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The Democratic Party’s low approval ratings have sent a stern message to its members. But what is it? Is it a failure to loudly fight an unpopular president on every matter? Is it anger over the party’s previous obsession with boutique causes — transgender rights, for instance — while ...
William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, was the last commander in chief born a British subject and the first member of the Whig Party to win the White House. He delivered the longest inaugural address in history, nearly two hours, and had the shortest presidency, being ...
How nice to have the Sydney Sweeney “great genes” controversy. It is happily of no consequence, which is just what we need for escape from unhinged behavior spilling out of Washington. Donald Trump’s sending nuclear subs toward Russia, a likely distraction from his tangle with Jeffrey ...
Donald Trump’s conquering of the country is complete. The blows he’s inflicted on American democracy will take a lifetime to heal. The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, a woman, for a poor jobs and growth report. That is a death knell — or a deep chill — for ...
Remember when then-candidate Donald Trump said during an Iowa campaign rally in 2016 that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” I quickly put that aside as just another example of the New Yorker’s outlandish braggadocio, ...
I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House, and by every labor economist and statistician I came in contact with, that one of my cardinal ...