Tag: OpinionDigest

Donald Trump has already peaked

Philip Klein · August 20, 2015 12:01 am

Given immigration's role in elevating Trump to a lead in Republican polls, his six-page immigration platform merits serious attention. (AP Photo)

Donald Trump’s half-serious, half-fantasy immigration plan

Michael Barone · August 19, 2015 10:33 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a town hall meeting Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Beltway Confidential

Hillary’s latest defense: What is classified information, anyway?

Byron York · August 19, 2015 8:30 pm

The U.N. vote on the Iran deal is one more example of this President Obama's blatant disregard for Congress. (AP File Photo)

National Security

Lindsey Graham’s threat could stop the Iran deal at the U.N.

George Phillips · August 19, 2015 4:01 am

The vast majority of Republican candidates are not like Donald Trump, as Hillary Clinton and the Democrats irresponsibly like to generalize.Â (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Trump isn’t all hot air on immigration

Red Jahncke · August 19, 2015 4:01 am

There's one potential reform most politicians won't touch, and it could be called the third rail of criminal justice reform: Leniency for violent offenders. (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

The third rail of criminal justice reform

Daniel Allott · August 18, 2015 9:40 pm

Members of Arkansas Democracy Coalition and other groups rally at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Speakers at the rally called for a constitutional amendment to overturn the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Economic liberty, free speech, spook the American Left

Timothy P. Carney · August 18, 2015 8:42 pm

Three settling ponds are used at Cement Creek, which was flooded with millions of gallons of mining wastewater, on August 11, 2015 in Silverton, Colorado. (Photo by Theo Stroomer/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

EPA makes a mess out West

William Balgord · August 18, 2015 4:01 am

When we were fighting alongside the Iraqis and bolstering their leadership, they would fight. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Why we’re losing in Iraq: We need troops on the ground

James Steele · August 18, 2015 4:01 am

When illegal immigrants elbow aside those who have queued patiently and those judged to be victims of repression, Leftists demand that they be allowed to stay.Â (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

What drives left-wing immigration policy?

Dan Hannan · August 17, 2015 2:01 pm

A poster of Cuba's Fidel Castro hangs on the wall of a food market next to plate that reads in Spanish "I'm looking at you" in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Obama is taking the wrong side in Cuba

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2015 4:01 am

Sanders has long styled himself a Socialist and seeks income redistribution; Corbyn wants government ownership of railroads and coal mines; and both look with favor on 90 percent tax rates. (AP)

The strange death of the center-left

Michael Barone · August 17, 2015 4:01 am