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A grand fiscal bargain, with perhaps $2 trillion more in deficit reduction over 10 years -- more than a quarter of which would be additional revenue and much of the rest obtained through well-crafted, significant cutbacks in big- ticket entitlements -- could have been a win-win for Republicans and Democrats.
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The 2012 U.S. elections, though they weren’t seminal, revealed much about the nature of the body politic and the direction of American politics.
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The requisites for a U.S. secretary of state, along with intelligence and judgment, are a knowledge of foreign policy, an understanding of domestic politics, and, ideally, first-hand experience of what President Dwight D. Eisenhower called the “brutality and stupidity” of war.
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Wall Street has increasingly taken up its old habit of blaming junior bankers and traders for what goes wrong.
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The most avid political junkies probably couldn’t name five U.S. agriculture secretaries; Tom Vilsack, the current occupant of the post, may be about to join that short list.
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To listen to the candidate, the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s was about the Gipper and Newt.
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What a difference four years makes if you’re Hillary Clinton.
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It’s betting season in the Republican presidential primaries.
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With a vulnerable incumbent president, the profile of a strong Republican general-election opponent includes a consistently conservative record that eschews fringe views, a proven and scandal-free track record as an executive and respectable national-security credentials.
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One area where the U.S. indisputably leads the world is incarceration.
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