People frequently ask me to explain what’s going on in Washington, because every day is a jumble of bad news. Whether it’s the tweets from the president, the battles between Democrats and Republicans in Congress or . . .
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5/25/17
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This is a column about politics, and my role as the columnist is to promote an agenda that readers will either agree with or oppose. But I don’t want it to be a political column.
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5/18/17
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Sometimes the traveling shoes pinch. The most unsettling experience in these last two weeks has been . . .
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5/18/17
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President Trump has both a challenge and an opportunity with his search for a new FBI director. The challenge is to find someone who . . .
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5/18/17
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And not a moment too soon. Did you hear it land on our doorsteps? Monday, at 6:29 a.m., spring actually sprang into our lives. No matter the temperature, no matter the down coats in the front closet . . .
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3/23/17
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson finished his trip to Asia by meeting with President Xi Jinping of China in what has been described as a public display of cooperation between the two nations. The leaders had much to discuss . . .
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3/23/17
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Even though I’ve always been involved in politics, I don’t come from a family where politics dominated the nightly dinner-table discussions.
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3/23/17
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Sometimes people ask me what it’s like to write for a weekly newspaper — specifically, what it’s like to write an opinion column. I’ve been fascinated by . . .
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8/17/16
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Thousands of Donald Trump supporters cheered and held up signs as their favorite “politician” took the podium at Grumman Studios in Bethpage for Trump’s first Long Island rally.
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By Stephany Reyes
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4/20/16
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I have a thesis that will be highly unpopular among –– and wildly derided by –– 30 to 40 percent of the liberal left: Sen. Bernie Sanders is out of touch with reality.
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4/20/16
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