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Four more years? Enough is enough

Four more years of the present trend will result in one of the worst crack-ups in American history. The pace we are on is simply unsustainable. Soon we’ll be the laughingstocks of the world. Maybe we already are. We used to snicker, hearing about five-hour-long cricket matches. Cricket!The ...

Tempering our talk, saving our country

The thing is Joe Biden doesn’t have to be Ronald Reagan – a superb politician blessed with an abundance of personal magnetism – to look good against Donald Trump.He just has to be competent. Their first (and maybe last) presidential debate showed why: the president ranted and raved, ...

Police and the misuse of force

The other day in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a police officer, speaking on the phone with a man inside his home, politely but firmly urged him to come outside. The manÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ wife standing nearby explained that her husband had threatened to kill himself and harm others. After fleeing the house ...

Police and the misuse of force

The other day in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a police officer, speaking on the phone with a man inside his home, politely but firmly urged him to come outside. The manÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ wife standing nearby explained that her husband had threatened to kill himself and harm others. After fleeing the house ...

Trumka, labor and the Supreme Court

Two years this September, Greene CountyÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Rich Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, spoke to Yale University law students in the middle of the contentious Senate fight over the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the high court.Unlike many others, who raked Judge Kavanaugh over the coals for an ...

Where are you, Warren G. Harding?

To govern is to choose, and for presidents choices are almost always untidy, inconvenient, and fraught. But thatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ what president do: their job is to protect America, and Americans.They frequently do so reluctantly, weighing personal political costs against the national interest. And ...