#Letters to the editor — Jan. 17, 2021

#Letters to the editor — Jan. 17, 2021

“#Letters to the editor — Jan. 17, 2021” Not bailing on Don I am glad I am not in a foxhole with Salena Zito. I have spoken to many Republican friends and none have abandoned President Trump (“Over & Don With,” PostScript, Jan. 10). He didn’t incite the riot and he didn’t call for looting,…

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#Dustin Higgs becomes 13th and final inmate to be executed

#Dustin Higgs becomes 13th and final inmate to be executed

“#Dustin Higgs becomes 13th and final inmate to be executed” Another federal death row inmate in Indiana was executed early Saturday — marking final execution under the Trump administration, and the 13th since July. Dustin John Higgs, convicted of ordering the murders of three women in Maryland in 1996, received a lethal injection and was…

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#Crying ‘whataboutism’ doesn’t make left’s support for rioting go away

#Crying ‘whataboutism’ doesn’t make left’s support for rioting go away

“#Crying ‘whataboutism’ doesn’t make left’s support for rioting go away” “Whataboutism is the last refuge for someone who can’t admit they’re wrong,” says journalist Tod Perry, who demands that we “stop equating Trump’s Capitol insurrection to Black Lives Matter protests.” The Atlantic’s David A. Graham likewise declares that conservatives’ “complaints about double standards are mostly…

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#Trump’s parting shot to Xi should be recognizing Taiwan

#Trump’s parting shot to Xi should be recognizing Taiwan

“#Trump’s parting shot to Xi should be recognizing Taiwan” President Trump’s two greatest foreign-policy accomplishments both involve departures from outmoded paradigms that had, for decades, enraptured bipartisan neoliberal elites: unprecedented Arab-Israeli rapprochement in the Middle East and an assertive China containment strategy in the Asia-Pacific. On the former front, Trump boldly departed from the misbegotten…

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