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If Democrats are inclined in 2020, as they were in 1960, 1988, and 2004, to nominate a presidential candidate from Massachusetts, they could do a lot worse than choose former governor Deval Patrick, who told an interviewer recently that a bid for the White House "is on my radar screen."
The job Roy Jones landed at Marriott International's "customer engagement" center in Omaha didn't pay much. He got $14 an hour to work the night shift monitoring Marriott's accounts on Twitter and other social-media platforms.
As it turned out, Barack Obama's super-secret speech at MIT last month — the one that was so far off the record that no one was permitted to stream it, or talk about it to the press, or comment about it on social media — contained nothing that remotely justified such hugger-mugger.
Forty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that where a union represents public employees, even workers who don't join the union can be forced to pay "agency fees" as a condition of the job.
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Poland and Israel are embroiled in a diplomatic crisis, the worst between the two countries since the Cold War ended 30 years ago.
In the desert outside San Diego, tactical teams assigned to U.S. Customs and Border Protection have been testing eight prototypes for the "great, great wall on our southern border" that Donald Trump has been calling for since the day he began his campaign for president. The panels are 30 feet high and 30 feet long, and cost an average of $450,000 each. They are made of solid concrete or a steel-and-concrete combination. According to Fox News, teams have spent three weeks trying to breach and scale the giant wall sections, "using jackhammers, saws, torches and other tools and climbing devices." So far they have proved virtually impassable.
President Trump last week slapped steep tariffs on imported solar cells and washing machines, in order, he said, to "benefit our consumers and . . . create a lot of jobs." The likelihood of achieving either of those goals is nil.
When the financially struggling Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass., publicly announced last July that it had decided to sell 40 items from its vast holdings — a 40,000-piece collection encompassing art, science, and history — it knew there would be pushback.
It has been a fixed rule of American commerce for 50 years that businesses cannot be compelled to collect taxes for states with which they have no physical connection.
It has been nearly a month since Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the most sweeping overhaul of the tax code since the 1980s. Of the 185-page bill's many provisions, perhaps the most consequential is a reduction in the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent.
Oprah Winfrey's speech at the Golden Globes last Sunday set off a gusher of giddy speculation that the much-loved TV host could be a Democratic contender for president in 2020, and if the idea of electing to the White House a celebrity billionaire with no political experience or public-policy expertise might have seemed like crazy talk not all that long ago — well, after the 2016 election cycle, who would be so foolhardy as to rule out Oprah's chances?
No one likes to admit having been wrong. It's especially tough for members of the pundit class, whose job amounts to telling people what to think. So when National Review's critic-at-large Kyle Smith last week published a piece with the headline "We Were Wrong About Stop-and-Frisk," people noticed.
There is a moment in "1776," the acclaimed musical about the American founding, in which Benjamin Franklin explains to the Second Continental Congress why he can no longer think of himself as an Englishman.
African-Americans constitute 26 percent of Alabama's people, but they accounted for 29 percent of the voters in last month's special election for the U.S. Senate.
Did Russia wage a cyber offensive against the United States last year in an attempt to undermine Hillary Clinton and influence the presidential election? Almost certainly.
Among the low points of the Obama administration's final weeks was its refusal to veto a blatantly anti-Israel resolution in the UN Security Council.
Canada's single-payer health care system has many American fans. The reality of single-payer doesn't live up to the hype.
A disturbing paradox of social networking is the way it turns isolation into a distortion of community: fake society.
