Robert Samuelson March 5, 2013
March 10, 2014By Robert Samuelson March 5, 2013 In a curious way, the sweeping “tax reform” plan unveiled recently by Rep. Dave Camp, the Republican chairman of the House Ways…
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Robert Samuelson March 9, 2013
March 10, 2014By Robert Samuelson March 9, 2013 The crisis in Ukraine reminds us that the future is unpredictable, that wars routinely involve miscalculation and that brute force — boots on…
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Robert Samuelson March 9, 2013
March 10, 2014By Robert Samuelson March 9, 2013 The crisis in Ukraine reminds us that the future is unpredictable, thatwars routinely involve miscalculation and that brute force — boots onthe ground,…
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Robert Samuelson March 5, 2013
March 10, 2014By Robert Samuelson March 5, 2013 In a curious way, the sweeping “tax reform” plan unveiled recently by Rep. Dave Camp, the Republican chairman of the House Ways…
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Kathleen Parker March 7, 2014
March 10, 2014By Kathleen ParkerMarch 7, 2014 When the going gets tough, well, why not just make the going easier? This seems to be the conclusion of the College Board, whichadministers…
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Kathleen Parker March 4, 2014
March 5, 2014By Kathleen ParkerMarch 4, 2014 In matters cultural, California has always been the United States’petri dish. Whatever happened in California usually infiltrated the rest of the country. Today there…
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Kathleen Parker March 4, 2014
March 5, 2014By Kathleen ParkerMarch 4, 2014 In matters cultural, California has always been the United States’petri dish. Whatever happened in California usually infiltrated the rest of the country. Today there…
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Obama’s Best Hope for Change
March 3, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 28, 2014 President Obama’s new outreach initiative to help at-risk boys of color — “My Brother’s Keeper” — is cause for cheer. It isn’t that we haven’t…
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Robert Samuelson March 2, 2013
March 3, 2014By Robert Samuelson March 2, 2013 “There is no parallel in history to the [American] ex periment offree government on this scale. The scale accounts for a great deal,including…
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Kathleen Parker February 28, 2014
March 3, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 28, 2014 President Obama’s new outreach initiative to help at-risk boys of color — “My Brother’s Keeper” — is cause for cheer. It isn’t that we haven’t…
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Kathleen Parker February 28, 2014
March 3, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 28, 2014 President Obama’s new outreach initiative to help at-risk boys of color — “My Brother’s Keeper” — is cause for cheer. It isn’t that we haven’t…
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Robert Samuelson March 2, 2013
March 3, 2014By Robert Samuelson March 2, 2013 “There is no parallel in history to the [American] experiment offree government on this scale. The scale accounts for a great deal,including . . .…
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Kathleen Parker February 25, 2014
February 26, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 25, 2014 This town can get pretty wound up when a politician misbehaves. Given some of the reactions to Bobby Jindal’s off-script remarks Monday,you’d think he’d been…
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Kathleen Parker February 25, 2014
February 26, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 25, 2014 This town can get pretty wound up when a politician misbehaves. Given some of the reactions to Bobby Jindal’s off-script remarks Monday, you’d think he’d…
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Robert Samuelson February 23, 2013
February 23, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 23, 2013 The great virtue of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent report on the minimum wage is that it injects a much-needed dose of reality into the…
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Robert Samuelson February 19, 2013
February 23, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 19, 2013 The United Auto Workers’ defeat, by a 712 to 626 vote, in its effort to organize Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn., assemblyplant, has been attributed to…
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Kathleen Parker February 21, 2014
February 23, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 21, 2014 We’ve heard much about the Republican war on women. Exhaustingly. Lately, we’ve also heard about the war on men. The war on men-on-women-on-men . . . or something, as MSNBC’s…
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Kathleen Parker February 21, 2014
February 23, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 21, 2014 We’ve heard much about the Republican war on women. Exhaustingly. Lately, we’ve also heard about the war on men. The war on men-on-women-on-men . . . or something, as MSNBC’s…
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Robert Samuelson February 19, 2013
February 23, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 19, 2013 The United Auto Workers’ defeat, by a 712 to 626 vote, in its effort to organize Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn., assembly plant, has been attributed…
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Robert Samuelson February 23, 2013
February 23, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 23, 2013 The great virtue of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent report on the minimum wage is that it injects a much-needed dose of reality into the…
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Kathleen Parker February 18, 2014
February 19, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 18, 2014 Republicans have excelled at concealing their brilliance in recent years, and Democrats have exulted in their good fortune. Whether discussing women’s reproductive systems or offering…
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Kathleen Parker February 18, 2014
February 19, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 18, 2014 Republicans have excelled at concealing their brilliance in recent years, and Democrats have exulted in their good fortune. Whether discussing women’s reproductive systems or offering…
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Robert Samuelson February 16, 2014
February 17, 2014By Robert SamuelsonFebruary 16, 2014 These are hard times for economists. Their reputations are tarnished; theirfavorite doctrines are damaged. Among their most prominent thinkers,there is no consensus as to…
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Kathleen Parker February 14, 2014
February 17, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 14, 2014 It is easy these days to imagine that one is living in a fairy tale, albeit a dreary one.In fairy tales, as in Washington,…
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Kathleen Parker February 14, 2014
February 17, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 14, 2014 It is easy these days to imagine that one is living in a fairy tale, albeit a dreary one. In fairy tales, as in…
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Robert Samuelson February 16, 2014
