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In memory of the late William Safire, place your bets now on possibilities for the year ahead. Choose from the choices offered or devise your own scenarios. Last year's column, Office Pool 2018, correctly anticipated President Donald Trump's ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Democratic
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President Donald Trump has been trying to blame the Democrats for the effort by federal prosecutors to depict payoffs to two women as campaign finance violations. If only it were that simple.
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Maybe it's time to rebrand the Democrats as the party of the rich. This month saw the election of Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker as governor of Illinois. Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, is worth an estimated $3.2 billion, and spent $171.
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Many of the latest headlines boil down to a conflict about nationalism. Great Britain's exit from the European Union. Donald Trump's attempt to erect a border wall and to renegotiate the terms of international trade agreements. Russian meddling in American politics. Even public marches by avowed
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The guilty plea of a former lawyer for the Trump Organization, Michael Cohen, on Augist 21 was reportedly motivated in part by Cohen's 83-year-old father, who supposedly told his son that he didn't "survive the Holocaust to have his name sullied by Mr. Trump."
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Dear non-Jews, especially liberal non-Jews: Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy following the killing on Saturday of 11 of us at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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The best explanation of the firing of FBI director James Comey and of the subsequent investigation by special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller may just come from a social scientist who died years before President Donald Trump took office. When James Q. Wilson died in 2012, he was
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Did U.S. Representative Christopher Collins commit the federal crime of securities fraud when he spoke to his son, Cameron, on the phone shortly after he found out bad news about an Australian biotechnology company that they both held shares in? The answer may depend in part on which one