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Why We All Should Be Sick and Tired of This Tax Debate
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)Senators Debbie Stabenow, ranking member Ron Wyden, Chairman Orrin Hatch, and Chuck Grassley participate in the Senate Finance Committee markup of the "Tax Cuts...
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How Republicans Are Digging Their Own Grave for 2018
(Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa USA via AP Images)Protesters hold signs at a rally opposing the GOP tax bill in New York City on December 2, 2017.In the wee hours of Saturday morning, Senate Republicans passed...
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A Constitutional Crisis Is on the Way
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)Special Counsel Robert Mueller on June 21, 2017Remarkably, we are almost a year into Donald Trump's term as president of the United States and we haven't yet had a...
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Democrats Can't Stop the Tax Bill -- But They Can Make Republicans Pay
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Cameron Smith, of Kansas City, Kansas, blocks a hallway with others as they protest the GOP tax bill on December 5, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington.Throughout this year,...
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Why the Republicans' Tax Cut Won't Save Them from Political Disaster
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Republican Congress members applaud as Senator Orrin Hatch signs the final version of the GOP tax bill during an enrollment ceremony at the Capitol on December 21, 2017.Donald...
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President Trump Is Wrong: The Postal Service Is an American Treasure
(Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)U.S. Postal Service worker Missie Kittok, who has been a letter carrier for 15 months, helps deliver packages in time for Christmas in Minneapolis on...
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A Third-Class Intellect, But a Fourth-Class Temperament
(Rex Features via AP Images)After the 2017 we had, it seems completely appropriate that as 2018 begins, we're arguing about whether Donald Trump is an idiot or a genius.Or perhaps "arguing" is the...
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The Russia Scandal Is Looking More Like Watergate All the Time
AP Photo/Evan VucciPresident Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval OfficeIt was a rather eventful week for President Trump, one that began with the nation debating whether...
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The Shutdown Will End, But the Divisions Will Remain
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Demonstrators rally in support of DACA outside the Capitol on January 21, 2018, on the second day of the federal government shutdown.As I write this column, the federal...
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Think Republicans Went Bonkers Over the Nunes Memo? Just Wait.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes with Representative Peter King on October 24, 2017.Did last week make you feel like you were going a little bit crazy? Well buckle...
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Conservatism Unleashed
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Members of the cabinet applaud during Trump's State of the Union address on January 30, 2018.In the Netflix science fiction series Altered Carbon, a major plot line...
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What the Parkland Students Wanted the World to See—But the Media Didn't
(Twitter: @Melody_Ball)A screenshot from a cell phone video by a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.The school shooting last week in Parkland, Florida, was unlike other mass shootings in...
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Is the NRA Finally on the Defensive?
AP Photo/Susan WalshNational Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre testifies on Capitol Hill Speaking to the activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, President Trump...
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Is the GOP Careening Toward Disaster in November?
AP Photo/Keith SrakocicVice President Mike Pence, right, stands with State Representative Rick Saccone after a fundraising event ahead of next week's special election for Pennsylvania's 18th...
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What Elizabeth Warren Is In For
(Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)Warren during a hearing in the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on January 23, 2018.From the moment he began running for president in...
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Mueller's Firing Is Getting Closer Every Day
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FileSpecial Council Robert Mueller speaks in WashingtonIs President Trump going to fire Robert Mueller? This question is gripping Washington more with each passing day,...
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Students Have Transformed the American Gun Debate
(Sipa via AP Images)Emma González speaks at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., on March 24.Every social movement in history has been greeted by "concern trolls," long before that term was...
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Voters' Belief in Fairness Will Toss Republicans from Office
(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)House Speaker Paul Ryan leaves the podium after a press conference on March 14, 2018.In a well-known experiment involving capuchin monkeys, researchers...
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What Should We Do About Syria? Don't Ask Trump.
(Photo by Cheriss May/Sipa USA via AP Images)President Trump leaves a join press conference with Baltic heads of state in the East Room of the White House on April 3, 2018.I wonder if, after some of...
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Michael Cohen Could Be the Instrument of Trump's Doom
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Michael Cohen walks in New York on April 11, 2018.Let me suggest an image from the near future and see what your reaction is. It's a few months from now, and Michael Cohen is...
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