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Bernie Sanders Has a Strange Affinity for Strongman Daniel Ortega. He's Not...
Give The New York Times credit for publishing, over the weekend, a long investigative piece about the strange enthusiasm of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for the communist strongman...
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Don't Believe Bernie Sanders' Claims About Child Poverty in America
Claims that millions of Americans are mired in extreme poverty, barely surviving on $2 or $4 a day, are false, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The...
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Before Bashing Big Tech, Politicians Should Visit an Apple Store
Apple has built one of the most valuable companies in the world in part by telling customers not to buy its products and not to shop in its stores. That was the insight I gleaned after stopping in to...
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Sanders, Warren Compare Capitalists to Vampires, but Socialism Is What Really...
At the Democratic presidential debates this week and as the campaign heats up in the months ahead, listen for the word "suck." Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) has been using it frequently in...
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Warren Wants 'Big, Structural Change' That Goes Beyond Anything Previous...
"What if Washington stood up for the little guys (and gals) for a change?" asks the politician, proposing to "make it harder for the big banks and crooked CEOs to play games with our economy." "What...
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Biden's Age Matters, Even if Democrats Want To Ignore It
How old, exactly, is Joe Biden? At 76, he is older than Dan Quayle, whose term as vice president began more than 30 years ago. He's older than George W. Bush, whose term as president ended more than...
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Could a Warren/Sanders Team-up Topple Biden?
Call it the socialist scenario—the risk that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren could combine forces to defeat Joseph Biden in the Democratic primary. The RealClearPolitics polling averages have...
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With A Republican in the White House, Democrats Rediscover the Virtues of...
"An illegal assault on states' rights" is the phrase that the attorney general of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, is using to describe the Trump administration's effort to strike down California's strict...
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Elizabeth Warren's 'Wealth Tax' Is Punishment, Not Taxation
With four well-chosen words, Vice President Biden summed up the most important ideological dividing line in the Democratic presidential primary. The comment came at the third of three fundraisers...
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Does WeWork Work? Don't Write Off the Innovative Shared Office Concept Yet
The conventional wisdom about WeWork these days is that it is some kind of failure. The privately held company announced that its co-founder, Adam Neumann, would step down as CEO. It also withdrew the...
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Will Joe Biden Challenge Elizabeth Warren's Constitution-Shredding Proposals?
Joe Biden recently called for the impeachment of President Trump, explaining, "He is shooting holes in our Constitution. We cannot let him get away with it." Biden's concern for the Constitution is...
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In Debate Over Political Speech Online, Facebook Has the Constitution on Its...
As surely as winter follows fall, Republican election victories are followed by unconstitutional attempts to restrict political speech. The Nixon presidency brought the Federal Election Campaign Act...
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Did Elizabeth Warren Forget She's a Senator?
As a United States senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren is earning $174,000 a year. The least she could do is show up for work. Instead, Senator Warren's recent absenteeism has me—a Boston...
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Without the Soviet Union, NATO Seems Increasingly Irrelevant
President Trump's trip to London for the NATO summit is a reminder of the political importance of an enemy. The North Atlantic Treaty that came into force in 1949 does not mention the Soviet Union....
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Should Wall Street Be Worried by Potential Sanders, Warren Presidencies?
With Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) currently leading Democratic presidential polls in Iowa and New Hampshire—and with caucuses and the primary in those states less than a month away—it's time to start...
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What's Behind Bernie Sanders' Surge? The Same Discontent That Caused Trump's...
What do people see in Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)? "Nobody likes him," Hillary Clinton said recently. And yet with the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary rapidly approaching, the 78-year-old...
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Joe Biden Blocked Robert Bork's Supreme Court Nomination. Now, Biden Is...
Who is to blame for an electorate that values youth over experience, that has elevated Pete Buttigieg and Barack Obama over Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton? The culprit is, in a significant way, Biden...
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What Would Samuel Adams Think of Michael Bloomberg's Campaign?
This Presidents Day, I am thinking of John Hancock. Hancock was president of the Continental Congress, the body that named George Washington general of the Continental Army. Hancock was the Michael...
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Trial Lawyers Are Betting Big on Biden
A Joe Biden presidency would be a bonanza for plaintiff's lawyers. After his strong performance in the South Carolina Democratic primary and on Super Tuesday, Biden has been consolidating support...
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Pandemics Don't Kill Compassion. Actually, They Bring It Out.
"Pandemics Kill Compassion, Too," is the headline over a David Brooks column in the New York Times predicting that the coronavirus is about to "inflame class divisions." Well, if The New York Times...
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The Coronavirus Is Scary Enough. Governments Shouldn't Make It Scarier by...
Early in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's 2019 novel Fleishman Is in Trouble, there's a scene in which a man recently separated from his wife is interrogated by another parent in his child's class. It was a...
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People, Not Politicians, Will Decide When the Coronavirus Shutdown Ends
In the fight between the governors and President Trump over who has the authority to reopen America, the politicians have it wrong. It's not the politicians who have the power to reopen America, or at...
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Joe Biden's Latest Campaign Trail Target Is Milton Friedman. But Why?
Joe Biden has chosen an opponent for the 2020 general election—and it's not Donald Trump, but instead, of all people, an economics professor who died in 2006. "Milton Friedman isn't running the show...
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Prohibiting Religious Services Makes the First Amendment a Coronavirus Victim
A Massachusetts pastor, Kristopher Casey, will be punished with a $300 civil fine for convening more than 10 people at his Sunday church service. If he does it again, the fine will increase to $500,...
