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Really, Could It Be Trump?

Columnists Susan Estrich - October 22, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH For months I’ve been telling everyone who brings it up to calm down about the summer infatuation with the cartoonish Donald Trump, whose candidacy was perfect fodder for conversation over the barbecue. Then there was the early autumn period, where it still could be dismissed because it was early autumn. These days, I keep reminding people of Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, who was the flavor of many months in the […]

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My Pick For The Next U.S. House Speaker

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - October 21, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER If it were under the big top, it would be a hilarious clown show – with pratfalls, wild posturing, tumbling, juggling and a cacophony of comic chaos. But alas, it’s under the Capitol dome, so it’s just the Republican congressional caucus – bumbling, stumbling, and crashing into each other in clownish acts of ideological zaniness, political incoherence and pathetic ineptitude. The present bedlam on the Hill was prompted by House Speaker John […]

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Football And Gaming: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Columnists Froma Harrop - October 20, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP They worship at the high altar of football. They’re everywhere. I don’t give a fig about football, but the cult surrounds me. In the offseason, the devotees were stomping the floor over Tom Brady and a football’s air pressure. They demanded to know my opinion on the matter. That I had none amazed them. The season is in full frenzy, and with it, a new controversy: the explosive growth of gambling on […]

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Clinton Scandals: If The First Time Is Tragedy …

Columnists Joe Conason - October 20, 2015 0

BY JOE CONASON With a self-proclaimed socialist running a credible campaign for president, perhaps the time has come to revive Karl Marx’s wittiest aphorism – although his pungent quip is relevant to Hillary Clinton, not Bernie Sanders. At the outset of The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, the young revolutionary said Hegel had once observed that “all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: […]

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‘We Are Writing the Rules,’ says Obama. Who’s ‘We’?

Columnists Jim Hightower - October 19, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The negotiations and the sales push behind Washington’s latest [and biggest] “free trade” agreement amounts to Kabuki theater. What theater? Kabuki. It’s a 17th Century form of Japanese drama, featuring elaborate sets and costuming, rhythmic dialogue and stylized acting and dancing. That does, indeed, nicely sum up the White House’s production of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Its negotiations have been set in luxury resorts around the world, covered by elaborate secrecy; insiders wear […]

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