Tag: Commentary

For those of you still wondering how the Obama era could turn the country so left so fast, it's time to stop your analysis: Obama progressives will do or say anything to secure their agenda. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Lies and videotape

Robert Ehrlich · June 9, 2016 1:40 pm

If we act now, we can prevent a Puerto Rico bailout and end the crisis. (Erika P. Rodriguez/Bloomberg, File)

Congress must pass PROMESA to protect American taxpayers

Speaker Paul Ryan · June 9, 2016 4:03 am

Bernie Sanders can claim credit for moving the Democratic party closer to his own political creed, socialism, than any Democrat has cared or dared to do before. (AP Photo)

Bernie Sanders wins, even while losing

Michael Barone · June 9, 2016 4:01 am

Paul Ryan's hope is that serious policy work will gain traction within Team Trump. (AP Photo)

Saving public Ryan — and the party of ideas

Washington Examiner · June 9, 2016 4:01 am

At some point, colleges and universities will have to fight back against the weaponization of Title IX. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

Beltway Confidential

WSJ calls out Obama’s evisceration of due process on college campuses

Ashe Schow · June 8, 2016 7:22 pm

There is no question that long-term dependence on Russian engines is no longer acceptable. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

National Security

Russian rocket engines are essential — for now

William Shelton · June 8, 2016 5:43 pm

"I think a co-hosted World Cup with Mexico would be trickier if Secretary Clinton isn't in the White House," Gulati said Tuesday(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Beltway Confidential

How Trump threatens U.S. soccer’s success

Jason Russell · June 8, 2016 4:34 pm

Beltway Confidential

Millennials still not that excited by prospect of first woman president

Ashe Schow · June 8, 2016 3:55 pm

At least one academic study has found that central air conditioning significantly reduces the likelihood of death due to heat. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Europeans hate air conditioning. Americans hate letting grandma die of heat stroke.

Timothy P. Carney · June 8, 2016 12:55 pm

Donald Trump and Mitt Romney's final wins look basically similar. Romney won California with 79.7 percent of the vote, but Trump's winning total at the moment is 75.4 percent. (AP Photos)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Why it’s looking like 2012 over again

Byron York · June 8, 2016 11:14 am

Voters need the chance to read Clinton's specific thoughts on international trade years before she launched her bid for the White House. (John Taggart/Bloomberg, File)

Hillary is running, but she is also hiding

Washington Examiner · June 8, 2016 4:04 am

Timothy Roemer, right, and John Lehman were both members of the Sept. 11 Commission, and both have called for the release of the classified 28 pages of material. (AP Photo/Charlie Dharapak, File)

28 pages later

Jeremy Lott · June 8, 2016 4:03 am