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Schwab: How many kicks are needed to take down a democracy?
After Republicans lose some 60 court challenges, we learn that proving fraud is beside the point.
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Harrop: Could vaccine ‘passports’ allow return to normal?
Showing proof of vaccination could allow people to fly or gather in groups again, but there are hitches.
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Comment: Swalwell’s double standard on foreign influence
Critical of Trump over Russian influence, the California represenative shares a complicated relationship.
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Harrop: Covid’s odds for those with obesity driving response
More are seeking to lose weight through bariatric surgery to improve their health and live longer.
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Schwab: Nothing to fear except those who are easily startled
Unmoved by evidence, facts or reason, Trump Republicans seem bent on scrapping a democracy they fear.
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Graham: Women are good at more than raising kids
We know that, yet we insist on probing women on plans for marriage and kids but less on…
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Saunders: Biden’s all-female press team not breaking any ground
If Biden wants to do something different he could stop attacking reporters who challenge him.
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Harrop: Focus on identity discounts nominees’ achievements
More is being made of the race and gender of Biden’s picks than of those nominees’ backgrounds.
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Burke: Admit it; you’d like to see Jack McCoy grill Trump
The ‘Law & Order’ district attorney could prosecute Trump for his depraved indifference. Dun-dun.
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Schwab: Some how, Trump more ruinous after losing election
In between rounds of golf, Trump still finds time to endanger the lives of election workers.
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Harrop: America is letting Trump’s calls go to voice mail
Like much of the rest of America, more GOP officials and companies are moving on from the Trump…
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Saunders: Remote learning is widening the achievement gap
The longer kids are kept out of school, the less they’ll learn, particularly those from low-income families.
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Harrop: How will we describe pandemic life in years to come?
Comparisons to World War II come close, but there are significant differences between then and now.
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Graham: Covid changed Thanksgiving; some for the good
For many it has limited gatherings, but it has also allowed a focus on what we can be…
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Burke: You’d lie to get a second term if you were facing this
On Jan. 20, President Trump becomes Citizen Trump. Here’s why he might find that prospect upsetting.
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Harrop: Biden backers, you won; act like it and ignore Trump
The outrage and opposition against those denying Biden’s win only feeds their baseless delusions.
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Saunders: Others than Acosta deserve condemnation over Epsein
The former prosecutor actually put the sex offender behind bars; others too often looked the other way.
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Schwab: Might have known election wasn’t going to change Trump
What’s left to determine is how much Trump and the Republicans have changed our democracy.
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Harrop: That pffffft sound is Trump deflating into history
Trump had a talent for oratory but he used it only to sell himself; he won’t bother to…
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Saunders: Sen. Collins won and Lincoln Project lost
The Never-Trumpers’ low-rent attacks of the Maine senator were as ineffective as they were baseless.