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Barring an unforeseen calamity, the Federal Reserve will raise short-term interest rates this week. Among Fed watchers, this is known as “liftoff.” The analogy is misle...

So how exactly does this work, Donald Trump’s plan to keep America safe from Islamic terrorism by barring entry to all Muslims? He explained it Tuesday on TV. The immigr...

If Pagedale, Missouri, is a glimpse of the future, then the future is going to be annoying. Pagedale might represent the future of governance unless some of its residen...

Just as U.S. policy toward Cuba has changed, so must U.S. policy toward Cubans . But the change in immigration policy, like the change in diplomatic policy, needs to pro...

If President Barack Obama had left troops in Iraq, if he had not drawn a red line he then erased, if he had promptly heeded top national security officials advising him ...

Comes now economist Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, with another view of government spending on the elderly. People like me have com...

Donald Trump’s response to the terrorist threat, “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” is like a lot of his campaign rhetoric: a viscera...

They lied. Is anyone shocked? A much-awaited final report by the United Nations’ nuclear inspection agency on Iran’s past nuclear activities has concluded that Iran work...

The most interesting political meeting this week may be the one between Valerie Jarrett, the closest confidante of President Barack Obama, and Mark Holden, the general c...

The Obama administration quietly announced a significant new escalation in its war against Islamic State last week: U.S. special operations troops on the ground in Iraq ...