February 17, 2019, 6:01am Columns
In 1994, the Clinton administration decreed a bright shining future for education. Its Goals 2000 legislation proclaimed that by that year America’s high school graduation rate would be 90 percent and American students would lead the world in math and science achievements. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., was unimpressed: “That… Read story
February 17, 2019, 6:00am Columns
Outsize attention has been paid to outlier Democrats making outrageous remarks. They are a small handful of House Democrats, though you’d never know it, given all their headlines. Read story
February 15, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The decision by Virginia’s top three elected officials to hunker down and cling to their jobs is bad for both the state and the Democratic Party. If they won’t go, the only thing to do is investigate them all. Read story
February 14, 2019, 6:01am Columns
As stories go, the face-off between Jeff Bezos and David Pecker (paging Charles Dickens) has all the elements of a 21st-century battle royale between good and evil, represented by the richest man in the world, who happens to own The Washington Post, and the pied piper of sleaze, respectively. Read story
February 13, 2019, 6:01am Columns
It is said that the best lies have a grain of truth in them. That’s the ideal way to characterize President Trump’s assertion in the State of the Union address that “African-American, Hispanic-American and Asian-American unemployment have all reached their lowest levels ever recorded.” Read story
February 12, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Since politics in 2019 is the art of making the other party look worse, President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was a partisan home run. Read story
February 11, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The most dangerous place for black people to live is in white people’s imagination. Read story
February 10, 2019, 6:02am Columns
It’s kind of like planning a wedding, with one major caveat. You set a date and hire a caterer and order flowers and pick a DJ — and then you hope to find a spouse. Read story
February 10, 2019, 6:01am Columns
At the White House celebration of a planned new factory in Wisconsin — “the size of three Pentagons” — the Great Negotiator was all smiles. That would be Terry Gou, CEO of the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn. Read story
February 10, 2019, 6:01am Columns
With Democrats embracing neo-socialist policies to eliminate private health insurance and fossil fuels, America’s political center is up for grabs. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump made a concerted — if belated — play for it. Read story
