Tag: Commentary

The president's motives for this costly and unprecedented unilateral action are clear. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The White House is crippling our economy

Rep Tom Price · August 3, 2016 4:03 am

The only number that should matter for the Trump campaign is 64. That’s the number of electoral votes he needs to flip from Obama states into his own column in order to secure the presidency. (AP Photo)

Trump’s magic number is 64

Kristen Soltis Anderson · August 3, 2016 4:03 am

President Obama won't fix the agency which is meant to provide veterans' benefits, and plainly intends to stop private medicine stepping into the breach to make up for its shortcomings. (AP Photo)

Veteran scandal — the self-interested duping the blind

Washington Examiner · August 3, 2016 4:01 am

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Fights on multiple fronts set off new round of Trump fatigue

Byron York · August 3, 2016 3:17 am

It isn't shocking that Donald Trump doesn't like timorous GOP leaders declining to support him as wholeheartedly as Democratic leaders back Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s retaliation against Ryan, McCain no surprise

W. James Antle III · August 2, 2016 10:27 pm

A Trump-Ryan partnership of that sort was never possible, because that's not the sort of man Donald Trump is. (AP Photos)

Ryan learns that endorsing Trump was only the first indignity

Timothy P. Carney · August 2, 2016 8:29 pm

Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Hillary Clinton of being a "bigot" who has no intention of helping minority communities. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Beltway Confidential

The party-switchers’ tickets

Michael Barone · August 2, 2016 7:54 pm

In an awkward coincidence, the change became effective 50 years to the day of the Texas Clock Tower sniper. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Beltway Confidential

A new state lets students carry guns on campus

Jason Russell · August 2, 2016 6:55 pm

A negative turn in media coverage occurred even though the public's view of charters grew much more positive during the same time frame. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

How has the media’s view of school choice shifted in the last decade?

Jason Russell · August 2, 2016 4:39 pm

Why is the FDA leaving doctors in the dark?

Sally Pipes · August 2, 2016 4:03 am

For the first time since Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 race as a progressive, a third-party presidential candidate is the best qualified. What does that say about our two major parties? (AP Photo)

Impeach the winner!

Robert Maranto · August 2, 2016 4:03 am

Democrats live in a glass house on this issue, as their own nominee, Hillary Clinton, has taken Putin-connected money and perhaps unwittingly, through action and omission, helped advance his military ambitions. (AP Photo)

National Security

Shhhh! Hillary Clinton has a big Russia problem, too

Washington Examiner · August 2, 2016 4:01 am