Tag: Commentary

The Trump administration faces an uphill battle to protect innovation when it comes to the North American Free Trade Agreement. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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A fair NAFTA doesn’t need tariffs, despite Trump’s tweets

Philip Thompson · March 5, 2018 11:04 pm

This weekend's Italian election was not so much a victory for anti-European Union forces as it was a defeat for governance. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

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Michael Barone: The collapse of the Italian center-left

Michael Barone · March 5, 2018 10:58 pm

After losing 49 states in the 1984 elections, Democrats worked with President Ronald Reagan to pass the Tax Reform Act of 1986, but efforts to undo the act began almost immediately. (AP Photo/Don Heiny)

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The fight for tax reform isn’t over yet

Bruce Thompson · March 5, 2018 10:44 pm

The only thing safe to say about Sam Nunberg is that he is a spectacle and an especially ugly one at that. (Screenshot/Twitter)

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Keep in mind that Sam Nunberg is kind of crazy

Philip Wegmann · March 5, 2018 10:38 pm

Peter Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council, is credited with advocating for protectionist forces inside President Trump's administration. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Peter Navarro, the White House Democrat pushing Trump into a trade war

Philip Wegmann · March 5, 2018 10:27 pm

The longer Trump hits the links, the less likely Trump will be to step on a political rake. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Byron York: Donald Trump’s most casually broken promise

Byron York · March 5, 2018 9:46 pm

By tying NAFTA renegotiations to proposed steel and aluminum tariffs on Twitter this morning, President Trump shoved the agriculture industry directly into the crossfire. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Blood on the plow: Trump’s trade war will spark a culture war between city steelworkers and country farmers

Philip Wegmann · March 5, 2018 9:18 pm

Colonel Sergei Skripal, who was released by Russia in a prisoner swap in 2010, was found alongside a younger woman on Sunday evening in Salisbury, England. British authorities say he and his partner, who is also in a critical condition, were exposed to an unknown substance. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy, may have just been attacked in Britain

Tom Rogan · March 5, 2018 9:06 pm

"Ultrasound provides factual, medical information that should not be withheld from women," said Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Legislative Director Andrea Rau. (iStock by Getty Images)

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A new, pro-life way to save the unborn

Nicole Russell · March 5, 2018 8:00 pm

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Hollywood knows its lines, but is anyone buying it?

Emily Jashinsky · March 5, 2018 7:51 pm

Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, has so far been outpacing Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in fundraising by as much as three times. (AP)

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Countdown to 2018 midterms: February

Siraj Hashmi · March 5, 2018 7:35 pm

Whether to automate depends upon the relative costs of the two things: the wages paid to labor and the interest paid to capital. (Image courtesy screenshot)

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Meet Flippy the burger flipper, the solution to the minimum wage

Tim Worstall · March 5, 2018 6:48 pm