Tag: Editorials

Economic mobility hinges not on forcible redistribution or on government programs, but on family values and involved communities. (iStock by Getty Images)

The American Dream is built on strong families

Washington Examiner · August 6, 2017 4:01 am

The bigger the government, the more the playing field is tilted to the big guys. (iStock by Getty Images)

To help the American Dream, get out of the way

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2017 9:48 pm

Russia is apoplectic about these sanctions. Russian President Vladimir Putin's right-hand man, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attacked Presidnet Trump in vituperative terms on Facebook. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Congress isn’t souring our relationship with Russia. Russia is.

Washington Examiner · August 3, 2017 7:39 pm

President Trump's nomination of Richard Spencer as Navy secretary was set for a committee hearing in June but was postponed due to Senate work on repealing and replacing Obamacare, according to an Armed Services aide. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

An immigration bill Congress should work on

Washington Examiner · August 3, 2017 4:01 am

Insurers, doctor and hospital groups have teamed up with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to ask Congress to continue paying Obamacare subsidies amid reports that President Trump wants to do away with them. The organizations said the uncertainty is creating turmoil on the individual insurance market. The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Time for multilateral tax reform disarmament

Washington Examiner · August 2, 2017 1:06 am

Kelly allows us the retain the hope that he can get the president to delete the Twitter app from his phone. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Gen. John Kelly, an adult in the West Wing

Washington Examiner · July 31, 2017 9:28 pm

Conservatives have never been big fans of the legacy news media. But, while anger and contempt are understandable responses to this bias, judicial censorship is not the answer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Judge not the media, lest ye be judged

Washington Examiner · July 31, 2017 4:01 am

President Trump reversed President Barack Obama's decision to lift a ban on transgender people serving in the military last week. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump right to reverse Obama’s transgender experiment on the military

Washington Examiner · July 30, 2017 4:02 pm

Blame for the Republicans' failure to repeal and replace Obamacare lies mostly at the feet of House and Senate leaders. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A succession of Republican failures on healthcare

Washington Examiner · July 29, 2017 4:01 am

Incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday that he's not accusing White House chief of staff Reince Priebus of being a leaker, but said if reporters think he is a leaker, Priebus should maybe explain himself. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Scaramucci and the need for control

Washington Examiner · July 28, 2017 4:01 am

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced the bill, which stalled last year in part because of the presidential election. (AP Photo/Rashah McChesney)

Republicans can’t afford to blow healthcare reform

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2017 4:01 am

Presidents are entitled to choose their cabinet members, and Trump is entitled to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he chooses. But the president's focus on this is inconsistent with his protestations that Russia is a red herring. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump, Sessions, and the whirlwind on the horizon

Washington Examiner · July 26, 2017 4:01 am