By Robert J. Samuelson   Whoever wins the White House next year will have to deal with an issue of almost-impenetrable complexity and contentiousness: How to tax multinational companies? On…

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By Kathleen Parker   As the Islamic State amped up attacks around the world, the Pentagon responded by bravely announcing that American women will now be put in direct ground…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   An enduring puzzle of our politics is why there isn’t more generational conflict. By all rights, younger Americans should be resentful. Not only have they…

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By Kathleen Parker   Surely he’s finally gone and done it now. Donald Trump, insulter extraordinaire, was bound to cross a line too far. Two days before Thanksgiving, he made…

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By Kathleen Parker   One week, Beirut and Paris; the next week, Mali. The nightmare is young. Where next? The pace and threat of terror seem to have picked up,…

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By Kathleen Parker   It would be easy to call protesting college students crybabies and brats for pitching hissy fits over hurt feelings, but this likely would lead to such…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   One of the most interesting and uncovered stories these days is the survival of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the giant housing entities created…

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By Kathleen Parker   DES MOINES, Iowa – You can’t drive far in these parts without seeing Ben Carson on a billboard, looking more like a man of the cloth…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   If you care about free speech, you should pay attention to the campaign now being waged against ExxonMobil. More than 50 environmental and civil rights…

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By Kathleen Parker   If the truth sets us free, then Bush family members should be warbling from rooftops. At least one Bush, patriarch George H.W. Bush, has been singing…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   There is no tooth fairy. Republicans and Democrats take note. Taxes will surely continue to play a big role in the presidential campaign. The Republicans…

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By Kathleen Parker   Soon after Wednesday night’s Republican debate, the phone rang: “Did the fat lady sing?” asked the voice on the other end. “Probably,” I said. Meaning, it…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   Give it a B-minus. The budget deal reached by congressional leaders has much to recommend it. Its biggest virtue, assuming it’s passed by Congress and…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   By now, it must be obvious to almost everyone that the federal debt ceiling has outlived whatever usefulness it once had. It does not discipline…

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By Kathleen Parker   Who the blast is Sidney Blumenthal? Doubtless many watching Thursday’s House select committee hearing on Benghazi must have wondered the same. This obviously important person’s name…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   We have all manner of policy proposals from the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, but there’s a sobering disconnect between what they’re advocating and the…

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By Kathleen Parker   With the latest poll numbers tallied and political pundits having spoken, a consensus has emerged: Hillary Clinton won the first Democratic debate and, barring a Benghazi…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   We journalists often have mixed feelings about what we report and write. Naturally, we like to see our reporting vindicated by events or other reporting.…

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By Kathleen Parker   The worst job in the world, it turns out, isn’t the U.S. presidency but speaker of the House of Representatives. “It’s where you go to die,”…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   It’s no secret that although the U.S. economy is near “full employment” (September’s jobless rate: 5.1 percent), its rate of growth of about 2 percent…

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By Kathleen Parker   The lede to this column is a deep, guttural groan that originates in the throat and expands into the lungs before collapsing in the pit of…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   And now comes the life-expectancy gap. It may change the national conversation over Social Security and an aging society — for the worse. We all…

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By Kathleen Parker   In the spirit of charity prompted by Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S., let’s not call them bigots. Let’s just call them the clueless, the incurious,…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   These are worrying days for the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank. Surrounded by critics on the left and right, it can hardly do anything without…

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By Kathleen Parker   Sometimes what seems the least consequential detail tells the most about a person’s character — or at least his or her intentions. Such was the case…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   Amid all the new government programs and tax cuts that have been proposed by the various presidential candidates — or will be as the campaign…

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By Kathleen Parker   Some in the media were quick to dismiss Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s speech attacking Donald Trump as the opportunistic rant of a 1 percenter. That is,…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   The wage-price spiral is dead — or at least dormant. As the Federal Reserve debates when to raise short-term interest rates, this is good news.…

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By Kathleen Parker   Donald Trump has a point when he talks about the need for immigrants to learn English. “That’s how we assimilate,” he says. Which is true, as…

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