COLLINS: Putin and Europe meet an entire fleet of Trumps
Trump had begun to resemble a dinner guest who does nothing but talk about his superior tennis skills, better car and more interesting vacations.
Gail Collins / New York Times Syndicate
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Tax dodging on the high seas
Let’s criticize cruise ships. I know, I know. Things are bad enough without going negative about your summer vacation. But we’ve got some problems here. Plus, I promise there will be a penguin. The cruise industry seems to be exploding—the newest generation of ships can carry more than 5,000 passengers. They make a great deal […]
COLLINS: Trump taps anger vote, but Sanders hits true villains
Outrage is the campaign theme for both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Sanders wants the country to rise up against the special privileges that keep making the richest 1 percent richer. Trump rocketed to the top of the polls by railing about illegal immigration.
COLLINS: Japan has eclipsed the U.S. on working women? Really?
Japan now has a higher proportion of working women than we do. I’m trying to get my head around this fact.
COLLINS: Women making waves this election cycle, left to right
This election season is going to be all about women. OK, not entirely. Men will be involved on many significant levels, like running the network of oligarchs who take advantage of our weakened campaign finance laws to manipulate the American democratic process in pursuit of their own selfish ends.
COLLINS: A Ted Cruz on every corner in Texas
Have you noticed how many lawmakers from Texas were doing crazy things during the government shutdown debacle?
COLLINS: Of Hooters, zombies and senators
Today, let’s take a look at debates that do not involve Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. You can thank me later.
COLLINS: Moderns stuck in colonial-era biology
In colonial America, conventional wisdom held that women could not get pregnant unless they enjoyed the sex.
COLLINS: Where jobs, resilience, are plentiful
Right now you are probably asking yourself: “What would it be like to live in a place with an unemployment rate of 1 percent?”
COLLINS: Higgs boson vanishes in political black hole
The physicists who made the discovery, Obama noted, all had health insurance.
COLLINS: Romney pandering to the Empty Places
Maybe he’ll one-up Rick Perry and find four federal agencies to promise to close.
COLLINS: Mixing summer vacation and the debt debate
Romney said he would extinguish the blaze with his spending and tax-cutting plan.
COLLINS: Republicans replete with financial pains
This is an unusually delusional presidential field.
COLLINS: Private planes are the best perk in politics
The free plane rides don’t seem to have shattered any Texas ethics laws, most of which are of the foam-rubber persuasion.
COLLINS: Some of the dimmer bulbs are at it again
Hysteria over the government taking away our right to buy inefficient light bulbs has been sweeping through certain segments of the Republican Party.
COLLINS: Michelle Bachmann’s single-mindedness
It’s not everybody who switches political parties over a historical novel, but Bachmann’s vision of the past is the core to her ideology.
COLLINS: Balance gun access, rights with sanity
In 2009, Gabrielle Giffords was holding a “Congress on Your Corner” meeting at a Safeway supermarket in her district when a protester, who was waving a sign that said “Don’t Tread on Me,” waved a little too strenuously. The pistol he was carrying under his armpit fell out of his holster.
COLLINS: The crying gap between the sexes, parties
I’m sure we’ll get used to having a speaker of the House who weeps a lot. That would be John Boehner, the new guy.
COLLINS: Arizona strikes again, with Medicaid
Try to imagine what the Republicans would have said if someone in the Obama administration proposed cutting off liver transplants for Medicare recipients.