My love/hate relationship with Hillary

Take a yellow legal pad. Draw a line down the middle. Put Hillary Clinton's pluses on one side and minuses on the other. The symmetry is disturbing. Let's start with the good stuff. I confess to a sense of pride that a fellow alumna of Wellesley College could become the nation's first woman President (as …

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Secrecy tips the case of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

President Obama's proposed trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), has me in a quandary.  I've long held that free trade benefits everyone in the long run.  It's what happens in the short run that can be daunting.  Reduce or eliminate barriers to other nations' products and we get the benefit of lower prices and greater selection …

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