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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

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What Trump’s abortion flip-flops reveal

He is willing to say and do just about anything to get elected.

21.04.2024 9

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

A glimmer of hope for Gaza

Netanyahu’s claims that elections will prevent Israel from defeating Hamas, set back negotiations to release hostages and further polarize society...

14.04.2024 5

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

The judges who threw Trump a lifeline are the kind of people he usually loves to hate

Trump has not mentioned that all five New York appellate justices were appointed by Democratic governors.

07.04.2024 6

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Lessons from the National Association of Realtors settlement for the 2024 election

You can’t make music if you don’t blow your own horn.

31.03.2024 8

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Trump’s TikTok Tics

Trump’s TikTok Tics — repetition, self-absorption, incoherence, indifference to the truth — were on display in his recent interview with Andrew...

24.03.2024 10

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

What if Trump does what he’s saying he’ll do?

Here are the real-world implications for a few of Trump’s tough-guy campaign promises.

17.03.2024 8

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

America should learn from France’s protection of abortion rights

Despite initiatives around the country to exempt in vitro fertilization from grants of legal personhood, the Alabama Supreme Court decision is not...

05.03.2024 2

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Deliver us from America’s huckster-in-chief

Evidence of Donald Trump’s grifts — great and grotesque — is difficult to miss.

03.03.2024 8

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Even in recess, House GOP priorities are all screwed up

During the two-week recess, GOP leaders doubled down on another baseless, pointless, partisan witch hunt and made no visible progress on averting a...

25.02.2024 6

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

The stakes in Ukraine are too high for the House GOP’s partisan nonsense

The puppet-master here is of course former President Trump, who opposes any military assistance to Ukraine and pressured congressional Republicans to...

14.02.2024 5

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Let’s listen to what Trump is saying about how he’d govern

Trump seems more interested in returning to the White House, staying out of jail and punishing his enemies than improving the lives of his fellow...

11.02.2024 30

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

RFK Jr. has a lot of explaining to do

It’s time to lift the curtain on a campaign based on false, irresponsible and self-contradictory claims.

04.02.2024 30

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Amend the Constitution to guarantee Americans the right to vote

In the new book “A Real Right to Vote,” Richard Hasen makes a compelling case for a constitutional amendment that protects and promotes the right...

28.01.2024 30

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Is it too late to end America’s ‘democratic recession’?

Nobel Laureate Maria Resa recently predicted that by the end of 2024,  “we will know whether democracy lives or dies.”

14.01.2024 1

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

House Republicans prefer political theater to passing laws

2023 was the most unproductive session for the U.S. Congress in at least 50 years.

07.01.2024 20

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Six Americans who left lasting legacies in 2023

Remembering their compassion, convictions and courage reminds us that self-absorbed, self-interested cynics need not dominate our public life.

31.12.2023 6

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

The elephant in the Giuliani defamation courtroom

A jury has ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million for defaming Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two poll workers in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2020.

24.12.2023 30

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

No, expelling George Santos didn’t set a bad precedent

It was the best option for his constituents, the House of Representatives and the country.

10.12.2023 10

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Tommy Tuberville and the future of the single senator veto

Unanimous consent, holds and filibusters thwart the will of the majority, increase partisan polarization, decrease the ability of the Senate to do its...

03.12.2023 10

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Why American politics has become vulgar and violent

The new normal of vulgar and violent rhetoric directed at political opponents is obliterating the fundamental components of a functioning democracy.

26.11.2023 6

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

How democracy dies, right here in America

The North Carolina gerrymander is a born-in-the-USA example of how the will of the majority has been thwarted — not with a bang, but a whimper.

05.11.2023 2

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

They looked over Jim Jordan, and what did they see?

In his 16 years in Congress, Jordan did not introduce a single bill that passed both houses of Congress.

24.10.2023 9

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

The tyranny of the GOP isolationist minority

A small group of Republican politicians who believe compromise and bipartisanship are the dirtiest of dirty words is thwarting the will of the...

22.10.2023 5

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Will Trump’s loose lips sink his ship?

It’s time to hold him accountable.

15.10.2023 10

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Why Republicans in Congress aren't condemning corrupt politicians

The elephant in the room is the former president.

08.10.2023 10

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

The doubtful convictions of Donald J. Trump

Trump is, in more ways than one, a man with no convictions — other than those that serve his own personal and political interests.

01.10.2023 6

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

Is Hunter Biden actually getting a ‘sweetheart deal’?

Hunter Biden is certainly not a paragon of virtue. But the accusations by Republicans about him and Weiss’s handling of the investigation are...

24.09.2023 5

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

In praise of Republican guardians of liberty

More than a few Republican politicians, judges and voters, however, continue to oppose departures from democratic values.

10.09.2023 10

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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion Contributor

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