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Opinion: For 2020, Democrats need to look forward
Opinion: For 2020, Democrats must look forward, not reach back
Opinion: On board the USS Trumptanic
Opinion: ‘Everybody knew’ about Russian contacts, lies Trump
Opinion: Just think about this ....
Opinion: Finally, some real-life election fraud
Opinion: Finally, some real-life election fraud
Opinion: We bury a man of honor
Opinion: A man of honor
Opinion: This isn’t normal, or acceptable
Opinion: Trump and Putin, simplified
Opinion: Trump lies about Russia ... again
Opinion: One for the history books
A change in commenting policy
Opinion: Two years of bluster wear thin for Trump
Opinion: Trump is a weak man
Opinion: Trump shrugs off constitutional shackles
Opinion: An end and a beginning
Opinion: Trump seeks total control
Opinion: Count the votes; all of them
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John Kerry has been a superb public servant, beginning with his heroic service in Vietnam and extending through a 28-year career in the Senate and a productive four-year stint as secretary of state. He is as qualified as anyone in U.S. history to serve as president of the United States. Yet, John Kerry should not run for president in 2020...
John Kerry has been a superb public servant, beginning with his heroic service in Vietnam and extending through a 28-year career in the Senate and a productive four-year stint as secretary of state. He is as qualified as anyone in U.S. history to serve as president of the United States. Yet, John Kerry should not run for president in 2020...
Donald Trump and his allies turned the 2018 midterms into a de facto referendum on his anti-immigrant “caravan” paranoia and his obsession with a border wall. He and his fellow Republicans then proceeded to get their butts kicked on that agenda, dropping 40 House seats and losing the congressional popular vote by nine percentage...
Over and over in the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump denied any contacts with Russia or Russians. “I have nothing to do with Russia,” he said. “I have no relationship with Russia whatsoever.” Trump denied it during the primaries; he denied it into the general election. He denied it in interviews, in debates, in speeches...
Over and over again in the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump denied any contacts whatsoever with Russia or Russians. "They said, 'maybe Donald Trump is involved with projects with the Russians'," Trump told voters at a rally in October 2016, at the height of the campaign. "The answer is no! No!" Trump denied it during the primaries...
For years, Republicans have warned about widespread voting-fraud allegedly swaying election outcomes. The claim has become a conservative obsession, with President Trump even alleging that up to five million illegal immigrants voted in the 2016 elections, just enough to account for his loss in the popular vote. “People get in line that...
For years, Republicans have warned about widespread voting-fraud allegedly swaying election outcomes. The claim has become a conservative obsession, with President Trump even alleging that up to five million illegal immigrants voted in the 2016 elections, just enough to account for his loss in the popular vote. “People get in line that...
This week, we bury a man of honor. And by honor, I don’t mean the type of honor that accrues to a person just by virtue of rising to the presidency, because not all who achieve that post are people of honor. Nor do I mean any kind of honor conferred by others through popularity, fame or high ratings. I mean instead an old-fashioned...
This week, we bury a man of honor. And by honor, I don’t mean the type of honor that accrues to a person just by virtue of rising to the presidency, because not all who achieve that post are people of honor. Nor do I mean any kind of honor conferred by others through popularity, fame or high ratings. I mean instead an old-fashioned...
This week, President Donald Trump retweeted an image that accuses multiple political opponents of committing treason against the United States of America, demanding that they be prosecuted and imprisoned for their crime. Think about that for a moment, because it is extraordinary. The chief executive of the United States is urging the government...
So here’s the deal, as simple, brief and straightforward as I can make it: In 2015-16, while running for president, Donald Trump was also eagerly wooing Vladimir Putin, seeking his OK for a deal to build a 100-story Trump Tower in Moscow, which would be a crowning and extremely lucrative achievement in Trump’s career. And as Trump...
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Effective today, the AJC has switched from an in-house commenting tool to Facebook’s commenting tool. Facebook commenting offers several advantages. It is the most widely used social discussion platform; your comments will appear both on our sites and on your own Facebook page; and our sites will have fewer of the totally anonymous...
As Donald Trump tells it, he got “very tough” in a recent conversation with the head of General Motors about the layoff of some 14,000 people and the closure of four U.S. auto plants: “You’re playing around with the wrong person ….,” Trump claims to have warned CEO Mary Barra. “And they better damn...
As Donald Trump tells it, he got “very tough” in a recent conversation with the head of General Motors about the layoff of some 14,000 people and the closure of four U.S. auto plants: “You’re playing around with the wrong person ….,” Trump claims to have warned CEO Mary Barra. “And they better damn...
In an interview this week with the Daily Caller, President Trump was asked who he might nominate to replace Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Trump didn’t answer, instead using the question to laud acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as “a very respected man.” Whitaker is not a very respected man. He spouts bizarre legal...
After more than 40 years in daily newspapers and 28 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, it’s time to go. The decision doesn’t come easy. Writing for newspapers has been my goal since childhood and has been my calling all of my adult life. Leaving it is a bit like jumping into an abyss, but that’s also...
In an interview this week with the Daily Caller, President Trump was asked who he might nominate to replace Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Trump didn’t answer, instead using the question as an opportunity to laud acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as “a very respected man.” Whitaker is not a very respected man. He...
“It's incredibly shameful that liberal lawyers are doubling down on lawsuits, desperately trying to create more votes for Stacey Abrams,” Republican Brian Kemp claimed this week. “They don't want to win this election. They are trying to steal it." That’s a grave allegation, one that cuts to the very core of the...
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