By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By 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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By Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014   The baffling Bitcoin boom is either an exercise in self-delusion — a high-tech Ponzi scheme thatwill come crashing down — or an imaginative new Internet…

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By 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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By 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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By Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014   We are awash in retrospectives of the War on Poverty, launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon Johnson. A furious debate has developed…

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By Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014   We are awash in retrospectives of the War on Poverty, launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon Johnson. A furious debatehas developed between…

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By Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014   Call it the $2.8 trillion enigma. That’s the amount Americans spenton health care in 2012. The good news is that health spending slowed…

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By Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014   Call it the $2.8 trillion enigma. That’s the amount Americans spenton health care in 2012. The good news is that health spending slowed…

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By Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014   There is more than a little hypocrisy to the outcry that thegovernment, through the National Security Agency (NSA), issystematically destroying Americans’ right to…

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By Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014   There is more than a little hypocrisy to the outcry that thegovernment, through the National Security Agency (NSA), issystematically destroying Americans’ right to…

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By Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013   For four and a half years, we have waited for a powerful andself-sustaining economic recovery. More than once it seemed imminent.Then, for various…

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By Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013   For four and a half years, we have waited for a powerful andself-sustaining economic recovery. More than once it seemed imminent.Then, for various…

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By Robert Samuelson December 22, 2013   The Fed turns 100 Monday. A century ago — on Dec. 23, 1913 — President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation establishing the Federal Reserve.…

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