You wanted anti-establishment? Hold on.
December 11, 2016By Kathleen Parker COLUMBIA, S.C. — If you thought Donald Trump was the face of America’s anti-establishment movement, hold on to your chapeaus: A wild wind is rising. Want…
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You wanted anti-establishment? Hold on.
December 11, 2016By Kathleen Parker COLUMBIA, S.C. — If you thought Donald Trump was the face of America’s anti-establishment movement, hold on to your chapeaus: A wild wind is rising. Want…
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Trump’s risky nationalism
December 5, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson “For the first time since the end of the Second World War, the future relationship of America to the world is not fully settled.” —…
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Trump’s risky nationalism
December 5, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson “For the first time since the end of the Second World War, the future relationship of America to the world is not fully settled.” —…
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Why Italy matters
December 5, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Italy may be the next stop on the world’s journey to more economic nationalism. First we had Brexit — Britain’s decision to leave the European…
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Why Italy matters
December 5, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Italy may be the next stop on the world’s journey to more economic nationalism. First we had Brexit — Britain’s decision to leave the European…
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Trump’s demagogic illogic
December 5, 2016By Kathleen Parker On the first stop of his “thank you” tour in Ohio Thursday, president-elect Donald Trump hit replay on several of his campaign tropes. Among the crowd…
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Trump’s demagogic illogic
December 5, 2016By Kathleen Parker On the first stop of his “thank you” tour in Ohio Thursday, president-elect Donald Trump hit replay on several of his campaign tropes. Among the crowd…
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No tears for Fidel
December 5, 2016By Kathleen Parker Sometimes history doesn’t have to wait to judge — and when it comes to dictators, even dead ones, we shouldn’t either. With news of Fidel Castro’s…
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No tears for Fidel
December 5, 2016By Kathleen Parker Sometimes history doesn’t have to wait to judge — and when it comes to dictators, even dead ones, we shouldn’t either. With news of Fidel Castro’s…
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Jobless by choice — or pain?
November 28, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson The work ethic is such a central part of the American character that it’s hard to imagine it fading. But that’s what seems to be…
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Jobless by choice — or pain?
November 28, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson The work ethic is such a central part of the American character that it’s hard to imagine it fading. But that’s what seems to be…
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Trump’s lovely lies
November 28, 2016By Kathleen Parker In this season of Thanksgiving, a quirky source of gratitude has emerged — Donald Trump’s many campaign lies. What else can one call the promises that…
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Trump’s lovely lies
November 28, 2016By Kathleen Parker In this season of Thanksgiving, a quirky source of gratitude has emerged — Donald Trump’s many campaign lies. What else can one call the promises that…
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The meaning of Mitt
November 28, 2016By Kathleen Parker President-elect Donald Trump’s flirtation with Mitt Romney as a possible pick for secretary of state has injected a sliver of hope and change into an evolving…
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The meaning of Mitt
November 28, 2016By Kathleen Parker President-elect Donald Trump’s flirtation with Mitt Romney as a possible pick for secretary of state has injected a sliver of hope and change into an evolving…
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Greenspan: why productivity lags
November 20, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, weighed in last week on one of the pressing issues facing the Trump administration and…
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Greenspan: why productivity lags
November 20, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, weighed in last week on one of the pressing issues facing the Trump administration and…
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Truth and consequences
November 20, 2016By Kathleen Parker Of all the losers in this season of discontent, the mainstream media top the list. I don’t say this lightly and sincerely fear that loss of…
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Truth and consequences
November 20, 2016By Kathleen Parker Of all the losers in this season of discontent, the mainstream media top the list. I don’t say this lightly and sincerely fear that loss of…
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Trump’s mission impossible?