February 17, 2014By Robert SamuelsonFebruary 16, 2014 These are hard times for economists. Their reputations are tarnished; their favorite doctrines are damaged. Among their most prominent thinkers, there is no consensus…
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Kathleen Parker February 11, 2014
February 13, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 11, 2014 Groundhog Day isn’t just a movie. Here it is early 2014 — still almost three years away from a new presidency — but it’s high…
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Kathleen Parker February 11, 2014
February 13, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 11, 2014 Groundhog Day isn’t just a movie. Here it is early 2014 — still almost three years away from a new presidency — but it’s high…
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Kathleen Parker February 7, 2014
February 10, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 7, 2014 President Obama gave a lovely speech at the recent National Prayer Breakfast — and one is reluctant to criticize. But pry my jaw from the…
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Robert Samuelson February 9, 2014
February 10, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 9, 2014 Something strange is happening in Washington. We are slowly dismantling thefederal government, even as its spending is growing larger. The paradoxis that governmental…
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Robert Samuelson February 9, 2014
February 10, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 9, 2014 Something strange is happening in Washington. We are slowly dismantling the federal government, even as its spending is growing larger. The paradox is…
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Robert Samuelson February 5, 2014
February 5, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 5, 2014 How well-off are the elderly? The answer is crucial to public debateabout Social Security, Medicare and other programs to help olderAmericans. If most…
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Kathleen Parker February 4, 2014
February 5, 2014By Kathleen ParkerFebruary 4, 2014 We have officially reached the take-a-step-back moment in theunfolding — or unraveling — of the Chris Christie allegedbridge/political retribution/Sandy funds political scandal. It always happens…
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Robert Samuelson February 5, 2014
February 5, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 5, 2014 How well-off are the elderly? The answer is crucial to public debateabout Social Security, Medicare and other programs to help olderAmericans. If most…
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Robert Samuelson January 29, 2014
February 3, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 29, 2014 Americans care about mobility — and are baffled by it. Therags-to-riches story is part of national folklore. And yet, mobility issaid to be…
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Robert Samuelson January 30, 2014
February 3, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 30, 2014 “For several years now, this town has been consumed by a rancorousargument over the proper size of the federal government. It’s animportant debate.”…
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Robert Samuelson February 2, 2014
February 3, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 2, 2014 Unless you are exceptionally coldblooded, it’s hard not to bedisturbed by today’s huge economic inequality. The gap between the richand the poor is…
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Kathleen Parker January 31, 2014
February 3, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 31, 2014 President Obama’s imaginary son is back in town, and this time he can’t play football. Dad says so. And Mom probably would, too. On this…
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Robert Samuelson February 2, 2014
February 3, 2014By Robert Samuelson February 2, 2014 Unless you are exceptionally coldblooded, it’s hard not to bedisturbed by today’s huge economic inequality. The gap between the richand the poor is…
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Robert Samuelson January 30, 2014
February 3, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 29, 2014 “For several years now, this town has been consumed by a rancorousargument over the proper size of the federal government. It’s animportant debate.”…
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Robert Samuelson January 29, 2014
February 3, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 29, 2014 Americans care about mobility — and are baffled by it. Therags-to-riches story is part of national folklore. And yet, mobility issaid to be…
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Kathleen Parker January 31, 2014
February 2, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 31, 2014 President Obama’s imaginary son is back in town, and this time he can’t play football. Dad says so. And Mom probably would, too. On this…
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Kathleen Parker January 28, 2014
January 29, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 28, 2014 President Obama is correct in wanting to makehigher education more affordable and accessible, but Americans wouldalso be correct in wondering just what they’re paying for.…
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Robert Samuelson January 27, 2014
January 27, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 27, 2014 As Ben Bernanke, the outgoing chairman of the Federal Reserve, mustrecognize, he is the victim of the law of diminishing returns. In theinitial…
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Kathleen Parker January 24, 2014
January 27, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 24, 2014 We know what Mike Huckabee meant. Sort of. Kind of. But, really? Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidentialcandidate, talk-show host and erstwhile Baptist…
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Robert Samuelson January 27, 2014
January 27, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 27, 2014 As Ben Bernanke, the outgoing chairman of the Federal Reserve, mustrecognize, he is the victim of the law of diminishing returns. In theinitial…
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Kathleen Parker January 21, 2014
January 22, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 21, 2014 The question du jour is, why did Hoboken, N.J., Mayor Dawn Zimmer wait so long to step forward and level her corruption allegations at New Jersey…
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Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014
January 20, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014 This minimum wage business is tricky. On its face, raising the wage seems an easy way to fight poverty. Just pay low-wage workers…
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Robert Samuelson January 19, 2014
January 20, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 19, 2014 The baffling Bitcoin boom is either an exercise in self-delusion — a high-tech Ponzi scheme that will come crashing down — or an imaginative new…
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Kathleen Parker January 18, 2014
January 20, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 18, 2014 Everybody’s doing it — confessing their youthful, pot-smoking ways — so here goes. I don’t remember. Kidding, kidding. Anyone over 30 recognizes the old adage:…
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