He’s back! President Obama has emerged from his supposed cloistered life to attack President Trump. Obama broke with a tradition apparently only modern Republican ex-presidents follow, which is not to speak ill of your successor. Obama, who reportedly has been running his “Organizing for America” operation, along with his White House aide Valerie Jarrett from […]
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Why do people stay put during hurricanes? Here’s what psychology says.
As I write this, much remains uncertain about Hurricane Florence’s landfall in the Carolinas — the exact place the storm will strike, the strength of the winds, how much flooding will occur both along the coast and inland. But one thing is certain: When the storm finally does arrive, thousands of residents will find themselves […]
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States taking the lead on climate change
As large parts of America burn or drown under weird weather conditions made more extreme by global warming, California and other states are doggedly pursuing solutions. What do you say to those who deny climate change is happening — or who dismiss the scientific consensus that humankind is making the problem worse? You say nothing […]
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Some of the country's problems have no solutions
Does America adapt by crisis or consensus? Do we spontaneously change because we see we must, or must we be coerced by events that leave us no choice? — “The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement” WASHINGTON — That is what I wrote more than 20 years ago. […]
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Leftists find a new standard for stupid
It’s not easy to set a new standard for stupid in 2018, but a few left-wingers on Twitter managed it during Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings. They claimed to have seen one of Judge Kavanaugh’s former law clerks, Zina Bash, making a white-power symbol while sitting behind him at the opening session of the hearings. Less […]
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Administration officials committing insubordination
WASHINGTON — The “deep state” exists after all. But it turns out that deep state is not made up of the permanent bureaucracy, shadowy intelligence officials, or even Obama administration holdovers; rather it is made up of President Trump’s own senior appointees. In a New York Times op-ed, an unnamed “senior official in the Trump […]
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Peace, globalization, technology keep global economy humming
NEW YORK — For those few people left who still believe Donald Trump is unconventional but canny, that there is a method to the madness, the revelations of this week should clarify. Bob Woodward’s new book and The New York Times op-ed written by an anonymous official make plain that behind Trump’s ranting, impulsive, incoherent […]
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There are no ‘adults in the room’ at the White House
For a man who places such a premium on loyalty, Donald Trump inspires remarkably little. Bad enough his administration is a sieve, embarrassing accounts of bungled phone calls with foreign leaders and cheeseburger-fueled rants with cronies regularly showing up in the news. Bad enough top aides keep fleeing his White House like it’s on fire. […]
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Democracy needs more tribes to survive
At age 72, the only quickness about her was the speed of the arthritis overtaking her body. She had to use a walker, but she was determined to participate in two rituals, holding her new grandson and hurrahing with her tribe. In July 1972, my mother flew from Florida to North Carolina, then rode with […]
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A matter of perspective: Civility versus hysteria at the Kavanaugh hearings
By Monica Hesse The Washington Post If you, like me, streamed 22 hours straight of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, you might have noticed something: It was often presented not so much as a fight between liberalism and conservatism, or even constitutional originalism vs. activism, but as a fight between “hysteria” and “civility.” Civil: A parade […]