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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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It has been several long months since Maura Healey subpoenaed ExxonMobil for documents going back to 1976, suggesting the company may have misled the public about climate change. Healey's spokespeople have said this case is about protecting Massachusetts's consumers, investors and the public. An order from
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Conventional wisdom dictates that today I should be writing the conservative movement's obituary. On November 7th, it was well-understood by the chattering classes that (1) the intellectual conservative movement was scattered and moribund; (2) the Republican party was on its death-bed; and (3) the Democratic party and its
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Much has been made over the failed prognostications by pundits and pollsters this past election at the presidential level. One particularly fascinating epic "miss" was predicting how the "Catholic Bloc" would vote. The results of the 2016 election reveal, if anything, how difficult it is to
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As is well known, this election will start, not end, months or years of probing existential debates for conservatives and liberals. But one trope both sides can discard early is that there is a "Hispanic" vote. As Florida demonstrated, it doesn't exist. There is a Mexican-American
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Ted Cruz's decisive victory in Wisconsin over Donald Trump now makes the possibility of a contested convention, once dismissed as remote by many commentators (myself included), ever more likely. To clinch the Republican nomination, a candidate must obtain a majority of delegates to the Republican National Convention, the
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Earlier this week, in what is perhaps the best indictment of our ruling class since Angelo Codevilla's book of the same title, Thomas Frank wrote a scathing opinion column for The Guardian. Titled, "Forget the FBI cache: the Podesta emails show how America is run," Frank
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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."
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