Opinion: Sex, lies and ... Trump. What more can you ask for?
One thing we can be sure of: If this Stormy Daniels thing hurts Donald Trump politically, it will be for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with sex.
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Opinion: A unanimous jury won’t convict Trump
Given the intensifying criminal investigations into Donald Trump, many think he might finally pay for his crimes. Some even believe a conviction and jail sente…
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Opinion: Biden’s compromise on new oil drilling is devastating for Alaska
I am old enough to remember the late President George H.W. Bush's promise at the Republican National Convention in 1988 of "Read my lips: no new taxes," a pled…
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Opinion: Iraq, 20 years later
Twenty years ago, the United States launched its first wave of attacks against Iraq.
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Opinion: Seven days in March
In 1961, shortly after John F. Kennedy had been sworn in as president, two journalists, Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, set to writing a political thril…
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Opinion: Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse may be a blessing in disguise
In the brief but spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, we may just have witnessed the best banking crisis ever.
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Opinion: ‘Blame Mexico’ won’t solve the crises of guns and fentanyl
Ken Salazar, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, met with the Los Angeles Times for more than an hour while visiting California in November.
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Opinion: Tennessee’s ban on drag performance violates freedom of speech
Tennessee has passed a law aimed at restricting drag performances, an art form that often involves exaggerated gender performance and cross-dressing.
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Opinion: Fox News is trapped by its own zealotry
The HBO drama "Succession" might be a fictional corollary to the machinations of Rupert Murdoch's Fox empire. But when it comes specifically to Fox News, "The …
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Opinion: The boys who cried ‘woke!’
As soon as it was clear that Silicon Valley Bank would not survive last weekend, conservative influencers and Republican politicians had a culprit in sight.
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Opinion: Tennessee abortion law is stopping me from having more children
Over the New Year's holiday, my husband and I received the surprise of our lives: a positive pregnancy test. The pregnancy was unplanned, but very welcome.
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Opinion: 2024? Forget it, Mike
With the 2024 presidential election a mere 590 or so days in the distance, few so-called news stories could interest me less on the upslope of 2023 than candid…
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Opinion: Blaming SVB on ‘woke’ banks masks Republican divide
Politicians generally don't like looking silly. And yet a whole bunch of Republican politicians reacted to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank by raging about …
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Opinion: Beyond saving Silicon Valley Bank’s depositors, here’s what needs to happen next
Before last Thursday, Silicon Valley Bank was regarded as being in "sound financial condition." But on that day it experienced attempted withdrawals of $42 bil…
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Opinion: Pence looks for an opening in the anti-Trump lane
For the first half of his speech as the Republican representative at the annual Gridiron Club dinner, Mike Pence served up the typical mix of self-deprecating …