Best Columns - US
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Our country’s true job creators
feature Our country’s prosperity has always required a strong, vibrant middle class, whose consumer hunger is the engine that creates wealth for everyone, said Nick Hanauer at Bloomberg.com.
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A House that’s stuck in the 1950s
feature The House of Representatives doesn’t represent America as it really is today.
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Our culture’s worship of celebrity
feature It was in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age that the modern concept of celebrity was born.
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Why Rubio isn’t a hero to Latinos
feature Latinos know that “the GOP’s rock star” supported Arizona’s harsh immigration law and opposed the DREAM act, said Ruben Navarrette Jr. at The Dallas Morning News.
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Quote of the week: Nicholas D. Kristof
feature From The New York Times: “In my travels around the world, I encounter two Catholic Churches. One is the rigid, all-male Vatican hierarchy ...
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The false benevolence of Mother Nature
feature Our beloved Earth, it turns out, is quite a nasty place, said Drake Bennett in The Boston Globe.
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The Mormon threat to evangelicals
feature Simply put, evangelicals see the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as “competition’’ for souls—and dues-paying members, said David S. Reynolds at NYTimes.com.
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Stop whining and pay your taxes
feature 'Tis the season
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Dehumanizing Hispanics as ‘illegals’
feature It’s “the latest in a long line of euphemisms that politicians use to signal their antipathy to a reviled racial or ethnic group, in this case, Latinos,” said Peter Beinart at TheDailyBeast.com.
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The nanny state’s new intrusion
feature I personally detest tobacco smoke, but anti-smoking crusaders have now gone too far, said William Saletan in Slate.com.
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The irrelevance of the United Nations
feature Once again, the United Nations has been “rendered impotent by a small group of thugs.”
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Viewpoint: David Brooks
feature From The New York Times: “There are now two conservatives in this country for every liberal....
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He’s not the liberal Reagan yet
feature Will President Obama realize his goal of becoming the liberal Ronald Reagan?
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Why infidelity is on the rise
feature Among young marrieds, there’s a lot of cheatin’ going on, said Naomi Schaefer Riley in The Washington Post, and the reason can be traced to habits in past relationships and maintaining opposite-sex frien
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