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What Was He Thinking?

Columnists Susan Estrich - February 25, 2021 0

It’s stunning to watch powerful men get caught. Everybody always says, “Why did they do it?” but that’s usually the easy part. In one way or another, it all comes back to making themselves look better, richer, smarter, more successful and more sexual than anyone else. My question is why they think they can get away with it. A couple of examples, both Democrats, to show my skeptics out there that I really do try […]

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What Texas’ Deep Freeze Revealed

Columnists Jim Hightower - February 24, 2021 0

It’s written that Nero, the debauched ancient emperor, fiddled while Rome burned. Whether or not that’s true, it certainly is true that Ted Cruz, the self-indulgent Texas senator, fiddled around while his state froze. While Ted fled Texas for the sunny clime and luxury of the Ritz-Carlton resort in Cancun, Mexico, dozens of his constituents died in the five-day deep freeze, and millions more suffered physically and financially. They had no heat or water, thanks […]

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How American Science Returned To Astonish Us All

Columnists Froma Harrop - February 23, 2021 0

French news cameras were in California last week to capture America’s spectacular drive to mass-vaccinate against COVID-19. What were the visuals? An amusement park with cars lined up, their passengers waiting for a jab. “Armies” of volunteers are helping, the French reporter says as attendants in protective gear direct the snaking traffic. Aerial pictures show cars lined up at vaccination stations, “by day” and “by night.” The reporter interviews people in their cars. “Not very […]

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Hope Up, Guard Down As Pandemic Starts To Weaken?

Columnists Froma Harrop - February 19, 2021 0

Are we at the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? Let’s call it the middle. The COVID-19 numbers are going decisively lower, both infections and deaths. Millions, meanwhile, are getting the vaccine and becoming mostly immune to the disease. Still, the seven-day average of American deaths from this virus continues in the thousands. And it would be much higher if more of us let our guard down by ignoring calls to […]

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Rural Does Not Equal Red

Columnists Jim Hightower - February 17, 2021 0

To say that President Joe Biden lost the rural vote is to sugarcoat the dire situation Democrats face out beyond the suburbs. Why? Well, scoff too many lazy politicos and pundits, rural America is indelibly red, filled with white rubes and racists, so Dems should write them off and concentrate resources where the big numbers are. Aha! Might it be a problem for a political party to dismiss an entire diverse constituency of millions as […]

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