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Wed, November 13, 2019 | 16:15

America's record economic expansion

Ten years ago this month, the U.S. unemployment rate was a disastrous 9.5 percent. General Motors, requiring a government bailout, filed for bankruptcy protection. Would the American auto industry even survive?

2019-06-24 17:12

Democratic presidential candidates go big on spending

Quick: Of the presidents who have served over the past 50 years, who were the most fiscally restrained? Ronald Reagan? George H.W. Bush? Gerald Ford? No. Annual spending growth, in fact, was slowest under Bill Clinton. Democrats and others may remember that balancing the federal budget in the 1990s didn't stifle the economy; just the opposite. It helped fuel an era of prosper...

2019-06-23 16:58

Trump's lies matter

Trump's lies matter

It is an awful thing to call someone a liar. It breaks the social fabric. We expect that most people we know tell the truth. Saying they don't - that in essence we don't trust them - is an insult. Parents punish their children if they lie and warn them not to call anyone a liar.

2019-06-21 17:49

Campaign help from Russia? Trump says it's no problem

Campaign help from Russia? Trump says it's no problem

What do Queen Elizabeth II and Vladimir Putin have in common? Well, according to President Donald Trump, there is no difference between having a chat with Britain's queen and accepting dirt about a political opponent from the Kremlin.

2019-06-20 17:06

Pros and cons of 'blind justice'

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon's plan to remove any considerations of race from his prosecutors' initial decisions about what charges to file in criminal cases reinvigorates an old debate: Is justice best served when it is all-seeing and all-knowing? Or when it is blind?

2019-06-20 17:02

Banning hate never works out as we expect

We did it, America. After letting our social media panic rise for years, we finally helped convince Twitter to ban God. OK, it wasn't God, per se, but rather TheTweetOfGod, a satirical account run by a former “Daily Show” writer who posts quips such as, “What happens after you die is pretty funny actually.”

2019-06-19 17:03

Hong Kong protests should inspire Americans

Hong Kong protests should inspire Americans

Those Americans who fear for the future of American democracy should be inspired by the massive pro-democracy demonstrations occurring in Hong Kong.

2019-06-17 17:08

Injustice of Central Park Five case should give Florida pause

There are 340 people on Florida's death row. Without a thorough investigation into the state's criminal justice system and a full review of every capital conviction, the next execution could be of an innocent person. Many state leaders seem OK with that.

2019-06-16 16:36

Wrong vision for Republican Party - and America

Conservatives are currently engaged in a vicious intramural debate over their future in the Republican Party. Like all such debates, it can seem opaque - even its participants aren't always sure what they're arguing about - but the implications for both the tenor and content of American politics are profound.

2019-06-16 16:33

LA is spending billions to fix homelessness

After a modest but encouraging decrease last year in the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County, it is extraordinarily frustrating that the progress has been reversed, with homelessness climbing a grim 12 percent this year in the county and an even more alarming 16 percent in the city of Los Angeles.

2019-06-14 16:53

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