DUBLIN — “When would you like to schedule your knee replacement surgery?” asked my American doctor before I left for Ireland? I gave him a date that works for me (I’m calling it the result of an old basketball injury, not advancing age). His office scheduled it for that date. Contrast this with a headline […]
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Petula Dvorak: Kids in military families deserve better than this
By Petula Dvorak The Washington Post America doesn’t care about kids. The evidence is all around us. Here we go again — our nation’s leaders are sticking it to kids. And in this case, it’s the kids of all those military men and women everyone likes to salute and praise and honor. When it’s convenient. […]
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Washington Post editorial: Stand with the people of Hong Kong
The following editorial appeared in The Washington Post: It’s not often that Congress is lobbied by tens of thousands of marchers in a foreign city who wave American flags and sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” while demanding action on a specific piece of legislation. But that’s pretty much what happened recently in Hong Kong, where a […]
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Marc Thiessen: CNN caught dealing in fake news
WASHINGTON — Here’s some advice for the media covering President Trump: If you don’t want to be accused of reporting fake news, don’t report fake news. Case in point: On Monday, CNN correspondent Jim Sciutto reported that a highly-placed U.S. intelligence source inside the Kremlin was pulled “in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump […]
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Rob Portman: The time is now to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement
By Rob Portman Special To The Washington Post Now that Congress has reconvened, we’ll have a choice to make — stand by an outdated, 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, or vote to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — a modern trade agreement that will create thousands of new American jobs. Democrats should be leading the […]
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Fareed Zakaria: Trump can still get a win on foreign policy
NEW YORK — As he moves on to his fourth national security adviser in less than three years, it has become clear that Donald Trump’s foreign policy is in shambles. It has produced turmoil but achieved almost nothing. Despite all the boasts, there are no new deals with China, Iran, North Korea, the Taliban, or […]
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Karl Smith: The good news about income inequality
By Karl Smith Bloomberg Opinion The headline from the U.S. Census Bureau’s report this past week on health insurance coverage was that the ranks of the uninsured swelled by almost 2 million Americans in 2018. But the larger trends illustrated in the report are more consequential — and more positive — for the U.S. economy. […]
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Robert Samuelson: Will the real poverty rate please stand up?
WASHINGTON — It has always been hard to measure poverty, because poverty is as much a state of mind as a condition of material well-being. Still, we seem to have made a bad situation worse. Consider the Census Bureau’s latest estimates. In 2018, the official poverty rate was 11.8%, down from 12.3% in 2017 and […]
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Ed Rogers, Democratic debate: Ranking the debates, from Warren to O’Rourke
By Ed Rogers The Washington Post The Houston Democratic presidential debate on Thursday did not produce breakout moments for any of the candidates. Instead, it consisted mostly of a jumble of promises, spending sprees and a litany of typical liberal positions. Some candidates pledged mostly free, immediate and unlimited health care; others called for reparations, […]
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Froma Harrop: Online baby pictures do not always amuse
My Facebook feed often carries pictures of children whom I don’t know and, in the case of sonograms, who aren’t even born yet. They are strangers to me, albeit cute strangers. If I’m very close to the sender, I’ll respond in a private message, “That’s the most beautiful baby I’ve ever seen,” and then move […]