Thursday 28 February 2019

Opinions P.M.: What Mark Meadows’s anger at Rashida Tlaib says about our racial politics

Opinions P.M.
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What Mark Meadows's anger at Rashida Tlaib says about our racial politics
A white man takes umbrage, and everyone rushes to assuage his anger.
Michael Cohen was supposed to provide 'bombshell' testimony. It didn't explode.
The testimony was embarrassing, but it actually helped clear the president of some claims.
 
The Hanoi summit failure exposes Trump's weak diplomacy
He was right to reject Kim's empty promises, but failure was all but inevitable because of the president's scattershot approach to the dangerous nation.
 
It's been a bad week all around for the president
New doubts about peace, prosperity and character.
 
No, the North Korea summit was not a loss for Trump
Trump proved his critics wrong and shrewdly walked away from the negotiating table.
 
 
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Sean Hannity throws Trump a Reaganesque lifeline in Hanoi
Compares the moment to a watershed event in diplomatic history.
 
France is prepared to extend its nuclear deterrent to Germany
It's the latest sign European leaders are losing faith in their alliance with the United States.
 
Recommendation to indict Netanyahu shows Israeli democracy is healthy — for now
So far the checks and balances built into our young democracy are holding up in the face of serious pressures.
 
Must Democrats make it easy for Trump?
The party can be ideologically pristine or it can win in 2020. It cannot do both.
 
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Republicans won't vote to remove Trump from office, no matter what Cohen said
There are still far too many political incentives for the GOP to stick with the president.
 
 
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The Republican Senate majority is imperiled
They've tied themselves to Trump and will go down with the ship.
 
Will Canada learn the wrong lesson from Wilson-Raybould's testimony?
The conclusion one is expected to draw from this scandal is that attorneys general should be afforded deference to make prosecutorial decisions with little oversight by the elected head of government.
 
The Trump administration wants to censor doctors. It's unprecedented — and unethical.
Politicians aren't doctors. They shouldn't tell us how to practice medicine, and they need to stop interfering in the critical doctor-patient bond.
 
The biggest surprise from the Cohen testimony
Who knew there would be a redemptive arc?
 
The Michael Cohen hearing felt like a Fox News rant
Trump's backers know they can't defend him, so they attack his critics. That's Fox News.
 
 
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