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Inside the Delightful Suicide of Gawker
In the history of giving a hostage to fortune, John Cook, a former editor of the former online poison party known as Gawker, merits a special place. He has this to say about his professional aims: “I wanted to write ...
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Is Immigration to the U.S. an Entitlement?
The real debate about immigration isn’t about the terms of Trump’s travel order. It’s an effort to treat entry to the U.S. as a right.
For the past six months, the debate about immigration has centered ...
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A Better Way Forward on Family Policy
The hug-that-wasn’t might have cemented meaningful assistance for low- and middle-income families.
Following Ivanka Trump’s meeting with Senator Marco Rubio and others about including an expansion of the Child Tax Credit in the upcoming tax reform, the White ...
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The confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which currently takes the form of an embargo and the severing of diplomatic relations with Qatar by governments from Egypt to the United Arab Emirates, might be the result of a strictly local ...
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A Minimum-Wage Study Faces Misplaced Skepticism
Policymakers looking for ways to help low-income households have turned to minimum-wage increases in recent years. But a provocative new paper by the Seattle Minimum Wage Study Team at the University of Washington suggests that this may be a deeply ...
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Iran’s Challenge to America in Syria
In Syria, the U.S. is directing the lion’s share of its energy toward defeating the Islamic State (ISIS) rather than containing Iran. Reflecting that reality, the caliphate’s days on the physical battlefield are numbered, with U.S....
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The Progressive Boomerang
The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing.
The alternate strategy of derailing the new administration before it really gets ...
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Milwaukee Requiring Permits for Pokemon Go Developers to ‘Put’ Pokemon in Public Parks
In response to last summer’s Pokemon Go craze, the city of Milwaukee started requiring game developers to obtain a permit before making any of its parks a site for people to play their games — and now, one game developer ...
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Pruitt Corrects Course on Obama-Era Water Regulation
Scott Pruitt is not so much shaking things up at the EPA as restoring order, as with his decision to rescind the “Waters of the United States” rule — WOTUS, inevitably — which purported to expand the application of the Clean Water ...
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The Centrist History of Medicaid Spending Caps
Under the proposed Senate health-care bill, spending on Medicaid will increase from $415 billion today to $624 billion in 2026, according to the CBO report. This may be surprising, since the law is generally billed as cutting Medicaid. And, in fact, the law ...
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Bigotry against Religion Won’t Stop School Choice Forever
In light of its recent decision in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, the United States Supreme Court has vacated an anti-school-voucher judgment of the Colorado supreme court in 2015. Doyle v. Taxpayers for Public Education will be sent back to the Colorado ...
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Republicans’ Grim Health-Care Fairy Tale
Once upon a time in the far-off land of Washington, Republicans swore a mighty oath that, if they ever had the power, they would repeal Obamacare. Sometimes they added the word “replace,” but mostly, every Republican running for anything from ...
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SCOTUS Delivers Win for Religious Liberty but Punts on School Choice
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, delivering a potent victory for religious liberty—but one with murkier implications for school choice than many had anticipated. In a 7–2 ...
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Health-Care Histrionics on the Left
If we are to believe the latest news reports, congressional Republicans are out to murder Americans, ripping life-saving medication from their hands and forcibly dragging them from health-care clinics by the thousand. Setting aside the fairly obvious fact that the ...
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A Clean Energy’s Dirty Little Secret
Clean energy may not be so clean after all.
A new study by Environmental Progress (EP) warns that toxic waste from used solar panels now poses a global environmental threat. The Berkeley-based group found that solar panels create 300 times more ...
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The Brutal Battle Against Medical Kidnappers
Boston – On the day Boston Children’s Hospital celebrated being named “the number one pediatric hospital in the nation” by US News & World Report, I was interviewing Dana Gottesfeld in nearby Somerville, Mass. Dana is the young wife of Martin “...
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The Left Espouses Dangerously Stupid Health-Care Rhetoric
Even by Washington standards, this is a particularly dumb political moment.
Earlier this month a political zealot went to a baseball practice intending to kill as many Republican congressmen as he could. As often happens after such horrible events, various ...
