Politics

Peter Schuck: How About Visas for Syrian Defectors?

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
Here's a low-cost way to finish off the Assad regime.


Jenkins: Wireless War Without End?

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
Washington has created a lobbying standoff between the wireless and broadband industries that's only going to delay a fix for the spectrum shortage.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
Henry Hazlitt on the risks of government loans to the private sector.


Miles and Rouse: After the Merger, How Not to Lose Customers

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
Customer defections are a major reason why more than half of all mergers fail to improve shareholder value.


Hassett and Hubbard: Romney vs. Obama on Corporate Tax Reform

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
By proposing special breaks for manufacturing, Rick Santorum follows the president's incorrect lead and introduces a significant economic distortion.


When the Scholar Was a Soldier

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
The "Wartime Journals" of Hugh Trevor-Roper provide fascinating insight into the British scholar as well as the war. Brendan Simms reviews.


A political tip sheet for the rest of us

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway for Southern Tuesday, March 13:...

Born-again Christians dominate GOP vote in AL, MS

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White born-again and evangelical Christians were dominating Alabama's and Mississippi's Republican presidential primaries on Tuesday, showing up in numbers unsurpassed by any state where voters have been polled so far this year, according to preliminary results of exit polls of voters....

Romney will pass on NCAA tournament predictions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Mitt Romney clearly is not running to be the nation's top sports fan....

Romney will pass on NCAA tournament predictions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Mitt Romney clearly is not running to be the nation's top sports fan....

AFL-CIO boosts ground support for Obama, Democrats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The AFL-CIO formally endorsed President Barack Obama's re-election bid Tuesday, saying it would mount a vast door-to-door effort for Democratic candidates in response to the flood of outside political money that conservative groups are pouring into the campaign....

AFL-CIO boosts ground support for Obama, Democrats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Labor unions, saying they can't hope to compete with the new breed of conservative fundraising groups, plan to spend less money this year on specific candidates and political party organizations and more on door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and registration drives to help President Barack Obama and other Democrats....

AFL-CIO boosts ground support for Obama, Democrats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The AFL-CIO formally endorsed President Barack Obama's re-election bid Tuesday, saying it would mount a vast door-to-door effort for Democratic candidates in response to the flood of outside political money that conservative groups are pouring into the campaign....

Obama warns China against 'skirting the rules'

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned China Tuesday that it would not be allowed to gain a competitive advantage in world trade by "skirting the rules."...

Obama warns China against 'skirting the rules'

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned China Tuesday that it would not be allowed to gain a competitive advantage in world trade by "skirting the rules."...

Best of the Web Today: Where's the Afterglow?

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
Sex doesn't sell Barack Obama.


Gettysburg gift store pulls Booth bobblehead dolls

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale in Gettysburg National Military Park's visitors' center.

Dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were taken off bookstore shelves Saturday, a day after a reporter from Hanover's The Evening Sun ...

Students seek to stop loan interest rate hike

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of college students could be in for a shock this summer when the interest rate on a popular federally subsidized student loan doubles unless Congress acts....

Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 13:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other....
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