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Sun, September 15, 2019 | 14:57

Trump's wall threatens nation's defense

Kudos to the Pentagon for shedding more light on an enduring mystery of Donald Trump's administration: Who will pay for building a wall along the 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico? The answer: Not Mexico, as the president has frequently declaimed, but American taxpayers _ at the expense of the nation's defense.

2019-09-11 16:00

Bombs and weather: Trump drops another one

We have no shortage of serious global issues to worry about, but nearly all of them are made more threatening by the ominous, double-edged backdrop against which they play themselves out: nuclear weapons and climate change.

2019-09-10 17:13

Hong Kong is worth imitating

Oh, Hong Kong, wonderful, magnificent Hong Kong. It is standing up for consent of the people, for freedom, justice and personal rights. Millions have risked their futures through protest.

2019-09-08 16:00

What we keep getting wrong about mass shootings

There is a special kind of stupidity that approaches terrible and repeating problems with an obstinate assurance of what the answer will or won't be.Or maybe it's cynicism _ just digging in against any sort of movement that might be politically dangerous, even if it promises to break the paralysis of doing nothing repeatedly.

2019-09-05 15:58

Hurricanes: Times have changed

As I write, Dorian, a formidable Category 5 hurricane, is slowly approaching Florida's east coast; by the time you read this, you will probably know whether Dorian hit Florida or whether it skewed north for a landfall on the coast of another hapless state.

2019-09-04 17:15

Johnson seems intent on making Brexit even more disastrous

Under even the best of circumstances, the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union will make life harder for the people of Britain and both parts of Ireland. But it seems increasingly likely that Brexit will occur under the worst of circumstances _ with no agreement between the U.K. and the EU to cushion the economic and political damage.

2019-09-03 17:29

Will Trump sell out Afghan women and US security?

As a U.S. envoy finalizes a supposed “peace” deal with the Taliban, there is good reason to worry that the deal will hand Afghanistan back to these Islamists. So here's one way to judge whether the deal holds promise or peril: Does it betray Afghan women?

2019-09-02 17:03

Trump turns his stable genius on auto industry

If you follow the inexhaustible torrent of bilious braggadocio that is Donald Trump's Twitter feed - and honestly, what serious student of abnormal psychology can look away? - then you know that the incumbent president would be way better at running most everything - Israel, the European Union, FOX News, etc. - than the very unimpressive people who currently run them.

2019-08-29 17:29

Robocall crackdown just might work

Illegal robocalls are a scourge of modern life. Americans got nearly 5 billion such calls last month alone _ even though the Federal Trade Commission and its law enforcement partners mounted a crackdown in June and the Federal Communications Commission asserted in February that it had “really beefed up” enforcement efforts.

2019-08-28 16:37

Open door to housing bias

With each passing week, it seems there is another attempt by the Trump administration to whittle down someone's civil rights protections. The latest effort is a proposed rule from the Department of Housing and Urban Development that would make it considerably harder _ if not impossible _ to enforce fair housing laws designed to protect vulnerable groups from covert or uninten...

2019-08-28 16:36

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