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A New York-based FBI agent who played a leading role in a string of recent insider trading prosecutions is under criminal investigation for what federal prosecutors, in a recent court filing, call "unquestionable misconduct by an agent of the Government … improper and inexcusable." It's the sort
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President Donald Trump is being widely (even by Dick Cheney) and at least in part justifiably criticized and condemned for his crackdown on the admission to America of refugees from certain foreign countries. If the goal is to make Americans safe from radical Islamic terrorism, the ban, it is argued
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Obscured amid the controversy over crowd size and the women's march that followed was the substantive policy at the heart of President Donald Trump's inaugural address. That came in the language about "we are transferring power from Washington D.C., and giving it back to
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There's a difference between an interest and a conflict of interest, and between the appearance of a conflict of interest and an actual conflict of interest. Remembering those distinctions, understanding them, and keeping them in mind is the key to making sense of the ongoing political uproar over
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Hillary Clinton didn't just run such a bad campaign that she made Donald Trump president. She ran such a bad campaign that it has effectively disarmed her party from its ability to challenge President-elect Trump's worst idea.
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One of the great paradoxes of Zionism is that a movement for Jewish national self-determination has found itself so often at the mercy of Gentiles. Precedent for this goes all the way back at least to Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who roughly 2,600 years ago allowed the
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There are a lot of hot battles to watch out for in 2017. President Trump versus Congress. President Trump versus the press. President Trump versus the Democrats. President Trump versus the Chinese, Mexico, Iran, and the Islamic State. But one of the potentially most explosive of all will be Trump
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For sheer accumulation of elite institutional prestige, it's hard to top Atul Gawande. He is a professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health and a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine, where I've enjoyed reading and learning from some