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Opinion: ‘Values’ Are Relative When Rooting for Your Political Team

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In his wary optimism after the U.S. Senate voted to proceed with debate on dismantling President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act and replacing it with, well, something, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he and his supporters were “not out here to spike the football.” In this case, the cliched sports metaphor fit. Politics, more than […]

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Senate GOP Health Care Bill. What’s Next?

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CHARLOTTE, NC — The Republican Party’s long-promised repeal of ‘Obamacare’ is on the brink after Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, short of GOP support, delayed votes planned for this week. President Trump is working with Republican senators to push their health care bill over the finish line. Mr. Trump is urging lawmakers to reach an agreement after the

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Donald Trump — the Affirmative Action President and His Enablers

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House Speaker Paul Ryan offered the excuse “He’s just new to this” for Donald Trump after former FBI chief James Comey’s testimony that the president has done and said things that were inappropriate, even if they don’t turn out to be illegal. It sounded like something you would say in defense of a toddler who dives

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Opinion: What Exactly Do Republicans Believe in Besides Trump?

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When my parents were good Republicans — my mother a party activist, in fact — the label meant something entirely different than it does today. It was the party of Lincoln, imagine that, and the GOP tolerated differences with a tent that was indeed big. You could be pro-civil rights and fiscally conservative, a working-class

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Opinion: Democrats May Be Too Optimistic About 2018 Gains

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The redrawn congressional districts in North Carolina turned out to be too racially driven for a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives — with Justice Clarence Thomas siding with the majority. Who’d have thought it? But the fact that it’s arguably a toss-up, in some judges’ reasoning, how much the Republicans in the state legislature used race

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Opinion: Trump Policies on Voting and Criminal Justice Quietly Move Country Backward

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While the Trump administration is in a state of perpetual turmoil, some of its promised policies are proceeding as planned. Support from a Republican Congress is softening with each cringe-worthy headline about slips, leaks and feuds; still, its members, mindful of the president’s loyal base, are proceeding with caution. And when you step back from

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Opinion: The Obama Effect — Pros and Cons for Republicans and Democrats

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Barack Obama, the charismatic former president, can cause a scene just by walking into a coffee shop, as the rapturous crowds in usually blase New York City demonstrated at one of his cameos. So as he gently re-entered the public and policy eye this week, it’s no surprise that he could throw both Democrats and

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