Perspective: What college teaches young conservatives

In the best-case scenarios, several Republicans now working in Washington told me that being a conservative in overwhelmingly liberal places sharpened their critical thinking skills, moderated some of their views and tempered their youthful arrogance. But life on the defensive can also foster a kind of ideological contrarianism that can curdle into reactionary politics.

The real way Republicans can deal with Obamacare? Actually fix it.

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events THE NEXT time someone argues that a businessman would manage the country better than an experienced politician, remember this past week. The attempt by President Trump and House Republicans to force through a health-care bill scorned by experts across the spectrum, projected to be a disaster for aging and low-income people and opposed by a large majority of Americans ended in debacle .

Cutting essential benefits doesn’t save costs – it just shifts them to families

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan told journalists on Friday that there would not be a vote on the GOP-sponsored American Health Care that day. Ezekiel Emanuel is chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Prescription for the Future," which is scheduled to be published in June.

Editorial: It’s time for a vote on Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is right to sue the federal government - and his old friend, new Energy Secretary Rick Perry - over the Energy Department's handling of the Yucca Mountain project. If we're serious about climate change and carbon emissions, then we're going to have to get serious about nuclear power .

Guest column: Gorsuch’s assurances likely tested

Gorsuch's assurances that 'no man is above the law' are likely to be tested right away, writes David Adler. The sincerity of the assurances made by Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the course of confirmation hearings that the president "is not above the law," is likely to be tested if, as expected, he is approved by the Senate for the vacant seat on the High Tribunal.

Letters: OCC hasn’t learned anything

Re: "OCC honors anti-Trump instructor, but she passes" [News, March 23]: How appalling is it that Orange Coast College would give an honor to college instructor Olga Perez Stable Cox who slandered the president and the U.S. election process. She bullied students in her classes and made some of them fearful.

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Comey diagnoses the dangerous disease in Trumpland Trump's contagious lies infect everyone around him with totalitarian obedience. Check out this story on thecalifornian.com: http://bit.ly/2nFuLyd Is there a link between President Trump's breathtaking allegation that former president Obama wiretapped him in Trump Tower and the Russian plot to sway the American election against Hillary Clinton? Both matters were the subject of long-awaited congressional testimony by FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency chief Admiral Michael Rogers.