Opinion: What really happened at the Biden-Netanyahu meeting
In recent weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about Joe Biden's age. He's old. But you know what comes with age besides a slower gait and forgetting word…
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Opinion: Rupert Murdoch’s arrogant farewell says it all
The retirement of Rupert Murdoch, the global media mogul perhaps most responsible for our contemporary media dysfunction, prompted renewed speculation about th…
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Opinion: The House Republicans’ shutdown politics are dumb and dumber
For years, I stalked the Capitol halls amid Congress' fiscal-year-end follies, waiting with other reporters for a breakthrough to end the latest faux crisis.
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Commentary: Democrats have to solve their Menendez problem
Al Franken was an above-average senator from Minnesota who was driven from office in 2018 by his Democratic colleagues after several women accused him of touch…
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Opinion: A theory of Elon Musk’s maniacal drive
In his biography of Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow writes that Hamilton "always had to fight the residual sadness of the driven man."
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Opinion: Why Kevin McCarthy can’t do his job
The speaker of the House is the only congressional officer mentioned in the Constitution, other than a temporary Senate officer to preside when the vice presid…
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Opinion: Why we need more investment in home repair
Extreme heat causes thousands of unnecessary deaths each year in the United States. And due to climate change, heat waves are becoming more common. This summer…
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Opinion: Black hair and the debate over culture vs conformity
I'm sitting in a barbershop in Nashville one day this year, waiting for my barber to finish up with a client.
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Opinion: Maybe Matt Gaetz is right
The dysfunctional dance taking place in the House between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his right flank has driven me to consider something I never imagined possi…
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Opinion: Young voters are frustrated. They’re staying engaged ‘out of sheer self-defense.’
A Pew Research Center report released this week called Americans' views of our politics "dismal."
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Opinion: Will Lauren Boebert and other female politicians pay the price for behaving badly?
My goodness, the girls really have gone wild.
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Opinion: The Borking of Joe Biden
If there was any doubt that the Republican House was no more sophisticated than a preschool playground, last week's opening of an impeachment inquiry into Pres…
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Opinion: A goverment shutdown looming, and we’re talking about suits?
It's the greatest scandal to hit D.C.
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Opinion: Political inspiration for Biden impeachment push
This hardly seems what the Founding Fathers had in mind. In fact, it exemplifies what they feared.
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Opinion: Why president Biden is no lame duck
It was clear from an early point that, barring some unforeseen circumstance, the 2024 presidential election would be a rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Bid…
