Can the Democrats find a sane stance on immigration? I’m not so sure. In an article at The Atlantic, Peter Beinart eloquently shows how Democrats have drifted farther from a mainstream point of view on this issue. In the middle of the last decade, left-wing pundits could talk about the unfairness to natives and legal immigrants alike of America’s lax enforcement regime; they could speak about the deleterious effect of low-skilled immigration on the wages of Americans, and so on.
Beinart considers only two factors in the Democratic drift ...
Can the Democrats find a sane stance on immigration? I’m not so sure. In an article at The Atlantic, Peter Beinart eloquently shows how Democrats have drifted farther from a mainstream point of view on this issue. In the middle of the last decade, left-wing pundits could talk about the unfairness to natives and legal...
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Donald Trump earned respect from the Washington establishment for appointing three of the nation’s most accomplished generals to direct his national-security policy: James Mattis (secretary of...
After weeks of secrecy and speculation, Senate Republicans have finally unveiled a 142-page iteration of their health-care bill, titled the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017.” Written by a...
San Bernardino. Orlando. Alexandria. It may feel like America is descending into chaos, but those who seek to shed innocent blood in the name of an ideology in 2017 actually face a tough,...
