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A sad truth about modern Washington is that bipartisan consensus is not only rare, it's dangerous. In other words, when Republicans and Democrats agree on something, sometimes it means they both are wrong.
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The author and reporter David Halberstam is having a bit of a moment. The Washington Post recently published a piece, headlined "The Greatest Reporter of Our Time," marking the tenth anniversary of his death. The New York Times caught Trump adviser Stephen Bannon reading a Halberstam book.
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Binyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at the New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pennsylvania in October of 2016. So it was particularly dismaying to read Appelbaum's dispatch earlier this
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How thoroughly has the Washington press corps forgotten the lesson of Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform? Thoroughly enough that at the top of its front page on Monday, May 8, the New York Times reported that the Republicans overhauling ObamaCare "have been largely silent about one of
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Companies whose executives visited the White House during the Obama administration had their stock prices rise more than normal after the meetings, but underperformed after Donald Trump won the election, a new paper by researchers at the University of Illinois finds. The finance professors, Jeffrey Brown and Jiekun Huang, published
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Barack Obama showed up at the General Motors factory in Janesville, Wisconsin during the 2008 presidential campaign and proclaimed, "I believe that, if our government is there to support you and give you the assistance you need to retool and make this transition, that this plant will be here
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"Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" — but once you arrive in New York, don't dare try moving somewhere else, or Governor Andrew Cuomo will be chasing you to take back your college scholarship money. Leave it to Governor Cuomo
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's success in getting Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court is a reminder that in Washington, there's no limit to what can be accomplished if conservatives don't waste their time worrying about what the liberal press says about them.