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Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.: The bigger reason Steven Mnuchin should turn over Trump’s tax returns

The relevant statutory language, which dates to 1924, provides that the secretary “shall furnish” the House Ways and…

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Tim Penny and David Minge: Our trillion-dollar problem deserves bipartisan attention

How many warnings will it take for our leaders to pay attention? What is the tipping point that…

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Tammy Duckworth: More women in Congress could be a good thing for family leave legislation

I’ll never understand how it took 229 years for the Senate to adopt a policy that would allow…

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Patricia Murphy: ‘Grimmer by the day’: Farmers’ love for Trump in peril

It wasn’t any wonder when the patience in rural America simply ran out last week when news of…

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Tyler Cowen: Americans don’t trust their fellow Americans

Americans’ trust in their government is abysmally low, according to both survey data and a more subjective reading…

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Bobby Ghosh: Iran’s staged pullout from the nuclear deal will backfire

Iran’s threat to pull out of the nuclear deal will likely have the opposite effect from the one…

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Jim Walsh: A recap of the state legislative session

The conventional wisdom in Olympia is that the session “could have been worse.” I’d give it a grade…

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Jerry Cornfield: One historic era ends and another begins in state House

On May 3, workers scraped Chopp’s name from the door and put up Lovick’s along with the title…

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Francis Wilkinson: Pelosi’s dangerous battle against Trump

She faces mounting pressure, no doubt from her own conscience as well as from Democratic activists, to address…

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Jay Ambrose: Yes, there really, truly is a crisis at the border

Even The New York Times has come around to seeing there is a crisis at the southern border…

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Mike Godwin: Tech needs ethics more than rules

The framework needed can’t be created out of whole cloth just by new government regulation; it has to…

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Jeremy Field: Small businesses intricately woven into our daily lives

I have a challenge for you: Try to go one day without having a small business impact your…

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Group says county, city of McCleary have been lax water monitors

Interlocal agreement isn’t being maintained