The field of candidates is likely to take shape over the next 30 to 45 days... Read more 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 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 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 In April, May looks forward to June... Read more We've spent the last decade seriously debating healthcare reform in this country... Read more 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 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 What's wrong with a little competition?... Read more Even drivers of gasoline-free vehicles have to pay the ineffective levy... Read more 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 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 The two richest counties in America, and five of the seven richest, are in commuting distance of D.C. Read more The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enemies are still trying to find a plan of attack... Read more In an 1852 letter, Gustave Flaubert announced his ambition to write “a book about nothing, a book with no external attachments."... Read more 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 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 High court will hear arguments in a case pitting Missouri's Constitution against a church playground... Read more
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