November 13, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Donald Trump, it seems, embraces the old dictum: Make no small plans. Already, he’s published an agenda for his first 100 days in office, recalling…
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The curse of victory
November 13, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson By the time this column reaches most readers, we will (probably) be on the verge of knowing who the next president-elect will be. Regardless of…
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The mourning after
November 13, 2016By Kathleen Parker When I opened my front door Wednesday morning after little sleep and numb from a bad dream that wasn’t a dream, a dreary rainfall glazed the…
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America: Still great
November 9, 2016By Kathleen Parker You can feel the tension. Strolling down the street, shopping at the corner market, stopping for a bite at the local tavern, friends and neighbors greet…
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The real national embarrassment
November 6, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson However this election turns out, the 2016 campaign for the White House will undoubtedly be remembered for its vulgarity, mean-spiritedness and mendacity. It has been…
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Why we should worry about Deutsche Bank
November 6, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Deutsche Bank is in trouble — and that’s bad news for all of us. Deutsche Bank is Germany’s biggest bank with 100,000 employees around the…
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Perverting the presidency
November 6, 2016By Kathleen Parker The last place — and I do mean the very last place — any candidate wants to be is in the frame with Anthony Weiner. This…
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Why this campaign was so nasty
October 31, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson To understand this nasty and nutty campaign, you have to go back to 1973, which is before roughly 60 percent of today’s Americans were alive.…
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Why this campaign was so nasty
October 31, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson To understand this nasty and nutty campaign, you have to go back to 1973, which is before roughly 60 percent of today’s Americans were alive.…
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Post-election rules of reckoning
October 31, 2016By Kathleen Parker One more week, give or take. It seems nearly impossible that an election season that began approximately four years ago is nearing its end. After almost…
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Post-election rules of reckoning
October 31, 2016By Kathleen Parker One more week, give or take. It seems nearly impossible that an election season that began approximately four years ago is nearing its end. After almost…
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Measuring economic progress
October 28, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Where are living standards the highest? You might think that’s an easy question to answer. Just take a country’s total income (in the United States,…
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Measuring economic progress
October 28, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Where are living standards the highest? You might think that’s an easy question to answer. Just take a country’s total income (in the United States,…
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The celebrity’s apprentice
October 28, 2016By Kathleen Parker The system is rigged and the polls are phony. As E-Day draws nigh, Donald Trump and his spokesvolken have contrived every possible excuse for the Republican…
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The celebrity’s apprentice
October 28, 2016By Kathleen Parker The system is rigged and the polls are phony. As E-Day draws nigh, Donald Trump and his spokesvolken have contrived every possible excuse for the Republican…
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Nonprofit leaders to explore collaboration on November 15 at Shine the Light
October 24, 2016DNA Creative Communications (DNA), in partnership with the Community Foundation of Greenville, the United Way of Greenville County and the Hollingsworth Funds, announces the fourth and final part of its…
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Split your ticket
October 24, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson There was a time when ticket splitting was common. Voters would support one party’s candidate for president and the other’s for Congress. At its peak…
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Split your ticket
October 24, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson There was a time when ticket splitting was common. Voters would support one party’s candidate for president and the other’s for Congress. At its peak…
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Trump vs. the media
October 24, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Regardless of who wins the election, the press — or, at any rate, what used to be called the “mainstream” media — may be the…
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Trump vs. the media
October 24, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson Regardless of who wins the election, the press — or, at any rate, what used to be called the “mainstream” media — may be the…
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You can dress him up, but Trump is Trump
October 24, 2016By Kathleen Parker If Beltway insiders and other East Coast elites ever wondered why so many Americans prefer Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, all they need do is watch…
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You can dress him up, but Trump is Trump
October 24, 2016By Kathleen Parker If Beltway insiders and other East Coast elites ever wondered why so many Americans prefer Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, all they need do is watch…
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How Trump could still win
October 24, 2016By Kathleen Parker As the final presidential debate looms like a Halloween pinata full of October surprises, voters may be less committed to one or the other candidate than…
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How Trump could still win
October 24, 2016By Kathleen Parker As the final presidential debate looms like a Halloween pinata full of October surprises, voters may be less committed to one or the other candidate than…
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Financial crisis 2.0?
October 17, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson While everyone fixates on the U.S. election, developments in the world economy threaten to create problems for the next president and, possibly, trigger a major…
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Financial crisis 2.0?
October 17, 2016By Robert J. Samuelson While everyone fixates on the U.S. election, developments in the world economy threaten to create problems for the next president and, possibly, trigger a major…
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The greatest fear of all
October 17, 2016By Kathleen Parker ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — If I were to distill a recent public discussion about the state of our nation to one word, it would be “worried.”…
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The greatest fear of all
October 17, 2016By Kathleen Parker ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — If I were to distill a recent public discussion about the state of our nation to one word, it would be “worried.”…
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Who’s the worst person in the world?
October 12, 2016By Kathleen Parker It should surprise no one that this presidential election — the first ever to involve a female nominee from a major party — has devolved into…
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Who’s the worst person in the world?
October 12, 2016By Kathleen Parker It should surprise no one that this presidential election — the first ever to involve a female nominee from a major party — has devolved into…
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