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Alawite insurgents are trying to foment sectarian conflict to undermine and destabilize the interim Syrian government.
Health insurance subsidies are under scrutiny. Instead of selective cuts, Congress should simplify the enrollment rules, treat individuals with similar incomes more equally regardless of where they ...
As laboratories dismiss staff and halt clinical trials, and as countries like France actively recruit American scientists, it’s worth questioning whether short-term budgetary gains justify potentially ...
If implemented, the tariffs announced yesterday by President Trump would constitute the largest tax increase since the 1968 levies to fund the Vietnam War. The details will matter, but my back ...
The growing appetite for reliable, clean power has helped thrust nuclear energy back into the national conversation after decades of declining fortunes. Yet this nuclear resurgence faces formidable ...
This isn’t about the merits of US tariff policy, because we still don’t have one. Yesterday’s rollout was not credible. First, the administration was unable to choose a path until very late ...
It was a “naughty document,” Winston Churchill admitted.In October 1944, the British prime minister proposed that he and Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin avert postwar conflict by splitting the ...
There is a great deal of pearl-clutching going on in the halls of intellectual excellence in Washington DC. Donald Trump, we are reliably informed, is definitely going to pull the United States out of ...
In the education world over the past few years, a lot of attention has been paid to phonics and balanced literacy and the ways in which reading instruction practices often don’t align with what ...
I was there at the dawn of the New Right. In December 2016 I spoke at a conference in Glen Cove, New York, on the Christian-Jewish Alliance: Reclaiming and Rebuilding Conservatism.My topic: Donald ...