Jenner’s coming-out party
June 7, 2015
By Kathleen Parker It wasn’t quite “Call me Ishmael,” but “Call me Caitlyn” made a whale of a splash. One could hardly find a news channel the past couple…
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Jenner’s coming-out party
June 7, 2015
By Kathleen Parker It wasn’t quite “Call me Ishmael,” but “Call me Caitlyn” made a whale of a splash. One could hardly find a news channel the past couple…
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The tentative economy
June 1, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson The American economy continues to stumble. It’s creating jobs at a goodly clip, but other aspects of growth are less impressive. Business investment has been lackluster.…
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Minimum wage roulette
June 1, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson The minimum wage — long relegated to the sidelines in the war against poverty and inequality — is back in the game. Los Angeles has…
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Reality show jumps 19 sharks
June 1, 2015
By Kathleen Parker Several years ago, I heard Republican strategist Karl Rove give a most eloquent answer to a question about his faith, rendered here from memory: Faith is…
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Being Bill Kristol
June 1, 2015
By Kathleen Parker One can understand why The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol would try to nullify Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy, but smearing all baby boomers in the process seems…
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China’s coming crash?
May 26, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson It’s time to worry about China. On any list of calamities threatening the world economy, a China crash ranks at or near the top. Just…
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The job recovery’s big surprise
May 26, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Guess what? This isn’t a low-wage job recovery. Listen to the media, and you might think that the only kind of jobs being created are…
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Who’s the studliest of them all?
May 26, 2015By Kathleen Parker Because so many Republicans want to be president — or at least pretend they do — debate organizers have decided to eliminate the least popular from…
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Bab(i)es on campus
May 26, 2015By Kathleen Parker Those accustomed to reading or listening only to liberal commentators may not be aware of “trigger warnings” and “safe zones” on college campuses. It seems that…
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What Caused the Great Recession?
May 21, 2015
By Mike DuBose with Blake DuBose It’s a question that Nobel Prize-winning economists, university scholars, think tanks, Congressional committees, and financial experts still debate to this day: “What brought…
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The next Smoot-Hawley?
May 18, 2015
Robert J. Samuelson This is no time to get all worked up over China’s currency manipulation. To use it as an excuse to resist the Obama administration’s pro-trade posture…
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Why we love World War II
May 18, 2015
Robert J. Samuelson To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II — Victory in Europe Day occurred on May 8, Victory over Japan Day happens…
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Jeb Bush’s unfortunate honesty
May 18, 2015By Kathleen Parker You know we’re off to the races when the first slip of the tongue by the presumed Republican presidential front-runner consumes the news for days and…
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Defining deity down
May 18, 2015By Kathleen Parker It is nearly axiomatic that presidential contests tend to shine a harsh light on conservative Christians — inasmuch as they are viewed as the Republican Party’s…
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Poof goes the big tradeoff!
May 10, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson In 1975, the Brookings Institution — perhaps Washington’s best known think tank — published an elegant essay by Arthur Okun, who had been one of…
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The curse of the dollar
May 10, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson It’s been called the “exorbitant privilege”; it might also be termed “the indestructible curse.” Americans are proud of the fact that the dollar — their…
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Speech abuse
May 10, 2015By Kathleen Parker The recent spectacle of Pamela Geller, the erstwhile journalist who organized a provocative Prophet Muhammad cartoon-drawing contest in Texas, gives pause to even the most…
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Matters of perception
May 10, 2015By Kathleen Parker Comments about recent events in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray provide a glimpse at perhaps one of our greatest challenges — perception. In…
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A trade watershed?
May 3, 2015
Robert J. Samuelson The trouble with our trade debates is that people assume that they’re only about economics. Since World War II, U.S. trade policy has also been a…
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China’s science ‘leap forward’
May 3, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson No country can be a global power without an engineering and scientific base. It’s necessary to run modern factories, develop new products, analyze and deal…
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Wife of the party
May 3, 2015By Kathleen Parker The life of the wife of a presidential candidate can sometimes be like the government. Taxing. You wake up and blink through that first cup of…
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Fear of free speech
May 3, 2015By Kathleen Parker True words are often said in jest, it has long been said. But a harsher idiom has been taking shape in recent years: Jest is becoming…
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China’s science ‘leap forward’
May 2, 2015By Robert J. Samuelson No country can be a global power without an engineering and scientific base. It’s necessary to run modern factories, develop new products, analyze and deal…
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Fear of free speech
May 2, 2015By Kathleen Parker True words are often said in jest, it has long been said. But a harsher idiom has been taking shape in recent years: Jest is becoming…
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The GOP’s death trap
April 26, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Maybe congressional Republicans really are nuts, suicidal or both. The latest evidence is House approval of legislation abolishing the estate tax, sometimes called the “death…
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Debating generational justice
April 26, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson If New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has his way, the unfolding presidential campaign will focus on generational fairness. It will seek to curb spending on…
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With a song in prisoners’ hearts
April 26, 2015By Kathleen Parker BISHOPVILLE, S.C. — Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina’s largest maximum-security prison, gets plenty of bad press — from a riot and a lockdown in February to…
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Mr. Hughes goes to Washington
April 26, 2015By Kathleen Parker When postal worker Doug Hughes — otherwise known as the gyrocopter dude — landed his gizmo on the West Lawn of the Capitol, he wasn’t worried…
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The power of Moore’s Law
April 20, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Fifty years ago, in mid-April 1965, the trade magazine Electronics published an article by an obscure scientist making a seemingly preposterous prediction: The number of…
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The tax revolt, RIP?
