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De Rugy: Three economic myths to put to rest this year

As a new year dawns, it's customary to reflect on the past and set resolutions for the future. This year, let's resolve to greet three widespread claims with healthy doses of skepticism. The first dubious claim is that income inequality in the United States has inexorably risen since the ...

Stiehm: Little town in the big city: A family of four generations

Here in the heart of Washington, D.C., often considered a city of people passing through, I met a family of four female generations under the same roof. That was a heartwarming New Year's gift. My large apartment building, a Roaring '20s number with a fountain in front, sometimes seems like it ...

Barone: Startling surprises in latest census numbers

How's America doing? Government statisticians provide mounds of data that provide useful clues, and none more so than the Census Bureau's estimates of population, announced in the holiday weeks at the end of each calendar year. The latest numbers measure the estimated population of each state ...

Napolitano: Office pool 2025

1. In January 2025, Donald Trump will be a. In federal prison. b. Preparing to be inaugurated as president. c. Fuming in his bedroom at Mar-a-Lago over his second loss to Joe Biden. d. None of the above. 2. In January 2025, Joe Biden will be a. Preparing to be inaugurated as ...

Stiehm: Five angry men on the Supreme Court

Is American democracy a match for the Supreme Court? The John Roberts Supreme Court hangs menacingly over the land, with five angry men ready to undo the American people's verdict on the presidency. The 6-3 Republican majority is truly a force to be feared in 2024: the war within, wearing ...

Erickson: Christmas perspective

Seventeen years ago this week, I started the day losing my job and ended the day looking my wife in the eyes to tell her she was going to die. Doctors thought they had found a very aggressive form of cancer in her lungs. She had, in their estimation, six months. Thankfully, before the end of ...

Barone: The politics of incumbent rejection

At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent trailing, both parties seem bent on nominating two men who have served as president and about whom substantial majorities of voters have negative ...

Stiehm: Obama versus Biden – I’ll stick with Joe

Former President Barack Obama talked the talk in poetry. President Joe Biden walks the walk in prose. What glorious flights of oratory did Obama once take! His sparkle seemed to reach for the best presidential speakers, such as President John F. Kennedy. But give me Joe any day. He's not ...

Napolitano: What if Christmas is real?

What if Christmas is a core belief in the birth of Jesus Christ who lived among us and many times offered a freely given promise of eternal life that no believer should reject or apologize for? What if Christmas is the rebirth of Christ in the hearts of all believers? What if Christmas is the ...

Harrop: What do we really mean by affordable housing?

It's being said by conservatives and liberals: America faces a crisis of affordable housing. And the way out of it is to build more houses. Wouldn't it make more sense to first understand the extent of the problem? Real estate interests have sucked in advocates for the poor in their YIMBY (Yes ...