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IRS keeps same old stripes
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 10, 2023
Congressional Democrats last year showered the IRS with $80 billion in new funding in an effort to close an estimated $600 billion “tax gap,” the diff...
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It’s all about the policy, stupid
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 02, 2023
The 118th Congress convenes today with each party holding a slim majority in one chamber. In the Senate, a Democratic coalition enjoys a 51-49 advanta...
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Timing is everything in politics
Opinion, Сolumns
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Oct 16, 2022
With the polls in many key midterm races agonizingly close, victory or defeat in November will hinge largely on a single question: are Americans merel...
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Other Voices: It’s getting harder
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 28, 2022
There is much hatred in our country. The division is at an all-time high. It seems like no one can get along anymore. MAGA Republicans have been label...
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Joe Biden’s $400 billion giveaway
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 27, 2022
President Joe Biden’s legally suspect plan to waive up to $20,000 in student loan debt for Americans making up to $125,000 per year will cost approxim...
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Biden thinks there’s only one American way
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Sep 06, 2022
“I voted for Obama twice and Hillary once. But I’ll tell you, I’m going to vote for that knucklehead Donald Trump again.” My Uber driver made that dec...
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Gee, thanks, Gorby!
Opinion, Сolumns
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Sep 05, 2022
The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has understandably triggered an avalanche of tributes to the man who oversaw the ...
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Is fear for America justified?
Opinion, Сolumns
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Aug 25, 2022
Two recent polls ought to unsettle us profoundly, because of the extremely dark picture they paint of our country’s short-term future. The first poll ...
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Can you hear the FDA now?
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 17, 2022
Things will be clearer for millions of Americans come October when, thanks to the FDA, they will be able to buy hearing aids over the counter. Accordi...
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2024: A search for America’s future
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
Jul 29, 2022
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Is this the time to look to the past for a reason not to be stuck in the past? Is this the time to look to 1940, and then to 1945...
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GOP overreach can’t last
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Jul 15, 2022
Two thoughts: First, the Republican dog has finally caught the car it’s been chasing for years. A band of right-wing zealots in judge’s robes has give...
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