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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
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Nothing like a president-elect widely feared as an erratic bully to trigger newfound respect on the left for the rule of law, right? Well, maybe not.
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Jonathan Gruber is the Ford professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. He got his Ph.D. at Harvard. As a White House consultant, he helped to design ObamaCare and was then caught afterward on videotape explaining its passage by talking about "the stupidity
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When Scalia died in February, Hillary Clinton issued a statement: "I did not hold Justice Scalia's views, but he was a dedicated public servant who brought energy and passion to the bench."