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California’s ‘Soft Secession’ Grows More Aggressive
Several weeks ago I wrote a long essay on American polarization, noting that Americans aren’t just divided on politics. There are deep cultural differences that are driving us apart, running from our church-attendance habits, to the neighborhoods we move ...
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Ted Cruz in a Surprising New Role: Mediator, on Health-Care Reform
As Senate GOP leaders push for a procedural vote this week on a draft bill to reform the Affordable Care Act, one Republican has expended particular energy pushing for conservative modifications that he believes would make the bill a true ...
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In early May, the governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, signed into law a bill passed unanimously by her state’s legislature. It allows adoption agencies to choose to follow faith-based policies — including declining to place children with same-sex couples — if ...
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Gay Pride Drifts — But to Where?
Giving way to the recognizable but always confusing coalition of left-wing activists, corporate sponsors, and opportunistic politicians, this year’s Pride parade in New York City was marked primarily by denunciations of President Trump. For large stretches of it, gay ...
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In Louisiana and Indiana, School Choice Gets Back on Track
Monday was a good day for advocates of school choice.
When the New York Times editorial board wrote in early March that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s favored “market-driven education policies . . . have proved to be failures,” it cited three studies. ...
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The Emoluments of Sore Losers
In our putrid, take-no-prisoners politics, the Constitution’s prohibition on accepting foreign “emoluments” is the weapon du jour in the war on Trump. The president faces multiple lawsuits brought by prominent liberal law professors, the attorneys general for Maryland and ...
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Quick Decision on Health-Care Law
Even if President Trump manages to get his health reform through Congress, there is no guarantee it will survive the courts. Though the bill is still far from passage, the groundwork is already being laid to challenge its constitutionality. New ...
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Trump Won the White House by Recapturing Reagan’s Magic
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Henry Olsen’s The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism. It is reprinted here with permission.
Ronald Reagan often said that he did not leave the ...
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On Immigration, GOP State Attorneys General Echo Trump
Donald Trump has advocated a hardline immigration agenda during his first six months in office. But, after signing executive orders to defund sanctuary cities and to place a temporary travel ban on refugees entering the U.S., the president has ...
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Unpacking the CBO Score for the Senate Health Bill
The Congressional Budget Office has released its cost estimate of the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017. The CBO found that the BCRA would slash the net federal deficit by $321 billion, relative to the existing version of the Affordable ...
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The Supreme Court Order Is Not Much of a Victory for Trump
The positive part of this morning’s Supreme Court order, which narrows the stays lower courts have imposed to block President Trump’s so-called travel ban, is the part you don’t see. Implicit in the Court’s unsigned ruling ...
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The GOP Is Right: Medicaid Needs Fundamental Reform
Democrats are pouncing on the Medicaid provisions of the Senate health-care bill, saying Republican “cuts” to the program would decimate the nation’s health-insurance safety net. These attacks are overblown. The Medicaid provisions of the bill are not perfect, but ...
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Time for a U.S.–India Rebalance
The meeting this week between President Trump and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi could be one of the most important of the Trump presidency. Certainly the time is ripe for a major transformation of U.S.–Indian relations, and both ...
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Meet Jeremy Corbyn’s Bad Lieutenant
John McDonnell, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s principal lieutenant and — Jezza is not the brightest red in the asylum — much of his brainpower too, isn’t that enthused by this democracy thing. McDonnell, who is also Labour’s “shadow” chancellor ...
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No, Obamacare Repeal Will Not Kill Tens of Thousands
Repealing Obamacare will kill 24,000 people a year! No, 36,000! No, 43,000! The tax cuts are blood money!
There is more than a little hyperbole about the overhaul of Obamacare proposed by the House and the Senate, and the rhetoric about tens of ...
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With North Korea Threatening, the U.S. Advances on Missile Defense
North Korea’s murder of Otto Warmbier is yet another reminder that the United States needs a new approach to deal with the Pyongyang problem. Unfortunately, sanctions, threats, and diplomacy have failed to steer North Korea away from making America ...
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Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Sinking Democratic Brand
A lack of self-confidence is not one of House minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s problems. But Pelosi’s unabashed use of open threats and her death grip on power are a very big problem for her party.
