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When Donald Trump announced this week that he intended to sign an order temporarily halting all immigration to the United States, nativists and xenophobes cheered.
Elizabeth Warren's natural political base comprises white, upscale, highly-educated progressives, with woke social attitudes and white-collar jobs in big cities on the coasts.
Did Sweden blunder? Or did everyone else?
For countless Jews, the Passover Seder this year will be a distressingly unfamiliar experience. There will be no relatives flying in from out of town, no host families with whom to share the meal and its rituals, no group Seders at the campus Hillel or local Chabad House, no catered Seder in a resort hotel. The irreplaceable felicity of *connection* — the joining with extended family, friends, or even strangers that has always been so integral to the Passover meal — will be absent.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday endorsed observer status for Taiwan at the World Health Organization, pledging that he and the State Department will "do our best" to advocate Taiwan's participation in WHO meetings.
Our health care system will eventually recover from the strain of the coronavirus pandemic. Our economy will recover too, notwithstanding the beating it is taking now.
Joe Biden is in an awkward position. Whatever your politics, it is hard not to sympathize with his plight.
Half a century ago the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution seemed like a good idea.
Better by far to let businesses use their own judgment to gauge the right price for their products.
A friend asked me the other day if I didn't think the agitated media coverage of Covid-19, the coronavirus disease, was getting out of control.
For much of the past year, the broad storyline of the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign has been that Democrats are united in a fierce determination to oust President Trump, but divided over how best to do so.
'When it comes to our transportation system, revenue can't wait," declared Robert DeLeo, the Massachusetts House speaker, when he unveiled a bill last month to raise taxes by $600 million. "Revenue can't wait any longer."
Global divestment day coincides with Valentine's Day, so February has become a favorite month for climate change activists to demand that universities divest from fossil fuels.
Could Zachary Taylor, "Old Rough and Ready," have prevented America's deadliest war?
In the name of "strengthening our democracy," a Massachusetts legislator named Dylan Fernandes has introduced a bill to force Bay State citizens to vote in November general elections, whether they want to or not.
As a candidate for president in 2015, Donald Trump railed against birthright citizenship, a bedrock of US immigration law ever since the ratification of the 14th Amendment.
"In the bitter end," fumed a Wall Street Journal editorial the day after Donald Trump's impeachment trial concluded, "what has all of this accomplished? The House has defined impeachment down to a standard that will now make more impeachments likely."
What Trump really ought to do is not just postpone his State of the Union appearance, but cancel it altogether. The Constitution, in Article II, Section 3, does oblige presidents to periodically "give to the Congress information of the State of the Union." But it says nothing about doing so in a speech.
By the time Soviet troops arrived at Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, the vast Nazi death-and-slave-labor complex in southern Poland was nearly empty.
As a small-r republican and an American patriot, I instinctively regard royal families as outlandish — and the British royal family, descendants of that villain George III, especially so.
