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PARKER: It’s on us to choose how to use our freedom

Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of "The Wealth of Nations." The full title of Scotsman Adam Smith's book, published in 1776, is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes ...

BARONE: Can Trump handle the world he has changed?

Ten years ago this month, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president, with a platform that was vastly different on trade and foreign policy from other recent presidents, Republican and Democratic alike. How fares America -- and the world -- 10 years later? In some ...

ZITO: America’s love affair with the road endures

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania -- For the briefest of moments, a line of vintage Rolls-Royce automobiles chugged along the curving Cumberland Road. They passed over the Cumberland Run a handful of times and wound themselves down the mountains, away from Pennsylvania and toward the city of steeples, ...

BARONE: Who wins the re-redistricted House?

As President Donald Trump's job approval sinks to or below 40% (depending on which poll you're looking at), betting markets and political conventional wisdom are that his Republican Party is not necessarily doomed to lose its narrow House majority, nor is it at serious risk of losing its Senate ...