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No, democracy is not on the ballot
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Nov 01, 2022
Democracy is under threat — the wrong candidates could win more votes than their opponents in hotly contested free and fair elections. That’s the worr...
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High-speed rail is a progressive fantasy
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 11, 2022
California progressives tried to build a European-style high-speed rail network and alienated the French in the process. A big New York Times piece on...
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Don’t fear Elon Musk
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 07, 2022
Elon Musk is about to pollute the country’s discourse, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him. This is the alarm going up about the eccentric b...
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Hispanics weren’t what progressives thought
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 04, 2022
One of the most significant events in American politics is that Hispanics are, in effect, deciding that they are working-class voters rather than ethn...
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Democrats scapegoat Biden for their own misjudgments
Opinion, Сolumns
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Jul 21, 2022
Democratic discontent with President Joe Biden is boiling over into the press. His polling is abysmal, his age is showing and the Democrats are facing...
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Democrats’ bad miscalculation
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 05, 2021
Democrats have badly overplayed the hand they were dealt when voters in 2020 gave them control of the White House and both houses of Congress. Party m...
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Democrats’ $3.5T spending plan to get a trim
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 21, 2021
The battle over Democrats’ ambitious spending plan is heating up in Congress, but one piece of the outcome is already clear: The $3.5 trillion price t...
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America suffering from PTSD
Opinion, Сolumns
CHRIS STANLEY Special to The Era 
Jan 21, 2021
Whatever one thinks of the national news media, it seems clear that their insistence on reporting every detail of what President Trump has said or don...
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The DNC’s massive evasion
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 22, 2020
The number of Republicans speaking at the Democratic National Convention had progressives on edge. They shouldn’t have fretted. Even if a handful of e...
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The Tawdry and Dumb Nazi Charge
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jul 05, 2018
The Nazi analogy has long been recognized as the crudest and dumbest form of argument, but it is enjoying a renaissance. Former CIA Director Michael H...
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Eugenics was a progressive cause
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Mar 10, 2017
WASHINGTON — The progressive mob that disrupted Charles Murray's appearance last week at Middlebury College was protesting a 1994 book read by few if ...
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