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PARKER: Can’t make government efficient

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple when he was 21 years old. Nine years later, at age 30, he was purged and fired from the company he founded and built by the professional management he helped recruit. Eleven years later, after that management brought the firm to the edge of bankruptcy, Jobs ...

COOPER: This is Trumpism

It's high time commentators stop trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn't fit. Donald Trump's brand of government is as unique as it is volatile. Sometimes history neither repeats nor rhymes. Sometimes a whole new species bursts onto the scene. We’ve never seen a ...

SHAPIRO: How not to fight a trade war

This week, the stock market yo-yoed wildly, taking investors on a roller coaster of stunning lows and sudden highs. Rarely has investment been so gut-churning. And the reason for the turbulence is obvious: the Trump administration's continuing mixed signals over its trade war. When that trade ...

BARONE: Reality has a vote, in politics as in entertainment

Reality has a vote. That is one lesson administered to the body of politics in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second administration. After the president gleefully announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs on April 2, stock market prices fell sharply, and the bond market became, as ...

STOSSEL: Living hell? I don’t believe it

"Climate change will make earth a living hell!" claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I don't believe him. The media say, "All Arctic ice will soon melt away! Polar bears are dying off! Global warming causes food shortages!" Bunk, bunk, bunk. They are addicted to scaring ...

ERICKSON: Regardless, good

President Donald Trump supporters think the President always strategizes ahead of others — like multidimensional chess. Trump critics think the man who beat Democrats twice is too stupid to think, much less strategize. Those closest to Mr. Trump say he is doing what he does best — going ...