Tag: Commentary

Perhaps gradually expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court would help ensure we don't end up in another election year where the Supreme Court is a political football. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Congress should consider adding more Supreme Court justices

Jason Russell · November 16, 2016 6:09 am

Visa and MasterCard had been price-fixing the fees that banks charge merchants to process the transaction when a customer swipes a debit card to pay for everything from lunch to laundry soap. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Competition gave us the world’s largest economy. Why are banks fighting it so hard?

Charlie Spakes · November 16, 2016 5:10 am

The security blanket, upon which they have relied so heavily for so long, could be yanked away. If Trump's policy matches his campaign rhetoric, he could, by default, make the U.K. the indispensable global power in the free world. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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Could Trump accidentally derail Brexit?

Stuart Young · November 16, 2016 5:02 am

Starting in January, President-elect Trump will have a unique opportunity to pack the Federal Reserve with hard money officials. Meanwhile, Vice President-elect Pence is one of the more hawkish voices in the modern Republican Party. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Why President Trump will fumigate the Fed

Tommy Behnke · November 16, 2016 5:01 am

Dems caught between Scylla Sanders and Charybdis Clinton

Washington Examiner · November 16, 2016 5:01 am

If you opposed Donald Trump's election to the presidency, should you refuse to serve in his administration? (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Should ‘Never Trump’ extend past the election?

W. James Antle III · November 16, 2016 5:01 am

Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama is listed as sponsors on the amendment, the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal reported on Tuesday. (Screen shot)

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Why would House Republicans vote to make earmarks great again?

Philip Wegmann · November 16, 2016 1:31 am

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., washed his hands of the controversy surrounding President-elect Donald Trump naming former Breitbart News CEO Stephen K. Bannon as chief White House strategist. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Lindsey Graham not getting involved in fight over Bannon appointment

Becket Adams · November 16, 2016 12:38 am

President-elect Trump is placing lobbyists and Wall Street insiders on his transition team and executive branch. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Trump surrounds himself with ‘swamp’ creatures

Timothy P. Carney · November 15, 2016 11:43 pm

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Barone: Is this why the pollsters failed?

Michael Barone · November 15, 2016 11:39 pm

Bloomberg promoted the story with a similarly sympathy-inspiring headline reading, "Hundreds of women poised to work for the Clinton administration are now out in the cold." (AP Photo)

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We’ve done it. We’ve found the least sympathetic characters of 2016

Becket Adams · November 15, 2016 10:36 pm

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Obama twists the knife in Hillary Clinton’s disastrous campaign

Becket Adams · November 15, 2016 10:01 pm