WASHINGTON — On this July Fourth, America has taken a turn for the worst. The great delusion of Donald Trump’s presidency is that we can thrive by embracing nationalism even though major economic and political events are increasingly driven by international forces. Trump is an isolationist in an era of globalism. It won’t work. Keep […]
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Think about it
It should be obvious which way we should vote this November. In Washington, the bigoted divider in chief is a hypocrite who publicly opposes chain migration, yet his wife’s parents both arrived here via that route. In Augusta, a similar mean-spirited governor has obstructed citizen-backed referendums that would increase the minimum wage, expand medicaid and […]
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The tawdry and dumb Nazi charge
The Nazi analogy has long been recognized as the crudest and dumbest form of argument, but it is enjoying a renaissance. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden notoriously tweeted a photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau as a response to family separations at the border. Upon a report that parents at the border were being told that their children […]
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Golden will stand with seniors, veterans
As a senior and a veteran, I am gravely concerned about the massive tax breaks that were passed in Congress this year, and who will pay for them. Medicare was created in 1964 by Lyndon Johnson and since then it has been the target of potential cuts. Some have called Medicare socialism and Republican leaders […]
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SNAP participants are not failing
Every year SNAP helps 40 million people buy the food they need to feed themselves and their family. It is one of the country’s most important safety nets. We have been fed the lie that those who participate in SNAP are undeserving because it’s the only way to justify the morally reprehensible fact that in […]
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An assault on meritocracy
LONDON — In recent weeks, you might have heard about two seemingly unrelated issues that are actually quite connected. In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled his desire to scrap the highly competitive exam for eight New York public high schools, including Stuyvesant, and began taking more limited steps to admit more black and […]
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Congrats, Trump voters. You've been vindicated.
WASHINGTON — For those conservatives who voted for Donald Trump because of the Supreme Court, congratulations: You’ve been vindicated. Had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election, she would have replaced the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia with a liberal jurist — giving the Supreme Court a left-wing activist majority for a generation. Because Trump won, […]
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Trust the facts on genetically engineered foods
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has come up with cheerful new labels for genetically modified foods. The bright green and yellow circles depict a happy sun, a winking smiley face or a verdant landscape stamped with the letters “BE,” for “bioengineered” — rather than the familiar “genetically modified” or “genetically engineered.” It’s a shame the […]
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Seeking asylum isn't a crime. Why do Trump and Sessions act like it is?
The immigration system, if you believe President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is rife with fraud and abuse. And while Trump’s administration is hostile to all immigrants, it’s people seeking asylum whom he and his advisers most scorn. Sessions says “dirty immigration lawyers” push their clients to make “fake claims” to trigger court […]
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The Supreme Court's worst decision ever
At one point in Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ringing dissent from last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from a group of nations, most of them with Muslim-majority populations, she recounts his many insults against followers of Islam. Though most of us can likely recall his bigotry clearly enough without a refresher, […]