Tag: Commentary

The Obama administration announced plans Friday to ban federal agencies from asking job seekers about their criminal records when they first apply for work. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Helping ex-cons return to work

Washington Examiner · May 2, 2016 11:03 am

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: With time running out, Ted Cruz makes stand in Indiana

Byron York · May 2, 2016 4:46 am

Insurers still have ways of imposing undue costs and burdens on customers — particularly those suffering from chronic and serious health conditions. (iStock photo)

It’s time to end all types of healthcare discrimination

Carl Schmid · May 2, 2016 4:03 am

On the surface it all looks to be about expanding the frontiers of freedom. But it's not. (Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

What the ‘bathroom wars’ tell us about our culture

Kim Holmes · May 2, 2016 4:02 am

Brokering a convention, part VI

Hugh Hewitt · May 1, 2016 9:21 pm

The lower classes have seen significantly slower income growth than the rich and the upper-middle class, a dynamic that a scholar suggested could cause resentment and might be behind the strong support for outsider political candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. (AP Photos)

Republicans should have adopted Democrats’ rules — and vice versa

Michael Barone · May 1, 2016 9:00 pm

In the 1970s, Gary's steel works employed 30,000 people. But by the Clinton era, the number working there was 6,000. Today it's about 5,000 and shrinking. (AP Photo/Michael S. Green, File)

Beltway Confidential

A tale of two Indianas

David Freddoso · May 1, 2016 1:25 pm

That Trump might reach that magic number of bound delegates is not impossible, but he is likely to be close, and to claim that he has enough unbound delegates to put him over the top. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

What a contested convention would look like

Trevor Potter · May 1, 2016 4:02 am

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Heidi Cruz says ‘Ted is an immigrant’

Byron York · April 30, 2016 11:50 pm

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive for the International Jazz Day Concert on the South Lawn of the White House of the Washington, Friday, April 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama report card: Lousy economy, Syria plague legacy

Paul Bedard · April 30, 2016 11:00 am

Trump has been helped as much by the system as he has been hurt by it. The Acela primaries are a case in point. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

No contest: Is Trump becoming the convention’s only viable option?

W. James Antle III · April 30, 2016 6:04 am

The U.N. estimates that there are 27 to 30 million men, women and children enslaved today, more than at any time in human history. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

Ending the abomination of modern slavery

Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie · April 30, 2016 4:02 am