Tag: Commentary

Relying on character assassination rather than substantive discussion will not win the policy debate. (Screengrab/Twitter)

Beltway Confidential

The bizarre campaign against Trump aide Seb Gorka

Michael Rubin · February 27, 2017 3:10 pm

Free commerce, business and the pursuit of profit all exist to serve higher human needs, material and social.

Economic nationalism’s promises and pitfalls

Washington Examiner · February 27, 2017 5:01 am

One party controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress does not happen very often, and Republicans know it. (AP Photo)

Eight reasons for optimism in the Trump era

Dan Hannan · February 27, 2017 5:01 am

Trump's most strident supporters will no doubt call the polls fake, but the fact is, Trump's numbers are low. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Optimism in Trump’s America

Byron York · February 27, 2017 3:16 am

Roy Howard heard a rumor about the end of World War I and published it a few days before the actual armistice, causing a panic. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Today’s fake news is nothing new — it was much worse a century ago

J. Mark Powell · February 27, 2017 1:00 am

Democratic protests could be the first fruits of a coming religious revival that could be every bit as fervent in ardor as the "Great Awakenings" that shaped the country in the 18th and 19th centuries. (Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Democrats are having a religious revival, but politics is their religion

Timothy Philen · February 27, 2017 12:00 am

Several states resumed debate over whether to ease or restrict access to bathrooms by transgender students. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Beltway Confidential

Obama, not Trump, is the president who failed transgender students

Joseph Murray · February 26, 2017 11:00 pm

It's true that Trump has officially rejected the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement with multiple countries negotiated by the Obama administration. But it was a dead duck already. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Beltway Confidential

Precedented: Negotiating bilateral free trade agreements

Michael Barone · February 26, 2017 7:24 pm

The multi-billion dollar weed industry argues that the legal sale of marijuana is an important source of tax revenue for states. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Puff the Muggle dragon

Washington Examiner · February 26, 2017 5:04 am

Of all the Republican-held districts in the country, Hillary Clinton ran further ahead of Barack Obama in this Georgia district than in any other except Texas's 7th House District, a demographically similar seat in the Houston suburbs.

A referendum on Trump in Newt’s old district

Salena Zito · February 26, 2017 5:02 am

Captain John Cartledge described his experience, "We would just wait for the children to get off the bus and we'd high five them if they wanted one when they came off the bus, and they'd go about their day and we'd leave afterwards." (Screen shot)

Beltway Confidential

Police department ends ‘High Five Friday’ school program because no matter what police do, people complain

William Vaillancourt · February 26, 2017 1:00 am

Press Secretary Sean Spicer has fought the idea that the White House did anything wrong in approaching the intelligence community. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Communications staff, not impartial analysts, should be the ones doing the Trump administration’s PR work

Daniel DePetris · February 26, 2017 12:16 am