Month: January 2017

GOP Stuck on Health Care Reform

I think it’s reasonable to talk about what would have happen if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act without replacing it because there is no assurance that anything will replace it. The Republicans can try to reassure...

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Trump Off to Historically Bad Start

Dana Milbank collected a (still incomplete) list of all the people Trump has insulted and gloated over since we won his surprising election in early November. As I read it, I kept having the same experience: “Oh yeah, I...

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UK Brexit Problem: Migration not Immigration [Update]

UK has a long established policy to shut its borders for migrants from outside the EU. PM David Cameron agreed to accept 20,000 Syrian refugees over a period of 5 years. The Brexit vote for LEAVE was a result of legitimate EU...

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We Choose Whether Trump is Legitimate

Given what I wrote in my last piece about the country being in cardiac arrest, Byron York’s effort to parse the meaning of “legitimate president” seems like so much whistling past the graveyard. It’s a...

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