Articles filed under Commentary
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Whatever Trump does next, it has to be about jobs and wagesMar 29, 2017 1:00 am - What will President Trump do after the Obamacare debacle? For 48 hours, some Hill Republicans - and Trump himself - spoke as if the president and the GOP could smoothly,...
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Educational sabotageMar 29, 2017 1:00 am - By Walter E. Williams Nationally, black junior high and high school students are suspended at a rate more than three times as often as their white peers, twice as often ...
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How Trump can get his groove backMar 28, 2017 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson The central promise of the Trump administration - the repeal and replacement of Obamacare - has failed. The central premise of the Trump administration...
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Governing by ultimatumMar 28, 2017 1:00 am - By Kathleen Parker In a week that felt like a month, Americans got a clear view of Donald Trump's governing style and also of his fabled deal making approach. Or rather,...
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The system is workingMar 26, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump has virtually no experience running a government or reading the Constitution. But now he's getting a painful civics lesson about one of the principle pre...
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Slashing State Department's foreign exchange programs will harm U.S. Slashing State Department's foreign exchange programs will harm U.S.Mar 26, 2017 1:00 am - The headline number in the budget proposed by the Trump administration is a nearly 30 percent cut in funding for the State Department. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson c...
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Daughter's heroin death: A painful but crucial story to tellMar 25, 2017 2:00 pm - The first time Diane Dungey talked to Gary Fusz, he wasn't planning to write an essay of 1,600 words on the loss of his daughter to a heroin overdose. It was a few weeks...
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Neil Gorsuch steals the weekMar 24, 2017 1:00 am - Watching the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, one might easily find oneself wishing he were president of the United States. Alas, he's...
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Dear Trump supporters: Maybe you try to understand usMar 24, 2017 1:00 am - The windowsill over my kitchen sink is an altar of sorts, full of small framed photos of our grandchildren and other mementos to keep me grateful. The square ceramic ti...
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How pundits got key part of Trump-Russia story all wrongMar 23, 2017 1:00 am - A key talking point in the theory that Donald Trump and the Russians conspired in the 2016 election is the allegation that last summer, during the Republican convention,...