opinion

Why wages lag
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Jan 23, 2015
WASHINGTON — The great wage mystery deepens. In economic recoveries, there usually comes a time when strong job gains lead to strong wage gains. Busin...
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The GOP’s bait-and-switch on abortion
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Jan 23, 2015
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared on Tuesday to lay out his economic agenda in his State of the Union address, House Republicans were moving ah...
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Turning a deaf ear to the world
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Jan 22, 2015
WASHINGTON — In 1938, Winston Churchill published “While England Slept,” about Britain’s failure to prepare for the Nazi threat. Let’s hope that, when...
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The mushrooming welfare state
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Jan 22, 2015
WASHINGTON — America’s national character will have to be changed if progressives are going to implement their agenda. So, changing social norms is th...
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“Dynamic” deceptions
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Jan 20, 2015
WASHINGTON — The dustup over “dynamic scoring” is a small indicator of the routine irrelevancy of Washington’s budget debate. Instead of facing the re...
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Mitt’s third run would be no charm
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Jan 19, 2015
WASHINGTON — After his third loss, in 1908, as the Democratic presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan enjoyed telling the story of the drunk who ...
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In France, fuzziness on free speech
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Jan 19, 2015
WASHINGTON — I would have thought the French had a better sense of irony. One day they are marching in defiant support of offensive speech. The next t...
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Politics of symbolism over substance
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Jan 16, 2015
WASHINGTON — The Senate debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, as predictable as it is unedifying, exemplifies two of the most disturbing aspects of po...
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Volcker, Reagan and history
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Jan 15, 2015
WASHINGTON — It’s important to get history right — and economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has got it maddeningly wrong. Krugman recen...
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The Keystone catechism
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Jan 15, 2015
WASHINGTON — Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keys...
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Hyping Obama’s Paris fail
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHLEEN PARKER 
Jan 14, 2015
WASHINGTON — If we can be serious for a moment: The president made an error in judgment by not sending someone with a higher profile than our ambassad...
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Questions for a nominee
Editorials, Opinion
GEORGE F. WILL 
Jan 11, 2015
WASHINGTON — Senate confirmation hearings put nominees on notice that, as a Michigan state legislator reportedly once said, “I’m watching everything y...
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