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Lawmakers make bank on stocks
Commentary, Nation World
Apr 02, 2025
The DOGE-damners on Capitol Hill are going to hate Elon Musk’s latest target: Congressional wallets. Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin Sunday night...
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A Dem lovefest for an ousted Joe Biden
Commentary, Nation World
DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Aug 21, 2024
CHICAGO (TNS) — It must have been a rough plane ride for President Joe Biden and his family, who left the White House for Chicago so he could address ...
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Trump’s state of mind should be under debate
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
Aug 15, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s way past time to talk seriously about Trump Derangement Syndrome — his, not his critics’. For years it’s been clear to mental ...
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Biden down, but is he out?
Commentary, Nation World
CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Jul 02, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Democratic leaders are trying to contain the political damage after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance accentuated...
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The divided federal government dividend
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 28, 2022
With Republicans gaining control of the House of Representatives, the federal government again will be “gridlocked,” as critics call it. Democrats sti...
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Letter: The politics of debt forgiveness
Letters To Editor, Opinion
Sep 08, 2022
Student loan forgiveness, announced by the Biden administration, is a regressive upward transfer of wealth from low- and middle-income taxpayers to so...
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The new American way of getting everything wrong
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
May 01, 2022
Compassion is so, so important if civilization is to rise to the heights most of us wish for, but compassion without wisdom can produce Karl Marx comm...
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GOP backward or forward?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Feb 10, 2022
There is a wrenching debate going on inside the Republican Party over the simplest of questions: Should the party look backward or forward? Just becau...
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Members of Congress shouldn’t play stocks
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 26, 2022
Ballotpedia tracks what it calls a “personal gain index” showing how much each member of Congress’ personal wealth has changed while in office. For th...
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Democrats’ reality check
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CARL P. LEUBSDORF Tribune News Service 
Oct 08, 2021
It was the week that President Joe Biden and the Democratic majorities in Congress came face-to-face with reality. And that reality is that their narr...
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Democrats’ $3.5T spending plan to get a trim
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 21, 2021
The battle over Democrats’ ambitious spending plan is heating up in Congress, but one piece of the outcome is already clear: The $3.5 trillion price t...
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Biden can’t just cancel college debt
Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 07, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is throwing cold water on the idea that the president can cancel student debt, but her reasoning may be more political than...
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