Articles of Interest
October 11, 2016, 2:30pm

The Editorial Board – The New York Times.

Donald Trump boiled his decadent campaign down to one theme during the presidential debate on Sunday night: hatred of Hillary and Bill Clinton.

With knock-kneed Republican officeholders showing signs of summoning the … Read more »

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October 06, 2016, 3:40pm

The Editors – TheAtlantic.com

For the third time since The Atlantic’s founding, the editors endorse a candidate for president. The case for Hillary Clinton.

n October of 1860, James Russell Lowell, the founding editor of The Atlantic, warned … Read more »

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October 04, 2016, 3:12pm
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October 03, 2016, 12:48pm

Op-Ed Columnist – Maureen Dowd

WASHINGTON — LET’S stop being so hard on Donald Trump.

He has done us an enormous public service.

After this down-and-dirty battle of the sexes, we will never look at gender in politics the same … Read more »

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October 02, 2016, 4:36am

By Gail Collins – The New York Times.

That first debate seems to have helped Hillary Clinton move ahead of Donald Trump in the polls. However, I know that many of you are asking yourselves: Why is this even a Read more »

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October 01, 2016, 8:30pm

By Paul Krugman

Monday’s presidential debate was a blowout, surely the most one-sided confrontation in American political history. Hillary Clinton was knowledgeable, unflappable and — dare we say it? — likable. Donald Trump was ignorant, thin-skinned and boorish.

Yet on … Read more »

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October 01, 2016, 8:01pm

Rolling Stone Magazine – By Janet Reitman.

Decades of right-wing attacks turned a crusader of women’s rights into a major target of hate.

They were everywhere this summer, the wanna-be statesmen, the failed comedians, the conspiracy theorists and entrepreneurs with … Read more »

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September 30, 2016, 6:25pm

In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue – The New York Times.

By Michiko Kakutani.

How did Adolf Hitler — described by one eminent magazine editor in 1930 as a “half-insane rascal,” a “pathetic dunderhead,” a “nowhere fool,” a

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September 29, 2016, 2:19pm

By Marilyn Berger. The New York Times.

Shimon Peres, one of the last surviving pillars of Israel’s founding generation, who did more than anyone to build up his country’s formidable military might, then worked as hard to establish a lasting … Read more »

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September 29, 2016, 2:01pm

Sympathy for the Donald. The New York Times – By Frank Bruni.

Go ahead and laugh at Donald Trump’s claims that he was foiled by a finicky microphone on Monday night, but I can relate. When I write a bad … Read more »

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