America is a paradox where paying customers can also be have-nots. I discovered this, most recently, at the airport.

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So, we have just learned that not only are we destroying our planet much faster than we thought, but also we — and our children — are going to live a shorter life than we expected.

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Right now, the overprescribing seems to have prompted an overcorrection.

Polls show support for impeachment going south. Rather than softening, Trump’s GOP base is as solidified as ever.

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The main reason for Hoffa’s popularity was that he delivered for his members.

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The moment has arrived for France and Germany to adopt more than baby steps to make Europe great again.

I can’t remember that my reading glasses are perched on my head, where I parked my car at the commissary or where I left my cup of coffee, but I have many vivid recollections of my childhood. Especially of the holidays, when I stored detailed memories of the sights, sounds and aromas of the season deep in the recesses of my brain.

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Unity was an overarching Lincoln theme throughout the Civil War, employed with shrewd calculation and brilliant political timing.

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History shows how hard it will be to lessen political acrimony and restore at least a semblance of the bipartisanship that once marked foreign policy and, at times, domestic issues.

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Economically, starving the U.S. university system of funding would be a terrible move. Universities are the best tool the country has for revitalizing flagging regions.

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Outright nonenforcement of the law is an affront to the separation of powers.

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He had long lost the confidence of President Donald Trump and many other top administration officials and had been on shaky ground for months.

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It’s wrong to assume this is just a self-interested push by Paris to control the EU.

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As a legal description of the president’s conduct, all of these charges are accurate, and all at the same time.

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These powerhouses of the U.S. Navy support and maintain 75 aircraft — operating 24 hours a day, and provide a level of national security that is impossible to quantify with unmatched capability.

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This doesn’t appear to be about money. Despite its critics, Chick-fil-A has been remarkably successful. But if it’s an attempt to appease the left, there are already signs it has failed.

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Congress needs to step in and amend the caregiver law to establish a date at which time VA must begin accepting and processing applications from pre-9/11 veterans and caregivers.

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If there was ever a time and a place where the voice of John McCain was missing from Congress, this is it — at the intersection of an impeachment, an election and a constitutional crisis.

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Trump’s pardons each involved alleged crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against individuals hors de combat, a technical legal term meaning individuals who are “outside” of combat.

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At the heart of all our efforts is a search for the truth of what happened to Kayla and to other American hostages killed by ISIS.

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A person who reasonably believes she was born a citizen, and has been issued a passport on that understanding by the government, should be treated as a citizen unless she has lied to get that passport in the first place.

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If the question is who has benefited from Trump’s actions, in Ukraine and elsewhere, the answer has been depressingly constant: Vladimir Putin.

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We’ve never done impeachment and reelection at the same time in modern political history. While this is unknown territory, I think it will alter the battlefield in some important ways.

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The real test of Houthi agency, independent from Iran, lies in whether the rebels can make a long-term deal with the Saudis — even if that doesn’t fit into Tehran’s plans.

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Eastern Europe’s looming demographic crisis stems directly from its escaping the Soviet orbit in 1989.

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The fact that his corrupt schemes were stymied will likely save Trump from being removed from office. The fact that he had them in the first place is a good argument for voting him out.

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Any Taliban deal that requires all U.S. forces to withdraw from Afghanistan should be a nonstarter.

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The competition between a growing China and America will mainly be waged on economic, not military terms.

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While three-fourths of the electorate in Ohio's Highland County voted for Trump in 2016, those among the other 25 percent view him through a different lens, while trying to make sure the deep partisan divide does not affect lifelong friendships.

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A response to the crisis in Bolivia consistent with promoting democratic rule would involve simultaneously condemning the alleged electoral fraud that triggered the recent crisis and the military’s response to it.

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I have good news for younger generations worried that they won’t be able to claim their Social Security benefits because we older generations have ripped them off and will be leaving nothing behind: Your fears are unfounded.

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These Dreamers are ingrained and integral to the fabric of American society and the economy.

