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U.S. President Donald Trump stands with World War II veterans during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, Thursday, June 6, 2019. World leaders are gathered Thursday in France to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. (David Vincent/AP Photo)
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D-Day at 75: Are we worthy?

Are we worthy inheritors of what the D-Day fighters bequeathed us?

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The USS John S. McCain is seen docked at Changi naval base  on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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Naval gazing: Trump is still bedeviled by a dead man

The quintessential Ugly American has arrived in England, hurling insults at London's mayor, but presumably his mood will be lightened by the absence of the USS John McCain.

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Robert Mueller
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Mueller to Congress: If not him, who? If not now, when?

It was nice to finally hear Robert Mueller's voice, even though he lards his speech with circumlocutious double negatives.

3 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., responds to reporters as she departs after meeting with all the House Democrats, many calling for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after his latest defiance of Congress by blocking his former White House lawyer from testifying yesterday, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Video fakery and the high cost of lies

Donald Trump's fans have had a tough time combating Pelosi, so apparently their only recourse was to manipulate video footage to smear her as semi-nuts.

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A wax likeness of the renowned abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Ross Tubman is unveiled at the Presidents Gallery by Madame Tussauds in Washington in celebration of Black History Month, Tuesday, February 7, 2012.  (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)
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Trump banishes Harriet Tubman to the back of the bus

Harriet Tubman, heroine of the Underground Railroad and worker for women's suffrage, was tapped by Obama's Treasury to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill starting in 2020.

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Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., (center), is joined by, (from left), Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., as he hosts a news conference with a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers who are demanding the U.S. government should be required to seek warrants if it wants to search for information about Americans and insist on reforms to the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017 to protect Americans' rights, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
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Meet the conservative Republican who’s putting country over party

Justin Amash, a rare Republican congressman who refuses to genuflect at Donald Trump's feet, has been taking heat lately for daring to speak his mind.

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Protestors called for Representative Brian Sims to resign outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic on Locust Street in Center City Friday morning.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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We’re one Supreme Court case away from outlawing abortion

Anyone who still assumes that legal abortion is here to stay, and that Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land, should take a hard look at what's happening right now.

3 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during a celebration of military mothers with first lady Melania Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 10, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)
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What Democrats fear most in 2020: A bullish Trump economy

We need to acknowledge the reality that presidents typically get re-hired when voters believe the economy is on the upswing.

3 years ago

President Donald Trump arrives for a one year anniversary event for the first lady's Be Best initiative in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
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3 reasons why America’s worst businessman will keep his cultists

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The dome of the Capitol is seen at sunrise in Washington, Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Cliff Owen/AP Photo)
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The hardball constitutional crisis has arrived

This brass-knuckled president is veritably daring Congress to impeach him.

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A health care worker prepares syringes, including a vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), for a child's inoculations at the International Community Health Services Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Seattle. A recent measles outbreak has sickened more than 50 people in the Pacific Northwest, most in Washington state and, of those, most are concentrated in Clark County, just north of Portland, Oregon. (Elaine Thompson/AP Photo)
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Anti-science ignorance stokes public health crisis

We Americans don't agree about much anymore, but at minimum, there should be a consensus that science in the decades since World War II has been a boon to public health.

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People gathering on a street corner hold signs in support of the victims of Saturday's shooting at Chabad of Poway synagogue, Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Poway, Calif. A man opened fire Saturday inside the synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of a major Jewish holiday. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
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‘The most significant domestic terrorist threat,’ rinse and repeat

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Former vice president Joe Biden looks out the car window as he leaves after speaking at a rally in support of striking Stop & Shop workers in Boston, Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Michael Dwyer/AP Photo)
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Joe Biden’s Washington experience: Asset or albatross?

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The Capitol is seen before sunrise in Washington, Thursday, April 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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The impeachment imperative: Will Democrats put country over party?

This is no time for dereliction of duty.

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President Donald Trump stands during a Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
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The Mueller report: ‘No person is above the law’

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