Guns, climate change, war: the facts are available. But for much of the American public, truth is what we want it to be.
Donald Trump
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Trump, Roy Moore, and the tribes we cling to
The Civil War almost ended our democratic experiment. “And here we are,” writes Andrew Sullivan, “in an equally tribal era.”
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Feedback 8/30
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Trump’s transgender ban: Another time to resist
The big news out of Washington last week was the health-care vote. But that bit of positive news shouldn’t erase another big development: Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from military service. It’s not surprising that Trump has jettisoned yet another vulnerable group. He tosses aside anybody who gets in the way of something he […]
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The state of the union in the age of Trump
Day after day, the bad news spills out: During last year’s presidential campaign, the Russians not only hacked into the Democrats’ e-mail system but also proposed a meeting with Donald Trump’s son, on at least the pretext that they had incriminating evidence about Hillary Clinton. A gleeful Donald Trump Jr. agreed to the meeting, and, […]
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Trump camp takes aim at the arts, again
In times of political fever pitch, there’s typically a witch hunt directed at the arts. It begins with defunding the arts as a whole, as though they were a mere frill — but the real goal is to snuff out important, critical art. The public is encouraged to join in the roaring condemnation of anything […]
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Feedback 6/7
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. Those of fewer than 350 words have a greater chance of being published. We edit submissions, and we don’t publish comments sent to other media. Trump’s conduct imperils America Ms. Towler is spot on in “The […]
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Trump’s Riyadh speech and the roots of terrorism
Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia was willfully ignorant about America’s role in terrorizing Middle Eastern nations
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The ‘unbelievable’ saga of President Trump
This feels worse than Nixon. The Watergate scandal was riveting, sure. And if we’d known then what we know now about Nixon’s emotional instability, we’d have been more troubled than we were. Watergate did involve a president who lied – about a burglary – and tried to obstruct justice, but that was nothing like this. […]
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Donald Trump’s America: just what voters wanted
A new poll suggests that if November’s voters had it to do over again, Donald Trump would win the popular vote.
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Trumpcare’s dead, but its philosophy lives on
The hard-hearted hatred of Obamacare isn’t limited to members of the Freedom Caucus. Congress has become mean. Small.
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Lessons for Democrats from ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
Southern Appalachia isn’t the only region of the country where decent-paying jobs have all but disappeared and adults have lost hope.