Pelosi’s performance ...
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If Republicans Do Nothing against Obamacare, Their Voters Will Punish Them
This week’s expected Senate vote on the Republican plan to alter Obamacare has ignited a debate about who will gain or lose from it. Democrats point to the fact that the GOP bill is so far more unpopular than ...
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Baseball’s Pace of Play Needs Some Juice
Omaha, Neb. — From Little League on up, players emulate major leaguers, so Major League Baseball’s pace-of-play problem is trickling down. Four innings into a recent College World Series game here, just seven hits and three runs had consumed 96 minutes. ...
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Iraqi Christians Detained by ICE Shouldn’t Be Deported
Legend has it that Abgar V, “the Black,” ruler of the small Mesopotamian kingdom of Osroene, was incurably ill when a wanderer anointed by the miracle-worker, Jesus, appeared. The stranger’s name was Addai, or Thaddeus, numbered among the Seventy ...
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The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed
The idea that the U.S. economy can be run solely with renewable energy — a claim that leftist politicians, environmentalists, and climate activists have endlessly promoted — has always been a fool’s errand. And on Monday, the National Academy of ...
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They’re Wrong About Everything
Events are turning me into a radical skeptic. I no longer believe what I read, unless what I am reading is an empirically verifiable account of the past. I no longer have confidence in polls, because it has become impossible ...
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Europe’s Free-Speech Crackdown: Punish Anti-Muslims, Ignore Terrorists
A spate of terrorist attacks has hit Europe in the past month, not only in Manchester and London but also in Paris and Brussels, where incidents this week were mercifully terminated before they could do any real damage. In Britain, ...
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After the Election Fallout, Is Britain Returning to Normalcy?
Both Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke well in yesterday’s parliamentary debate on the Queen’s Speech — an occasion heavy with tradition and ceremony but dedicated in reality to the sober business of setting out ...
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On Russia, Can Congress Save Trump from Himself?
It doesn’t happen very often, but on at least one issue, Donald Trump is acting like a normal president. Unfortunately, in this rare instance, he’s actually doing something not only wrongheaded but self-destructive. Instead of letting Trump have ...
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The Senate’s Flawed Health-Care Bill
The Senate Republican health-care bill would not repeal and replace Obamacare. The federal government would remain the chief regulator of health insurance. No state would be allowed to experiment with different models for protecting people with pre-existing conditions. Federal policy ...
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So, You Want a Swiss Health-Care System?
If you’re wondering what in Hell is actually going on with U.S. health-care policy, the short version is this: Policymakers in both parties are trying to replicate Swiss policies in a country that isn’t Swiss.
The Affordable ...
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The CFPB Supervision Problem
On June 12, 2017, the Treasury Department issued a 149-page report proposing reforms to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, many of which were in the Financial CHOICE Act that House Republicans had passed a week earlier. Most of the proposed revisions to the 2010 ...
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The Media Miss the Mark on Afghanistan
The press is missing something lately. The media myopia for the on-again-off-again Russia matters of late has drawn important attention away from one actual, ongoing threat: a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and the possibility of a renewed terrorist safe haven ...
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Senator Feinstein Thinks It’s Acceptable for Violent Mobs to Control Speech
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) said that it was okay for universities to cancel controversial speakers over threats of violence — and people got mad at her for trying to silence “conservative” ...
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Laurence Tribe’s Impeachment Hysteria
In a way, you can’t blame conservatives for thinking the fix is in on impeachment. A broad swathe of the liberal intelligentsia has been hell-bent on removing Donald Trump from office since before Day One of his presidency. The ...
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What If Donald Trump Doesn’t Sink the Republican Party?
What if Republican voters who don’t particularly like President Donald Trump are also able to compartmentalize their votes? What if they dislike Democrats more than they do the president? What if, rather than being punished for Trump’s unpopularity, ...
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After Another Special-Election Loss, Chances for a Democratic Comeback Look Grim
The victory of Republican Karen Handel in the special election in Georgia’s sixth congressional district on Tuesday has discouraged Democrats and encouraged Republicans. Democrat Jon Ossoff won 48.1 percent in the special election’s first round April 18, and Democrats had ...
