opinion

Trump Tower of egotistical exaggeration
Opinion, Сolumns
WALTER BRASCH 
Mar 01, 2016
When the presidential primaries began more than a year ago, the two leading candidates were Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democrats and Jeb Bush for ...
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The black and white of politics
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHLEEN PARKER 
Feb 29, 2016
FLORENCE, S.C. — If Donald Trump speaks for disenfranchised whites, Hillary Clinton speaks mostly to blacks who feel the same. But the differences in ...
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The albatross of a Trump endorsement
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Feb 29, 2016
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's distinctive rhetorical style — think of a drunk with a bullhorn reading aloud James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" under water —...
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Insurer warnings cast doubt on ACA exchange future
Opinion, Сolumns
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer 
Feb 27, 2016
Political uncertainty isn't the only threat to the Affordable Care Act's future. Cracks also are spreading through a major pillar supporting the law H...
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Local health care funding vital to community
Local Health News, Opinion, Сolumns
Sen. JOE SCARNATI Senate President Pro Tempore 
Feb 27, 2016
As the budget stalemate continues in Harrisburg, I know the hard-working constituents who reside in my Senatorial District are growing frustrated with...
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Forgiving John Rigas
Opinion, Сolumns
JOSH HATCHER 
Feb 26, 2016
Sometimes you discover you’ve locked a few feelings away, and they’ll creep up so that you have to deal with them. This week, news of the release of J...
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Trump’s destructive nationalism
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Feb 26, 2016
WASHINGTON — The main focus of Donald Trump's media coverage has been his populist disdain for elites. But his main focus has often been a strident ve...
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A solution to confirmation gridlock?
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Feb 25, 2016
WASHINGTON — The judicial wars threaten to engulf us in ceaseless cycles of partisan warfare and recriminations. Herewith, two modest (read: unlikely)...
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Executive overreach meets resistance
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Feb 24, 2016
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." —Newton's Third Law of Motion WASHINGTON — Notice the Newtonian physics of America's Madi...
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A solution to confirmation gridlock?
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Feb 24, 2016
WASHINGTON —The judicial wars threaten to engulf us in ceaseless cycles of partisan warfare and recriminations. Herewith, two modest (read: unlikely) ...
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The moral insight of ‘Mockingbird’
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Feb 23, 2016
WASHINGTON — At a time when politics has veered toward division and exclusion, it is somehow fitting that Harper Lee, the apostle of empathy, made her...
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The budget plan of a charlatan
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Feb 23, 2016
WASHINGTON — In this depressingly unserious campaign season, it's time — past time — to take Donald Trump seriously. In particular, to take seriously ...
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Clash of titans: Pope vs. Trump
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHLEEN PARKER 
Feb 22, 2016
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The popular wisdom that opposites attract is true in both romance and politics. But rarely do adages prove so profoundly — and absurd...
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Trump relishes wrecking Republicans
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Feb 22, 2016
WASHINGTON — Lyndon Johnson simply was exasperated. Barack Obama's mischief was methodical. Four days before the 1966 congressional elections, Johnson...
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The politics of the middle finger
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Feb 19, 2016
WASHINGTON — At first, in the summer of 2015, it seemed like a joke. Then a novelty. Then a bubble that must surely burst. Then a spectacle, overshado...
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Politically Uncorrected
Opinion, Сolumns
G. TERRY MADONNA and MICHAEL L. YOUNG 
Feb 19, 2016
The fall of Kathleen Kane Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s abrupt announcement that she would not seek a second term almost certainly writes finis — b...
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What would Scalia do?
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHLEEN PARKER 
Feb 18, 2016
WASHINGTON — As Republican presidential candidates invoke Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's legacy, all insisting that his suddenly vacant seat s...
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Trump makes me miss George W. Bush
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Feb 18, 2016
I had a twinge of nostalgia watching George W. Bush campaign for his little brother in South Carolina Monday night. He was earthy. He recalled a previ...
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