Signal To Noise
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When will we hear from Donald Trump again?
Americans now must acknowledge that the once unthinkable has occurred: @RealDonaldTrump is really gone for good from Twitter.
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Don't count on ever seeing Trump's 'Garden of American Heroes'
Call me cynical, but I have a feeling the National Garden of American Heroes announced by President Trump on Friday will never get off — or into — the ground, even if he doesn’t put his son-in-law in charge of it. Establishing an official United States Hall of Fame will secure the reputations of Betsy Ross and Benjamin Franklin from the changing political winds, no less than the one in Cooperstown, N.Y., preserves for the ages the memories of Ted Williams and Roberto Clemente.
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Trump and Churchill: A new book looks at both, and chooses Trump
Donald Trump, as described in a new book with the grandiloquent title “Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization,” purports to show how an untested, bombastic real estate speculator grew into greatness.
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Trump pushes 'warp speed' effort on coronavirus vaccine, ignoring lessons from a long-ago drug calamity
Along with everyone else in the world, President Trump wants a coronavirus vaccine now. The most optimistic time by which a coronavirus vaccine might be ready, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious disease specialist on the president’s coronavirus task force, is 12 to 18 months.
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Is Trump leading a 'war' against the coronavirus?
While the term “warfare” is a useful metaphor for the kind of mobilization necessary to save lives in this crisis, it’s not a useful way to think about the primary responsibility of ordinary citizens right now, which is to stay at home.
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Science at work in the age of coronavirus: What will we learn from it?
Dr. Anthony Fauci wants to study hydroxychloroquine in a systematic way to determine if it is safe to take for the coronavirus — and if it actually works. President Trump for his part has been excitedly talking it up, belligerently demanding of skeptics, “What do you have to lose?”
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Trump and Bloomberg wage a New York-style schoolyard fight for America's future
If overt belligerence is an unbridled expression of Donald Trump’s personality, for Michael Bloomberg it is transparently a campaign strategy.
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Head-scratching claims cap off a wild year in 2019 politics
The last week of 2019 was marked by a bumper crop of comments that might have benefited from a little fine-tuning in a focus group. Here, in no particular order, are a few that provoked more than the usual amount of head-scratching.
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The politically correct attack on Ilhan Omar
Rep. Omar’s failure to focus-group test her description of 9/11 left her open to an attack that is becoming all too common: Language is increasingly deployed to advance an argument rather than convey meaning.
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Trump's 'pattern of cognitive decline' alarms psychiatrists
Of all Trump’s many misstatements, exaggerations, empty boasts and slips of the tongue, this one — which Trump has made at least twice before — stands out for its sheer inexplicability.
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Jussie Smollett, Roger Stone, Donald Trump and the politics of victimhood
It says something about contemporary American culture that victimhood is seen as a shortcut to getting ahead in the world, even for someone who already would seem to have things pretty good.
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'Dirty Deeds,' not by Michael Cohen
Yahoo News' Jerry Adler imagines the tell-all book that Michael Cohen will someday write.
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The Women’s March’s Farrakhan problem, and my own
Louis Farrakhan is in the news again, because of?links to some of the leaders of the Women’s March, which is planning a reprise in January of the 2017 event that helped kick off the resistance to Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump's incredible, amazing, world-class Gettysburg Address
Yahoo News' Jerry Adler takes on President Trump's version of the Gettysburg Address.
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Trump's future-be-damned climate change policy
Yahoo's Jerry Adler examines the Trump administration's so-what climate change policy.