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Column: Trump celebrates our nation's founding while imitating tyrant King George III
It’s a measure of President Trump’s lack of self-awareness — a superpower, really, for authoritarian demagogues like him who otherwise…
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Column: Trump's 626 overseas strikes aren't 'America First.' What's his real agenda?
Who knew that by “America First,” President Trump meant all of the Americas? In puzzling over that question at least, I’ve got company in…
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Stephen Miller Announces Chilling Hunt for “Fifth Column”
Reiner was found stabbed to death in his Los Angeles home Sunday, alongside his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner. Their son,…
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Column: AI can perform a song, but can it make art?
The most insulting thing about the success of Breaking Rust, an artificial intelligence “artist” that topped Billboard’s Country Digital…
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Column: Trump is in his Louis XIV era, and it's not a good look
To say that President Trump is unfazed by Saturday’s nationwide “No Kings” rally, which vies for bragging rights as perhaps the largest…
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Column: Trump's D.C. takeover is a desperate distraction from Epstein files
Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi’s decision to appoint an “emergency police commissioner” in Washington is just the latest attempt to change an…
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Column: Trump finds a new way to taint the office of the presidency
Donald Trump has now thoroughly sullied the office of the presidency. I’m not talking about the Oval Office, with its new, gaudy gilt…
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Column: Eliminating national holidays is a promising idea. Start with the racist ones
Believe it or not, France has had a form of social security since the 1600s, and its modern system began in earnest in 1910, when the…
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Column: RFK Jr. is dismantling trust in vaccines, the crown jewel of American public health
When it comes to vaccines, virtually nothing that comes out of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mouth is true. The man in charge of the nation’s…
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Column: Was Le Slap a love tap or an assault? France's first couple offer a distraction from bad news
Not that you asked, but yes, I have been feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the bad news out of Washington: Pardons for tax cheats who line…
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Column: Another Big Lie: RFK Jr. wants to make America healthy again
What do you think would happen, I asked my daughter, a nurse practitioner who works in addiction medicine, if Narcan, the drug that…
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Column: The 'USA' brand was 250 years in the making. It took just 100 days to trash it
Ken Griffin, one of the billionaire donors who’d convinced themselves that President Trump wouldn’t do some things he campaigned to do,…
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Column: Gov. Whitmer's party should learn from what she did in the Oval Office
Kudos to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. She managed to generate the most negatively iconic photo of a Democrat since Michael Dukakis wore…
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Column: Making America a colonizer again
The self-professed “Make America Great Again” president is yet again reaching back to some bad old days in his chaotic quest for this…
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Column: What will Trump's tariffs 'liberate' us from?
I am writing this from the last days of our captivity. Indeed, by the time some of you read this, we will be free. If all goes according…
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Column: Congress wants to impeach judges instead of doing its job
Some Republicans want U.S. District Judge James Boasberg removed from the bench for allegedly interfering with the president’s authority —…
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Column: Near death, Pope Francis rallied back. We need his voice more than ever
For the past month and a half, the world has waited for what seemed like the inevitable passing of Pope Francis. The spiritual and titular…
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Column: The United States careens toward a constitutional crisis
Congress is cowed; that’s one supposedly coequal branch of government down. But federal courts are proving more resistant to Donald…
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Column: The Trump administration has a free-speech problem
I have to wonder: When will Vice President JD Vance condemn his own administration? Last month, Vance, a self-described foreign policy…
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Column: There is nothing efficient about Musk and Trump's toxic lack of empathy
I don’t know how Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly got my phone number, but a text from him landed the other day with a thud. “Elon Musk…
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Column: When it comes to Trump's economy, the adults have left the room
The great and powerful Oz, as Donald Trump models himself, never warned Americans that the road to his promised Golden Age would be full…
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Column: Trump wants to undo all kinds of race and gender progress. Here's what stands in his way
The Trump administration is hell-bent on “restoring” this country to an entirely fictional time when white people succeeded based purely…
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Commentary: Did AI really defend the KKK at the end of my column? Let's discuss
Journalism schools teach that writers should report the news, not be the news. But what happens when one of your articles goes viral — not…
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Column: President Trump brags about American power and respect while he trades it away
A staple of Donald Trump’s rally repertoire for years has been his claim that, under him, the United States is respected again in the…