Economy
The White House’s biggest worry for 2020
With the 2020 presidential campaign ramping up and the Democratic field of presidential hopefuls growing, President Trump’s ability to secure a second term in office could hinge…
April 9, 2019
Infrastructure
Rail unions, railroads at odds over crew size mandate
Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, has revived an effort to mandate crew size on freight trains, an issue that divides railroads and rail unions. Rail unions have backed…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Masterful economics at Augusta
The city of Augusta sits on Georgia’s eastern border, just across the Savannah River from the South Carolina towns of North Augusta and Aiken. Most would consider…
Magazine - Business
Congress to Zuckerberg: Facebook doesn’t get to make the rules
Mark Zuckerberg’s surprising call for tighter government regulation of the Internet has its share of supporters in Congress, but neither lawmakers nor advocates are sure how much…
Magazine - Business
Google offers conservatives an olive branch
Republican lawmakers were well aware that the Judiciary Committee hearing where Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified would be one of the last they convened before handing over…
Columnists
Moore gets the Kavanaugh treatment
It’s not Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s fault that a last resort, no-holds-barred attack on a nominee of President Trump is known as a “full Kavanaugh” or…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
The ISIS ‘caliphate’ has been smashed. Now what?
For months, U.S. commanders have been warning that even when the last bit of Syrian territory was liberated from the control of the Islamic State, the brutal…
Magazine - Features
Democrats are courting disaster
Democrats have finally decided to make judicial nominations an election issue, after essentially ceding the ground to Republicans for decades. Hillary Clinton barely mentioned Merrick Garland or…
Magazine - Columnists
Western Pennsylvania’s lessons: Run on real issues, not for Green fantasies
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — Either party, if it wants to win in 2020, needs to study the April 2 special election for a state Senate seat in…
Healthcare
Ending AIDS for good
It is customary for Congress to shrug off the president’s budget proposal, but there is one ask from President Trump that has drawn bipartisan praise: The request…