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President Trump's post-NAFTA economic vision is working. Keep it up: Today's talker
Trump's economic vision is working
By Tom Tiffany
President Donald Trump’s speech in Milwaukee last week reminded us that no matter what flashy issue dominates political headlines at any given moment, we need to continue to keep focus on how to make our economy stronger.
The president spoke at Derco Aerospace in Milwaukee, a defense contractor that is among the many manufacturers in the m... |
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Republicans will kill your health care and, indirectly, maybe even you: Today's talker
There is no replacement for our care
By EJ Montini
There has been so much tawdry and titillating news this week, you may not have noticed that people you elected took another step toward killing your health care. And perhaps indirectly ... you.
Republican attorneys general (supported by President Donald Trump) filed a lawsuit to kill the Affordable Care Act, a case heard this week by a fe... |
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Supreme Court ditches fairness, voter rights and the Constitution in gerrymandering ruling
When voters go to the polls, they deserve to have their votes count equally. But for decades, politicians have rigged districts to boost the votes of their friends and dilute the votes of their enemies. Now a narrow majority of Supreme Court justices has given its blessing to blatant partisan gerrymandering where politicians choose their voters instead of voters choosing their politicians.
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New York AG: Sprint, T-Mobile merger would raise prices and hurt consumers
Whether talking about cars, baby food or cellphones, competition has always been a driver of innovation and lower prices. That’s why I and nine other attorneys general have sued to halt the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.
This megamerger would not only harm mobile subscribers by reducing access to affordable service, but also would particularly affect lower-income and minority communities in my ... |
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The Census: Another Brick in Trump’s White House Wall
Wednesday brought yet another demonstration of the Trump administration’s indifference to the constitutional system of checks and balances. The president asserted executive privilege over all documents requested by the House Oversight and Reform Committee in its investigation of his administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
The battle over the integrity of the ... |
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Trump's America would welcome me but not my grandfather. That's a mistake.
SAN DIEGO — On immigration, Donald Trump — who always tells people how smart he is — has been, well, not smart. Just because you’re passionate about a topic doesn’t mean you understand it. Trump should heed the old saying: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”
Recently, when he set out to fix the one part of our immigration system that isn’t real... |
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We need Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan to forgive student loan debt and save middle class
Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently released a game-changing plan to confront America’s $1.5 trillion student debt crisis, a crisis that two-thirds of voters believe is threatening our economy.
Warren’s plan would cancel debt for more than 95% of the nearly 45 million Americans with student loan debt. And the plan’s investment in public higher education would ensure that we never end up in this oppo... |
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Conservatives are already packing the courts. Democrats must respond to this power grab.
Supreme Court reform has entered the public debate, with legal luminaries like former Attorney General Eric Holder and constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe supporting adding justices to the Supreme Court, and a number of 2020 presidential candidates expressing openness to the idea.
Regardless of your views on proposals to reform the Supreme Court, there is important context to this discu... |
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Ex-ambassador: Don't leave Afghanistan without a deal built on national unification
When I led the U.S. team trying to bring peace to Afghanistan, we coined a term — “dirty reconciliation” — for the United States making a deal with the Taliban that protected our minimal security interests, while abandoning both the Afghan government and any attempt to preserve the gains made in Afghan society since 2001. The idea was purely a scenario to be avoided, not an actual strategy. But th... |
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'I don't like any of the candidates' is no way to run a country. This two-party system isn't working.
The discussion about moving American politics beyond the two-party system needs to become much more serious.
This thought is spurred by two factors, at least here in Arizona: The decision by Grant Woods not to run for U.S. Senate. And the unappetizing choice the two parties are likely to offer for president in 2020.
Woods is an appealing political persona, as evidenced by having been elected... |
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