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Red Christmas trees? Oh, the horror
Most people on the left tell you they love immigrants, but apparently not when it comes to a…
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Skipping background checks for the people hired to care for detained migrant kids? What could go wrong?
The agency failed to conduct sufficient background checks, including whether staff members have a history of child abuse…
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Pardoning Manafort would be unambiguous grounds for impeachment. Take it off the table, Mr. President
This is an alarming escalation in his efforts to undermine Mueller’s probe and, more generally, the rule of…
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If you want to see what failed U.S. immigration policy looks like, visit Tijuana
The invaders awoke in Tijuana slowly and fitfully Monday morning, amid coughs and soft murmurs and the voices…
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This is not your father’s Congress
As the freshman members who will be part of the 116th Congress orient to Capitol Hill this month,…
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America is poorer than it thinks
Currently there are two basic ways to define poverty. To get a better measure of who needs help…
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John Roberts’ brushback pitch at Trump comes with a big asterisk
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. deserves credit for pushing back — judiciously — against President Donald Trump’s…
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Young people want our democracy to change; politicians should listen
Elected officials headed to Capitol Hill and statehouses can learn plenty from the students I recently was privileged…
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Finland takes climate change seriously. We don’t rake our forests
The absurdity of Trump’s comment, not to mention his willful blindness to California’s trauma, drew immediate ridicule.
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My Malibu house made it through the fire; I nearly didn’t
In my Malibu Park neighborhood, hundreds of homes were destroyed. Mine is one of the few left standing.
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Quitting Facebook: isolating, yet oddly freeing
I decided that using Facebook might have been adding to my re-emerging feelings of depression.
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Giving thanks as a Native American
Every year at this time I wonder why we, as American Indians, bother to celebrate Thanksgiving.
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Are we prepared for the zombie apocalypse? Actually, yes
Only hindsight bias insists that the signs of every unlikely catastrophe were always there.