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When Does Life Begin? Pro-Choice ‘Science’ Ignores the Facts.
When a human egg is fertilized, the result is never a newborn platypus. I didn’t need four years of medical school, three years of pediatric residency, three years of neonatal fellowship, and close to two decades of medical practice ...
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Three Cheers for the Congressional Review Act
After more than 20 years of dormancy, Congress finally started to use the Congressional Review Act as intended this year — to seriously oversee the federal bureaucracy. So far, this Congress and President Trump have used the CRA to pass 14 laws disapproving ...
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in the July 10, 2017 issue of National Review.
Does the U.S. economy need more inflation? A group of 22 progressive economists has written a letter to the Federal Reserve urging it to appoint a ...
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The Court-Ordered Killing of Charlie Gard
Any day now, they’ll kill Charlie Gard.
Charlie Gard, born last August, suffers from an inherited disease called infantile onset encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, generally referred to as “MDDS.” The disease is extraordinarily rare: At present, there are ...
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National Allegiance Requires National Solidarity
Can you have allegiance you the United States as a country but not support solidarity with your fellow Americans? The answer might be yes in theory, but it should be no in practice. And yet, too many on both the ...
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You gotta have heart, &c.
Not long ago, President Trump celebrated the health-care bill passed in the House, but then he called it “mean.” He said that health-care legislation had to have more “heart.” This gave me a memory of the 2016 campaign — the Republican primaries.
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‘Repeal and Replace’? Try ‘Tweak and Move On’
Two Junes ago, when the Supreme Court upheld, 6–3, a challenged provision of the Affordable Care Act, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, vented: “Congress wrote key parts of the Act behind closed doors. . . . Congress passed much of the ...
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A Great Week for the Trump Administration’s Environmental and Energy Policies
In another blow to President Obama’s regulatory legacy, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Tuesday that his agency will rescind the Clean Water Rule, commonly known as WOTUS, or “Waters of the United States.” The move follows an executive order ...
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Legal Radicals Don’t Want the ‘Separation of Church and State’
It’s been interesting to read the reaction to Monday’s Supreme Court decision in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer, a case holding that the state of Missouri couldn’t exclude churches from a program using recycled tires ...
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The SNP Won’t Let the Issue of Scottish Independence Go
When the Scottish National Party set the date of Scotland’s independence referendum in 2014, it did so with a careful sense of history. 2014 was, after all, the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, in which Robert the Bruce’s ...
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Reagan Derangement Syndrome Is Alive and Well
To believe, in the 1980s, that Ronald Reagan was going to blow up the world may have been merely peculiar. To believe so today is a symptom of raging Reagan Derangement Syndrome. And yet here we are, with The Reagan ...
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Defending his claim that people will die if Republicans pass their health-care bill, Senator Bernie Sanders said it would “throw 23 million Americans off of health insurance.” I defended his people-will-die argument as within the bounds of fair debate, even if ...
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A Well-Focused Reform to Make Health Care Affordable
The Senate’s health-care reform bill released last week makes great strides toward succeeding where the House GOP struggled and the Affordable Care Act failed.
By upending insurance regulations, rather than just subsidizing the purchase of plans by the 2.2 million ...
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Magical Thinking about Minimum Wages
Thanks to a new study from economists at the University of Washington, American progressives have learned that the laws of supply and demand apply to the labor market. Everybody already knew that, except for professional economists.
The study, commissioned by ...
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Bipartisan Agreement on Health Care Masks a Deep Divide
Over the weekend, President Trump gave his weekly YouTube address, using the platform to bash Obamacare: “Millions of families across our nation are suffering under the disaster known as Obamacare. . . . Democrats in Congress created this calamity and now, if we ...
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Qaddafi’s ‘good’ son, &c.
Moammar Qaddafi had eight children, seven of them boys. By and large, they were a gruesome crew — goons, brats, thugs. Monsterlets. But there was one of them who tried to go straight, so to speak. Who tried to be a ...
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CNN’s Russia Obsession Is Confirmed in a Full-Scale Retraction of Its Anthony Scaramucci Hit Job
On Thursday, CNN published a piece alleging that Trump transition-team member Anthony Scaramucci had covert ties to a sanctioned, multibillion-dollar Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), a Kremlin-run bank under heavy scrutiny by the U.S. government. The accusation – that Scaramucci ...
