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FERC needs a quorum

For more than two months, our five organizations have worked tirelessly – both in concert and individually – to urge the Trump Administration and Congress to re-establish a quorum of at least three commissioners at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)...  Read more

How Trump can squeeze Venezuela's tyranny

A regime that steals from American companies and encourages street violence against dissidents deserves to be cut off from the community of nations...  Read more

White House, Republican leadership downplay chances of quick healthcare deal

With few legislative accomplishments to tout at the end of the 100-day period, Trump's team has worked during recess on a potential healthcare deal...  Read more

On Al-Qaeda, Iran speaks with forked tongue

Iranian leaders were quick to criticize the April 7, 2017 U.S. missile strike against a Syrian airbase near Homs, that followed dictator Bashar al-Assad's use of sarin gas against his own people...  Read more

What on Earth Is Going on at the Claremont Colleges?

Five campuses, five boiling cauldrons of hostility to free speech...  Read more

Utah Republicans jockey to replace Chaffetz

The field of candidates is likely to take shape over the next 30 to 45 days...  Read more

Time for the GOP to get moving

My previous column ("The Trump Era's 5 Emerging Constituencies") critiqued the emerging political constituencies of the Trump era. Today's chronicles the major challenges confronting our two major parties as a divided nation seeks to find its way forward.  Read more

Justice Kennedy, tear down this wall

Battles over religious liberty sometimes resemble a schoolyard brawl, with adversaries hurling childish taunts at one another and hulking bullies preying on smaller, weaker opponents — think of the Obama administration's vicious and unrelenting attacks on the Little Sisters of the Poor...  Read more

Georgia race headed to runoff as GOP holds Ossoff below 50 percent

Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff fell below the 50 percent marker in Tuesday's special election, setting up a runoff on June 20 for Georgia's sixth congressional district...  Read more

With an Eye Toward Brexit, Britain Will Have a Snap Election on June 8

In April, May looks forward to June...  Read more

Toward a value-based model of healthcare

We've spent the last decade seriously debating healthcare reform in this country...  Read more

GOP divide over Obamacare bill deepens over Easter recess

A united Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare appears more and more out of reach after an Easter recess full of rowdy town halls, which have emboldened centrist Republicans to oppose an aggressive repeal of Obamacare being pushed by conservative Republicans and the White House...  Read more

Trump shows unusual brazenness on China currency flip-flop

A president flip-flopping on a promise to crack down on China's trade practices is not new. But what President Trump did was...  Read more

Cities will gain from open competition in water infrastructure

What's wrong with a little competition?...  Read more

California's Gas Tax Emits Political Hot Air

Even drivers of gasoline-free vehicles have to pay the ineffective levy...  Read more

Republicans dismiss 'liberal activists' behind angry town hall protests

Liberals are calling it "resistance recess," but Republicans are guardedly hoping that the rowdy town hall meetings they're facing back home represent a harmless burst of left-wing activism triggered by President Trump, instead of a real warning sign for the GOP in 2018...  Read more

Conservative group prods Trump to withdraw from Paris climate deal

The ad will be used to gain signatures for an online petition that will be sent to Trump, urging him to withdraw from the Paris agreement...  Read more

What makes Washington wealthy

The two richest counties in America, and five of the seven richest, are in commuting distance of D.C.  Read more