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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By Marc A. Thiessen   During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump excoriated President Barack Obama for “the way he got out of Iraq,” which Trump said “was the founding of”…

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By Robert Samuelson   What is the skittish stock market telling us? Its recent declines have been blamed on many causes: fears of a “trade war” between the United States…

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By Marc Thiessen   President Trump’s tweet promising “NO MORE DACA DEAL” was an Easter gift to Democrats, letting them off the hook for their failure to seriously negotiate an…

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By Marc Thiessen   President Trump’s tweet promising “NO MORE DACA DEAL” was an Easter gift to Democrats, letting them off the hook for their failure to seriously negotiate an…

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By Kathleen Parker   When fake news blasts traditional media for being “fake news,” how does one respond? Do you shout, I’m not fake, you are? Do you ignore the…

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By Kathleen Parker   When fake news blasts traditional media for being “fake news,” how does one respond? Do you shout, I’m not fake, you are? Do you ignore the…

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By Marc Thiessen   President Trump’s tweet promising “NO MORE DACA DEAL” was an Easter gift to Democrats, letting them off the hook for their failure to seriously negotiate an…

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By Kathleen Parker   When the country’s second-largest lumber producer tries to take the U.S. Justice Department to the Supreme Court over a forest fire that started under the distracted…

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By Kathleen Parker   When the country’s second-largest lumber producer tries to take the U.S. Justice Department to the Supreme Court over a forest fire that started under the distracted…

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By Marc Thiessen   The Trump administration is being sued over its plans to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census, which California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D)…

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By Marc Thiessen   The Trump administration is being sued over its plans to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census, which California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D)…

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By Kathleen Parker   “Shaming,” the modern if tedious trend of shaming the shamer for criticizing anyone, has rendered us incapable of making rational judgments or speaking freely. If this…

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By Kathleen Parker   “Shaming,” the modern if tedious trend of shaming the shamer for criticizing anyone, has rendered us incapable of making rational judgments or speaking freely. If this…

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By Robert Samuelson   “This alert [from the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation] provides information on Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well…

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By Robert Samuelson   “This alert [from the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation] provides information on Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well…

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By Kathleen Parker    Joe Biden gave Donald Trump a gift last week when he engaged the president of the United States in a verbal slugfest, saying that if the…

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By Kathleen Parker    Joe Biden gave Donald Trump a gift last week when he engaged the president of the United States in a verbal slugfest, saying that if the…

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By Kathleen Parker   How many times have we heard that this is the year of the woman? Let’s just say, several. Each decade for the past century or so seems…

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By Kathleen Parker   How many times have we heard that this is the year of the woman? Let’s just say, several. Each decade for the past century or so seems…

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By Robert Samuelson   Anyone who has raised children knows that it’s a messy, trial-and-error process, with an emphasis on “error.” It’s hard enough to do well with two parents,…

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By Robert Samuelson   Anyone who has raised children knows that it’s a messy, trial-and-error process, with an emphasis on “error.” It’s hard enough to do well with two parents,…

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By Kathleen Parker   She can’t let go. She can’t stop talking about what happened. She wrote an entire book about it. Now she’s telling people in other countries about…

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