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American liberalism and the Democratic Party — two partially overlapping but by no means identical institutions — have set themselves an unusually clear agenda for 2014: reducing economic inequality and boosting workers’ incomes. These are causes they can fight...

More “barrel bombs” fell on Syrian cities this week, and besieged civilians are still starving in the suburbs of Damascus. Egypt’s military regime persists in its attempt to crush the Muslim Brotherhood and, with it, any prospect of a return to democracy by the...

Now that the fight over Obamacare is history, perhaps everyone can finally focus on making the program work the way it was designed. Or, preferably, better. The fight is history, you realize. Done. Finito. Yesterday’s news. Any existential threat to the Affordable Care Act...

First order of business for the returning Congress: The No Bailout for Insurance Companies Act of 2014. Make it one line long: “Sections 1341 and 1342 of the Affordable Care Act are hereby repealed.” End of bill. End of bailout. End of story. Why do we need it? On...

THE UNITED States’ war effort in Afghanistan is to wind down this year, leaving a multitude of unanswered questions and plenty of loose ends. But the United States must not leave any ambiguity about the fate of the interpreters who aided U.S. forces over the past 13 years....

POLITICAL REALITY has a way of undoing populist campaign promises. But to the delight of many a Democratic activist, New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio, roared into office on New Year’s Day, declaring that this time will be different. In his inaugural address, Mr....

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While one may assume that Kathleen Parker’s New Year’s Day op-ed column, “The era of envy and debt,” was a call to good will, one must wonder what she meant by envy. Was she referring to the recent criticism from Pope Francis, who decried the high level of...

Regarding the Dec. 31 Sports package “Who’s next? ” about the firing of Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan: Since Dan Snyder bought the Redskins franchise 15 years ago, he has gone through seven coaches. Something is wrong with that picture, but I have the...

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