By Robert Samuelson   The trustees for Social Security and Medicare issued their annual reports last week. This is cause for discouragement because it reminds us how much we’ve mortgaged the…

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By Robert Samuelson   Every year, the Federal Reserve conducts a massive survey of American households to paint a portrait of their economic habits and spirits. The recently published findings…

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By Robert Samuelson   If you’re nostalgic for the 2008-09 financial crisis, you can cheer up. Another debacle may be on its way. Its epicenter would be Italy, which may…

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By Robert Samuelson   President Trump’s education in global trade continues. Not long ago, he declared that trade wars “are good and easy to win.” He knows better now. The…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   After months of pretending to be normal and reasonable on the diplomatic stage, North Korea’s mask has slipped, and Pyongyang is back to threatening a…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   President Trump’s critics were apoplectic last week when the president referred to MS-13 gang members as “animals.” Of course, no one should be dehumanized. Yet…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   President Trump’s critics were apoplectic last week when the president referred to MS-13 gang members as “animals.” Of course, no one should be dehumanized. Yet…

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By Robert Samuelson   We flatter ourselves into thinking that we live in a time of exceptional economic upheaval. The truth is that the present resembles the past. What we…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   North Korea’s recent temper tantrum over U.S.-South Korean military exercises and its threat to pull out of its upcoming summit with President Trump are signs…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   If you want to understand why Donald Trump is president today (and why he could very well win a second term), look to the Democrats’…

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By Robert Samuelson   The world is not ready for another financial crisis, but another financial crisis may be ready for the world. OK, the odds of this are long.…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   It was one of the Clinton administration’s biggest counterterrorism successes. Just weeks after al-Qaida terrorists trained by Iran blew up U.S. embassies in Kenya and…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   The prospect of winning the Nobel Peace Prize is understandably tantalizing for President Trump. After all the contempt he has faced from the political establishment,…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   The prospect of winning the Nobel Peace Prize is understandably tantalizing for President Trump. After all the contempt he has faced from the political establishment,…

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By Robert Samuelson   We now have a new paper from economist Robert J. Gordon of Northwestern University that seeks to answer a great puzzle of our time: “Why has…

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By Robert Samuelson   We now have a new paper from economist Robert J. Gordon of Northwestern University that seeks to answer a great puzzle of our time: “Why has…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   Imagine your own beloved child was lying in a hospital with a mysterious brain disease. Should you, as the parent, be allowed to decide whether…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   Imagine your own beloved child was lying in a hospital with a mysterious brain disease. Should you, as the parent, be allowed to decide whether…

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By Robert Samuelson   No doubt about it: Health care is a vexing political problem. There’s a contradiction at the core of our thinking. We want the best care when…

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By Robert Samuelson   No doubt about it: Health care is a vexing political problem. There’s a contradiction at the core of our thinking. We want the best care when…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   Emmanuel Macron and President Trump don’t agree on much. Macron is a globalist; Trump is a nationalist. Macron is a free-trader; Trump just imposed protectionist…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   Emmanuel Macron and President Trump don’t agree on much. Macron is a globalist; Trump is a nationalist. Macron is a free-trader; Trump just imposed protectionist…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   As senators consider the nomination of the next secretary of veterans affairs, they should first reflect on the story of an Army veteran named Jason…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   As senators consider the nomination of the next secretary of veterans affairs, they should first reflect on the story of an Army veteran named Jason…

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By Robert Samuelson   The global economy is on the mend — but will the recovery be quashed by too much worldwide debt? Just last week, the International Monetary Fund…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   For the first time in the history of the republic, it appears increasingly likely that a majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote…

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By Robert Samuelson   History is what we make of it — and sometimes we make a real hash. I take as my text for the sermon that follows an…

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By Robert Samuelson   History is what we make of it — and sometimes we make a real hash. I take as my text for the sermon that follows an…

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By Robert Samuelson   The Congressional Budget Office last week released its annual budget and economic outlook report, and although the news was gruesome, the report was greeted in Washington…

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By Kathleen Parker   As sabers rattle ever louder across fields, plains, oceans and deserts, President Trump’s words from earlier this year haunt the stable mind: “I would love to…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   President Trump’s decision last year to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base was intended to send the Assad regime a message…

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By Kathleen Parker   We’ve seen this movie before. It would seem but a matter of time before the president of the United States is asked a question under oath…

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By Kathleen Parker   We’ve seen this movie before. It would seem but a matter of time before the president of the United States is asked a question under oath…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   Washington seems to be in the grip of hyperpartisan gridlock these days. Important bills are passed on party-line votes (when they are passed at all)…

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By Marc A. Thiessen   Washington seems to be in the grip of hyperpartisan gridlock these days. Important bills are passed on party-line votes (when they are passed at all)…

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By Kathleen Parker   There are few sympathetic characters in the landmark lawsuit between Marquette University and a suspended professor that’s heading later this month to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.…

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By Robert Samuelson   To those paying attention, the recent strikes for higher teachers’ pay in West Virginia and Oklahoma are a harbinger of things to come. You can attribute…

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