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No US president should bow or scrape

A meeting with the president is something earned, not given away casually...  Read more

The time has come to restore access to offshore energy resources

The U.S. is now the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas even as carbon dioxide emissions are at 20-year lows...  Read more

McFarland Waiting Out Her Replacement at National Security Council

What's the holdup? Deputy national security advisor K.T. McFarland is waiting to leave the White House to prepare for her new assignment as the U.S. ambassador to Singapore...  Read more

What do Republican centrists want from Obamacare repeal?

Roughly 20 centrist Republicans say they are opposed to a bill that would repeal and replace Obamacare, but few have articulated specifically what would need to be changed in the legislation to bring them to a "yes" vote...  Read more

Trump's takeover of the GOP, one year later

Indiana predicted Trump victory in the presidential election, winning Rust Belt states that hadn't gone Republican since the 1980s...  Read more

Despite majority, House Republicans struggle to govern

House Republicans, bedeviled by mistrust, infighting and influential outside forces, are struggling to advance an Obamacare repeal package and prove that their majority can deliver results...  Read more

The Entrepreneurial Spirit is Alive, Well, and Youthful

By most measures, Will Manidis is like many other American high school students...  Read more

White House Quietly Lobbying House Members on Obamacare Repeal

Pence is leading a gentler push for the AHCA...  Read more

The Wire Act was already restored

The Trump administration doesn't need to restore the act, a 2011 legal opinion already restored did...  Read more

Frustrated conservatives ready to start winning under Trump

Conservatives have been bothered by what they see as a lack of gumption in Republican leadership for over a decade...  Read more

New threat to Obamacare repeal: Republicans from Clinton districts

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce is a new addition to the ranks of the official undecideds...  Read more

Congress uses United incident to crack down on airlines' treatment of passengers

The April 9 incident, in which Chicago Air Police forcibly removed David Dao from a flight from Chicago to Louisville in order to find space for four United employees, upset many lawmakers...  Read more

Misunderstanding Pre-Existing Conditions Is Derailing the Health Care Debate

The president participates in a messy interview about the topic...  Read more

On healthcare, 'We have to do better'

Tennessee Rep. Diane Black is the first woman to chair the influential House Budget Committee...  Read more

As coal burns out, the race for natural gas is on

Appalachian coal country may have helped President Trump win the Oval Office, but it's not clear whether coal will have much to do with winning the future of the region...  Read more

Restoring American competitiveness

President Trump's corporate tax reform plan doesn't have much in the way of details, but it does have the right general shape...  Read more

The new/old politics of the capital versus the countryside

The countryside has serious grievances and majority numbers, but doesn't always find steady leadership...  Read more

The First Step Is Admitting You've Got a Problem

To restore free expression and the unfettered exchange of ideas to censorious college campuses, the nation's liberal thought leaders will have to admit we have a problem on our hands...  Read more