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The Problem With Block Grants
Obscured amid the controversy over crowd size and the women's march that followed was the substantive policy at the heart…
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Not All Interests Are Conflicts
There's a difference between an interest and a conflict of interest, and between the appearance of a conflict of interest…
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Donald Trump’s Worst Idea
Hillary Clinton didn't just run such a bad campaign that she made Donald Trump president. She ran such a bad…
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Treaty Can Repair U.S.-Israel Relationship
One of the great paradoxes of Zionism is that a movement for Jewish national self-determination has found itself so often at…
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Battle To Watch: Trump Versus the “We Bes”
There are a lot of hot battles to watch out for in 2017. President Trump versus Congress. President Trump versus the press.…
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Is an ad for breast implants the answer to post-election healthcare panic?
For sheer accumulation of elite institutional prestige, it's hard to top Atul Gawande. He is a professor at both Harvard…
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Presidential Panic
Nothing like a president-elect widely feared as an erratic bully to trigger newfound respect on the left for the rule of…
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Call it the Jonathan Gruber election
Jonathan Gruber is the Ford professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. He got his Ph.D.…
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“President Hillary Clinton” just may find herself missing Justice Scalia
When Scalia died in February, Hillary Clinton issued a statement: "I did not hold Justice Scalia's views, but he…
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Hillary Clinton: Sinner or saint?
Forget about Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton. The most interesting and consequential contest of the presidential campaign — and of the next four…
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Rosh Hashanah, self-examination and a presidential election year
Beginning Sunday night with the holiday of Rosh Hashanah that marks the Jewish New Year, and continuing through Yom Kippur the following…
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Taking us for a ride
Pretty much everything that's wrong with government is encapsulated in the recent announcement of what the New York Times described…
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Does this feel like peace and prosperity to you?
If a political party can deliver peace and prosperity, it usually means it can win re-election. That idea is simple enough.…
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Trump supporters to Washington: ‘You’re fired.’
The presidential election may hinge on the meaning of two words: "you're fired." Democrats are trying to turn…
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Johnson-Weld ticket could close deal with better foreign policy answers
Johnson-Weld 2016? A lot of American voters will give the Libertarian Party ticket nominated this weekend a closer look than usual…
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Bloomberg does Clinton no favors with endorsement
If Michael Bloomberg really wants Hillary Clinton to beat Donald Trump in November, the former mayor of New York may want to…
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Five ways to improve economic growth
Later this month, the Commerce Department will unveil its estimate of how much the American economy grew in the second quarter of…
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Trump v. Amazon
The hottest political fight in America right now may not be between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but between Trump and Jeffrey…
