Tag: Commentary

What will it take for the Senate to land Kate's Law on the presidentâs desk for signing? (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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How likely is it that Kate’s Law will land on Trump’s desk?

Emily Jashinsky · June 29, 2017 8:05 pm

That AUMF authorized the president to take action against al Qaeda and state sponsors of its terrorism, such as the Taliban. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

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Repealing the 9/11 authorization of military force has rewards — and risks

Tom Rogan · June 29, 2017 6:11 pm

A Trump administration official got rave reviews from the mainstream media. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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How Rick Perry won over the White House press corps

Beverly Hallberg · June 29, 2017 4:54 pm

Trump's Thursday morning tweets are not even worthy of an average citizen's time, let alone the leader of the free world's. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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If ‘face-lift’ tweet about ‘Morning Joe’ and Mika Brzezinski tweet doesn’t cross the line, does Trump have one at all?

Emily Jashinsky · June 29, 2017 4:52 pm

This isn't the work of a few thugs. (AP Photo/Denis Tyrin)

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Five Chechen men were just convicted of killing a Putin critic. Here’s what’s really going on

Tom Rogan · June 29, 2017 4:42 pm

By outlining a realistic foreign policy for modern times, Reps. Smith, Seth Moulton, Stephanie Murphy, Ruben Gallego, and Joe Courtney may have given the first pinch to a Democratic Party struggling to wake itself out of a deep slumber. (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool Photo via AP)

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A group of House Democrats just took a first step toward building a realistic foreign policy against Putin

Daniel DePetris · June 29, 2017 4:13 pm

Every American administration going back to the beginning of the NATO alliance has urged the European nations to spend more on defense. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

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Brash Trump gets results in Europe

Michael Barone · June 29, 2017 3:38 pm

Sen. Ted Cruz based the defund effort on his contention that once Obamacare was fully in place and subsidies began to flow — that was scheduled to begin on January 1, 2014 — there would be no stopping it. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Byron York: When Ted Cruz, GOP saw troubled future of Obamacare repeal

Byron York · June 29, 2017 4:24 am

The FCC's power grab switching ISPs to Title II created a loophole in privacy enforcement. (iStock)

Without Title II, is the Internet the new ‘Wild West’?

Daniel Oglesby · June 29, 2017 4:01 am

Atlantic Coast drilling would be bad for business

timothy-obrien · June 29, 2017 4:01 am

Finkle's order is one small victory in the larger fight for workers' freedoms across America. But it's no small victory if a union is trying to skim from that loved one's benefit payments without their permission or yours. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Workers’ freedom scores a small victory in Washington state

Michael Hartmann · June 29, 2017 4:01 am

Trump's achievement, with his trade and immigration proposals, was to increase the margin by appealing to those raised in union households who had been sticking with the Democrats. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)

Michael Barone: Democrats and Republicans lack credibility on economic issues

Michael Barone · June 29, 2017 4:01 am