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Joe Biden Runs Against Park Avenue, Where He Raised Money
Joe Biden says he views "this campaign as a campaign between Scranton and Park Avenue." It's comical on…
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ACLU Campaigns for Biden
Direct mail gets less attention than television commercials or campaign events. But it is a battleground in the presidential race worth keeping…
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Trump Risks ‘Exit Stage Left’ Headline
"Exit, Stage Left" was the memorably apt cover line on the January 2009 issue of Reason magazine, over a picture…
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What If Trump Wins the Election and the Left Rejects the Result?
If you think urban rioting, looting, or "peaceful protesting" is disruptive now, imagine how much worse it may get if…
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Please Politicize the State Department and FDA; It Beats the Alternative
The latest line of attack against President Donald Trump is that he's inserting politics into government matters. This has come…
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Obama, Kamala Harris Share Family Ties to Ford Foundation
If the Democrats win the presidential election, at least one $14 billion fortune can breathe a sigh of relief. That sum is…
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Blue Jays Infield Makes Case Against Inheritance Tax
A fact from the world of sports with public policy implications: The Toronto Blue Jays have been starting an infield in which…
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Fashionable Sanders-Style Socialism Would Leave Us Helpless Against Coronavirus
To judge by the increasing volume and frequency of attacks on capitalism, it looks like the real winner of the Democratic primary…
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Trumpism May Outlast Trump Presidency
Anyone hoping that electing Joe Biden president is going to turn America's clock magically back to the end of the…
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Sluggishness of Police Reform Feeds Frustration — Would More Foot Patrol Help?
Twenty-five years ago, the Los Angeles Times published a two-part investigative series I wrote about fatal shootings by police in…
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Sluggishness of Police Reform Feeds Frustration: Would More Foot Patrol Help?
Twenty-five years ago, the Los Angeles Times published a two-part investigative series I wrote about fatal shootings by police in…
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Keep An Eye On The Enemies
In politics, it helps to have an enemy. The Soviet Union served that function for American presidents of both parties during the…
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Fear Strikes University of Chicago Faculty
In a 2017 New York Times column headlined "America's Best University President," Bret Stephens praised Robert Zimmer of…
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The Case for Susan Rice as Biden’s Running Mate
Susan Rice is a Rhodes scholar, a graduate of Beauvoir and the National Cathedral School, the daughter of a Federal Reserve governor,…
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Police Failures Have Roots In Progressive Era
The Minneapolis City Council's plan to dismantle the city's police department following the death of George Floyd in…
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Biden Echoes Trump, Aiming at Rioters, Xi, Bezos
On three important issues recently in the news, Vice President Joe Biden is sounding a lot like Donald Trump. The hottest one…
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A Trump Achievement: The Left Embraces the Tenth Amendment
Amid the grim coronavirus news of death and unemployment, at least there is the comic relief of the left embracing the Tenth…
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Stock Market Bulls Signal More Rapid Recovery Than Press, Public-Health Panickers
What accounts for the apparently dramatic mismatch between the stock market and the economy? Unemployment is the worst it has been since…