By this point, everyone knows that the U.S. health care system is fundamentally broken. But every plan to fix it runs into a fusillade of opposition. This dynamic could be seen in the reaction to the Affordable Care Act, which remained unpopular for years after its passage. The “Obamacare” system substantially reduced the number of Americans who were uninsured, but costs kept growing.

Last month, another U.S. military veteran took his own life on a Veteran’s Administration campus. This is the sixth veteran suicide in the public areas of Florida’s Bay Pines VA facility in the last six years. This latest incident is also part of the ever-growing rate of veteran suicides each year, and part of a nationwide increase in suicides among all adults.

In 26 years of marriage, long-standing feuds have formed between my husband and me, never to be resolved. Which direction the toilet roll should be mounted. Where bowls go in the dishwasher. Whether it is insensitive to one’s passengers to insist on driving with the car windows down when the outside temperature is under 50 degrees.

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That we all gave some and that some gave all remains an elusive concept that will never occupy the consciousness of the 99.5% of the population.

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World leaders no longer trust America’s commitments — because they now no longer trust or respect the words and promises of America’s president. And Washington’s remaining respected and patriotic Republicans all know this; they just won’t admit it to you.

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Candidates will have good days, bad days and very bad days. But after day one, basically, it’s all downhill for almost everyone running, with the speed of decline dependent on many factors.

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A balanced U.S. foreign policy must promote strategic partnerships and accelerate innovative development across Latin America.

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The possibility is remote, but the candidacy of a former President Trump could happen unless the Senate takes steps to prevent it.

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In western China, the demolition of mosques and bulldozing of cemeteries is a continuing, relentless process.

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Without liaison offices or a similar de-escalation mechanism, a third summit that does nothing on denuclearization has no value for either side.

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It will continue to be a tightrope walk for those of us caught between a time when certain things were assumed to be private and a present in which many of those same things are definitely not.

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We represent the determination of my country to move to a brighter future. And just like us, Colombia is stronger thanks to the challenges it has overcome.

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It is only through cooperative efforts with other nations that we can ensure our security and theirs.

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However pure or impure his motivations may be, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey deserves credit for doing something other than keeping his palm outstretched.

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Once the facts are established, then lawmakers have to decide what they mean. If Trump abused the power of his office to pressure a foreign government to conduct investigations aimed at helping him win reelection, how bad is that?

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A thought experiment: Imagine that the president of the United States was a man named Ronald Stump, not Donald Trump.

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Military personnel and veterans inhabit a lofty place in American society. We know how to carry burdens. We should embrace the responsibility of being in public in uniform despite the difficulties.

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The loss of their leader will undoubtedly slow the resurgence, but developments in Iraq will give the terrorists something to cling to as they mourn him.

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The street protests that have hit Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt in recent weeks have a common theme: popular rage at the corruption of public officials.

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We cannot trust our foreign policy to amateurs.

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There is, perhaps, no greater sign of just how far the movement to forgive the nation’s $1.5 trillion in student loan debt has come than the fact that a Trump Education Department official is now jumping on the bandwagon.

Military families have been hitting civilian department stores and base exchanges in search of the perfect Halloween costumes for next week’s trick-or-treating. I am always amazed at the unbelievable selection of reasonably priced costumes for kids and adults nowadays. Options range from Attila the Hun to Sexy Mr. Rogers, and everything in between. Today, there is no excuse for not having a decent costume on October 31st. However, it wasn’t always so easy.

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In the public hearings stage, they will have to try a “greatest hits” strategy, getting the existing witnesses in front of the public for brief and pointed hearings.

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I’m mystified as to why, at a moment when 90% of Americans already have insurance, our presidential debates are focused so exclusively on expanding coverage rather than containing costs.

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Group solidarity based on shared detestations is fun, and because fun can trigger dopamine bursts in the brain, it can be addictive.

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The real danger is that both China and Russia possess technology that will make Iran’s already formidable military production even better.

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Trump calls Syria a “bloody sandbox.” He’s right about that. It is also a briar patch of warring tribes and sects, inexplicable ancient animosities and irreconcilable differences.

