Tag: Republican Party

Central American migrants ride a freight train during their journey toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Ixtepec, Mexico, in this July 12, 2014, photo. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Why the White House slammed the GOP border bill

Brian Hughes · July 29, 2014 5:47 pm

President RonaldÃÂ Reagan's approach to Iraq was ruthless realpolitik: his administration viewed Saddam Hussein as an essential counterweight to Iranian power and backed the dictator in his bloody eight-year war with Iran.ÃÂ (AP/Bob Dougherty)

Conservatives would do well to resurrect Ronald Reagan’s Middle East policy

Gene Healy · July 28, 2014 9:00 pm

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at the Center for New Security's Eight Annual National Security Conference in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Is Paul Ryan running for president?

David M. Drucker · July 28, 2014 9:00 am

Who Gets to Draw the Lines?

Michael Warren · July 28, 2014 4:00 am

British historianÃÂ H. R. Trevor-Roper was the author of "The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century."ÃÂ (AP/Helmuth Lohmann)

Fighting parasitic bureaucracies and crony capitalism

Michael Barone · July 27, 2014 10:00 pm

Paul Ryan touts plan to tackle ‘complicated’ poverty problem

Paul Ryan touts plan to tackle ‘complicated’ poverty problem

Sean Lengell · July 27, 2014 5:37 pm

There has to be a way to push sensible limited-government policy reforms without making unmarried Americans feel left out. (iStock Image)

Republicans can’t leave unmarried Americans behind

Philip Klein · July 24, 2014 7:26 pm

Dr. Ben Carson, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., Saturday, March 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Here’s who activists are literally praying to get in the 2016 contest

Betsy Woodruff · July 24, 2014 3:16 pm

Several states are adopting new measures to curb voter fraud, and some of them -- such as the Voter I.D. law recently passed in North Carolina -- are facing federal court challenges.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

Widespread or not, stopping voter fraud is essential for honest elections

David Freddoso · July 24, 2014 10:00 am

Podcast: Odds Good for GOP Takeover of Senate

TWS Podcast · July 23, 2014 8:20 pm

A member of the National Guard checks on his colleague inside a Border Patrol skybox near the Hidalgo International Bridge in Hidalgo, Texas, in 2011. (AP Photo/Delcia Lopez, File)

GOP border security group calls for sending National Guard to border

Susan Ferrechio · July 23, 2014 3:07 pm

A bus with a sign $10.10 on the side toured the country for Americans United for Change, which is promoting the minimum wage hike from $7.25 an hour. AP Photo

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Poll: Republicans couldn’t live on minimum wage — but fight raising it

Paul Bedard · July 22, 2014 1:03 am