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US economy still struggling

AmericaĢƵ economy has now slouched into the eighth year of a recovery that demonstrates how much we have defined recovery down. The idea that essentially zero interest rates are, after 7½ years, stimulating the economy “strains credulity,” says James Bullard, president of the Federal ...

Study about schools revisited

The report was so “seismic” — Daniel Patrick MoynihanĢƵ word — that Lyndon B. JohnsonĢƵ administration released it on Fourth of July weekend, 1966, hoping it would not be noticed. But the Coleman Report did disturb various dogmatic slumbers and vested interests. And 50 years on, it ...

Britain praised for exiting EU

The “leave” campaign won the referendum on withdrawing Britain from the European Union because the arguments on which the “remain” side relied made leaveĢƵ case. The remain campaign began with a sham, was monomaniacal with its Project Fear and ended in governmental thuggishness.The ...

Trump loss would help GOP

“ThereĢƵ an old adage about a vat of wine standing next to a vat of sewage. Add a cup of wine to the sewage, and it is still sewage. But add a cup of sewage to the wine, and it is no longer wine but sewage. Is this what Donald Trump has done to our politics?”— Martha Bayles, in ...

Purdue has president US needs

Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University, knows that no one in the audience is there to hear a commencement speaker. When, however, he addressed his institutionĢƵ class of 2016, it heard him distill into a few lapidary paragraphs a stance toward ...

Will Britain leave European Union?

Sitting on the sun-dappled terrace of the House of Lords, watching the Thames flow, Lord Nigel Lawson explains that the June 23 referendum, which he hopes will withdraw Britain from the European Union, was never supposed to happen. It is, he says, the fulfillment of a promise Prime Minister ...