Articles of Interest
March 22, 2016, 11:48am

By Nancy Pelosi.

THE long-endangered Republican Deficit Hawk is now extinct.

In December, the Republican Congress passed into law a huge permanent package of tax measures as part of the tax and spending deal. However, Republicans refused to pay for … Read more »

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March 20, 2016, 7:27pm
By Richard Dreyfuss and Lance Simmens

The rampant hysteria being generated by Donald Trump’s surprising run at the Republican presidential nomination is both needlessly and potentially destructive. It is being exacerbated by Trump’s narcissism and scorched earth campaign but abetted

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March 19, 2016, 6:19am

By Claire Cain Miller – New York Times.

Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling?

It may come down to this troubling reality, new research suggests: Work done by women simply isn’t

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March 16, 2016, 12:26pm

New York Times.
WASHINGTON — The Senate will grapple this week with perhaps the most contentious issue in the food industry: whether the government should require mandatory labeling on foods containing genetically engineered ingredients.

On Wednesday, the Senate is set … Read more »

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March 10, 2016, 6:38pm

By Thomas Friedman. New York Times.

Donald Trump is a walking political science course. His meteoric rise is lesson No. 1 on leadership: Most voters do not listen through their ears. They listen through their stomachs. If a leader can … Read more »

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March 07, 2016, 3:08pm

The New York Times.
IS there any scarier nightmare than President Donald J. Trump in a tense international crisis, indignant and impatient, with his sweaty finger on the nuclear trigger?

“Trump is a danger to our national security,” John B. … Read more »

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March 07, 2016, 12:31pm

By David Remnick – The New Yorker.

Nearly three decades ago, Howard Kaminsky, of Random House, called on the real-estate developer and self-marketing master Donald Trump at his office on Fifth Avenue. Kaminsky brought along a cover design for “Trump: … Read more »

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March 04, 2016, 3:44pm

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IN my 36-year tenure in the United States Senate — nearly half of it as chairman or ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee — I presided or helped preside over … Read more »

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March 04, 2016, 3:41pm

By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.

So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy can be conducted via bullying and belligerence; who cynically exploits racial and … Read more »

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February 29, 2016, 12:44pm

By Paul Krugman – New York Times.

We now have a pretty good idea who will be on the ballot in November: Hillary Clinton, almost surely (after the South Carolina blowout, prediction markets give her a 96 percent probability of … Read more »

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