Tag: Commentary

Beltway Confidential

Three takeaways from AG Loretta Lynch’s testimony

Ashe Schow · July 12, 2016 4:02 pm

In early 2011 President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for disproven reasons, decided to remove Moammar Gadhafi from power. (AP Photo/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File)

A final footnote on Gadhafi

Pete Hoekstra · July 12, 2016 4:03 am

Islanders in Puerto Rico find themselves marooned by the Jones Act thanks to their disproportionate reliance on domestic maritime shipping, which is subjected to the act's mandates. (AP Photo)

Scuttle the Jones Act

Mac Zimmerman · July 12, 2016 4:03 am

You bought a car; it's defective. You can't drive it. This, in effect, has been the experience of the Republican Party since it drove Donald Trump off the lot. (AP Photo)

If Trump were a car

Noemie Emery · July 12, 2016 4:01 am

Beltway Confidential

Harvard study: As Trump won, media coverage turned sharply negative

Byron York · July 12, 2016 2:36 am

Beltway Confidential

In Dallas response, Marco Rubio shows why he may be future of GOP

Daniel Allott · July 11, 2016 9:24 pm

The entire Clinton family has their own lists of demands and special treatment they require in addition to their outsized speaking fees. (Daniel Acker/Bloomerg, File)

Beltway Confidential

All the Clintons are overpaid divas

Ashe Schow · July 11, 2016 8:43 pm

Beltway Confidential

If the big names of 2016 were Pokemon

John Bowden · July 11, 2016 8:42 pm

The 2012 conventions were not as memorable as many have been in the past. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Beltway Confidential

Memories of national conventions past

Michael Barone · July 11, 2016 8:05 pm

A few hours ago, markets in the U.K. closed, and guess what: The FTSE closed at a higher price than it did a month ago. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Brexit Boom: British stock market is up for the month — even priced in dollars

Timothy P. Carney · July 11, 2016 6:46 pm

Megan McArdle used recent revelations arising from the Rolling Stonedefamation lawsuit to make the point that the media is too eager to believe a false story that fits their own prejudices about the issue. (Wikimedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

‘Listen and believe’ actually hurts rape victims in the long run

Ashe Schow · July 11, 2016 6:15 pm

The consensus seems to be that people are thankful Obama has tried to help, but he should have done much, much more. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Beltway Confidential

Why the rest of the world is disappointed in Obama

Jason Russell · July 11, 2016 6:13 pm