News flash: There’s a crisis at the border. This was discovered again over the past few days when immigration attorneys talked to reporters about appalling conditions at a Border Patrol facility detaining migrant minors in Clint, Texas. According to the lawyers, many of the kids had to sleep on the concrete floor, failed to get […]

WASHINGTON — We are now passing a significant milestone. The current economic expansion has become the longest in U.S. history. Previously, the record was the decade from March 1991 to March 2001 (120 months). When the present recovery enters July, it will mark the 121st month of expansion. Just how much longer it will last […]

By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post The first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 cycle, in Miami on Wednesday, marked the informal end of the campaign “preseason” and beginning of the real primary battle. In the lead-up, some critics anticipated that a format with 10 candidates and five moderators squeezed into just two hours (including […]

By Ed Rogers Special to The Washington Post Ten Democratic candidates stood shoulder-to-shoulder Wednesday night, trying to impress and distinguish themselves from their competitors. Another 10 candidates went at it Thursday night, and the analysis will congeal over the next several days. It is easy to overestimate the impact of these debates in the moment. […]

WASHINGTON — After President Trump called off a military strike on Iran for its downing of a U.S. military drone, some compared his decision to President Barack Obama’s shameful failure not to enforce his “red line” in Syria. Sorry, the two situations are completely different. Trump was right to show restraint, and his Iran policy […]

If the Istanbul electoral thrashing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received June 23 eventually topples him, Turkey’s citizens will prove once again they can protect their democracy from corruption by a hyper-empowered strongman and authoritarian Islamism. Erdogan is on the verge of destroying Turkish democracy. He is also an emerging threat to the integrity of […]

I never thought I would write this, but the publisher of The New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, is right. Sulzberger wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in response to President Trump’s claim that his newspaper committed “treason” by publishing a story about U.S. efforts to compromise Russia’s power grid should Moscow again try […]

Hypertourism has become the curse of desirable places all over the world. It refers to the swarms of tourists who clog the plazas and narrow streets of prized cultural destinations — Florence, Venice, Barcelona, Prague and others. Party cities, such as Amsterdam, where both prostitution and marijuana are mostly legal, draw especially low-quality tourists. But […]

WASHINGTON — Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most influential economists in the United States. But the 61-year-old’s authority does not stem from advancing an arcane scholarly finding. Nor has Mankiw coined some catchy phrase that captured the popular imagination (see, for example, “The Affluent Society” by the late John Kenneth Galbraith). […]

By Ed Rogers Special To The Washington Post The Democratic Party’s presidential primary debates this week are likely to be dominated by political posturing, parsing and pandering. But they don’t have to be that way. The debates, or at least a portion of them, could be quick and informative and not just filled with tiresome […]