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On Trump’s COVID response

Here are Trump’s words from that infamous April 2020 press conference about Covid: “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous -- whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light. ... And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either ...

Strengthen disclosure laws

Perhaps you’ve received one of those carefully worded letters: Dear customer, you trusted your personal details to us and someone stole them. Maybe you were one of the estimated 550 million customers who were impacted by the Ticketmaster breach. Or one of the 30 million Santander Bank ...

A grave moment in our history

The Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol was the worst day of my life. I was inside the besieged building, and there was no telling how it would end. Jan. 6 was the best day of former President Donald Trump’s life. The man enjoyed every moment of the storming violence done in his name. He ...

Why is US negotiating with terrorists?

A Gallup poll of several months ago asked, “On the whole, would you say that you are satisfied or dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world today?” Only one-third, 33%, said they were satisfied. This down from 53% in February 2020 at the conclusion of Donald ...

Ditching unpopular border policy

For three and a half years, the Biden White House has seemed remarkably leakproof. Even amid popular backlash to administration policies — the spending splurge in 2021 that was followed by sharp inflation in 2022 and 2023, the changes in enforcement of immigration laws that have produced ...

Could guilty verdict cost Trump election?

How much will Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York hush money case matter come November? The obvious answer is that nobody knows. Still, I suspect the verdict will matter, just not in ways that are easy or even possible to predict. A lot of the instant reaction revolves around polls. ...