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The Administration Explains Its Binary Choice on Roy Moore

The White House tries to square the Alabama circle...  Read more

Flying Blind in Alabama

There's more to this election than a simple win or loss for either candidate...  Read more

US airlines at odds over aviation agreements with Qatar and UAE

Several airlines -- comprised of Delta, United, and American Airlines -- and some members of Congress are petitioning the Trump administration address the billions of dollars they claim state-run Gulf carriers unfairly receive in government subsidies...  Read more

Same-sex wedding cake battle hits the Supreme Court Tuesday

The justices in Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission will look to decide the constitutionality of Colorado's public accommodations law forcing cake baker Jack Phillips to create speech that defies his religious beliefs...  Read more

5 key questions for the House-Senate tax negotiations

Congressional Republicans face two major constraints as they seek to conference the House and Senate versions of a tax bill...  Read more

Trump tees up welfare reform

With unemployment low and heading toward levels not seen since the days of the dotcom bubble, the country needs more people off government programs and in the workforce, it is argued...  Read more

Trump Loves Roy Moore and Orrin Hatch

Strange bedfellows...  Read more

Lawmakers enlist Mike Pence to protect reporters from Trump administration

Vice President Mike Pence in 2007 co-sponsored a bill called the Free Flow of Information Act, which was aimed at setting strict conditions for when the government can force reporters to give up their confidential sources...  Read more

A Tale of Two Americas

Our politics has never been worse; but the economy is doing great...  Read more

Democrats' straw man fights tax cuts

If you listen to partisan Democrats or to the New York Times editorial board, you get the impression that the tax bill before Congress is a gift to millionaires and billionaires, and Armageddon for the rest of us...  Read more

Acting HHS chief: Opioid epidemic is 'the crisis of our time'

Eric Hargan said President Trump's third-quarter salary donation would be used for the planning and design of a large-scale public awareness campaign about opioid addiction...  Read more

Republicans headed for showdown with themselves on tax reform

The Senate bill delays dropping the corporate tax rate to 20 percent until 2019, while the House bill kicks in the new rate immediately...  Read more

GOP donors in New York sour on party's tax plan

Wealthy Republican donors in the Northeast --like businessman, investor, and philanthropist Kenneth Langone -- have already had a difficult time funding a Trump-led party...  Read more

Trump to appear at campaign-style rally miles from Alabama border as special election looms

After promises from the White House he won't campaign for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, President Trump will hold a campaign-style rally in Pensacola, Fla., next Friday, just across the Alabama border...  Read more

Media figures apologize, sort of, for sexual misconduct

"To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry," Matt Lauer said...  Read more

How workplace gossip enables sexual harassers

The bigger question is how many other women were victimized because gossip was tolerated in the first place as a substitute for dealing with problem employees?...  Read more

Is Rexit Real?

Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo, and Tom Cotton play musical chairs...  Read more

The NFL Is Dying; Here's Why

Forget about politics and injuries and technology. Look at the economics of the business...  Read more