Tag: Editorials

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., takes a question from a reporter following a meeting with President Donald Trump on his tax reform agenda on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017.

Economic growth is halfway there, livin’ on a prayer

Washington Examiner · October 30, 2017 4:01 am

President Donald Trump speaks from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump and Catholics quietly agree on refugees

Washington Examiner · October 29, 2017 4:01 am

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt attends a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump, Monday, June 12, 2017, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Good riddance to the ‘sue and settle’ regulatory process

Washington Examiner · October 28, 2017 12:16 pm

The most important causes may be out of the reach of policymakers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump knows there’s no silver bullet for the opioid epidemic

Washington Examiner Staff · October 27, 2017 4:01 am

Both Hillary Clinton's involvement in the sleazy 'Trump dossier,' and her team's coverup of wrongdoing, are par for the course she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, set back in Arkansas in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The ‘Trump dossier,’ like so much else, is due to the corruption of the Clintons

Washington Examiner · October 26, 2017 4:01 am

Republican Party is a broken marriage

Washington Examiner · October 25, 2017 4:01 am

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told "Meet the Press" viewers, "I didn't know there was a thousand troops in Niger." Graham, who sits on the Armed Services Committee, has attempted for years to cultivate his image as a knowledgeable foreign policy hawk.

Congress AWOL in the War on Terror

Washington Examiner · October 24, 2017 4:01 am

Congressional Republicans should return to the table with a simple demand that if Democrats get subsidies for insurance companies, states get the freedom to set up a free market in health insurance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP’s chance to get health insurance market freedoms

Washington Examiner · October 23, 2017 4:01 am

Members of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) celebrate at stadium that was the site of Islamic State fighters' last stand in the city of Raqqa, Syria, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Syrian Kurdish-led forces backed by the U.S. declare victory in the devastated northern city of Raqqa days after it cleared it from members of the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Asmaa Waguih)

Destruction of the Islamic State is not yet mission accomplished

Washington Examiner · October 22, 2017 4:01 am

The notice of denial would appear to be the final chapter in a protracted attempt by former Trump adviser Carl Icahn to change the rules so that fuel retailers, instead of refiners, would have to meet the EPA blending requirements. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Trump’s EPA falls off the wagon, and demon ethanol wins again

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2017 4:01 am

White House chief of staff John Kelly explained in an emotional briefing Thursday that he advised Trump to praise a fallen soldier's bravery when calling the soldier's family (although he advised Trump against calling at all), because it was what his son's friends told him over the phone when his son died in Afghanistan in 2010. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s counterproductive counterpunching

Washington Examiner · October 20, 2017 4:01 am

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2017 file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown gestures while speaking in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file)

California, the sanctuary state, will reap the whirlwind

Washington Examiner · October 19, 2017 4:01 am