Tag: Commentary

Bill Ackman, CEO and founder of Pershing Square Capital, once bragged to the Street that he had spent $50 million "to research and publicize the fund's negative views on Herbalife." (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Bill Ackman: A case study in the dark side of lobbying

Beau Rothschild · January 14, 2018 5:01 am

As questions remain about President Trump's mental health, it's important to note that it's dangerous when democracies begin to go down the road of pathologizing political differences. It's one thing to say your opponents are wrong. It's quite another to say they are crazy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Alan Dershowitz: Don’t diagnose Trump, respond to him

Alan Dershowitz · January 14, 2018 5:01 am

Several states have considered and implemented time limits on the number of years people can live in public housing, not funded by the federal government, if they agree to an incentive program in advance. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz)

A third way toward entitlement reform: Time limits on housing benefits

Douglas Bushman · January 13, 2018 12:00 pm

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her family's Clinton Foundation is still blamed by many Haitians for the subpar disaster relief efforts after the 2010 earthquake there. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

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Hillary Clinton is the last person who should be talking about Trump’s remarks on Haiti

Becket Adams · January 13, 2018 5:21 am

The new GOP immigration bill, the Securing America's Future Act, creates an entirely new visa lottery system that would actually allow for the agriculture industry to bring in possibly hundreds of thousands of new workers annually. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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The House GOP immigration bill is big business populism

Ryan Girdusky · January 13, 2018 5:01 am

The Trump administration is now allowing states to institute work requirements for Medicaid. Despite what critics say, such requirements ensure that Medicaid will actually help the working poor. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Champion the working poor with work requirements for Medicaid

Hadley Heath Manning · January 13, 2018 1:57 am

CNN contributor and former CIA counterterrorism official Philip Mudd appeared opposite Don Lemon Thursday night responding to reports that President Trump had called Haiti, El Salvador, and certain African nations "shithole countries." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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The weirdest, slur-laden response to Trump’s ‘s—-hole’ remarks

Becket Adams · January 13, 2018 1:32 am

A good part of CEO incomes rising is simply because we've changed the way they're reported. (iStock by Getty Images)

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Inequality isn’t what you think it is

Tim Worstall · January 12, 2018 10:41 pm

John Feeley's resignation came before Trump's reported remarks. They are two separate events. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

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Media jump the gun again with US diplomat resignation

Becket Adams · January 12, 2018 10:01 pm

"Our simple ask here is that the U.S. Congress work with the administration to reform our immigration system to end chain migration," a senior administration official told reporters Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump talk about earmarks risks an existential crisis for the White House

Philip Wegmann · January 12, 2018 9:17 pm

If this deal fails, President Trump has no one to blame but himself. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump was breaking ground on immigration, then it all went to ‘shit’

Siraj Hashmi · January 12, 2018 9:04 pm

The ACLU on Thursday added a fourth plaintiff to the Garza v. Hargan lawsuit, which challenges the constitutionality of the Office of Refugee Resettlement's refusal to facilitate abortions for the girls in their care. Here is what is going on. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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ACLU’s legal fight to make Uncle Sam help with abortions

Margot Cleveland · January 12, 2018 8:22 pm