By Paul Waldman The Washington Post If a Democrat were president right now and the events of the last week in the Middle East had taken place, what would he or she be doing? For his part, President Donald Trump can’t seem to decide what to do. He started with some tough talk about Iran, […]
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Cal Thomas: Moving beyond those non-debate ‘debates’
By definition, what 14 million viewers watched on TV last Thursday night was not a debate — not even close. Here’s how dictionary.com defines “debate”: “A discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints … a formal contest in which the affirmative and negative sides of a proposition are advocated by […]
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Jennifer Rubin: This is the Kavanaugh mess we feared
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post In September 2018, I warned about the abbreviated FBI investigation into allegations that Brett Kavanaugh engaged in sexually aggressive behavior: “If Democrats retake one or both houses in November, they will be able to investigate, subpoena witnesses and conduct their own inquiry. The result will be a cloud over […]
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Stephen Carter: Study shows Electoral College could flip close elections
By Stephen L. Carter Bloomberg Opinion Advocates for reforming the Electoral College will doubtless get a boost by a new and important paper by University of Texas economists Michael Geruso, Dean Spears and Ishaana Talesara. They find that in close presidential elections, the probability of an “inversion” — the popular vote going one way and […]
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Froma Harrop: Public not warming up to Elizabeth Warren
Ed Rendell recently whacked Elizabeth Warren when she bashed Joe Biden for taking rich donors’ money. The former Pennsylvania governor wrote that he himself had run a “swanky” fundraiser for Warren’s Senate race, for which she thanked him royally. Furthermore, she transferred $10.4 million of her big-money hauls into her presidential campaign while bragging that […]
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Robert Samuelson: Should we love or hate ‘negative’ interest rates?
WASHINGTON — The idea that interest rates could be “negative” seems so counterintuitive that it defies easy understanding. Yet, here we are. Some foreign central banks (among them, the European Central Bank and the central banks of Denmark and Sweden) have adopted them. No less a figure than former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has […]
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Bloomberg: Attack on Saudi Arabia demands a united response
Bloomberg The attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas facilities in Abqaiq, which has suspended half of the kingdom’s processing — corresponding to 6% of world supply — is a blow to one of the main arteries of the global economy. The Trump administration should use the United Nations General Assembly this week in New […]
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Jennifer Rubin: Suburbs are the target audience for Democrats
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post ABC News reports: “Democrats say they are mounting a major push across battleground states to court suburban voters — a key voting demographic that was once the bedrock of the GOP but has been shifting away from the party in the era of President Donald Trump.” The report continues, […]
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Rich Lowry: President Trump is the ‘mad negotiator’
In the “fire and fury” phase of Donald Trump’s presidency, everyone worried that he would impulsively start a war with North Korea. The worry should have been that he would, almost on a whim, step across the Korean DMZ in a chummy photo-op with Kim Jong Un. Richard Nixon famously had his “madman” theory of […]
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Leonard Pitts: Arguments over electability are an annoying diversion
Our subject today is a word. It seems to be the word of the moment, at least on the political left. One can hardly read an opinion page or watch cable news without confronting this tiresome term, this irksome idiom. For the love of heaven, people, please stop saying “electability.” Note, please, that the last […]