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Seven years ago, the Democratic Party found itself at a crossroads. Its sweeping health care bill was increasingly unpopular – the subject of angry town hall protests, the cause of a shocking...
DATE: July 3, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – This is not your father’s inflation, and that’s good news. Business cycles often end when higher inflation causes a country’s central bank (the Federal Reserve in the United States) to...
DATE: June 29, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter-bomber. Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria. Russia threatens to attack coalition aircraft west of the Euphrates. What is going on? It might...
DATE: June 26, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Nationwide, education programs are not graduating enough new teachers to fill the vacancies created by teachers who are retiring or leaving the profession for other reasons. That imbalance has...
DATE: June 22, 2017 | COLUMN: Education Update
I was the op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal at the peak of the Whitewater scandal. We ran a series of investigative pieces “raising serious questions” (as we say in the scandal business)...
DATE: June 22, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
The first thing to say about the attempted massacre of congressional Republicans on a baseball field in suburban Virginia is that the motivations of the shooter were unusual. By which I mean that,...
DATE: June 19, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Hooray for summer! Now that it’s finally here, this is a good time to highlight our Parks and Rec Department. They have a lot going on, and the facilities and programs they oversee add much to our...
DATE: June 15, 2017 | COLUMN: From the Mayor
WASHINGTON – It’s time to take a brief break from Donald Trump. Whatever you think of him, there’s no denying that he dominates the news cycle. We seem to assume that the nation’s future depends on...
DATE: June 15, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON — Having coined “Bush Derangement Syndrome” more than a decade ago, I feel authorized to weigh in on its most recent offshoot. What distinguishes Trump Derangement Syndrome is not just...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – The coal-mining jobs that President Trump thinks were destroyed by government regulation – adopted to combat air pollution and global warming – were actually lost to old-fashioned...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – So what if, in his speech to NATO, Donald Trump didn’t explicitly reaffirm the provision that an attack on one is an attack on all? What’s the big deal? Didn’t he affirm a general...
DATE: June 5, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – I am not a big or even a little fan of President Donald Trump. Many of his policies strike me as undesirable, some in the extreme. His background and temperament have not prepared him...
DATE: June 2, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
