WASHINGTON
Along the East River, which is not really a river (it is a 16-mile-long tidal estuary), perhaps 20,000 people actually chose to spend a gorgeo…
Donald Trump, an ongoing eruption of self-refuting statements (“I’m a very stable genius” with “a very good brain”), is adding self-impeachmen…
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HONG KONG
Let us now praise an insufficiently famous man, Nevada’s Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who in May gave his party’s presidential aspirants a m…
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Watching Democratic presidential aspirants is like watching, a century ago, the 1919 World Series, when discerning spectators thought: Some of…
Thirty months after setting the goal of sending a mission 239,000 miles to the moon, and returning safely, President John Kennedy cited a stor…
On this 243rd anniversary of the beginning of the best thing that ever happened — “The Great Republic” was Winston Churchill’s tribute — many …
“You Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause.”
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The progressive catechism teaches that there is “too much money” in politics. A codicil to this tenet, written in fine print, is that the term…
Pursed lips and clucked tongues signaled disapproval among the wise and responsible when, at a recent televised event, Sen. Bernie Sanders, th…
In 1964, although there was scant chance that Americans would choose to have a third president in 14 months, Lyndon Johnson took no chances. T…
Robert Mueller’s report is a gift to the nation, which now knows what was already a reasonable surmise: that its chief executive’s unlovely ad…
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There have been many memorable — and eventually consequential — Supreme Court dissents that affirmed principles that, in time, commanded a cou…
In 1994, the Clinton administration decreed a bright shining future for education. Its Goals 2000 legislation proclaimed that by that year Ame…
Surely the silliest aspirant for the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination is already known: “Beto,” aka Robert Francis, O’Rourke is a skate…
Back in the day, small rural airports had textile windsocks, simple and empty things that indicated which way the wind was blowing. The ubiqui…
The poet Rupert Brooke voiced the exhilaration of those Britons who welcomed the war in 1914 as a chance to escape monotonous normality, “as s…
Armin-Paulus Hampel, a former journalist and commentator who now is a member of the Bundestag, is ebullient, affable, opinionated, voluble and…
“The money man dealing himself a hot royal flush. Then giving you and me a phony hand like a pair of tens or something.”
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