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President Donald Trump has an opportunity both to defeat the novel coronavirus and to gain advantage for the United States in its struggle with China. The competition between the United States and China for global influence predates both the coronavirus crisis and the Trump administration. It flared earlier in this
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If it weren't for the coronavirus outbreak, this week would mark the opening of the Major League Baseball season. Instead, the league has indefinitely postponed Opening Day, deferring to a recommendation from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to cancel gatherings of more than 250 people.
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"Pandemics Kill Compassion, Too," is the headline over a David Brooks column in the New York Times predicting that the coronavirus is about to "inflame class divisions." Well, if the New York Times editorial page is going to use the pandemic to confirm its prior assumptions,
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A Joe Biden presidency would be a bonanza for plaintiff's lawyers. After his strong performance in the South Carolina Democratic primary and on Super Tuesday and since, Biden has been consolidating support among a wide range of key Democratic constituencies. But the trial lawyers have been backing him
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What will the coronavirus outbreak mean for the presidential race? It could go at least two ways.
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With the 2020 presidential contest increasingly looking like a matchup between Senator Bernie Sanders and President Donald Trump, the pundits are divided over the expected outcome. "Trump has an excellent chance to win re-election," David Leonhardt reassures readers of the New York Times.
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This Presidents Day week, I am thinking of John Hancock. Hancock was president of the Continental Congress, the body that named George Washington general of the Continental Army. Hancock was the Michael Bloomberg of his day — a politician simultaneously appreciated for his great wealth and resented for it.
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Who is to blame for an electorate that values youth over experience, that has elevated Pete Buttigieg and Barack Obama over Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton? The culprit is, in a significant way, Biden himself.