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    The Filibuster and Unintended Consequences

    Phil Graham and Michael Solon argue that the Republicans should retain what is left of the filibuster rule and defund failing programs such as ObamaCare.This is a recipe for a well-deserved voter backlash and a Democratic victory in the next election.

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    Morality Needs More Than Just Rationality

    John B. Egger states: “Morality identifies the principles of proper interpersonal behavior and is persuasive only when they are determined rationally, from the facilitation of human life on Earth. But does it?

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    Fulfilling Pledges Is Good,
    Bashing Manufacturers Isn’t

    Regarding your editorial “Trump’s Auto Bluster” (Jan. 7): Thank you for saying what needed to be said. I suspect it won’t be the last time you need to explain to Donald Trump that successful presidents set the right general direction rather than involving themselves directly in each specific case.

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    California Housing Is Very Expensive for Many Reasons

    Academics attribute the rising prices to interrelated forces of financialization, neoliberalism and globalization.

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    Streep Is an Accomplished Actress, Poor Policy Analyst

    It is grating to see that people who specialize and excel in make believe are the ones who lecture us on how to live and cope in the real world.

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    What Does Putin’s Election Hacking Tell Us?

    Call it false news, if not fake news, but Vladimir Putin did nothing to influence the election. It was Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee who conspired to influence the election, to smother “the Bern.”

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    No First Amendment Hate-Speech Exceptions

    There is no anti-Semitism exception to the First Amendment, nor should there be.

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    Illiberalism Not the Only Threat to Democracy

    Commentators who wring their hands about the rise of illiberalism on the right would have more credibility if they had been equally vigilant about abuses by the illiberal left for the past eight years.

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    Change Chicago’s Failed Anti-Murder Efforts

    When police cut back their stops of high-probability criminal suspects by 82%, why is anybody surprised that arrests went down by 33% and murders went up by 57% in 2016?

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    FDA’s Committees Provide Political Cover

    Now, however, advisory committee meetings are quotidian affairs, held often when the FDA wants what amounts to political cover for a decision that has already been made. The committee meeting to discuss Exondys 51, which the FDA manipulated shamefully, is a case in point.

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    Time to Get Real About Closing the Skills Gap

    Most community colleges and private technical colleges across the country already are “teaching what employers actually need.”

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    Merit Triumphs Over Racist Identity Political Models

    The racial makeup of Mr. Trump’s incoming cabinet tells us precisely nothing; any other perspective is bald racism.

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