Imagine a world in which the rosy assumptions Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., makes on behalf of his “Medicare for all” health-care plan turn out to be true. That is what Charles Blahous, a professor at George Mason University’s libertarian-leaning Mercatus Center, did in a paper released last month. He found that the government would expand […]
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A pastime for everyone, everywhere
All good things must come to an end. And so it was with the 2018 season for the Mamie Johnson Little League baseball team from the District of Columbia. This intrepid group of 12 young ballplayers had captured the city championship on July 24, making it the first predominantly African American team to do so […]
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Red America and blue America depend on each other; that's how it should be
By Charles Lane The Washington Post The red-blue, rural-urban dichotomy has solidified into a basic fact of American politics. The Democrats are now the party of diverse, urban areas, which also constitute the nation’s hubs of cutting-edge financial, technological, medical and entertainment activity. The Republicans, meanwhile, dominate “flyover country,” the ranches, farms and hamlets between […]
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Trump's interview with special counsel Mueller wouldn't be a 'perjury trap'
By Randall D. Eliason Special to The Washington Post President Donald Trump now says he “would love to” be interviewed under oath by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. The news comes amid signs that Mueller’s investigation is moving ever further into the president’s inner circle. An interview with Mueller or testimony to the grand […]
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'Dreamers' are people, not bargaining chips
The following appeared in Friday’s Washington Post: After all of President Donald Trump’s bluster about his “great love” for “dreamers,” brought to this country as children through no fault of their own, it turns out he’s content to use them as leverage in a high-stakes game of political horse-trading. Trump seems willing to strip them […]
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Congress shouldn’t wait to protect the ‘dreamers’
The following appeared in Wednesday’s Washington Post. Quick, name a major public policy issue on which overwhelming numbers of Americans are united. Stumped? (Granted, it’s a short list.) Here’s one answer: allowing “dreamers” — young undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children — to remain in the United States if they pass background checks, […]
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No, the FCC is not killing the Internet
By Brendan Carr Special to The Washington Post Americans cherish a free and open Internet — and rightly so. It has revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. So, it’s no surprise that the recent announcement that the Federal Communications Commission will vote Dec. 14 to restore Internet freedom has been met with strong (and […]
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Woman approaches Washington Post with false claims about Roy Moore
A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets. In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman […]
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Concerns raised about electronic privacy
The following appeared in Friday’s Washington Post: The news sounded horrifying: Federal prosecutors last month demanded wide-ranging electronic records regarding anyone who visited disruptj20.org, a website devoted to protesting President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. An astonishing 1.3 million people could be exposed. The website’s host, a Los Angeles company called DreamHost, was fighting the […]
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President Trump’s trip was his best week
By Marc A. Thiessen Special to The Washington Post President Donald Trump just returned from a foreign trip that was the single most successful eight-day stretch of his presidency. But almost as soon as he landed at Joint Base Andrews, he abandoned the approach that gave him his best week in office, and returned to […]