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Push, Push, Push: How Movements Succeed Feb. 27, 2019
There's a sports cliche, often applied to political races, that devalues strong-but-losing contender... Read More
What the Covington High School Incident Tells Us About America Jan. 31, 2019
On Jan. 19, a moment arrived that nobody anticipated and quickly became a national Rorschach test. T... Read More
Subpoena for Trump's Translator Could Yield Blowback for Future Presidents Jan. 31, 2019
Democrats on Capitol Hill have every reason to dig and probe to determine the extent of potential co... Read More
Polis Aims to Reinvent Health Care Jan. 28, 2019
Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado took bold action Wednesday to pursue lower prices and better access to ... Read More
Family Separations May Number 'Thousands' More Than Previously Reported Jan. 25, 2019
A report last week by the federal inspector general for Health and Human Services adds shocking new ... Read More
Dubai: Where Morality and Modernity Co-Exist Jan. 24, 2019
When I arrived in Dubai two weeks ago as the guest of billionaire business mogul Khalaf Ahmad Al Hab... Read More
Meet the Heretics: Not Every Liberal has Trump Derangement Syndrome Jan. 24, 2019
Regular viewers of ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts could be forgiven it they believe every libe... Read More
Pettiness Won't End Shutdown Jan. 24, 2019
Now the budget standoff has become a petty grade school snit, leaving us to wonder how much worse th... Read More
We Don't Like Anybody, Do We? Jan. 22, 2019
As the luminous Texas writer John Graves observed a few years back: "The Unco Guid and the Rigidly R... Read More
Social Media Is Harming America; We Need to Do Something About It Jan. 18, 2019
By now, we know that social media is more likely to bring out the worst in us than the best in us. O... Read More
To Understand Election 2020, Watch America, Not the Politicians Jan. 17, 2019
Election 2020 is still 22 months away, but the political world can't wait. A decent number of Democr... Read More
More Veterans Are Needed in Political Office Jan. 17, 2019
Forty years ago, military veterans made up roughly three-quarters of Congress. By 2017, the proporti... Read More
Progressive Populism: A Different Kind of Political Beauty Jan. 16, 2019
What lessons can we progressives take from our ballot box wins last year (and for that matter, from ... Read More
China's Commercial Spies Encounter Blowback Jan. 16, 2019
The past year has witnessed an overdue international response to China's rapacious military espionag... Read More
The Middle Way Jan. 15, 2019
One unremarked side effect of the uproar that goes by the name of Donald Trump is the hardening ever... Read More
As Trump Digs in on Shutdown, Senate GOP Should Consider Veto Override Jan. 11, 2019
One easy solution to the three-week government shutdown appears to be growing more viable by the day... Read More
He Said, She and He said Jan. 10, 2019
The budget shutdown is currently the second-longest on record, on track to break the 1995-96 shutdow... Read More
The Stakes Are Becoming More Costly Jan. 10, 2019
On Jan. 8, 2019, at 9 p.m. EST, President Donald Trump delivered a primetime national address from t... Read More
There Is More to Governing Than Government Jan. 10, 2019
Republicans and Democrats are carrying on in Washington as if the fate of the world depends upon how... Read More
Dems Should Swap Wall for Immigration Reform Jan. 10, 2019
Democrats are squandering an opportunity by taking a no-compromise stance to reopening the federal g... Read More
