Tag: Brexit

Two hundred and forty years ago we declared independence from Britain. We should remember that all countries want to be free of international government bureaucrats — not just the U.K. (iStock Photo)

Manhattan Moment: Why Brits want to leave the EU

Diana Furchtgott-Roth · June 30, 2016 4:01 am

The common thread tying these stories together is that they suggest voters didn’t quite understand what they were getting themselves into when they voted to withdraw from the European Union. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Biased, lazy journalists use Google Trends to diss Brexit

Becket Adams · June 30, 2016 1:49 am

Obama urged Canadians and Americans on Wednesday to resist the politics of fear and isolationism behind the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's nomination. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to Canadians: Trump, Brexit threaten our values

Susan Crabtree · June 30, 2016 12:29 am

Obama emphasized the positive, underscoring the "special relationship" between the United States and the U.K. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama backs away from threat to U.K. over Brexit

Susan Crabtree · June 29, 2016 9:40 pm

The idea came naturally to architects of the EU that labor mobility enhanced the operation of free markets. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Beltway Confidential

Why does the European Union insist on ‘free movement’?

Michael Barone · June 29, 2016 8:38 pm

"Isn't it time we joined forces again?" asked freelance journalist David Wheeler. (iStock photo)

CNN: Make the United Kingdom the 51st state

Becket Adams · June 29, 2016 8:37 pm

Fifty-two percent of a higher-than-general-election turnout of British voters voted for their nation to leave the European Union. (iStock Photo)

Credit a failure of elites, not bigotry of the masses, for Brexit

Michael Barone · June 29, 2016 8:32 pm

A statement from the international Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project says multi-national collaboratives focused on energy research are typically more immune to political upheavals than other agreements. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

Energy and Environment

Brexit raises questions for $20 billion fusion energy project

John Siciliano · June 29, 2016 8:10 pm

After Brexit, the State Department has signaled over the last 24 hours that Obama's threat was empty. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

State Dept. in damage control mode over Obama’s ‘back of the queue’ remark

Pete Kasperowicz · June 29, 2016 7:02 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that the same wave of populism that gave rise to the Brexit movement could shape the outcome of the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Sanders: After Brexit, Democrats need to ‘wake up’

Ariel Cohen · June 29, 2016 1:13 pm

A second defeat would surely doom Scottish Nationalists' cause for at least a generation, probably forever. So Nicola Sturgeon and her fellow "nats" will make that calculation continuously. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Brexit and Scotland: Freedom and sovereignty for me, but not for thee

Hugo Gurdon · June 28, 2016 10:03 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Choosing between Europe and the sea

Washington Examiner · June 28, 2016 9:14 pm