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Protesters near the White House on Wednesday. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times

Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal

by DAVID J. BIER | Jan 30, 2017 | Opinion

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that purports to bar for at least 90 days almost all permanent immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Syria and Iraq, and asserts the power to extend the ban indefinitely. But the order is...

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MOVING SLOWLY. IT’S A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, AFTER ALL.
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Trump Avoids Making a Trade Promise He Can’t Keep

by Eli Lake | Jan 29, 2017 | Opinion

Donald Trump’s first week as president has been a bad one for free trade. He suggested a new 20 percent tariff for imports from Mexico. He formally withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and said he would start renegotiating the North American...

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Numbers games.
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The Consequences of Weak Crowd Numbers

by Jonathan Bernstein | Jan 26, 2017 | Opinion

When it comes to presidential popularity, perceptions can matter in less-than-intuitive ways. Anything that can affect perceptions might actually make a difference to whether a new president gets his way with Congress and to how his party fares in the midterm...

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Washington, D.C., prepares for the inauguration of Donald Trump. (Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Trump’s Inauguration is a Day to Celebrate

by Marc A. Thiessen | Jan 23, 2017 | Opinion

This morning, as I watch Donald Trump standing on the steps of the Capitol taking the oath of office as the next president of the United States, one thought will be going through my mind: There, but for the grace of God, goes Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yes, there are...

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John Kerry: What We Got Right

by John Kerry | Jan 21, 2017 | Opinion

With a new administration taking office this week, it is natural to assess the inheritance it will receive from the old. There are some who see nightmares wherever they look and insist that the entire global system is unraveling and that America’s position as world...