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The Malignant Cruelty of Donald Trump
“I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him—the memory of my dead wife—and perverted it for perceived...
View ArticleTrump Has Made Alternative Facts a Way of Life
At a fundamental level, the Trump presidency has been about projecting shadows on walls and asking us to believe they are real. The post Trump Has Made Alternative Facts a Way of Life appeared first on...
View ArticleListening to Robert F. Kennedy
Was there something about Robert Kennedy’s habits of mind and heart, his disposition, that we could use now? The post Listening to Robert F. Kennedy appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center.
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We Can Find Common Ground on Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling extending employment-discrimination protections to L.G.B.T. Americans — in a 6-to-3 decision, with a conservative justice writing the majority opinion and another...
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The Cost of the Evangelical Betrayal
The closest thing social conservatives and evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump had to a conversation stopper, when pressed about their support for a president who is so manifestly...
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Donald Trump Is a Broken Man
The most revealing answer from Donald Trump’s interview with Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace came in response not to the toughest question posed by Wallace, but to the easiest. At the conclusion of...
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Conservatives Have Only One Choice in 2020
“You’re a traitor to the cause.” In one form or another, that’s the charge most often made against so-called Never Trumpers, a group of which I consider myself an early and unofficial co-founder. The...
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Why Trump Supporters Can’t Admit Who He Really Is
To understand the corruption, chaos, and general insanity that is continuing to engulf the Trump campaign and much of the Republican Party right now, it helps to understand the predicate embraced by...
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Does the Debt Matter?
Since the earliest days of the American republic, political leaders have been concerned about the threat posed by large deficits and mounting federal debt. In a 1790 letter to Henry Lee, James Madison...
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How to Win a Debate With a Bully
“I’m used to bullies.” That’s a line Joe Biden has used several times during his run against Donald Trump, and he said it again recently in talking about the first presidential debate. “I hope I don’t...
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Now Comes the Reckoning
“Truth will come to light,” Launcelot Gobbo tells his father in The Merchant of Venice. “At the length truth will out.” For Donald Trump, this past week is when, for all except his most beguiled and...
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Evangelicals Made a Bad Bargain With Trump
In public, Donald Trump has spoken in glowing terms about his evangelical supporters, calling them “warriors on the frontiers defending American freedom,” people who are “incredible” and “faithful,” a...
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Biden May Be Just the Person America Needs
In the entire history of American presidential campaigns, there may never have been a wider gap in empathy than between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. And it has rarely mattered more. Empathy is the...
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Trump Lives in a Hall of Mirrors and He’s Got Plenty of Company
If Donald Trump loses his re-election bid, there will be a lot of ruin to sort through. But his most damaging and enduring legacy may well turn out to be the promiscuous use of conspiracy theories...
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Choose Repair, Not Revenge
In the aftermath of the electoral defeat of Donald Trump, who has inflicted so much gratuitous harm on the United States—including making unfounded accusations of election fraud and declaring himself...
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Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy
“We are entering into an epistemological crisis,” Barack Obama recently told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg. The crisis didn’t begin with the Trump presidency, but it rapidly accelerated over the...
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Trump Is Losing His Mind
Donald Trump’s descent into madness continues. The latest manifestation of this is a report in The New York Times that the president is weighing appointing the conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, who...
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The Forgotten Radicalism of Jesus Christ
“Get used to different.” That line comes from a marvelous new TV series on Jesus’ life, “The Chosen,” in which Jesus, played by Jonathan Roumie, invites Matthew to become one of his disciples. Simon...
View ArticleCowards are Destroying the GOP
Those who have hoped that Republican leaders would begin to break free from Donald Trump once he lost the election have not understood the nature of the change that has come over the party’s base. The...
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Some Republicans Have Finally Found a Line They Won’t Cross
“So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, ” Donald Trump told Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, during an astonishing hour-long conversation on...
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