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Trump uses power to attack the weak

Published on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 12:00am
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WASHINGTON — How does President Trump act when he feels on top of the economic and diplomatic world? As his influence solidifies within the GOP? As his poll numbers tick

California keeps the faith on climate

Published on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 12:00am

Many on the right insist that California’s tough environmental rules are strangling its businesses. Evidence to the contrary emerged last week in news that California has just zoomed past Britain

What Haspel failed to demonstrate

Published on Fri, 05/11/2018 - 12:00am
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WASHINGTON — The nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency presents an exquisitely difficult choice for senators weighing her confirmation. It is one that should

Idaho’s caribou teach a harsh lesson

Published on Fri, 05/11/2018 - 12:00am
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To steal a line from the poet T.S. Eliot: This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper. Worse yet, extinction comes without even

The day the Iran deal died

Published on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:00am
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Team Obama lives in a world of fiction. As President Trump announced to the world that he would finally put a stake through the heart of the Iran deal --

Freeing predators to bilk little people hurts everyone

Published on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:00am
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The most vivid takeaway from the financial meltdown of 10 years ago was that nearly everyone got hurt. Stock investors took a beating. People who had carefully set aside money

Sorry, you can’t live here anymore

Published on Wed, 05/09/2018 - 12:00am

Think of gentrification as a localized version of climate change: uprooting species and cultures, punishing the poor and rewarding the rich. — Rebecca Solnit, in The Guardian Income disparity —

The #MeToo man takes a fall

Published on Wed, 05/09/2018 - 12:00am
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What was Eric Schneiderman thinking? That as the very ambitious attorney general of New York, he could turn himself into the patron saint of the #MeToo movement while physically abusing

Forest Service faces call for reform

Published on Tue, 05/08/2018 - 12:00am

The third applicant was “no gentleman,” the U.S. Forest Service ranger wrote to his boss, but would still make a first-class fire lookout on the remote Klamath National Forest. He

Space between Trump stimuli and our responses

Published on Tue, 05/08/2018 - 12:00am

For Donald Trump’s critics, it’s tempting to jump on every juicy reveal regarding the president’s sex romps. The swirl of accusations, denials, contradictions, backstabbing and confusion does keep us entertained.

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