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America’s Infrastructure Woes Start with Cost Overruns
There is rare bipartisan agreement that America’s infrastructure is in need of work and expansion. President Trump has proposed a $1 trillion overhaul of America’s road network, Nancy Pelosi has suggested that she would be willing to work with ...
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Who Knew Governing Was This Hard?
More than five months after a Republican president was inaugurated and began to work with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, it’s time to ask the party a question: Would they like to hand the reins of government ...
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The Senate Health-Care Bill’s Needed Medicaid Reforms
Republicans, first in the House’s American Health Care Act and now in the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act, are proposing significant, necessary reforms to the sprawling Medicaid system, to slow its unsustainable growth rate and to encourage states ...
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Prosecute Steven Donziger’s ‘Egregious Fraud’
Steven Donziger, a left-wing lawyer with connections to the Obama administration and Andrew Cuomo’s administration in New York, attempted to orchestrate a multi-billion-dollar shakedown of Chevron in a case that was later thrown out by a federal judge as ...
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On Migration, Europe Is Admitting the Truth to Itself
The migration crisis that has been central to the European political drama since 2014 is rapidly changing. You can see signs of change everywhere, from subtle intensifications of bureaucratic language to an increasing frankness about what the migration crisis has done ...
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What Is the Alternative to Trump Derangement?
By 1968, voters had tired of the failed Great Society of Lyndon Johnson. Four years later, the 1972 Nixon reelection re-emphasized that a doubled-down McGovern liberalism was even less of a viable agenda.
In that context, in 1974, obsessing on Watergate and a ...
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Are the GOP’s Proposed Medicaid Reforms Mean?
At a recent meeting with Republican senators, President Trump reportedly called the House GOP’s proposed health-care reform “mean” and suggested that the Senate enact reforms that are “more generous.” Trump has repeatedly praised Canada’s health-care system, which has ...
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In Texas, a Mental-Health Measure That Left and Right Should Support
Here’s an issue on which liberals and conservatives agree: policing the mentally ill. The two sides may have arrived at that position through different underlying beliefs, but they got there. Here’s a problem: In Texas, a conservative legislature ...
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Barbarism Isn’t What It Used to Be
The Brezhnev Doctrine said that the Soviet empire could only expand and never give back its gains. A domestic version of the doctrine has long applied to the welfare state — and never so brazenly as in the debate over the ...
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Free the Obamacare 15 Million
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today warned lawmakers that 15 million people will lose medical coverage next year if the Senate GOP’s health-care bill becomes law.
That’s not quite accurate. CBO doesn’t believe that millions will “lose” their ...
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Religious Liberty, Trump Win Important Victories at the Supreme Court
Today was a busy day for religious liberties at the Supreme Court, one that promises busier days ahead. In particular, the Court may have finally placed the anti-Catholic 19th-century “Blaine Amendments” in many states’ constitutions on a long-overdue path to ...
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The Supreme Court’s Religious-Freedom Message: There Are No Second-Class Citizens
While there are many threats to religious liberty, few are more consequential over the long term than the state’s ever-expanding role in private life. If the government is able to vacuum up tax dollars, create programs large and small ...
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In Mississippi, a Bill to Protect Religious Liberty Gets the Green Light
In a victory for religious citizens in Mississippi — and in a promising sign for all religious Americans — the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Thursday in favor of a bill that protects religious-liberty and conscience rights in the realm ...
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Republicans Used to Put Ordinary Workers First—and They Should Again
The foreign eye can discern peculiarities of national character that often go unnoticed by natives. A few years back, a writer in the British magazine The Economist noted Americans’ deep appreciation for the nobility of work and said that “in ...
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The Quiet Rise of the American Upper-Middle Class
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Richard V. Reeves’s Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It. It ...
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Learning Hospitality with the Sisters of St. Bridget
Darien, Conn. — There are six sisters of the Order of the Most Holy Savior in the United States, and not one of them was born in the United States. Also known as the Sisters of St. Bridget, or the Bridgettines, ...
