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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

GOP doesn't know how to rein in Elizabeth Warren's pet agency, the CFPB

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enemies are still trying to find a plan of attack...  Read more

Shooting Blanks

In an 1852 letter, Gustave Flaubert announced his ambition to write “a book about nothing, a book with no external attachments."...  Read more

Trump gambles big on Obamacare payments

President Trump's threat to use Obamacare payments to leverage support from Democrats follows one of his recommendations for business success in "The Art of the Deal,"...  Read more

White House to pull back Obamacare oversight

The Trump administration will be scaling back its oversight of Obamacare starting next year, moving some duties to the states, amid criticism from advocates that it will hurt patients...  Read more

Gorsuch gets major religious liberty case for his opening week on the Supreme Court

High court will hear arguments in a case pitting Missouri's Constitution against a church playground...  Read more

Calling out South Korean IP theft on fifth anniversary of trade deal

Over the five years since the United States and South Korea entered into the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, or KORUS, our ally has repeatedly backstabbed American biopharmaceutical firms and undercut their intellectual property rights...  Read more

Can Nixon Fade Into History While Our Current Era So Often Evokes Him?

A new biography takes a disinterested, but not uninteresting, look at our 37th president...  Read more

America First at a reformed, smaller, Ex-Im bank

"Instinctively, you would say, 'Isn't that a ridiculous thing?'" President Trump said this week of the Export-Import Bank, which extends taxpayer financing to foreign companies if they buy American goods...  Read more

How conservatives could benefit from Trump admin infighting

President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner may be ascendant, but don't count out the conservatives in the administration yet...  Read more