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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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