Month: January 2020

Senator Josh Hawley in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., July 11, 2019 (Carlos Barria/Reuters) An agenda for economic opportunity should counter civic disintegration and protect individual liberties and the republican order. A  recent exchange between a Washington Post columnist and a freshman U.S. senator reveals some of the underlying issues in
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China yuan note (Thomas White/Illustration/Reuters) The Trump administration is dropping its designation of China as a currency manipulator ahead of the expected signing of a trade agreement between the world’s two largest economies later this week. The move was announced Monday, five months after the designation was applied. The Phase 1 trade deal that President
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Ten minutes before I read this post: “Nothing could make me watch the debate tomorrow night.” Ten minutes later: “I should knock off work early tomorrow to make sure I can watch the debate.” It is … convenient that a news story that’s potentially helpful to Elizabeth Warren in drawing progressive voters away from Bernie
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Babies are pictured in a maternity ward at the Munich hospital ‘Rechts der Isar’ January 18, 2011. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters) Upon reading Alexandra’s recent article detailing Republican efforts to craft a federal paid-parental-leave policy, I was reminded of a few people in the Harvard orbit with relevant stories on that score. One is Alison Beard, a
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Reaction from journalist Nolan Peterson, former U.S. Air Force combat pilot. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge. A top
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Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in Iowa City, Iowa, January 12, 2020. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) If he won Iowa, the party might unite behind an Anybody But Bernie candidate. In 2016, insurgent candidates roiled the nomination process of both major parties. Donald Trump, running as a populist, won 44 percent of the primary vote against
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Good tweets, good message. And to his credit, not the first time he’s taken care to distinguish the Iranian government from the people of Iran. That’s what made his grumbling last week about bombing Iranian cultural sites so foolish. It’s the sort of blow that would be felt by the entire population, not just the
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, December 19, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Impeachment may be another moral victory for the Democrats, but it’s a political fight they will lose at great cost to their party and the country. Impeachment is not a judicial process, as my colleague Andrew C. McCarthy
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You’ve got Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s “known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.” You’ve got your “expletives deleted.” You’ve got your malarkey. And then you’ve got your “what ifs?” What if two of the top three Democrat presidential candidates, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, are taken off the campaign trail by a
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S., September 26, 2019. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid) Iranian officials on Friday denied reports from American and European intelligence agencies that the country shot down a civilian passenger plane shortly after attacking U.S. positions in Iraq.
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(Jonathan Drake/Reuters) One of two University of Connecticut students facing up to 30 days in jail for violating a Connecticut law prohibiting “ridicule” will complete probation, community service, and diversity and bias training as part of an “accelerated rehabilitation” deal. Jarred Karal was arrested with Ryan Mucaj after the two were playing “a game in
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Democratic Congressman Max Rose announces plans to vote ‘no’ on resolution limiting the President’s war powers. #YourWorld #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting
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It’s tough being an attention-seeking freshman lawmaker, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez is finding out. This week two negative stories about her made headlines. AOC is feeling the wrath of some of her fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives because she isn’t paying dues to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She is doing her
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Benedict Cumberbatch in HBO’s Brexit (Nick Wall/HBO) A British film about the referendum portrays brilliantly the political currents that shocked the U.K.’s ruling class. Brexit — or, in the U.K., Brexit: The Uncivil War — is now showing on HBO. I started watching it at 12:30 a.m. two nights ago and, inevitably, I continued doing
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Former Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy explains on ‘Hannity.’ #Hannity #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge. A top
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