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There is so much emotional investment in Trump's removal that people don't realise it's a long shot

The anxiety of a Trump impeachment

Speaker John Boehner barked Friday about the government shutdown: "This isn't some damn game."The House leader was responding to an anonymous "senior administration official" who was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article, saying: "We are winning. ... It doesn't really matter to us' how long the shutdown lasts 'because what matters is the end result.'"(The White House press secretary, Jay Carney, distanced the administration from the boastful nature of that quote, referring to the president and a budget bill known as a continuing resolution in a tweet: "This is absurd. POTUS wants the shutdown to end NOW. Speaker can do that NOW by putting a clean C.R. to a vote. #JustVote")That said, the speaker is wrong once again. This unfortunately is a game. It's a game that he allowed himself to be pushed into playing and one he can find no easy way out of. It's a game in which he thought the president would blink. But President Obama is staring straight ahead, wide-eyed like a long-haul trucker

A terrible, tragic game

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King was deemed dangerous because he wouldn't quietly accept what had been. He insisted that people dream of what could be

'The most dangerous Negro'

Americans feel now, the middle class has less opportunities, less job security and less disposable income than before

The morose middle class

Tamerlan may have been an aggressive and radicalised immigrant who ensnared his brother Dzhokhar  into a terror actWhile the Boston area lay paralysed by a lockdown, with one terror suspect dead and another on the loose as a massive manhunt filtered through the area's arteries, we got a better sense of the second young man.It's complicated.The suspects were brothers. The one who was on the loose was taken into custody on Friday evening. He was the younger of the two, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. The elder, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a confrontation with authorities, but not before participating in the fatal shooting of an MIT police officer, the carjacking of an SUV and the shooting of a transit police officer, who was critically injured.They were of Chechnyan heritage. Tamerlan was a boxer; Dzhokhar, a college student."A picture has begun to emerge of 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev as an aggressive, possibly radicalised immigrant who may have ensnared his younger brother Dzhokhar -

The mind of a terror suspect

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Lincoln, liberty and two Americas

President Obama&rsquo;s election and recent re-election have apparently fueled a gun-buying craze in this country unlike anything we&rsquo;ve seen in modern times.

Charles M Blow

Charles M Blow

Charles M Blow

The anxiety of a Trump impeachment

A terrible, tragic game

'The most dangerous Negro'

The morose middle class

The mind of a terror suspect

Lincoln, liberty and two Americas

The gun frenzy

Lincoln, liberty and two Americas