JEFF ROBBINS
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Time with Teddy: It’s good to share a dog’s life (opens the original)
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“Everyone thinks they have the best dog,” wrote W. R. Pursche, “and none of them are wrong.” Those who’ve never had a dog don’t get it, and you can’t blame them. People who’ve never had a Toll House cookie likewise have every right to be ambivalent on the subject. On the other hand, my family and I have had five Golden Retrievers over the past 30 years, and if you’re ambivalent about a Golden Retriever, you’ve got problems. I’ve been besotted with each of them, to the point that my then teenage
Goon days at the Federal Communications Commission: Trump tries to muzzle ABC (opens the original)
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It’s another not especially beautiful week in the neighborhood, another week in which a spotlight is shone on President Donald Trump’s unsubtle use of executive power to retaliate against critics and opponents, and to intimidate into submission those who might criticize or oppose him. Last week’s lawsuit by the American Broadcasting Company against the Federal Communications Commission highlighted just how unsubtle Trump and those required to obey him have gotten — and we’re not even halfway thr
Trial time for Trump: The Democrats’ impeachment imperative (opens the original)
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Except for those in districts that are deeply, deeply blue, Democratic Congressional nominees won’t be making the impeachment of President Donald Trump a campaign issue this fall. There’s no percentage for them in doing so. For Democrats in contested districts, the “I-word”, like Voldemort, is the thing that shall not be spoken. All it does is subject one to criticism for being too partisan and insufficiently interested in affordability, health care and other issues that pollsters tell us intere
Class act: A president who knew right from wrong (opens the original)
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“Don’t it always seem to go,” Joni Mitchell wrote decades ago, “that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?” Last week’s Senate passage of legislation authorizing new sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s Russia was much-ballyhooed, but much ado about little: The most meaningful sanctions, tariffs against countries purchasing Russian exports, were ones that the sitting president has sole discretion to impose. Given President Donald Trump’s soft spot for Putin, as long as he is president, th
License to lie: In Trump’s America, you just say anything (opens the original)
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“I cannot tell a lie,” young George Washington supposedly told his father when asked if he’d cut down a cherry tree. That there was no tree and George never said those words hasn’t impeded the myth that holds otherwise, popularized by one of Washington’s early biographers. Ever since, Americans have opted to think that their first president was a model of probity. The comforting notion that our presidents were honest has been an important part of our national self-image. The fact that Abraham Li
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