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No way to deal with facts-challenged

So what should we say to Robert Ussery? He’s an antagonist in a story of breathtaking emotional cruelty that unfolded Monday. It seems Pastor Frank Pomeroy was sitting in his car near his church in Sutherland Springs, just east of San Antonio, when, he says, a man and woman approached the ...

Self-destruction of Trumpland diserves country

WASHINGTON — On the heels of the resignation of Gary Cohn, his chief economic adviser, President Donald Trump has responded with the favorite theme song of his own greatness, and how others clamor to be part of it. During a press conference with the Swedish prime minister, he bragged of his ...

New lesson plan in West Virginia

What a glorious thing, watching West Virginia teachers, most of them women, shut down the state’s public schools for nearly two weeks to force their elected officials to give them the 5 percent raise they surely deserve. On the brink of victory, the crowd of teachers gathered in the West ...

How do Trump critics respond to his successes?

President Trump’s critics, who include many establishment Republicans, are finding themselves left with few issues given the president’s recent string of successes. How difficult it must have been for The New York Times, perhaps the most vehement media critic of the president (The ...

Inclusion-rider dare — go for it

Go for it, Hollywood. You probably didn’t watch the Academy Awards — most people didn’t — but you might have caught a bit of Frances McDormand’s acceptance speech for her Best Actress award. At the end of a stirring speech about women in post-Weinstein Hollywood, she said, “I have ...

Trump makes himself Man of Steel with tariffs

“If you don’t have steel, you don’t have a country” declared President Donald Trump at a press availability with the Swedish prime minister. He was explaining his decision to impose a tax on steel and aluminum. Why these products? Well, the president had just met with steel ...