Articles of Interest
May 19, 2017, 4:36pm

By Gail Collins – The New York Times.

Wow, Donald Trump can’t even give a commencement speech to the military without making it all about him.

“Now I want to take this opportunity to give you some advice. Over the

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May 16, 2017, 4:22pm
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May 16, 2017, 4:20pm

The New York Times

It wasn’t so long ago that Republicans in Congress cared about how a president comported himself in office. They cared a lot! The president is, after all, commander in chief of the armed forces, steward of

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May 16, 2017, 4:18pm

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to revive a restrictive North Carolina voting law that a federal appeals court had struck down as an unconstitutional effort to

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May 13, 2017, 4:31pm

WASHINGTON — In the small dining room next to the Oval Office where he works much of the time, President Trump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the

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May 11, 2017, 6:13pm

By Bret Stephens – The New York Times.

With Donald Trump, the tells are always easy.

When the president says, “I’m, like, a smart person,” you know he nurses deep insecurities about his intelligence. When he says, “I’m really rich,”

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May 11, 2017, 6:11pm

By  – The New York Times.

President Trump’s firing of James Comey, the 7th director of the F.B.I., was an abuse of power. Republicans — Republican lawmakers and especially the congressional leadership — need to say so. But

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May 11, 2017, 6:10pm

By Charles M. Blow – The New York Times.

I feel as if we are being conditioned to chaos by a “president” who abhors the stillness of stability. Every day we awake to a new outrage. We now exist in

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May 11, 2017, 6:09pm

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WASHINGTON — When President Trump met with top Russian officials in the Oval Office on Wednesday, White House officials barred reporters from witnessing the moment. They apparently preferred to block coverage

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May 08, 2017, 2:17pm

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PARIS — The French presidential runoff transcended national politics. It was globalization against nationalism. It was the future versus the past. Open versus closed.

But in his resounding victory on Sunday night,

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