April 20, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson WASHINGTON — It’s mid-April, and Karlyn Bowman — the astute public opinion analyst at the American Enterprise Institute — has noticed something significant. Tax Day…
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2016: The woman trap
April 20, 2015By Kathleen Parker Here we go. If you’re a woman who might prefer someone other than Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States, you’re a self-loathing,…
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Ring in the olde?
April 20, 2015By Kathleen Parker Americans, perhaps more than anyone, worship the future and resent the past. This is never truer than during a political season. It doesn’t matter whether the…
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Middle-aged capitalism
April 12, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson On any given day, you can expect news of major corporate mergers. Last week, we had decisions from FedEx to buy the Dutch delivery company…
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The investment bust (explained)
April 12, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson One of the great disappointments of the weak economic recovery has been the sluggish revival of business investment — spending on new buildings, factories, equipment…
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Rolling Stone gathers dirt — on itself
April 12, 2015By Kathleen Parker “As we asked ourselves how we could have gotten the story wrong …” Thus read a Rolling Stone editor’s note attached to a post-mortem story on…
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Revenge of the help
April 12, 2015By Kathleen Parker The new tell-all, “The Residence,” featuring intimate anecdotes collected from past and current White House staff members, is absolutely delicious — and utterly lacking in nutritious…
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The quest for ‘full employment’
April 5, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Concerning economic policy, it’s back to the future. As the unemployment rate (5.5 percent in March) has dropped, there’s been a shift in language. We’re…
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Here’s something that worked
April 5, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson Every so often, we ought to celebrate our victories. The auto bailout is a case in point. Six years ago, it was wildly controversial, with…
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Born-again parenting
April 5, 2015By Kathleen Parker For a variety of reasons, I gave up alcohol Jan. 4. I have your attention, don’t I? This is because people who enjoy drinking are always…
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Freedom is a two-way street
April 5, 2015By Kathleen Parker Excited protests against Indiana’s recently passed religious freedom law have highlighted both America’s growing support for same-sex marriage and our apparent incapacity to entertain more than…
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Partners in posturing
March 30, 2015
By Robert Samuelson When it comes to the federal budget, what consistently unites Democrats and Republicans is their common capacity to lie to themselves, lie to the public…
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Remember the 1937-38 recession!
March 30, 2015By Robert Samuelson How fast should the Federal Reserve tighten monetary policy? Should it tighten at all? I recently wrote about these issues but didn’t have the space to…
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A leap of faith — into thin air
March 30, 2015By Kathleen Parker The apparently intentional downing of a Germanwings airliner by the co-pilot has us riveted, as commercial plane crashes usually do. In each terrible instance, we put…
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Wacko birds nesting in U.S. Senate
March 30, 2015By Kathleen Parker President Obama got it two-thirds right when he said that the delayed confirmation of his attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch, is owing to Senate dysfunction and…
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Hillary & the Media: Act 2016
March 23, 2015By Kathleen Parker Amid all the verbiage about Hillary Clinton’s email, one irrefutable fact emerges: Polls will drive us crazy before the Clintons do. The latest CNN/ORC poll shows…
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The Fed’s reckoning
March 22, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson The Federal Reserve is at a crossroads, and it doesn’t know where it’s going. After holding short-term interest rates near zero for six years, Fed…
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Shareholder capitalism on trial
March 22, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson The latest rap against big corporations is that they’re returning too much money to shareholders through dividends and stock repurchases. What they should be doing,…
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Let’s not talk
March 22, 2015By Kathleen Parker I’m standing in the Starbucks line behind 10 other sleepyheads waiting to order my tall skinny cappuccino, otherwise known as a shot of coffee described as…
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Hillary & the Media: Act 2016
March 22, 2015By Kathleen Parker Amid all the verbiage about Hillary Clinton’s email, one irrefutable fact emerges: Polls will drive us crazy before the Clintons do. The latest CNN/ORC poll shows…
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