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Warren’s plan relies on more money and a shifting portfolio of mandates to improve performance at low-income schools. This approach has failed countless times over the last several decades.

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In the end, this is a political proceeding, not a criminal one. It’s about whether Trump is fulfilling his constitutional obligations and should remain in his job.

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America (for several decades) has used sanctions when it wants to be seen as taking action, as opposed to actually doing so. That’s not a mistake Russia makes. It intervenes with low visibility but punishing impact.

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Lessons of the crisis include importance of thorough, objective intelligence analysis and communicating effectively with opponents. Then and now, strong U.S. presidential leadership is essential.

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The Republican Party risks exile for longer than it has endured in the modern era if, in the absence of incontrovertible evidence of actual “high crimes and misdemeanors,” it deserts President Donald Trump during the campaign to remove him from office.

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As the 2020 election comes into sharper focus, one issue that seems to animate both sides — the Supreme Court — is once again taking center stage.

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The long battle between the Washington establishment and the Trump base over foreign policy took a crucial turn this week when President Donald Trump admitted he is prioritizing the opinions of his rally crowds over his own officials and the GOP when making important national security decisions.

“Oh no!” I gasped Oct. 6, in a crowded Rhode Island bar, as I watched 6-foot-5-inch Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph drop like a rag doll after a helmet-to-helmet hit by Ravens safety Earl Thomas.

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It’s virtually impossible to disentangle the strategic from the humanitarian aspects of a safe zone.

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If this country’s Fortune 500 companies value access to Chinese markets more than the vital interests of the United States, then it’s imperative for the American people to marshal both political and consumer power against them until those companies are forced to choose who they will serve.

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Mulvaney’s stab at survival may have been a smart move. A wise friend once told me, “Always tell the truth as soon as possible.”

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Though America was birthed by breaking free from a foreign power, historically it’s done little to prevent outside meddling in its democracy.

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While it’s true that the American economic system has enabled the creation of medicines that save and extend lives, the market isn’t working to keep those drugs affordable.

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Each week brings a fresh batch of polls about the 2020 presidential campaign, but it’s also worth taking a look at the prediction markets. They can be a very useful source of information, most of all as a check on the human tendency to overreact.

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Many of the causes of the political crisis in our country today stem from the failure of civil society to make people feel like they matter.

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Facebook must do more than stand in the reflected glory of those who sacrificed much to create our modern democracy.

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The latest Democratic debate provided a dramatic display of the divide between the advocates of revolution and restoration in the party’s presidential race. It also illustrated the contest’s revised pecking order.

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Strong personal opinions do not necessarily make for bad journalists, and old-fashioned, dispassionate reporting can be found in all corners, if you look for it.

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He doesn’t much care who runs other parts of the world or how they run it, as long as they don’t ask the United States for help.

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Essentially half of the United States expects the four debates will, in fact, be four ambushes by the combined forces of the Democratic nominee and the elite media operating in tandem, though not in explicit coordination.

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Tunisians have managed to keep their remarkable democratic experiment grinding along.

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At a gathering last Saturday night of military and intelligence veterans, one topic shrouded the room: President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon Kurdish fighters in Syria who had fought and died to help America destroy Islamic State.

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North Korean strategists are counting on Trump and others around him to tire of the endless state of war on the Korean Peninsula.

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The American support of the SDF — no matter the great affection for the Syrian Kurdish fighters among U.S. politicians and military officials — was always in conflict with Washington’s need to keep Turkey on its side.

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No person has the power to compel through law another person to betray — even tacitly — his own conscience. A free society cannot survive if that much is not true.

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Most people wouldn’t think that entering a phone number into their account for security purposes might be used for advertising. That’s a good signal that companies shouldn’t do it in the first place.

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In Syria, Trump has set his desire to withdraw alongside an incongruous goal of pushing out Iranian influence in the country.

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Students and teachers deserve to go to school without fearing for their safety, but we need to think more deeply about what that means. Design features can enhance learning or inhibit it.