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Opinion | Maine's race to the top on taxes
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (330+ words) The Washington Post Is Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) a millionaire's tax convert " or is she just worried about losing her next race to a far-left political novice? On Thursday, the governor endorsed a millionaire's tax in a supplemental budget proposal....
U. S. plan to end war seeks removal of Iran's enriched uranium, officials say
3+ week, 3+ day ago (116+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. The United States has developed a 15-point proposal aimed at ending the…...
South Carolina says the Revolutionary War was won there. But was it?
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (110+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Four historians told The Washington Post that while the British were defeated…...
Opinion | Free market Argentina proves capitalism is the answer to poverty
2+ week, 1+ day ago (61+ words) The Washington Post The poverty rate fell to 28 percent from 53 percent over two years. Argentina's free market experiment spearheaded by President Javier Milei has once again defied the doomsayers. Figures from the country's statistics agency published this week show a…...
To Catholic thinkers, Pentagon's AI demands violate "human dignity'
4+ week, 2+ day ago (128+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Fourteen Catholic moral theologians, ethicists and philosophers have filed briefs in federal…...
Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame
5+ hour, 56+ min ago (344+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. "I think we're going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted," Interior Secretary Doug…...
Opinion | How the coronavirus sparked an epidemic of intellectual malpractice
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (93+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. A new book on the pandemic response dissects how U. S. institutions badly failed…...
Indian outreach to Taliban is ratcheting up Afghan-Pakistani tensions
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (239+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Afghanistan and Pakistan appear headed toward a new military escalation amid deadly…...
U. S. journalist Shelly Kittleson, kidnapped in Iraq, is freed in prisoner swap
1+ week, 4+ day ago (436+ words) The Washington Post BAGHDAD " The Iran-backed militia that kidnapped U. S. journalist Shelly Kittleson in Baghdad released her Tuesday in a prisoner swap with Iraq, Iraqi officials said. "In appreciation of the national positions of the outgoing Prime Minister, we have decided…...
Opinion | Trump's hall-of-mirrors speech
2+ week, 2+ day ago (247+ words) The Washington Post The president perpetuated the dissonance that has characterized the Iran war from the start. Adolf Hitler, in a contemplative mood, said that every war at its start is like opening the door to a dark room. Not…...