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The Democrats' crusade to force a government shutdown in order to win permanent protections for "Dreamers" went down in flames Monday.
The alleged success of the California model is one of the more intense controversies in the nerdier corners of public policy debate.
What if diversity isn't our strength?
As a culture, we've elevated "authenticity" to a new form of moral authority. We look to our feelings for guidance.
"Fishermen, sharpen your hooks, bring out the cheese balls and grease your bicycles. Soon there's going to be trout fishing inside the Beltway."
There are plenty of shocking bombshells in Michael Wolff's new book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," but is there anything actually new?
Ever since Donald Trump touched the Orb, praise be upon it, I've been making "This is what you get when you touch the Orb" jokes.
Contrary to what many predicted, President Trump's end-of-year accomplishment list isn't that skimpy.
The Republicans are betting big on a parlay.
It's a puzzle. Over the last decade, Venezuela has supplanted Cuba as the Shangri-La of the American Left. Not long ago, self-declared socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders insisted that the American dream was more achievable in the Bolivarian Republic than in America. A string of Hollywood luminaries made the pilgrimage to visit the socialist Mecca to say ponderous and stupid things. Today, the praise is more muted,
The most important poll number to come out this week had nothing to do with defeated Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. It had to do with Fox News and Donald Trump. We'll get to the numbers in a minute.
Will the tax reform effort be the GOP's version of Obamacare? I don't know, and neither does anyone else. We have little idea what the final legislation will look like, and even if we did, it's hard to predict its overall effect.
What makes the decision controversial is that everyone had agreed to pretend it wasn't the capital in order to protect "the peace process."
If you're a normal person who pays attention to politics, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Washington can't decide whether deficits are bad or not. Well, I have one easy trick that will help you make sense of it all.
It was a crazy week, so you might have missed the news that The New York Times decided to operate like a super PAC.
It's amazing how complicated simple principles can become when they're inconvenient to your team.
There's a consensus aborning: There should be zero tolerance for sexual harassment, exploitation and violence of any kind. Enthusiasm for the new dawn varies widely. Some think it's a great feminist or moral awakening. Others see an era of witch hunts, prudery and weaponized politics in our future.
Toward the end of his 12-day trip to Asia, President Trump tweeted, "When will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing.
I'll cut to the chase: I think Roy Moore did it. And I can predict what Moore supporters will say: "Of course you would believe that!"
Politics is about addition, not subtraction. I don't know who first said it (the internet offers many possibilities), but it's an iron law of politics, not just democracy.
