More than 8 in 10 describe President Donald Trump as ‘a racist,’ Post-Ipsos poll finds.
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The Strzok hearing damaged our democracy
Tempers boiled over on Capitol Hill Thursday as Peter Strzok, the FBI official at the center of President Donald Trump’s attempts to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller, testified before a joint meeting of two House oversight committees. With all its yelling and interruptions, the hearing was a fitting coda to the hyperpartisan farce of an […]
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Deficit addiction becomes a bipartisan norm
WASHINGTON — History is what we make of it — and sometimes we make a real hash. I take as my text for the sermon that follows an op-ed essay in The New York Times this week by Times’ columnist David Leonhardt. The headline tells it all: “Democrats, the Real Fiscal Conservatives.” Are you kidding? […]
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Yellen’s leadership spurred economy
WASHINGTON — One of Washington’s permanent parlor games is how much credit or blame a president deserves for the state of the economy. Inevitably, then, the question being asked now is whether Donald Trump or Barack Obama created today’s strong economy. The correct answer is: neither. To the extent that personal responsibility can be assigned, […]
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Europe doesn't like what it sees in U.S.
WASHINGTON — President Trump might do the world a perverse favor. Voters in Western Europe appear to be looking at what America has brought upon itself and deciding: “We sure as heck don’t want to go there.” Thus did the Netherlands slap back the ethno-nationalist far right in its elections last week. The forces of […]
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What is the stock market saying?
WASHINGTON — Just whether the sharp selloff of stocks signals an economic slowdown or recession is an open question. Most economists seem to think not. Strong job growth (2.7 million more payroll jobs in 2015) and low interest rates will sustain slow but steady growth. Still, the dramatic stock market decline raises other possibilities. In […]
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President Obama left with nothing to say
The presidency has changed Barack Obama. His hair has gone gray, which is to be expected, and he looks older, which is also to be expected, but his eloquence has been replaced by petulance and he has lost the power to persuade, which is something of a surprise. You can speculate that if the Barack […]
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Robert Samuelson: Pluses, minuses to U.S.-China emissions agreement
By Robert Samuelson The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The United States-China agreement on climate change is a huge political triumph, possibly “historic,” as its supporters say. Whether it much alters the world’s climate is a more open question. Recall the agreement’s outlines. By 2030, China pledges to reach peak emissions of global greenhouse gases and […]