Mohamed ElBaradei is on his way to a third term as head of the IAEA (because we’re dropping our opposition to him).
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We’ll Always Have . . . Fort Worth?
Conservatives do not do well in the cities. We assume, strangely, that this indicates a problem with the cities rather than a problem with . . . us. We may as well be trying to sell New York City and Los Angeles Edsels full of New Coke -- and cursing the consumers for being too thick to appreciate what we are ...
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Incompetent Vice Swings at Dick Cheney and Misses
The initial warning is given before Vice even starts, in an onscreen note: It’s a “true story,” we’re told. But it’s hard to be strictly factually accurate, the note adds, because Dick Cheney is such a secretive bastard. So it’s really Cheney’s fault if anything in the movie happens to be ...
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Trump Wants Mexico To Send Migrants Home After Clash At Border
The president wants them away from the border.
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A Home Run by Trump
In 2007, the Justice Department was in disarray. Though it was largely exaggerated, a controversy over the firing of some United States attorneys, the intrusion of politics into Justice Department hiring decisions, and White House contacts with Main Justice forced the resignation of an overmatched attorney ...
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What Good Did USA Today’s Ambushing Kyler Murray Do Anyone?
Congratulations to Kyler Murray for winning the Heisman -- and in a year during which Tua Tagovailoa was playing football, no less. And all shame to Scott Gleeson, of USA Today, who waited until the exact moment that Murray had been selected for the award before amplifying a national shaming campaign that had ...
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Feds Discover Largest Oil, Natural-Gas Reserve in History
The federal government has discovered a massive new reserve of oil and natural gas in Texas and New Mexico that it says has the “largest continuous oil and gas resource potential ever assessed.”
"Christmas came a few weeks early this year," Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke said of the new reserve, ...
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The Special Counsel’s Cohen Sentencing Brief Is Ominous for Trump
Friday evening, the Special Counsel's Office and the Southern District of New York filed three key documents: two sentencing memos for former Trump attorney Michael Cohen and a sentencing memo for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Most of the online attention has focused on the SDNY’s Cohen memo ...
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Donald Trump and the Imperial Presidency
As the writer of a weekly political column in the Age of Trump (ugh), I have lately been wondering if, bereft of an idea, I might just write TRUMP over and over again, 750 times, and get people to read it.
An idle thought — perhaps. After all, this was the week when my Twitter timeline was full of mainstream ...
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