As Republicans in the Senate stumble and fumble with their long-promised but never seriously planned repeal of Obamacare, the Trump administration is starting to leak its plans for what counts as ambitious immigration reform. And it’s not all bad. The bill that the White House has in mind is based on the RAISE Act, introduced by Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue earlier this year. The giant headline measure is that the bill would cut in half the number of legal immigrants. The detail buried in paragraph 18 of most reports on it is that the bill will do this only after a decade of slowly lowering it to that level ...

July 14 2017

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Trump’s Admirable but Unlikely Goals on Immigration

Michael Brendan Dougherty

As Republicans in the Senate stumble and fumble with their long-promised but never seriously planned repeal of Obamacare, the Trump administration is starting to leak its plans for what counts as ambitious immigration reform. And it’s not all bad. The bill that the White House has in mind is based on the RAISE Act,...

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The Senate Health-Care Bill Is a Step in the Right Direction

The Editors

Congressional Republicans should stop calling their health-care bills a repeal of Obamacare. The House bill is not one — it keeps Obamacare’s regulatory heart — and the Senate bill is even less...

Beauty Can Help Mosul Heal after ISIS’s Reign of Terror

Jeff Cimmino

Following a long, exhausting campaign, Iraqi forces successfully retook control of Mosul. The city was critical to ISIS’s territorial claims, and its loss severely weakens the terrorist group’s...

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16 Things You Must Believe to Buy the ‘Witch Hunt’ Russia Narrative

Mona Charen

One column cannot accommodate the list of things you must believe if you trust that Donald Trump is truly the victim of a baseless witch hunt. Consider this a mere stab. That Donald Jr.,...

Anti-Trump Overreach Could Backfire

Michael Barone

Overreach. Donald Trump seems to have an uncanny knack for prompting overreach by his opponents and critics. This often hurts him and the country, but it has the potential to hurt those doing...

Feminist Geographers Warn Against Citing Too Many White Men in Scholarly Articles 

Katherine Timpf

Two geologists have warned against citing too many white men and/or too many “established scholars” in scholarly articles, because doing so contributes to “white heteromasculinism” and...

Trump Jr.’s Meeting Might Not Rise to Treason

David Harsanyi

The New York Times recently reported that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin who claimed to have information that could harm Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The...

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This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive

James S. Robbins

'This Time We Win corrects simplistic interpretations of Tet that are often used to create the impression of inevitable defeat in Vietnam and other conflicts. This book deserves a wide readership.' - Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, USA (Ret.)

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