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Leave it to Barack Obama. As the rest of us were getting ready for the July 4 holiday that celebrates the birth of the United States of America, our former president fetched up on foreign soil, in Indonesia, to warn against what he described as "an aggressive kind of
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So the Democrats, after opposing Donald Trump in the 2016 election partly out of what they claimed was concern about his incivility and coarseness, are now pursuing a debate about health care legislation in Washington by characterizing the Republicans who disagree with them about policy details as mass murderers. Think
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Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election is both a preview of Hillary Clinton's 2020 presidential campaign and a re-run of the insider-trading litigation of the past decade. It's a preview of the 2020 presidential campaign, because blaming the outcome
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The recent announcement that General Electric is replacing its CEO and chairman, Jeff Immelt, brought me back to a little-noticed moment at the end of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation's dinner last month honoring President Barack Obama with its "Profile in Courage Award." Following President
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"Outcry Over EpiPen Prices Hasn't Made Them Lower" is the misleading headline over Charles Duhigg's "Adventures in Capitalism" column in the New York Times business section. Mr. Duhigg writes, "I was surprised when my pharmacist informed me, months after those floggings
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A sad truth about modern Washington is that bipartisan consensus is not only rare, it's dangerous. In other words, when Republicans and Democrats agree on something, sometimes it means they both are wrong.
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The author and reporter David Halberstam is having a bit of a moment. The Washington Post recently published a piece, headlined "The Greatest Reporter of Our Time," marking the tenth anniversary of his death. The New York Times caught Trump adviser Stephen Bannon reading a Halberstam book.
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Binyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at the New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pennsylvania in October of 2016. So it was particularly dismaying to read Appelbaum's dispatch earlier this