Court Rules Against DAPL
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The Intellectual Underpinning of a “Mean” Republican Party
Today’s Republican Party bears little resemblance to its more moderate past. While President Ronald Reagan tried to limit the “overreach” of the federal government in favor of states’ rights and...
View ArticleTrump’s Security Bumps
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Scott Pruitt’s Climate Change Denial Is out of Touch
The New York Times made it a front-page story: “EPA Chief Doubts Consensus View of Climate Change.” President Donald Trump’s appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, stated...
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Watergate and the Downing of Nixon, Part 1
With President Donald Trump and his administration facing investigation by a special counsel, we increasingly see parallels being drawn with Watergate, and the investigation and removal of Richard...
View ArticlePuerto Rico Pushes to Become 51st State
On June 12, results were announced for Puerto Rico’s latest status referendum — the fifth in 50 years. An overwhelming 97 percent voted in favor of statehood. While such a landslide victory might...
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Theresa May Risks Peace in Northern Ireland to Cling to Power
Could a deal between the UK government and a small party with extremist links jeopardize two decades of peace in Northern Ireland?After losing its majority in a general election, Prime Minister Theresa...
View ArticleAmerica’s Amazon Problem
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Watergate and the Downing of Nixon, Part 2
We are running this series because people are looking back at Watergate as a guide from another time, when another president was on the ropes. And we are running it because, as is often the case, the...
View Article‘Moral Injury’ of Veterans
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Trump White House Swings Machete Against Rules
Forget the tweets, the zigzags on foreign policy, the missile launches, the chaos around health care, and the denial of Russian involvement in the election. Think instead about the one area where the...
View ArticleAnother Chernobyl in California?
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View ArticleWho Gets Free Speech?
In the era of Donald Trump and #TheResistance, questions of free speech have once again come to the forefront of public consciousness. Should Megyn Kelly interview Alex Jones, who believed (or...
View ArticleDangers of ‘Russiagate’
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Is the Healthcare Debate Really About Sex?
As has been widely reported, the GOP health care bill was written in secret by 13 men. What’s shocking about this goes beyond the bad political optics; it’s the revelation that so much of the...
View ArticleCIA + Amazon’s ‘Cloud Computing’
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Fired WSJ Reporter Connected to Iran-Contra Arms Dealer
The Wall Street Journal recently fired Jay Solomon, its chief national security correspondent, for failure to disclose business deals with one of his sources — including selling weapons to a foreign...
View ArticleEPA Drops Scientists, Invites in Corporations
When President Donald Trump promised to create 25 million new jobs in the next decade, he clearly wasn’t talking about Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees. On the heels of proposed budget...
View ArticleLack of a Vision for America Is Hurting Democrats
Democrats and liberal pundits can’t seem to make up their minds whether their string of recent special election losses in conservative districts is a sign that they are doomed — or constitutes a bunch...
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Why Donald Trump Should Be Nervous
Editor’s note: Martin J. Sheil is a retired branch chief of the IRS Criminal Investigation division.Special Counsel Robert Mueller has apparently expanded his investigation of the Trump campaign’s...
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