Articles of Interest
February 20, 2017, 5:16pm

By ANN M. RAVEL – The New York Times.

Nearly three years ago, during my tenure as vice chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, I wrote in this newspaper that my own agency was failing to enforce campaign finance laws. … Read more »

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February 20, 2017, 5:15pm

By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.

According to press reports, the Trump administration is basing its budget projections on the assumption that the U.S. economy will grow very rapidly over the next decade — in fact, almost twice … Read more »

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February 20, 2017, 5:12pm

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Opinion writer – The Washington Post.

Let’s not mumble or whisper about the central issue facing our country: What is this democratic nation to do when the man serving as president of the United States plainly … Read more »

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February 20, 2017, 5:10pm

Jim Rutenberg – The New York Times.

Way back on Friday, President Trump declared that several news organizations — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, The New York Times — were “the enemy of the American people.” You know who’s not the … Read more »

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February 18, 2017, 3:26pm
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February 18, 2017, 1:58pm

By Sebastian Mallaby – The Washington Post.

Sebastian Mallaby, author of “The Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan,” is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a

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February 18, 2017, 1:53pm

By Mark Sumner – DailyKos.com

When Donald Trump slithered down that escalator in 2015 to announce he was running for president, he brought with him two decades of connections to Russia. By the time the primaries were winding down, he’d … Read more »

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February 18, 2017, 1:52pm

By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.

The story so far: A foreign dictator intervened on behalf of a U.S. presidential candidate — and that candidate won. Close associates of the new president were in contact with the dictator’s … Read more »

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February 17, 2017, 12:27pm

By Nicholas Fandos – The New York Times.

WASHINGTON — President Trump took aim at reporters on Thursday for more than an hour at an impromptu White House news conference.

“The press has become so dishonest,” he said, and not

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February 15, 2017, 6:00pm

By Thomas L. Friedman – The New York Times.

Dear President Trump:

These are the moments that make or break a presidency.

First you were tested by a rival — Russia — and utterly failed to appreciate the corrosive impact

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