Have you noticed how irritable everyone is these days? There seem to be more irate drivers pounding their steering wheels and honking, nastier language on social media, more grumpiness, more rude sarcasm.
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6/13/17
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President Trump’s first foreign trip last week broke historic ground on a number of fronts. His first stop, in Saudi Arabia, was particularly noteworthy. The past several administrations . . .
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6/1/17
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President Trump has derided the Affordable Care Act time and again over the past two years, saying, over and over, that it — and, you would think, it alone — caused insurance premiums to skyrocket.
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6/1/17
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Dear John McCain,
As Americans celebrate Memorial Day, we remember our debt to you. Many of us know that during the Vietnam War, you served not just with distinction . . .
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5/25/17
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The urgent is keeping America from the important. The media-induced urgency of covering what the Russians did or didn’t do to our democracy is allowing us to lose sight of . . .
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5/25/17
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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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