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Federal Criminal Justice Reform Takes a Big First Step Forward Jul. 26, 2019
Within hours after the First Step Act went into effect last Friday, 3,100 inmates qualified for rele... Read More
Trump Might Excuse a Murder to Advance a Big Arms Sale, but Congress Must Not Jul. 26, 2019
Ignoring strong objections from his fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump has vetoed a bipartis... Read More
Trump, the Fed and Our Resilient Economy Jul. 14, 2019
What sort of machine is the economy? The common conception is that it's a fragile and sensitive devi... Read More
Blame Wilbur Ross' Clumsy Lies for the Census Mess: The Commerce Secretary Could Easily Have Reinstated the Citizenship Question If He'd Been Less Transparently Dishonest Jul. 10, 2019
If you want to understand why the Trump administration is scrambling at the last minute to include a... Read More
Bigotry, Misogyny in U.S. Border Patrol Merits Congressional Probe Jul. 08, 2019
Democrats are calling for the firing of Border Patrol agents who posted vulgar images of Rep. Alexan... Read More
Trump Is Dealing With a Mass Murderer Jul. 08, 2019
Few aspects of the Trump administration are as fraught with peril or with promise than President Don... Read More
Salvadoran President Tries a Fresh New Approach to Accountability Jul. 05, 2019
The recently inaugurated president of El Salvador said something this week that really needed to be ... Read More
How Not to Score a Goal in the Global Trade War Jul. 04, 2019
President Donald Trump likes to keep score. Well, here's a score for him: America, zero; while the r... Read More
More Chaos Than Clarity in Trump's Handling of Border Migratory Flood Jun. 27, 2019
For far longer than the 2 1/2 years President Donald Trump has been in office, he has tried to whip ... Read More
Trump Says He'd Take Foreign Election Help. Where's the GOP's Outrage? Jun. 14, 2019
Even as America continues debating whether President Donald Trump encouraged foreign meddling in the... Read More
Will the Real Tariff Man Please Stand Down? Jun. 13, 2019
The air always swirls with popular myths that, when repeated constantly, are taken by some to be ind... Read More
So Far, Trade War 2019 Risks Red Ink, Not Blood Jun. 13, 2019
This summer, the Trump administration is conducting two calculated national security operations in w... Read More
Trump Administration Parts Ways With Jun. 13, 2019
Religious conservative lawmakers seem hellbent on prompting legal challenges to the abortion issue u... Read More
Short Takes on Unlikely GOP-Democrat Pairings Jun. 10, 2019
Thunder on K Street Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ted Cruz teaming up to push for lobbying ... Read More
Trump's Shelving of Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Sends a Message Voters Should Heed. Jun. 06, 2019
The Trump administration couldn't have sent a clearer message about its disregard for the race and g... Read More
A Dark Truth Emerges About Why a Citizenship Question Was Sought on the Census. Jun. 05, 2019
The computer hard drives of a deceased Republican political operative have revealed, indisputably, t... Read More
Bullying and Coercion Never Works With Mexico. So Why Is Trump Trying It? Jun. 04, 2019
President Donald Trump's latest plan to stem migrant crossings at the southern border is to impose a... Read More
GOP Leaders Must Draw the Line on Trump's Political Campaigning With Troops Jun. 04, 2019
For very good reasons, the Pentagon has long forbidden U.S. troops from engaging in political activi... Read More
Mueller Slow to Speak Jun. 03, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller broke his long silence Wednesday, telling a news conference his two-y... Read More
What Happened to Bill Barr? Jun. 03, 2019
I knew him back when we were both law clerks fresh out of school — he for one of the most cons... Read More
