Tag: Commentary

To those outside of the Beltway, particularly Trump supporters, this is just another example of the media trying to tear down the president and his agenda. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Beltway Confidential

No one cares about Michael Wolff or ‘Fire and Fury’ outside the Beltway

Siraj Hashmi · January 5, 2018 6:12 pm

If you want Nordic social democracy then you've got to do what makes Nordic social democracy work, a major part of which is taxing and then spending at something akin to the U.S. county level. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

What liberals and progressives get so horribly wrong about taxes

Tim Worstall · January 5, 2018 5:44 pm

"Thomas" has been blasted by left-wing publications for being a "corporate-totalitarian dystopia" as well as "classist, sexist and anti-environmentalist." (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Beltway Confidential

CNN publishes opinion piece calling ‘Thomas & Friends’ and ‘PAW Patrol’ fascist

Brendan Pringle · January 5, 2018 4:55 pm

The U.S. passenger airline industry has a shortage of trained commercial pilots and too many effective monopolies controlling airline routes. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Beltway Confidential

For cheaper flights and more options, the solution is simple

Tom Rogan · January 5, 2018 2:02 pm

A Yale University psychiatrist told a group of congressional lawmakers that President Trump was "going to unravel, and we are seeing the signs." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Trump isn’t mentally disturbed, and Obama isn’t Moses

Tom Rogan · January 5, 2018 1:37 pm

In an excerpt of "Fire and Fury" released on Wednesday, author Michael Wolff assigned to President Trump's campaign the unlikely quality of being ultimately unconcerned with securing victory. But if that's true, it becomes more difficult to see why Trump would have colluded with Russia to win the presidential election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

If Trump wanted to lose the election, why would he have colluded with Russia?

Emily Jashinsky · January 5, 2018 1:17 pm

Barnes: It’s a Long Time to November

Fred Barnes · January 5, 2018 9:00 am

Kristol: Functioning Amid Hubbub

William Kristol · January 5, 2018 9:00 am

Hayes: Situation All Fouled Up, Not Normal

Stephen F. Hayes · January 5, 2018 9:00 am

A man pushes his way through a winter snowstorm in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Energy and Environment

Can America’s power grid withstand a brutal winter?

Terry Jarrett · January 5, 2018 5:01 am

Each new protest represents an opportunity to leverage the people's resentment against the Iranian regime, the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism and a pervasive human rights abuser. (Mehdi Pedramkhoo/Mehr News Agency via AP)

Trump should go further on Iran

Ivan Sascha Sheehan · January 5, 2018 5:01 am

Democratic members of Congress summoned a Yale University psychiatry professor, Dr. Bandy X. Lee, to Capitol Hill in December to discuss President Trump's mental health. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Beltway Confidential

Stop your armchair psychoanalysis of Trump

Becket Adams · January 5, 2018 12:58 am