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The French foreign minister accuses the American president of furthering a "divorce" between the United States and its European allies. "Deep Trade Rift With Allies Seen" is a New York Times headline. "The Roots of Western Disunity" is the headline over another New York
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Elizabeth Warren, meet Clarence Thomas. Senator Warren, a Democrat of Massachusetts, was in the headlines recently for joining with Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican who represents Colorado, to introduce the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act. That legislation would, as Warren put it in a tweet, "let
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Displays of political hypocrisy go just don't get any more brazen than the press conference by four Senate Democrats criticizing President Donald Trump for soaring gasoline prices. The Democratic Senate leader, Charles Schumer, claimed that the price increases were "directly" related to "President Trump'
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The deaths, in the same week last month, of the great scholar of the Middle East Bernard Lewis and the great scholar of Russia Richard Pipes are a warning to American conservatives: don't give up on the universities. Lewis and Pipes are being rightfully remembered for their influence
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The stark juxtaposition of the celebratory opening of America's new embassy to Israel in Jerusalem and deadly Palestinian riots in Gaza has led some to conclude that one has something to do with the other. As New York Times columnist Max Fisher put it in a tweet, "
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Sylvia Bloom worked for 67 years as a secretary at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and accumulated a personal fortune of more than $9 million. Bloom did this by being "frugal" and "by shrewdly observing the investments made by the lawyers she served,"
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President Donald Trump deserves more credit than he has gotten for at least one thing — outlasting his critics' prediction of the length of his tenure. In a post-election column published in the November 11, 2016 New York Times, David Brooks wrote, "the guy will probably resign or be
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Some self-described socialist candidates running within the Democratic Party "advocate more extreme changes, such as abolishing the prison system," the New York Times reports. Sure enough, the Boston Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has a "Prison Abolition Working Group" that meets monthly. The national