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Oct. 26

The Washington Post on the economic ideas presented by GOP candidates for POTUSRepublican candidates are trying to capitalize on discontent with “Bidenomics.” Despite strong job gains, cooling inflation, blockbuster third-quarter growth at an annualized rate of 4.9 percent and no recession in sight, Americans tell pollsters President Biden is doing a poor job on the economy. They remain scarred by the covid-era inflation surge, which caused pay hikes to lag behind price increases during Mr. Biden’s initial two years in the White House. Real wages have improved in recent […]

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May 10

The Washington Post on Congress, Biden and the borderFor more than three years, the Biden and Trump administrations have relied on an obscure public health law to manage illegal crossings at the southern border. That measure, whose legal justification was as flimsy as its health utility, did little or nothing to impede the pandemic — its stated purpose — but plenty to accelerate the expulsion of well over 2 million migrants, most of them Mexican and Central American. It is to be lifted just before midnight Thursday, a move […]

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Feb. 28

The Washington Post says ‘Stand your ground’ doesn’t save lives. It leads to needless killing.The disagreements start over the most mundane of matters. An argument over someone texting in a movie theater; a customer at the checkout in a grocery store being jostled; a driver getting cut off by another car. But then someone pulls a gun and what could have — should have — been resolved with a little calm, and some plain common sense, ends in needless tragedy. Fueling the spiraling escalation of violence that has made […]

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Feb. 15

The Washington Post on Mexico’s president attacking the media:Mexico is experiencing one of the deadliest periods on record for journalists, with five killed so far this year. But instead of addressing these dangers, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador devoted much of his regular news conference on Friday to attacking one of the country’s most prominent media figures, Carlos Loret de Mola.Mr. Loret de Mola, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post’s Spanish-language Post Opinión section, is a household name in Mexico, reporting for print, radio and television. A frequent […]

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Jan. 11

The Washington Post on “why Democrats should push hard on voting rights”:Speaking in Atlanta on Tuesday, President Biden tried to reinvigorate Democrats’ push to pass two major voting-rights bills. “We want the people to rule,” Mr. Biden said, calling on Republicans to restore what used to be a bipartisan tradition of promoting access to the ballot box and, if they don’t, endorsing a change in Senate filibuster rules that would allow voting legislation to pass with a simple Senate majority.Despite Mr. Biden’s stirring words, the legislation’s prospects are murky, […]

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