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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.
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The Washington establishment and the press corps, neither of which liked Donald Trump to begin with, are now preparing to write off his presidency as a failure. Less than 100 days in, it's way too early for that. It's also way too early even for the
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Immediately after the election, there was a spate of reports about Clinton voters buying newspaper and magazine subscriptions as a way to keep an eye on Trump. Now, it looks like the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction — with the elite press, amusingly, offering readers advice on how to
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Donald Trump ran for office promising to crush the Islamic State, end the influx of illegal immigration from Mexico, and stop the flight of American manufacturing jobs to China. Now that he's in office, he seems to be focusing on a different set of targets: Public television'