By Robert Samuelson   On this Labor Day, the American middle class survives. Indeed, it’s expanding. That’s not the conclusion of some arcane scholarly study. It’s the judgment of Americans…

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By Kathleen Parker   Nobody wants to pick on Texas, or especially Houston, after a 1,000-year weather event that for several days turned the city into a lake and dispossessed…

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By Robert Samuelson   Can we get real about “tax reform,” the Republican promise to enact deep tax cuts that will spur economic growth? Probably not, but let’s give it…

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By Robert Samuelson   Can we get real about “tax reform,” the Republican promise to enact deep tax cuts that will spur economic growth? Probably not, but let’s give it…

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By Kathleen Parker   You know we’ve reached a point of — something — when a sports announcer named Robert Lee is reassigned from calling a University of Virginia college…

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By Kathleen Parker   You know we’ve reached a point of — something — when a sports announcer named Robert Lee is reassigned from calling a University of Virginia college…

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By Kathleen Parker   LINVILLE, N.C. — During the past two weeks, I’ve been conducting an experiment. I took a vacation. A real one, meaning I did nothing. Intentionally, I…

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By Kathleen Parker   LINVILLE, N.C. — During the past two weeks, I’ve been conducting an experiment. I took a vacation. A real one, meaning I did nothing. Intentionally, I…

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By Robert Samuelson   There is much to dislike in President Trump’s trade agenda, but he is correct on one subject: China’s relentless quest to extort American “intellectual property” —…

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By Robert Samuelson   A persisting puzzle about the U.S. economy is how it can seem both strong and weak. On the one hand, it remains a citadel of innovation,…

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By Robert Samuelson   A persisting puzzle about the U.S. economy is how it can seem both strong and weak. On the one hand, it remains a citadel of innovation,…

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By Robert Samuelson   The argument between the Trump administration and its critics over a sustainable rate of economic growth raises profound questions about America’s future. Have we entered a…

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By Robert Samuelson   The argument between the Trump administration and its critics over a sustainable rate of economic growth raises profound questions about America’s future. Have we entered a…

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By Kathleen Parker   What better way to usher in the hissingly hot dog days of summer, otherwise known as August, than with a high-wire verbal duel between CNN senior…

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By Kathleen Parker   What better way to usher in the hissingly hot dog days of summer, otherwise known as August, than with a high-wire verbal duel between CNN senior…

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By Robert Samuelson   House Republicans, who are now deliberating the government’s 2018 budget, pledge to eliminate deficits within a decade. Well, good luck with that. It must be obvious…

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By Kathleen Parker   Behind every great column is a great editor — a truism never more so than when Alan Shearer puts highlighter (not red pen) to copy. Shearer,…

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By Robert Samuelson   To hear Richard Reeves tell it, the upper middle class is fast becoming the bane of American society. Its members have entrenched themselves just below the…

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By Kathleen Parker   BANNER ELK, N.C. — Even the least popular presidents sometimes do great things. What might Donald Trump’s great thing be? He has unified a divided nation.…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   Donald Trump’s foreign policy, such as it is, rests on a massive and apparently indestructible contradiction. Trump wants the United States to remain the “essential”…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   Donald Trump’s foreign policy, such as it is, rests on a massive and apparently indestructible contradiction. Trump wants the United States to remain the “essential”…

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By Kathleen Parker   Many American journalists and others correctly objected to President Trump’s lambasting of the U.S. media in his speech Thursday in Poland, noting that his words were…

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By Kathleen Parker   Many American journalists and others correctly objected to President Trump’s lambasting of the U.S. media in his speech Thursday in Poland, noting that his words were…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   This is not your father’s inflation — and that’s good news. Business cycles often end when higher inflation causes a country’s central bank (the Federal…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   This is not your father’s inflation — and that’s good news. Business cycles often end when higher inflation causes a country’s central bank (the Federal…

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By Kathleen Parker   The Senate health care bill, which was scuttled Tuesday until after July 4, was doomed by two narratives: Republicans are mean, and poor people would be…

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By Kathleen Parker   The Senate health care bill, which was scuttled Tuesday until after July 4, was doomed by two narratives: Republicans are mean, and poor people would be…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   Do we have a worker shortage? Maybe. For months, I’ve planned to write a column on the future of the U.S. labor market. Stacked on…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   Do we have a worker shortage? Maybe. For months, I’ve planned to write a column on the future of the U.S. labor market. Stacked on…

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By Kathleen Parker   Five months into Donald Trump’s administration, only the unwise doubt the president’s intelligence. Just ask former FBI Director James Comey, who, in addition to being fired…

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By Kathleen Parker   Five months into Donald Trump’s administration, only the unwise doubt the president’s intelligence. Just ask former FBI Director James Comey, who, in addition to being fired…

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