“Nobody likes to give themselves credit for this kind of messaging success, but progressive groups did a really good job of convincing people that Trump raised their taxes when the facts say a clear majority got a tax cut,” Vox senior correspondent Matthew Yglesias tweeted April 8. Let me get this straight. Yglesias admits that […]
Erica Nitschke
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Our View: Internet customers should own their privacy
A bill before the Legislature would keep internet service providers from selling customer data without permission.
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View from Away: Twenty years after Columbine, and we still can’t protect our kids
The columbine is a perennial flower often seen growing wild in the Rocky Mountains. But since April 20, 1999, the word has been a universally recognized reference to what was then the worst mass shooting at a school in American history. Thirteen people were shot to death and 21 were wounded by a pair of […]
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Commentary: Sanders’ Medicare for All goes too far
U.S. Sen. and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently released his health care plan, which he calls “Medicare for All.” With a name like that, one would think that the proposal involves extending the Medicare system, which provides health care insurance to the elderly, to all Americans. But Sanders’ plan is something different. It would outlaw […]
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Commentary: Portrait of an untrustworthy presidency
President Donald Trump was worried about the wrong thing. Among the more colorful revelations of the Mueller report was Trump’s reaction to hearing that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and matters arising from it. “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my […]
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View from Away: Report makes mockery of Trump’s exoneration assertion
President Donald Trump has repeatedly crowed that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is a “total exoneration.” After its release Thursday morning, he tweeted: “No collusion. No obstruction. For the haters and the radical left Democrats — Game Over.” But the report itself, for those who bothered to read it, makes a mockery of that assertion. […]
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View from Away: 9/11 victim fund should be made permanent
In 2015, a Republican House and a Republican Senate, working with a Democratic president, provided medical coverage and financial support to the heroes and victims of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, who were sickened by poisons released into the downtown air when the World Trade Center, hit by terrorist-hijacked jets, collapsed into that […]
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Gina Barreca: In the ancient arms of Notre Dame
Why should anyone care about a fire in Paris when we all have more immediate problems closer to home? I’d just finished grading papers, sitting in a rare moment of silence in my office at work, when one of my students came in and said “Notre Dame is burning.” It was one of those phrases […]
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View from Away: The Cabinet is bare
Turnover at the top levels of the Trump administration has set a modern record for turmoil. As of last week, with the departure of Linda McMahon from the Small Business Administration and Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from the department of Homeland Security, 14 of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members will have left their jobs. Now, nearly […]
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Cynthia M. Allen: ‘Unplanned’ forces those willing to watch to see the reality of abortion
There is a scene in the HBO adaptation of the Stephen Ambrose tome, “Band of Brothers,” in which the men of Easy Company, out on patrol, come across a Nazi concentration camp. The German guards have abandoned the camp, and the prisoners who remain are but shadows of men — diseased, broken, starved and dying. […]