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Jeff Robbins: Pumping up Putin: Moscow’s little helper lends a hand

America has been disgraced by the Oval Office's current occupant in ways so numerous as to bring sands on the seashore to mind, but warranting special recognition is his relentless effort to sell Ukraine down the river. Since it invaded Crimea in 2014 and then with its full-scale invasion of ...

Victor Joecks: Cornell 7: The end result of modern feminism

When college students live out the ideals of modern feminism, the results are horrifying. Last month, a Jane Doe filed a lawsuit alleging that she had been gang raped by Cornell University students. "Cornell 7" refers to the number of men she has accused of inappropriate behavior, although ...

Michael Barone: How populist politics succeeds and fails

Why is populism, broadly defined, on the brink of historic victories around the world, while populism in the form of President Donald Trump's Republican Party is poised to lose one or both houses of Congress in the United States? The troubles Trump's Republicans face are not a mystery. It was ...

Rich Lowry: Iran exposes an intolerable U.S. vulnerability

Churchill said that "wars are not won by evacuations," and sometimes, he might have added, they are simply embarrassing. The U.S. hastily flew its B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford in the U.K. for fear of a potential Iranian drone attack, the latest in a series of successful Iranian operations ...

Robert B. Reich: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

I'm allowing myself to believe that sane people may be in charge of Congress starting next Jan. 20. I know, I know: Polls have gotten our hopes up before only to have them dashed on the rocky shores of political reality. But this time it does seem as if congressional Republicans will finally ...

Cal Thomas: Lessons from the death of Jim Bakker

In the 1980s the media gave them the name "televangelists." These were men (and a few women) who preached a "prosperity gospel," which claimed that God would reward donors who gave money to their "ministries." Jim Bakker, who died Monday at age 86, was among the most successful of the group, ...