Author: John L. Micek
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America the Melting Pot? Not So Fast.
Categories: Columns
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Trump’s Fake Photos Mask a Larger Truth
Of course, it had to happen. The news this week that President Donald Trump’s handlers may have digitally altered his photographs to make him appear not only slimmer and younger, but with… wait for it… longer fingers, is the perfect metaphor f…
Categories: Columns
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The Illegal Immigrant Story Trump Isn’t Telling You
If you passed Max Acuna on the street or on your way to work, or any one of those hundreds of places where people cross paths every day, you wouldn’t give the smartly dressed 30-year-old a second look. The married father of three – two boys and a gi…
Categories: Columns
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What Would Jefferson Think of the Government Shutdown?
WASHINGTON – It was a perfect post-Christmas day, as I watched tourists move in concentric circles around the Jefferson Memorial at the far edge of the National Mall. Jefferson’s famous exhortation about the nature of government, that “we might as w…
Categories: Columns
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Pelosi Gives Trump an Important Civics Lesson
Somewhere, Dorothy Parker is smiling. In one withering remark on Tuesday, once (and now increasingly likely future) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Donald Trump the most important civics lesson of his presidency. “Mr. President, please don’t char…
Categories: Columns
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Will Trump Listen to Lindsey Graham?
What got into Lindsey Graham? Maybe it was the wave of nostalgia for an old school Washington brought on by the funeral of former President George H.W. Bush this week. Or maybe it was the collective yearning for a simpler time when American presi…
Categories: Columns
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