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The shocking speed of entrenchment, &c.
In recent weeks, I’ve been thinking, “How quickly things get cemented. How hard they are to reverse — even when they were just put in place.”
During the 1976 campaign, Jimmy Carter promised the National Education Association that he would establish ...
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Civil Asset Forfeiture: Where Due Process Goes to Die
Clarence Thomas is famously taciturn on the bench. But his few words carry a great deal of weight.
Though the matter has not yet come before the Supreme Court, Justice Thomas is very much at the center of a federal ...
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The Antithesis of Obstruction
The “collusion” narrative was a fraud, plain and simple. We know that now. Hopefully, it won’t take another six months to grasp a second plain and simple truth: Collusion’s successor, the “obstruction” narrative, is a perversion.
The Left ...
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Urban Warfare, Then and Now
In 1968, more than 500,000 Americans and 800,000 South Vietnamese troops were fighting 400,000 Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese (NVA) soldiers. In early February, the enemy launched a surprise attack against dozens of cities and bases throughout the 400-mile length of South Vietnam. ...
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Why me? It’s a question we likely ask in the face of suffering and unexpected challenges. In God’s Wild Flowers: Saints with Disabilities, Pia Matthews, a university lecturer in theology, philosophy, and bioethics in England, writes about the ...
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The Republican Health-Care Mistake
Republicans in the House and Senate have made a grievous political miscalculation: They have staked themselves to doing something about Obamacare, yet they can barely feign interest in the details of health-care policy, and don’t have a clear endgame ...
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American Weakness and Incompetence Are Vladimir Putin’s Greatest Assets
This morning, the Washington Post published a lengthy account of the Obama White House’s internal response to Russian efforts to influence the 2016 elections. It’s worth reading for the drama alone — including details of secrecy measures not seen since ...
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The President Shouldn’t Set Congress’s Legislative Agenda
‘The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny,” James Madison wrote in Federalist ...
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Should Nancy Pelosi Step Down?
Democrats have been doing plenty of self-reflection since they lost the special election in Georgia’s sixth district on Tuesday. As a result, several House Democrats have intensely and publicly criticized Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi. Several congressmen have gone ...
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In the Almost-Great Baby Driver, Hollywood Goes Asperger’s
Lots of movies are manipulative, but Edgar Wright’s action-comedy Baby Driver defines the era by pampering its teenage audience.
Yet its most impressive moment invokes an obscure but cinematic icon: The hero nicknamed Baby (Ansel Elgort), an orphaned hipster ...
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Thirty Years of Federal Coercion, on the Drinking Age and More
Thirty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in South Dakota v. Dole. The case involved South Dakota’s attempt to maintain a drinking age of 19 — at least for beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol — despite ...
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A Renewed MS-13 — Courtesy of Obama’s Lax Immigration Policies
The Washington Post this week published a long piece showing how the illegal immigration of young people from Central America, facilitated and even encouraged by the Obama administration, has led to the rebirth of the vicious MS-13 gang in the ...
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Obamacare Failure Is on the Democrats
Senate Republicans are planning to vote on their version of the long-awaited health-care replacement bill as early as next week; this is the latest development in the contentious process of dismantling the Affordable Care Act. The unveiling of the “Better ...
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GOP’s Special-Election Sweep Bodes Well for Trump Agenda
Sweep!
With U.S. representative-elect Karen Handel’s victory in Georgia and Ralph Norman’s in South Carolina Tuesday night, the Grand Old Party has won four of four contested special elections for the U.S. House since President Donald ...
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Trump Should Copy Reagan and End Détente — with China
President Trump seems resigned to the expectation that China will be of no help in resolving the North Korea challenge. That he (and his predecessors) ever believed otherwise is the most salient evidence of the consensus by successive U.S. ...
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A few years ago, I wrote a book called “Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators.” I selected 20 dictators and their offspring. I did not aim for that round, juicy number, 20. I simply drew up ...
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Puberty Suppression and FGM
Michigan is set to become the 26th American state to join the federal government in criminalizing female genital mutilation (FGM), even as two Detroit-area doctors and one of their wives await trial for inflicting the procedure on a number of ...
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