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Presidential hopefuls participate in the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season, hosted by NBC News in Miami on Thursday, June 27, 2019.

Commentary: The debates’ biggest losers? American taxpayers

June 28, 2019 at 6:53 p.m.

Sen. Kamala Harris of California may have been the breakout winner of Wednesday and Thursday's Democratic presidential debates, but there was one clear loser: the American taxpayer. These were the...

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media prior to a departure from the White House June 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump and the first lady are traveling to Orlando, Florida for a rally to officially kick off the president's 2020 re-election campaign.

Trump’s mental gymnastics are incomprehensible

June 18, 2019 at 4:29 p.m.

Only a man who is, like, really smart could perform mental gymnastics at the level President Trump has attained over the past few days. On Saturday, Trump declared that The...

Protesters rally in early June 2019 for universal rent control legislation at the New York Capitol in Albany. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation that strengthens tenant protections.

Rent control: Good intentions gone bad

June 17, 2019 at 5:02 p.m.

There aren't that many things you can get economists to agree on. Fiscal stimulus, minimum wages, monetary policy, health care, bank regulation — on almost all the major issues of...

Presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at Chicago's Navy Pier in March.

Bernie Sanders’ brand of socialism is hard to pin down

June 27, 2019 at 2:50 p.m.

Three years ago, Bernie Sanders made socialism cool again. Suddenly you couldn't swing a cat in Brooklyn without sending it through a chapter meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America...

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Berlin, N.H., on June 4, 2019.

Biden’s surrender to pro-abortion radicals damages his 2020 prospects

June 11, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

For decades, Catholic Democratic politicians have been justifying their pro-choice position by telling us that they were personally opposed to abortion but could not impose their religious view on others....

Climate change activists attend a rally supporting the Green New Deal on May 24 in Los Angeles.

Everyone’s got a climate plan. So where’s the carbon tax?

June 7, 2019 at 3:22 p.m.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has a big, bold, multitrillion-dollar plan for addressing climate change. So does her rival Joe Biden. Likewise former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke. And, of course, Gov....

Could actor Seth Rogen be the marshal of the Straight Pride Parade?

Look out, here comes the Straight Pride Parade!

June 5, 2019 at 11:18 a.m.

HERE IT COMES! IT IS COMING AROUND THE CORNER! ALREADY FROM A DISTANCE YOU CAN HEAR THE NOISE OF — BILLY JOEL AND ... THE BEATLES? SOMEWHAT STRENUOUSLY OUT OF...

Semitrailer trucks cross the border at Juarez, Mexico, heading into El Paso, Texas. President Donald Trump has threatened tariffs escalating as high as 25% on all Mexican goods if the Mexican government does not stem the flow of immigrants into the U.S.

We’ve had 10 years of economic expansion. Don’t count on 11.

June 4, 2019 at 12:05 p.m.

Happy 10th birthday, U.S. economic expansion! Let's hope you'll be allowed to live a little while longer, despite a certain someone's concerted efforts to kill you off. The Great Recession...

Miguel Cortillo gets a tanker of liquefied natural gas ready at Stabilis Energy in George West, Texas, to transport it to Laredo. An Energy Department official's colorful description of liquefied natural gas is lighting a fire under environmentalists.

Take a big, deep whiff of those molecules of freedom

May 31, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

Do you smell that? That aroma, like many spoiled eggs congregating in a hot locker room? That is the wonderful, pleasing scent of American freedom! A statement from the Energy...

For the Democratic candidates, winnowing is already at work

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

"We're cutting out some of this ear hair that you get when you get older," said the 46-year-old manchild who is auditioning to be Skateboarder-in-Chief. Live-streaming his visit to an...

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