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Just because Congress can't fix health care doesn't mean it can't be done. That's the message from the Health Transformation Alliance, 41 big American companies that have banded together to try to save money and lives on their own, without waiting for
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One might think that Republicans would understand that political power in America is all about building coalitions. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by creating a coalition of anti-slavery Northerners and the remnants of the Whig party. Abolitionists, merchants, and the emerging urban middle class combined to create a
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"Well, the president has to share responsibility." — Cokie Roberts, This Week, ABC News, Sunday, August 13, 2017
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"Greed," declared Gordon Gekko in a memorable movie scene, "for lack of a better word, is good." The lead character in the 1987 hit movie Wall Street, Gekko took center stage in the anti-capitalism screed from lefty filmmaker Oliver Stone. The familiar quote is frequently rolled
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Students at Stanford University will be offered a course this fall that will "consider … abolishing whiteness." The anthropology course, called "White Identity Politics," is being offered by the university's Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Department.
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Boston voters may be forgiven for not noticing a conspicuous absence on their ballots in the municipal election this fall. Actually, it's been absent for over a century, a forgotten remnant of crooked logic from the first Progressive Era. Nowhere on the ballot lists any party affiliation associated
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U.S. Representative Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) will not seek re-election in 2018, she announced Wednesday morning. Tsongas, 71, the widow of former U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas (1941-1997), was first elected in October 2007, in a special election to replace Marty Meehan, who left Congress to become chancellor of the
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