Chinese President Xi Jinping boasts his nation will return to great power status before 2049. By great power Xi means return to unrivaled world power status, which his ethnic Han-centered reading of history assumes the Middle Kingdom enjoyed during its imperial golden age. By the way, it is no coincidence that 2049 will mark 100 […]
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Leonard Pitts: Changing the course of our behavior
And again. And still. Nine people shot dead in Dayton, 13 hours after 22 shot dead in El Paso, six days after three shot dead in Gilroy. And tears and disbelief and funeral preparations, candlelight vigils and a search for meaning, and talking heads on cable news and T-shirts and hashtags touting resilience in the […]
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Typewriter repair; call for artists
DEAR SUN SPOTS: For Christmas, a good friend gave me the most lovely of gifts — an antique Royal typewriter made in 1932. It is beautiful and one of my favorite things in the world. However, it needs some minor repairs and a good cleaning. I wish I could do it myself somehow, but I […]
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Marc Thiessen: If El Paso is Trump’s fault, Dems are responsible for Dayton
WASHINGTON — As soon as authorities said they suspected the El Paso mass shooter was the author of a hate-filled, white-supremacist online manifesto, Democrats began blaming President Trump. “He is a racist,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., “and we’ve seen the consequences of it.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said on Twitter about the president, “Your […]
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Froma Harrop: Good men with guns won’t protect us
It was a remarkable 13 hours in American history. A mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, taking nine lives was overshadowed by a massacre in El Paso, Texas, costing 22. Others are dwelling on the El Paso gunman’s alleged online “manifesto” about Hispanics’ growing political clout in Texas — and Donald Trump’s use of code words […]
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Cal Thomas: Fixing Baltimore: A plan
Former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has urged President Trump and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) to stop exchanging insults over conditions in Baltimore. Haley scolded Trump for his recent tweet that appeared to mock Rep. Cummings for an attempted break-in at the congressman’s Baltimore home, tweeting “This is so unnecessary.” She added, […]
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Robert Samuelson: The Fed has become a jobs machine
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has not been shy about saying what he’s trying to do: prolong the economy’s expansion so that it creates more jobs for those who, in the past, have often felt left out. The Fed increasingly sees itself as a social agency dedicated to job creation. That — more […]
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Jennifer Rubin: Junk the entire debate format
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post Democrats woke up last Thursday to find that the debate format they have agreed to is an unmitigated disaster designed to hype ratings (hence baiting the candidates to attack one another) but not to educate voters or really test candidates’ fitness for office. Sure, getting rid of most of […]
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Bloomberg opinion: How not to make government more efficient
The following editorial appears on Bloomberg Opinion: The Trump administration is planning to move hundreds of federal jobs away from Washington. In principle, this idea could make sense — so long as it is competently executed and done for the right reasons. In practice, the plan seems likely to fail both tests. As currently designed, […]
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Leonard Pitts: Don’t just talk about racism, do something about it
Ed has had enough. “I’m simply tired, tired and tired of hearing about race,” he wrote last month in an email. He signed himself a “former racist” and in a postscript, wanted me to know that he used to have “a black friend” with whom he ate breakfast on workdays. Take Ed as an example […]