The other day I was driving down a bumpy city street, fretting about the stress on my car’s shocks. Over the summer, some work had been done on the gas
Commentary: How filibuster carries centuries of baggage
Alfredo Torres Jr., For the Express-News
April 5, 2021
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell denounces efforts to abolish the filibuster, saying that he would use procedures to turn the Senate into a “100-car pileup, nothing moving.” The filibuster rule should be eliminated because of its current abuse and disgraceful past.Chip Somodevilla /Getty Images
“Words matter” is a cliché being tossed about these days. But, really, they do matter.
By now, the phrase “filibuster” has conjured up images of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell doubling down and demanding Democrats do not tamper with the rule. And McConnell, being McConnell, went a bit further, threatening a “scorched earth” policy if Democrats kill the filibuster. It seems no one has told McConnell that the GOP no longer has real power.
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Hereâs what to read from the left and the right | Column
Hereâs some interesting commentary from the opposite poles of the political spectrum.
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Published Jan. 24
We live in a partisan age, and our news habits can reinforce our own perspectives. Consider this an effort to broaden our collective outlook with essays beyond the range of our typical selections.
FROM THE LEFT
The context, from the author: Polarization, anger, division â French history offers a warning for what might come after Donald Trump.
The excerpt: A Jewish military officer wrongfully convicted of treason. A years-long psychodrama that permanently polarized an entire society â communities, friends, even families. A politics of anger and emotion designed to insult the very notion of truth. A divide that only grew with time. A reconciliation that never was. A frenzied right wing that turned to violence when it failed at the ballot box. This was the Dreyfus affair, the signature scandal of