Tag: Commentary

An injured person is carried in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 after a white van jumped the sidewalk in the historic Las Ramblas district, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and tourists and injuring several people, police said. (AP Photo/Oriol Duran)

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Barcelona terrorist attack: Who, what, when, where, and why it happened

Tom Rogan · August 17, 2017 4:38 pm

Declaring that it is "prioritizing public safety" over free speech, Ryerson is offering a false choice. (Wikipedia Commons)

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The far-left strikes another blow against free speech

Tom Rogan · August 17, 2017 4:27 pm

The University of California at Berkeley is a place where right-wing provocateurs such as Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos know they can get a rise. But maybe less so, starting now: On Tuesday, the school's recently-appointed chancellor, Carol Christ, declared this year to be a "Free Speech Year" on campus. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

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Free speech might be coming to Berkeley in a shocking turn of events

Liz Wolfe · August 17, 2017 4:21 pm

Trump's favorable and unfavorable rating -- not his job approval, but whether people hold a favorable or unfavorable view of him -- is virtually the same as it was on election day. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Byron York: Measuring, and mismeasuring, the Trump conundrum

Byron York · August 17, 2017 3:24 pm

Despite his uphill battle with the media, President Trump is still his own worst enemy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Dear Trump: The media is biased, but you’re not helping

Beverly Hallberg · August 17, 2017 3:07 pm

President Trump talks with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, center, and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon during a meeting with business leaders in the White House. Musk fled Trump's orbit after the president pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty, which could enrich Musk's subsidy-dependent companies. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Corporate America’s exodus from Trump may have just begun

Timothy P. Carney · August 17, 2017 1:52 pm

In Charlottesville, there were multiple bad actors. White nationalists and neo-Nazis uttering vile racism demonstrated against the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue. One of their numbers drove a car into a crowd, killing one young woman and injuring about 20 others. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Michael Barone: What identity politics hath wrought

Michael Barone · August 17, 2017 1:38 pm

Chinese imports have helped destroy manufacturing jobs in the U.S. (AP Photo)

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Steve Bannon says we’re at ‘economic war with China.’ Here are the studies that back him up.

Timothy P. Carney · August 17, 2017 1:29 pm

Comcast is unwilling to pay TiVo for a license to use this technology, but it is nevertheless continuing to use TiVo's technology in its cable boxes that it imported from abroad. (AP)

The Comcast-TiVo dispute isn’t close enough for instant replay

Gregory Dolin · August 17, 2017 4:01 am

The simple truth is that some of the cops we've recruited and trained are unfit to do the job. They're simply too scared or too full of bias and hatred to act responsibly or safely in stressful encounters with the public. â©

Step one to police reform: Weeding out bad cops

Andrew Rosenzweig · August 17, 2017 4:01 am

Puerto Rico is undergoing a steady transformation that involves government right-sizing, reductions in public spending, a trimming of the number of political appointees, and a reformation of permitting processes. The government, led by new Governor Ricardo Rosselló, is also working on tax and energy reforms. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Partnerships are paving a new path for Puerto Rico

Carlos Mercader · August 17, 2017 4:01 am

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Presidential vacations: Before there was Camp David, there was Camp Hoover

J. Mark Powell · August 16, 2017 11:00 pm