Homage to a great editor
July 23, 2017
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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Repeal and regroup
July 23, 2017
By Kathleen Parker It wasn’t quite a wicked-witch-is-dead Munchkin happy dance, but the white noise of foregone conclusions drowned out Republicans’ relatively muted regret over their failure to repeal…
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Repeal and regroup
July 23, 2017
By Kathleen Parker It wasn’t quite a wicked-witch-is-dead Munchkin happy dance, but the white noise of foregone conclusions drowned out Republicans’ relatively muted regret over their failure to repeal…
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Paris Agreement – like Kyoto Protocol – flawed from the beginning
July 19, 2017By Tom Mullikin An AP article on Sunday led with French President Emmanuel Macron saying “his glamorous Paris charm offensive on Donald Trump was carefully calculated — and may…
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Paris Agreement – like Kyoto Protocol – flawed from the beginning
July 19, 2017
By Tom Mullikin An AP article on Sunday led with French President Emmanuel Macron saying “his glamorous Paris charm offensive on Donald Trump was carefully calculated — and may…
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Who’s hoarding the American Dream?
July 17, 2017
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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Who’s hoarding the American Dream?
July 17, 2017
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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Why robots won’t steal all our jobs
July 17, 2017
By Robert Samuelson Don’t worry, the robots won’t destroy all our jobs. History suggests just the opposite — that new technologies inspire new jobs. So concludes a study from…
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Why robots won’t steal all our jobs
July 17, 2017
By Robert Samuelson Don’t worry, the robots won’t destroy all our jobs. History suggests just the opposite — that new technologies inspire new jobs. So concludes a study from…
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Trump’s unique gift to America
July 17, 2017
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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Trump’s unique gift to America
July 17, 2017
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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We were told there’d be dirt
July 17, 2017
That quaking beneath your feet is from shock waves in Washington where tipping points are merging with other tipping points to create the Mother of All Tipping Points. Not only…
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We were told there’d be dirt
July 17, 2017
That quaking beneath your feet is from shock waves in Washington where tipping points are merging with other tipping points to create the Mother of All Tipping Points. Not only…
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Trump’s trade trap
July 10, 2017
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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Trump’s trade trap
July 10, 2017
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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Mad at everyone
July 10, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson This is the summer of our discontent. As Americans celebrate July 4, they are mad at their leaders, mad at their government and mad at…
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Mad at everyone
July 10, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson This is the summer of our discontent. As Americans celebrate July 4, they are mad at their leaders, mad at their government and mad at…
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The Trump-media tiff goes trans-Atlantic
July 10, 2017
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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The Trump-media tiff goes trans-Atlantic
July 10, 2017
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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Punch-drunk Trump
July 10, 2017
By Kathleen Parker As the nation was preparing to celebrate its storied independence from the British crown, the president secured his place as history’s greatest jester. Or America’s first…
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Punch-drunk Trump
July 10, 2017
By Kathleen Parker As the nation was preparing to celebrate its storied independence from the British crown, the president secured his place as history’s greatest jester. Or America’s first…
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Indecent overexposure
July 10, 2017
By Kathleen Parker For months, Trump watchers have wondered: What will it take? Meaning: What would finally force Republicans to face the fact, so obvious to so many, that…
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Indecent overexposure
July 10, 2017
By Kathleen Parker For months, Trump watchers have wondered: What will it take? Meaning: What would finally force Republicans to face the fact, so obvious to so many, that…
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Postponing the next recession?
July 5, 2017
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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Postponing the next recession?
July 5, 2017
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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What’s ailing health care
July 5, 2017
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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What’s ailing health care
July 5, 2017
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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Is the labor shortage here?
June 26, 2017
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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Is the labor shortage here?
June 26, 2017
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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The perils of over-lending
June 26, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson Among the many things it does, the federal government is one of the nation’s largest lenders. It lends to farmers, homeowners, students, small businesses, exporters…
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The perils of over-lending
June 26, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson Among the many things it does, the federal government is one of the nation’s largest lenders. It lends to farmers, homeowners, students, small businesses, exporters…
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President Jujitsu and the art of the bluff
June 26, 2017
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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President Jujitsu and the art of the bluff
June 26, 2017
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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Can words be lethal?
June 26, 2017
By Kathleen Parker Words matter, journalists are fond of saying. This comes lately in the context of presidential tweets that conceivably could have serious repercussions. Otherwise, we seem conflicted…
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Can words be lethal?
June 26, 2017
By Kathleen Parker Words matter, journalists are fond of saying. This comes lately in the context of presidential tweets that conceivably could have serious repercussions. Otherwise, we seem conflicted…
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America’s postindustrial blues
June 19, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson Ever since Donald Trump’s election, a cottage industry of politicians, journalists, scholars and commentators has sought to understand what motivates Trump supporters. Theories have ranged…
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America’s postindustrial blues
June 19, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson Ever since Donald Trump’s election, a cottage industry of politicians, journalists, scholars and commentators has sought to understand what motivates Trump supporters. Theories have ranged…
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Trump’s NAFTA delusion
June 19, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson The Trump administration is determined to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) — which created a single market from Mexico’s southern border to…
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Trump’s NAFTA delusion
June 19, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson The Trump administration is determined to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) — which created a single market from Mexico’s southern border to…
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Our new life in the dugout
June 19, 2017
By Kathleen Parker Kelley Paul had gone to bed Tuesday night as usual, with her cellphone set on “Do Not Disturb,” except for family and close friends whose calls…
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Our new life in the dugout
June 19, 2017
By Kathleen Parker Kelley Paul had gone to bed Tuesday night as usual, with her cellphone set on “Do Not Disturb,” except for family and close friends whose calls…
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In his head, not ours
June 19, 2017
By Kathleen Parker In one of Walker Percy’s brilliant novels, “The Second Coming,” protagonist Will Barrett keeps falling down for no apparent reason. He also suffers trances during which…
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In his head, not ours
June 19, 2017
By Kathleen Parker In one of Walker Percy’s brilliant novels, “The Second Coming,” protagonist Will Barrett keeps falling down for no apparent reason. He also suffers trances during which…
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Trump isn’t destiny
June 12, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson It’s time to take a brief break from Donald Trump. Whatever you think of him, there’s no denying that he dominates the news cycle. We…
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Trump isn’t destiny
June 12, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson It’s time to take a brief break from Donald Trump. Whatever you think of him, there’s no denying that he dominates the news cycle. We…
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What really happened to coal?
June 12, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson The coal-mining jobs that President Trump thinks were destroyed by government regulation — adopted to combat air pollution and global warming — were actually lost…
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What really happened to coal?
June 12, 2017
By Robert J. Samuelson The coal-mining jobs that President Trump thinks were destroyed by government regulation — adopted to combat air pollution and global warming — were actually lost…
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Boy Scout Comey is no match for The Donald
June 12, 2017
By Kathleen Parker As it turns out, Donald Trump is the hope-and-change president. According to James Comey, Trump hoped that the then-FBI director would find a way to drop…
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Boy Scout Comey is no match for The Donald
June 12, 2017
By Kathleen Parker As it turns out, Donald Trump is the hope-and-change president. According to James Comey, Trump hoped that the then-FBI director would find a way to drop…
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Wishing for a Trump Twitterectomy
June 12, 2017
By Kathleen Parker “If only he would stop tweeting.” Those words came from a friend of mine named “Jack,” quite possibly President Trump’s biggest fan. A former secret service…
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