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    3 Immigration Questions Democrats Aren’t Asking

    Columnists Froma Harrop - 0

    President Joe Biden seems intent on easing entry into the United States at the politically worst possible time. It’s not impossible that he has a plan to keep order after he ends Title 42, which has made it harder for asylum seekers to enter the country. Even if he manages to skillfully handle what will […]

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    The ‘Soft On Crime’ Party

    Columnists Joe Conason - 0

    “Soft on crime” is the old dog whistle that Republican senators like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley used to smear Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as they attempted to derail her historic Supreme Court nomination. Their racist deception failed. Jackson is almost certain to be confirmed – and her strong public approval ratings rose after the […]

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    Family Interests Do Not Belong In Public Affairs

    Columnists Froma Harrop - 0

    Powerful politicians have this bad habit of elevating members of their family – or the family of friends – to high office. Sometimes the chosen kin or friend’s kin has fine qualifications. But the sense that their inside track gives them advantages over others with equally fine qualifications leaves a bad taste. It’s also un-American. […]

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    Dinner At Madeleine’s

    Columnists Susan Estrich - 0

    When I first met Madeleine Albright in the early 1980s, she was still making dinner for the boys. The boys being the members of what we used to call the “priesthood”: the out-of-power Democratic national security team, which, with the exception of Madeleine, looked very much like the priesthood, then and now. The priesthood used […]

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    The Supreme Court’s Bonnie And Clyde

    Columnists Joe Conason - 0

    What is to be done about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his deranged spouse? That vexed question arose again this week when the Washington Post revealed dozens of text messages exchanged by Virginia Thomas, the right-wing jurist’s wife, and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows during the period following the 2020 election. Those […]

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