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Trails of the Jazz Age

Do we need another biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald?...  Read more

Trump Still Silent on Latest London Terror Attack

Where is President Trump’s response to the terrorist attack in London?...  Read more

Can Trump Bring Peace to Israel and Palestine?

The odds for any administration are low but his quest for personal glory might motivate him...  Read more

Mega stakes as defense companies face deadline on Air Force trainer bid

Lockheed Martin and Boeing are set to turn over flight performance data to the Air Force on their proposals for the T-X jet...  Read more

Rising to the Occasion

Journals like this one exist, generally speaking, not to praise politicians but to chastise, to upbraid, or at least to criticize them...  Read more

Lawmakers grapple with how to build from Trump's 'infrastructure week'

The Trump administration says it would use tax breaks to incentivize private business to spend more money on infrastructure projects...  Read more

Did Obamacare's individual mandate work?

Under Obamacare, the penalty for not having health insurance is $695 for an individual, or 2.5 percent of income, whichever is higher...  Read more

There's method in Jim Mattis

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis visited Capitol Hill last week and gave Congress an important message...  Read more

Bipartisan sentiment in Congress unlikely to last despite baseball game distraction

Terence Mann once told Ray Kinsella in the 1989 classic movie "Field of Dreams" that baseball "reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again."...  Read more

Senate Passes Sanctions on Iran and Russia

The upper chamber goes for the double whammy...  Read more

Nearly half of renters paying too much for housing

Forty-eight percent of renters, or 21 million people, spent more than 30 percent of their income on rent in 2015, according to a new report...  Read more

Close Virginia race shows Trump poses risks to Republican incumbents

Polls and GOP politicos had predicted that the establishment-backed Ed Gillespie would win in a rout, but he was nearly upset by an enthusiastic Trump supporter...  Read more

Republicans have already given up on repealing and replacing Obamacare

The contents of the emerging Senate healthcare bill are the best-kept secret in Washington...  Read more

Possible obstruction of justice probe hasn't changed Trump team's plan, yet

An expanding federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is placing President Trump in its crosshairs while the Trump camp and allies cry foul over what may be yet another leak...  Read more

Trump's expected reversal on Cuba is a victory for freedom

With no change in human rights in Cuba, American dollars will be spent funding authoritarian repression and a regime that has historically supported insurrectionism across Latin America...  Read more

The Real Story Behind the Diplomatic Crisis With Qatar

It’s not the principled stand against support for terror that it seems to be...  Read more

Lawmakers weigh security boost after baseball practice shooting

House Speaker Paul Ryan led a bipartisan meeting Wednesday about enhancing congressional protection, but nothing has been decided yet...  Read more

Be civil, but don't blame incivility for attempted murder

Rep. Chris Collins' mistake in attributing the shooting to heated rhetoric is tempting amid virulent opposition to the president and similar statements from Democrats, but it divorces the culprits from personal responsibility...  Read more