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Pity poor Ed Markey. He's 72 years old, has been in Congress since 1976 – at this writing, 42 years, 3 months, 6 days. A United States senator for 5 years, 6 months, 23 days. And yet yesterday he felt the need to get his picture taken with and
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As we all know, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is contemplating his post-political life while desperately trying to hold on as the state's chief executive officer. But who will be governor next week? That forecast is harder than you might think, because the options are expanding while the candidates
Editorials
President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address before Congress on Tuesday, February 5. Here are six great moments from it:
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American politics at the moment can pretty much be explained by what you make of the record sixth Super Bowl victory by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick, and owner Robert Kraft. One view of it is to marvel at, and celebrate, the hard work, risk-taking, and
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The Covington Catholic confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial is a story of high school kids enduring repeated abuse of their religious and political beliefs and then responding with school chants to drown out the abusers. They did nothing wrong and not even much noteworthy.
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's political life is pretty close to non-viable after an image of his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced showing a picture of two men standing side-by-side, one in blackface and the other in a white Ku Klux Klan outfit. You can't tell from
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John Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group who died last month at age 89, got rich by giving his mutual fund customers a better deal. The obituaries seem to have missed that point, dwelling instead on the theory that if only Bogle had chosen to rip off his customers,
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives has decided to start calling the state government's chief executive "Their Excellency, the Governor" in order to be gender-non-specific at all times. Better to be plural and always wrong then go masculine and possibly be wrong on occasion.
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