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Though the Nation and the world now must cope with a man whose thirst for power is insatiable, and who is so unconstrained by the truth that he openly cheats at golf, it could have been worse. Harris might have won by a squeaker, or even a landslide, and all hell could have broken loose,…

GUEST ESSAY Reprinted from the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/opinion/trump-lies-charts-data.html?campaign_id=39&emc=edit_ty_20240724&instance_id=129604&nl=opinion-today&regi_id=69650493&segment_id=173002&te=1&user_id=442ce0b401d493bbed3b950d84a408c8 By Steven Rattner Graphics by Aileen Clarke Mr. Rattner is a contributing Opinion writer. He served as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration. For more than 90 minutes last week, Donald Trump gave a rambling speech accepting the Republican nomination for president for…

Not long after President Biden threw his unconditional support behind Israel’s war on Gaza, great numbers of American Muslims felt betrayed by the President they had helped decisively in the 2020 election. There seemed to be no contest between the long-established and well-endowed pro-Israel lobby and the meager pro-Palestinian lobby. Some Muslim leaders launched the…