I guess these lives should just be considered collateral damage in Donald Trump’s battle to defend coal: The Trump administration has hailed its overhaul of federal pollution restrictions on coal-burning power plants as creating new jobs, eliminating burdensome government regulations and ending what President Trump has long described as a “war on coal.” The administration’s […]
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The Hungarian strongman’s electoral manipulations created a system so volatile that a modest popular swing wiped out his supermajority.
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His proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery is pure Trump.
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Strongmen are weaker. Integrity endures. Peace is popular.
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The vice president’s humiliations in Budapest and Islamabad raise the question: Why did Trump set him up to fail?
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In its 8–1 ruling on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, the Supreme Court recast mental health care as protected expression.
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Half a Loaf From the Center for American Progress
The liberal think tank’s health care proposal is full of sound ideas that won’t deliver immediate relief. Here’s what would.
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