel isn’t going to disappear and calling for its liquidation spurs antisemitism. There’s a better way.
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Trump’s Sickening Sociopathic Shots at Rob Reiner
All Republicans must be asked if they stand behind their master on this one.
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Trump’s Secret Pardon-for-Profit Racket
Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and a bit of the backstory of the shameful pardon of the former Honduran president.
