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Cure for Tax-and-Spend? Try the Ellen Stern Test
The most illuminating recent article about the tax reform debate didn't appear on the front page of any newspaper. It…
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Harvard President Biography Puts Today’s Headlines in Perspective
Sometimes the best way to understand the news is to put down the newspaper, or cellphone, or close the Internet browser, and…
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How Two Apple Orchard Photographs Tell Story of America’s Decline
Each year, just before the Jewish New Year, I visit the same Central Massachusetts apple orchard to buy apples. It's…
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Immigration Weapon Is Key To Winning Against North Korea
Contrary to what you often hear, there's a relatively easy solution available to the North Korean nuclear missile problem. It…
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After Sheriff Joe, How About Martha Stewart, Michael Milken, Scooter Libby, Dinesh D’Souza?
Reasonable people may differ on the wisdom of President Donald Trump's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Supporters of the pardon…
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Trump Tariff Talk Is Wake-Up Call For Congress
"I want you to know, this is my view. I want tariffs. And I want someone to bring me some tariffs.…
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Today’s False Charges of Racism Echo Soviet Communists
When and how did it become acceptable to make a false accusation that someone is racist? For adherents of religions that revere…
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On Health Care, Private Sector May Show Congress the Way
Just because Congress can't fix health care doesn't mean it can't be done. That's…
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Credit Trump For Stock Market Gain
In an era of political polarization, here's one item that's rapidly emerging as a rare bipartisan consensus: President…
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Trump as Carter? It Could Be Plenty Worse
The specter of President Jimmy Carter has suddenly emerged from the 1970s to haunt the Trump administration. A Wall Street Journal editorial…
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Dinosaur Democrats Hurl Animal Insults At American Business
The New York Times, which last year editorialized against voting for Donald Trump for president because he "has so coarsened our…
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The Price of Press Bias? $37.06 a Year
How seriously should one take President Donald Trump's complaints about the press? About $37.06 a year seriously, to be…
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Newspaper Publishers’ Plea For Special Antitrust Treatment Fails Laugh Test
It's the sort of brazen move that might ordinarily trigger a front-page news story or an outraged editorial — a…
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Obama’s Warning Against ‘Nationalism’ Clanks Against July 4
Leave it to Barack Obama. As the rest of us were getting ready for the July 4 holiday that celebrates the birth…
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Democrats Accuse Republicans of Mass Murder
So the Democrats, after opposing Donald Trump in the 2016 election partly out of what they claimed was concern about his incivility…
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Mueller Probe Sets The Stage For Hillary’s Return
Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election is both a preview of Hillary Clinton's…
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GE Executive’s Exit Shows Limits of Corporate Clout
The recent announcement that General Electric is replacing its CEO and chairman, Jeff Immelt, brought me back to a little-noticed moment…
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EpiPen Underpriced Despite Times Complaints
"Outcry Over EpiPen Prices Hasn't Made Them Lower" is the misleading headline over Charles Duhigg's "…
