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Jussie Smollett, Roger Stone, Donald Trump and the politics of victimhood
It says something about contemporary American culture that victimhood is seen as a shortcut to getting ahead in the world, even for someone who already would seem to have things pretty good.
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'Dirty Deeds,' not by Michael Cohen
Yahoo News' Jerry Adler imagines the tell-all book that Michael Cohen will someday write.
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The Women’s March’s Farrakhan problem, and my own
Louis Farrakhan is in the news again, because of?links to some of the leaders of the Women’s March, which is planning a reprise in January of the 2017 event that helped kick off the resistance to Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump's incredible, amazing, world-class Gettysburg Address
Yahoo News' Jerry Adler takes on President Trump's version of the Gettysburg Address.
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Trump's future-be-damned climate change policy
Yahoo's Jerry Adler examines the Trump administration's so-what climate change policy.
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Body heat: Andrew Cuomo, Cynthia Nixon and the tale of the thermometer
The Nixon-Kennedy debate taught us the importance of ambient temperature in politics, but what does gender have to do with it?
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Trump says border agent 'speaks perfect English.' How would he know?
The president's obsession with Americans speaking English is oddly selective.
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Confessions of an enemy of the people
If President Trump’s threats against reporters went to the next level -- think Soviet-era show trials -- I imagine it happening something like this.
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Heat wave strikes the Arctic, and the climate enters the Twilight Zone
Almost the entire Northern Hemisphere has been hotter than normal this summer; Denver hit an all-time high of 105 in June, around the same time that Oman reported the highest nighttime low temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world, 109.
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The dominance game, as played by dictators and other animals
If you’ve been wondering what makes Kim Jong Un such a successful dictator, here’s one hint: When he speaks at a meeting, his officials sit up and pay attention. The other way, evidently preferred by Kim, is to make an example of subordinates who fall asleep at meetings or official functions by shooting at them with antiaircraft guns. Unconfirmed but widely cited reports said that was how the career of North Korea’s defense minister ended in 2015.
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How journalists got it wrong about Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens
The latest example of a public figure failing to live up to his press is former (as of Friday) Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a Rhodes scholar, decorated Navy SEAL, philanthropist and family man.
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Evangelical Robert Jeffress thinks Jews are going to hell. Israelis are OK with that.
Next to Jews themselves — in fact, exceeding many American Jews themselves — evangelicals are among Israel’s strongest supporters.
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Is there a tyrant among us? What would Shakespeare say?
The rise to power of a cynical demagogue who’s brooding, suspicious, and angry is the plot of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” and the subject of a new book by scholar Stephen Greenblatt. The book may have a few contemporary echoes.
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Michael Cohen, Donald Trump and the curse of loyalty
A number of analysts have been wondering aloud whether the loyalty of Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, will pass the acid test of a federal indictment.
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The debate over jailing women for abortions
The idea of prosecuting women who have abortions, long a fringe position on the right, is starting to gain traction, as the logical extension of the belief that abortion is equivalent to murder.
