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The village egg toss on the Fourth of July sings of democracy to me. An exuberant gaggle of 100-plus people lined up for the competition. A little bit of everybody joined in, all ages, sizes and colors, with partners. The playing field by the fire station and elementary school filled up ...
The flooding in Texas is cataclysmic. It was a hellscape as dozens, many of them girls from a summer camp, were swept to their deaths. Such tragedies spawn questions over whether the National Weather Service could have better warned the public. But this one is different in that the Trump ...
Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst. The first reflex of his critics was to blame him for the appalling tragedy in Central Texas, where a flood on July 4 killed more than 80 people, including two dozen ...
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement. This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war. ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets. Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket ...
In Chief Justice John Roberts’s opening statement at his confirmation hearing, he explained that judges are like baseball umpires. “Umpires don’t make the rules,” he said. Their job is “to call balls and strikes.” In the case of Trump v. Casa decided on June 27, it appears a ...
Elon Musk warned that if Republicans passed their big domestic policy bill, he would form a new “America Party” to primary those who voted for it. He doesn’t need a new party. He has his old one, the Democrats. Many Democrats have grown to intensely dislike Musk, and they have their ...