By Robert J. Samuelson   The Congressional Budget Office last week issued one of its periodic long-term budget outlooks. Its themes are distressingly familiar. There is no balanced budget in sight. Under…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   There may be a dark lining to the sunny June employment report, which recorded an increase of 288,000 payroll jobs for the month. Most — or all…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   There may be a dark lining to the sunny June employment report, which recorded an increase of 288,000 payroll jobs for the month. Most — or all…

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By Eugene Robinson   Apparently there’s a contest among Republicans to see who can be more shameless and irresponsible in criticizing President Obama’s foreign policy. So far, Chris Christie is…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   The White House recently put out a 40-page report arguing that the 24 states that have not expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”)…

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By Eugene Robinson   There’s no objective need for President Obama to visit the Texas-Mexico border and see the immigration crisis firsthand, but he shouldn’t have claimed that “I’m not interested in…

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By Eugene Robinson   There’s no objective need for President Obama to visit the Texas-Mexico border and see the immigration crisis firsthand, but he shouldn’t have claimed that “I’m not interested in…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   It’s time for a primer on the Highway Trust Fund, which looms as the next battle in Congress’ unending budget wars. Created in 1956 to…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   It’s time for a primer on the Highway Trust Fund, which looms as the next battle in Congress’ unending budget wars. Created in 1956 to…

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By Eugene Robinson   Even those who believe the National Security Agency’s vacuum-cleaner surveillance of electronic communications does not trample privacy rights should be troubled by this practical implication: If you…

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By Eugene Robinson   Even those who believe the National Security Agency’s vacuum-cleaner surveillance of electronic communications does not trample privacy rights should be troubled by this practical implication: If you…

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By Eugene Robinson   As we celebrate the Fourth of July, who can argue that our democracy is working the way the Founders intended? And who can deny that most…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   I am reading historian Gordon Wood’s splendid “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.” It is an ideal companion for this July 4…

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By Eugene Robinson   In politics, as in many endeavors, it helps to be underestimated. In this sense, Hillary Clinton is doing great. Clinton’s book tour, which bears some resemblance…

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By Eugene Robinson   In politics, as in many endeavors, it helps to be underestimated. In this sense, Hillary Clinton is doing great. Clinton’s book tour, which bears some resemblance…

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By Robert J. Samuelson I was against the Export-Import Bank before I was for it, and I may someday be against it again. But right now I’m for it, because…

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By Eugene Robinson   In our growing reliance on armed drones as instruments of war, how slippery is the slope we’re sliding on? Imagine that Vladimir Putin began using drones…

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By Eugene Robinson   In our growing reliance on armed drones as instruments of war, how slippery is the slope we’re sliding on? Imagine that Vladimir Putin began using drones…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   As a tool for analyzing and influencing the economy, is the business cycle outdated? Yes, says the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. Unless you’re…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   As a tool for analyzing and influencing the economy, is the business cycle outdated? Yes, says the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. Unless you’re…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   By their nature, many innovations are disruptive. The Internet is, of course, Exhibit One. It has remade the music industry, threatens “brick and mortar” stores,…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   By their nature, many innovations are disruptive. The Internet is, of course, Exhibit One. It has remade the music industry, threatens “brick and mortar” stores,…

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By Eugene Robinson   Iraq is shattered and 300 U.S. military advisers can’t put the pieces back together. So now what? An old saying about the Middle East comes to…

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By Eugene Robinson   Iraq is shattered and 300 U.S. military advisers can’t put the pieces back together. So now what? An old saying about the Middle East comes to…

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By Eugene Robinson   Henry Kissinger was wrong to dismiss Chile as “a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica.” On Wednesday, the South American nation was a scalpel that…

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By Eugene Robinson   Henry Kissinger was wrong to dismiss Chile as “a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica.” On Wednesday, the South American nation was a scalpel that…

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By Robert J. Samuelson We’ve created a new economic aristocracy in the United States: CEOs. That’s a fair reading of recent corporate pay surveys. A study by compensation consultant Equilar for the…

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By Robert J. Samuelson We’ve created a new economic aristocracy in America: CEOs. That’s a fair reading of recent corporate pay surveys. A study by compensation consultant Equilar for The…

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By Robert J. Samuelson Something interesting, unpredicted and possibly worrisome is occurring on financial markets. Stocks and bonds are sending mixed — and conceivably contradictory — signals on the economic…

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By Robert J. Samuelson Something interesting, unpredicted and possibly worrisome is occurring on financial markets. Stocks and bonds are sending mixed — and conceivably contradictory — signals on the economic…

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By Robert J. Samuelson With the government’s latest monthly employment report, the American job market has entered a bewildering good news/bad news phase. The good news is that May’s increase of…

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By Robert J. Samuelson With the government’s latest monthly employment report, the American job market has entered a bewildering good news/bad news phase. The good news is that May’s increase of…

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By Kathleen Parker   About that stunning defeat. Conventional Wisdom, that self-righteous propagandist, has it that Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s trouncing by an academic, tea-sipping nobody marks the…

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By Kathleen Parker   About that stunning defeat. Conventional Wisdom, that self-righteous propagandist, has it that Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s trouncing by an academic, tea-sipping nobody marks the…

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By Robert J. Samuelson President Obama and his harshest critics — business groups and Republicans — have a shared interest in exaggerating the impact of the president’s proposal on climate…

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By Robert J. Samuelson President Obama and his harshest critics — business groups and Republicans — have a shared interest in exaggerating the impact of the president’s proposal on climate…

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By Kathleen Parker   So much for the argument that having more people armed in public places will result in fewer gun deaths. One of the three people killed recently…

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By Kathleen Parker   So much for the argument that having more people armed in public places will result in fewer gun deaths. One of the three people killed recently…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   Is the Great Moderation back? Maybe. The Great Moderation — a term popularized by economists — refers to the period from the mid-1980s (1983 or 1984 are…

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By Robert J. Samuelson   Is the Great Moderation back? Maybe. The Great Moderation — a term popularized by economists — refers to the period from the mid-1980s (1983 or 1984 are…

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By Kathleen Parker   You know how it goes. You lose track of friends and then one day, someone gets in touch to say the friend has left us to…

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By Kathleen Parker   You know how it goes. You lose track of friends and then one day, someone gets in touch to say the friend has left us to…

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By Kathleen Parker     The exchange of five Guantanamo detainees for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has reminded us of three unpleasant facts of life: The United States does negotiate with…

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