Articles of Interest
March 29, 2017, 12:13pm

By Maureen Dowd – The New York Times.

WASHINGTON — Dear Donald,

We’ve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt.

You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being … Read more »

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March 28, 2017, 4:21pm

By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.

Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” So declared Donald Trump three weeks before wimping out on his promise to repeal Obamacare. Up next: “Nobody knew that tax reform … Read more »

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March 25, 2017, 6:38pm

By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.

Many people are horrified, and rightly so, by what passes for leadership in today’s Washington. And it’s important to keep the horror of our political situation up front, to keep highlighting the

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March 24, 2017, 1:15pm

By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.

Many people are horrified, and rightly so, by what passes for leadership in today’s Washington. And it’s important to keep the horror of our political situation up front, to keep highlighting the

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March 22, 2017, 9:53am
A Republican Health Care Bill in Search of a Problem
Dandy/John J. Custer 

Republican leaders in the House have been huddling over the last few days in a frantic search for enough votes to win passage of their proposed revision of Obamacare, in the process making an already flawed bill … Read more »

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March 21, 2017, 6:03am

By David Leonhardt – The New York Times.

The ninth week of Donald Trump’s presidency began with the F.B.I. director calling him a liar.

The director, the very complicated James Comey, didn’t use the L-word in his congressional testimony Monday. … Read more »

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March 21, 2017, 6:02am

By Brian Klaas – The New York Times.

Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) is a fellow in comparative politics at the London School of Economics and author of “The Despot’s Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Read more »

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March 21, 2017, 5:59am

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Here’s a good question for Judge Neil Gorsuch, who sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday for the first day of his confirmation hearings to be a Supreme Court justice: … Read more »

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March 19, 2017, 4:19pm

 – The New York Times.

Udai Faisal was hospitalized last March in Sana, Yemen, with acute malnutrition. He died days later.Maad al-Zikry/Associated Press 

First, a quiz: What is the most important crisis in the world today?

A.) President

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March 19, 2017, 4:17pm

Regina Feltner, a retired nurse, was recovering from side effects of radiation therapy when she got the notice that her heat would be cut off. It was a bone-cold

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