While speaking to business leaders at the Davos Economic Forum in January, President Trump declared the United States open for business. “America first does not mean America alone,” Trump insisted. “When the United States grows, so does the world.” But as is usually the case when the president is expressing …
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Ireland’s abortion laws are among the most restrictive in the developed world, but that appears soon to changeaccording to exit polls conducted by The Irish Times. If the final vote tally mirrors the exit polls, it will bea major win for women’s rights, repealing a constitutional amendment that forbade abortions …
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Though a group of Republican governors have joined their colleagues in Congress promoting President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, the concept still seems like a pipe dream, particularly after Tuesday. Following a week of violent conflict in the Middle East stemming from Trump’s decisions to axe the Iran deal …
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On March 1st, Gov. Rick Scott did something shocking. He showed up unannounced on the floors of the Florida state Senate and House of Representatives and asked lawmakers to break from their business to hear from a supporter of gun control. A week earlier, Scott had urged lawmakers to draft …
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Everyone in official Washington is whispering about the next shoe to drop in the ongoing Russia investigation. Last week, after the House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to declassify a Democratic memo responding to the highly partisan and seemingly incomplete memo penned by Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes, President Trump’s government …
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Following filibusters from both sides of the aisle – including a late-night stand by Republican Sen. Rand Paul that briefly shut down the government – Congress has passed a massive spending bill that will keep the government open through September 2019, at a cost of $320 billion in new debt. …
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January 2018. We’re trapped in an intellectual prison from which there is no escape. The modern American experience has been reduced to a few grim lines: President Donald Trump says something crazy; we freak out. A leak comes out; we obsess over it. Someone gets fired; the deck chairs on …
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In May 2015, the Council for National Policy, an elite organization of conservative leaders, held a strategy session at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The mood among conservatives was bleak. A month later, the Supreme Court would decide the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, …
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