This July 4, governing in the spirit of revenge
July 6, 2014
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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This July 4, governing in the spirit of revenge
July 4, 2014
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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America: An empire of contention
July 3, 2014By 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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America: An empire of contention
July 3, 2014
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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A bad patch, yes, but don’t write off Clinton
July 2, 2014
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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A bad patch, yes, but don’t write off Clinton
July 2, 2014
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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The misleading debate on the Export-Import Bank
July 1, 2014By 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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The misleading debate on the Export-Import Bank
July 1, 2014
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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How the use of drones may haunt the U.S.
June 30, 2014
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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How the use of drones may haunt the U.S.
June 30, 2014
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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The business cycle, RIP?
June 30, 2014By 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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The business cycle, RIP?
June 30, 2014
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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Harvard’s silly and dreary Innovation Debate
June 25, 2014By 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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Harvard’s silly and dreary Innovation Debate
June 25, 2014
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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The ‘ungrateful volcano’ of Iraq
June 25, 2014
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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The ‘ungrateful volcano’ of Iraq
June 25, 2014
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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The joy of the World Cup
June 23, 2014
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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The joy of the World Cup
June 23, 2014
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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The CEO aristocracy
June 23, 2014By 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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The CEO aristocracy
June 23, 2014
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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Why the economy is (still) an enigma
June 18, 2014By 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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Why the economy is (still) an enigma
June 18, 2014
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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The jobs mystery
June 15, 2014By 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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The jobs mystery
June 15, 2014
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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Don’t read any tea leaves about Cantor’s loss
June 15, 2014By 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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Don’t read any tea leaves about Cantor’s loss
June 15, 2014By 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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The rhetoric of Obama’s climate plan vs. reality
June 11, 2014By 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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The rhetoric of Obama’s climate plan vs. reality
June 11, 2014
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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Armed and dead
June 11, 2014By 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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Armed and dead
June 11, 2014By 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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Is the economy experiencing another Great Moderation?
June 7, 2014By 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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Is the economy experiencing another Great Moderation?
June 7, 2014
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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A farewell to friends
June 7, 2014By 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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A farewell to friends
June 7, 2014By 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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With Bergdahl release, the answer had to be yes
June 3, 2014By 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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With Bergdahl release, the answer had to be yes
June 3, 2014By 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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Not your grandpa’s inequality
June 1, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson It’s not the 1920s. One common line in the debate over economic inequality is that the income gaps between the rich and everyone else have…
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Not your grandpa’s inequality
June 1, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson It’s not the 1920s. One common line in the debate over economic inequality is that the income gaps between the rich and everyone else have…
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Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move!’ goes too far
June 1, 2014By Kathleen Parker To hear tell, the mean ol’ GOP is waging war on Michelle Obama and, brace yourself, America’s children. Got it? The newest war on women and…
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Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move!’ goes too far
June 1, 2014By Kathleen Parker To hear tell, the mean ol’ GOP is waging war on Michelle Obama and, brace yourself, America’s children. Got it? The newest war on women and…
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Specter of deflation in Europe spooks economists
May 28, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson Mario Draghi can’t get no respect. The head of the European Central Bank is routinely criticized for being too timid in stimulating Europe’s weak economy.…
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Specter of deflation in Europe spooks economists
May 28, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson Mario Draghi can’t get no respect. The head of the European Central Bank is routinely criticized for being too timid in stimulating Europe’s weak economy.…
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Specter of deflation in Europe spooks economists
May 28, 2014Governed from the grave
May 21, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson WASHINGTON – Eugene Steuerle has given us a common-sense way to understand Washington’s budget stalemate. For half a century or more, politicians of both parties engaged…
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Governed from the grave
May 21, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson WASHINGTON – Eugene Steuerle has given us a common-sense way to understand Washington’s budget stalemate. For half a century or more, politicians of both parties engaged…
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Fair warning, provoking a thought is literature’s job
May 21, 2014By Kathleen Parker Just when you thought American higher learning couldn’t get any more ridiculous, along come demands for warning labels on provocative works of literature. One never knows when a…
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Fair warning, provoking a thought is literature’s job
May 21, 2014By Kathleen Parker Just when you thought American higher learning couldn’t get any more ridiculous, along come demands for warning labels on provocative works of literature. One never knows when a…
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Commissioner Clyburn Must Promote Broadband Adoption To Help South Carolina
May 20, 2014By J.T. McLawhorn The Federal Communications Commission missed the mark by proposing new regulations for broadband, which, if approved, could hinder innovation and investment in new technology that has…
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The world according to Geithner
May 19, 2014
By Robert J. Samuelson We now have Timothy Geithner’s 528-page memoir of the financial crisis and its aftermath. Called “Stress Test,” it’s full of fascinating details of a frightening time.…
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The world according to Geithner
May 19, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson We now have Timothy Geithner’s 528-page memoir of the financial crisis and its aftermath. Called “Stress Test,” it’s full of fascinating details of a frightening time.…
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