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Tom Baxter: Naming a winner in politics or football isn’t that simple
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Stacey Abrams delivers the Democratic party's response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 in this pool image from video. Speaking from Atlanta, Abrams calls the shutdown a political stunt that "defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people, but our values." - photo by Associated Press
We live in an age when people want to play the same old games, but they can’t agree on the same set of rules. It’s a world where blurred boundaries and shifting alliances make it hard to tell at times who’s won or lost, instead producing dual, asymmetrical victors.
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Opinion: Trump officials should learn about loose lips sinking ships
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House on March 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/TNS)
Quite a “Kerfuffle” (A better description begins with “S”) involving “inadvertently” including the editor of The Atlantic to a text chain with the president’s senior most cabinet members of his intelligence and defense agencies.
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