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Opinion · 117th Congress
When will Republicans reject fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear?
of Conscience,” delivered on the Senate floor and supported by six other Republican senators, never mentioned McCarthy by name, it was clear Smith meant the Wisconsin senator when she said: “Those of us
Opinion · 117th Congress
The fight over faith in politics: Which faith? Whose values?
There were warnings (“how far have we come when the word of God is not a part of our regular speech?”)
Opinion · 117th Congress
Recession or no recession: Who’s a voter to believe?
Joe Biden and his team spent much of last weekend telling us that a recession isn’t inevitable.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Biden’s State of the Union: a swing and a miss
But this president chose not to challenge Russian leader Vladimir Putin directly.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Grievance is no substitute for ideas
Some will argue that holding up Reagan as a model for today is, in fact, returning to the past. But Reagan wasn’t an angry president driven by grievance and hate.
Opinion · 117th Congress
In Sinema’s speech, a warning and a path forward
Sinema’s speech: a dire warning about the future of hyperpartisanship. Sen.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Donald Rumsfeld and the catastrophic choices he made
Bush administration and in its orbit, starting with the president, who made that blunder.
Opinion · 116th Congress
There is nothing civil about intimidation
that swirl outside the walls of the Supreme Court, these two justices were able to do their important work with civility and respect for each other’s views that are so absent from political discourse today
Opinion · 116th Congress
With silencing of speech, is America entering Orwellian territory?
John Stuart Mill argued that speech gives us the opportunity to listen, to debate and understand differing views and ideas. More, not less, speech leads to rationality and liberty.
Opinion · 116th Congress
The Bolton bombshell and the moral lessons of Watergate
When their obituaries appeared, they were primarily familiar to those of us who once wallowed in Watergate.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Can church ever be separate from state at a Franklin Graham rally?
“He is our president whether a person voted for him or not, and we need to support the president regardless of who he is, where we can,” Graham told me.
Opinion · 116th Congress
When we stop talking to each other, democracy dies in silence
In her most recent analysis, released in June, she tells us that in 2019, people will spend more time on mobile devices than watching TV.
Opinion · 116th Congress
A half-century after Selma, the ‘black friend’ defense is going strong
We have a president who’s a racist.”
Opinion · 116th Congress
A reporter’s homage to government auditors — unsung heroes of transparency
Especially today, as the media becomes increasingly ideological and balkanized, Americans need to have people they can turn to for as objective a version of reality as possible.
Opinion · 115th Congress
George H.W. Bush Never Forgot the People’s House
Pepper, 88, pulled himself together to give a 30-minute acceptance speech about his career, and then died four days later. There wasn’t a dry eye in the room.
Opinion · 115th Congress
After the Kavanaugh Trauma, the Senate Needs an MRI
In a commencement speech at Yale University, Biden described watching Sen.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: A New Climate of Realism Emerges in Energy Debate
Two mainstay and false arguments of the climate debate — “It’s all a hoax” and “Renewable energy alone can save us” — are beginning to lose steam.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Digital Discourse, Not Division
That is good news for both President Trump and the political process.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Meet the Deficit Doves
The hawks were like seat belts or a bicycle helmet — they took the fun out of some things, but at the end of the day, they kept us all safer. Chicken hawks?