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Is the Stock Market's Response to COVID-19 Optimistic or Just Plain Nuts?
What accounts for the apparently dramatic mismatch between the stock market and the economy? Unemployment is the worst it has been since the Great Depression. Goldman Sachs says it could hit 25...
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Liberals Have Rediscovered the 10th Amendment's Value During the Coronavirus...
Amid the grim coronavirus news of death and unemployment, at least there is the comic relief of the left embracing the Tenth Amendment. Suddenly trendy is the provision of the Bill of Rights that "The...
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Professionalizing Police Hasn't Worked. Try Privatizing Instead.
The Minneapolis City Council's plan to dismantle the city's police department following the death of George Floyd in police custody has some people concerned about how order will be maintained...
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The University of Chicago Took a Stand for Free Speech. Faculty Say They Live...
In a 2017 New York Times column headlined "America's Best University President," Bret Stephens praised Robert Zimmer of the University of Chicago as a defender of free speech. The column quoted...
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Sluggishness of Police Reform Feeds Frustration
Twenty-five years ago, The Los Angeles Times published a two-part investigative series I wrote about fatal shootings by police in Ventura County. The first article quoted both grieving relatives and...
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What the Toronto Blue Jays' Infielders Can Teach Us About the Inheritance Tax
A fact from the world of sports with public policy implications: The Toronto Blue Jays have been starting an infield in which all four players are the sons of major league baseball players. The Blue...
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Tesla Making the S&P 500 Is Another Immigrant Success Story
The recent announcement by the Standard and Poor's 500 Index that Tesla Inc. would join the index of large U.S. stocks is the latest reminder of the importance of immigrants to America's success....
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The CDC's Rules Let Teachers, Lawyers, Media Jump to the Front of the COVID...
Education sector "support staff members," corporate tax lawyers, and magazine fashion editors will all jump to the front of the coronavirus vaccination line ahead of the general population, under...
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The Media Failed by Giving People What They Want
Concerned about deep political divisions ripping apart the United States? Relax—there's at least one issue on which there's an emerging consensus across the political spectrum. That is that the press...
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Does America Really Need the Foreign Agents Registration Act?
What do President Obama's White House counsel, President Trump's national security adviser, and campaign chairman, and a finance chairman of the Republican National Committee under George W. Bush have...
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Bipartisan Support of Child Tax Credits Is Too Hasty
The ink had barely dried on the American Rescue Plan Act signed into law by President Joe Biden before calls began to make permanent the expanded child tax credit that the law provides as a one-year...
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Here's How Biden's Proposed Tax Increases Will Affect You
"The largest federal tax increase since 1942," is how The New York Times, in a front-page news article, is describing President Joe Biden's plan for the American economy. The Times doesn't specify...
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The Bipartisan War on Work
President Joe Biden often talks about how his father used to tell him, "Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity." It's ironic, because on Biden's watch, a war on work...
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Democrats Try To Hide a $3 Trillion Tax Increase From Voters
Explaining a newly leaked House Ways and Means Committee plan to raise taxes by $3,000,000,000,000, a Wall Street Journal news article reports, "Rep. Richard Neal (D., Mass.), the committee chairman,...
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The Varsity Blues Trial Is a Reminder of Our Corrupt Criminal Justice System
A federal jury in Boston recently convicted Gamal Abdelaziz and John Wilson in connection with conspiring to get their children into the University of Southern California. The story is more newsworthy...
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Put the Whole Department of Transportation on Paternity Leave
The U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, "has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies," Politico reported on...
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Democrats' Proposed 'Billionaire Tax' Is Definitely a Wealth Tax, and It May...
President Joe Biden got himself elected partly by opposing the billionaires' wealth tax proposed during the primary campaign by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.). Now, in a...
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Ukraine Can't Defend Its Freedom With an Army of Conscripts
The Ukrainian leader seeking the free world's help to fight off a Russian invasion is refusing to allow Ukrainian men to flee with their families to safety. "The Ukrainian government has mandated that...
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Biden Is Trying To Pass a Wealth Tax—Again. It Could Be Unconstitutional.
President Joe Biden got elected in part by portraying himself as a moderate, rejecting calls for a wealth tax by his primary campaign rivals, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Bernie Sanders...
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Republicans Taking Aim at Disney Is a Reminder That Both Parties Are Hostile...
Republicans are taking aim at Disney over the media company's opposition to a new Florida law that critics call the "don't say gay" legislation. "For Disney to come out and put a statement and say...
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Pete Buttigieg Is Moving to Michigan. He Should Take the Transportation...
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who ran for president in 2020 on his record as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is changing his official residence to Traverse City, Michigan, and will vote...
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R.I.P. David McCullough, Who Saw the Bright Side of History
One of the first things I did after signing a contract to write a biography of Samuel Adams was to try to hire Mike Hill, a researcher who worked with David McCullough on his John Adams. Hill, who has...
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Biden Shouldn't Meet Xi Jinping in China. He Should Do It in America.
The news that President Joe Biden is preparing to meet face-to-face in Asia in November with the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping, broke shortly after I'd finished reading a...
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The Press Idolizes Politicians. Instead, It Needs To Hold Them Accountable.
"The present state," the editors wrote, "seemed to require some extraordinary effort in the cause of freedom." The writers linked what they described as the sorry state of the world to the...
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