Reihan Salam
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters Why Conservatives Are Turning Against Higher Education
College isn’t providing an effective engine of upward mobility for most Americans.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters Governors Are Losing the Space to Govern
As the bulk of state spending shifts toward mandatory programs, experimentation is grinding to a halt in the laboratories of democracy.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters New York’s Socialist Revolution Isn’t What It Seems
The success of left-wing candidates in the Empire State has less to do with their ideas than with the decline of the Republican Party.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Los Angeles Is in Crisis. So Why Isn’t It Building More Housing?
Rising rents are feeding a surge in homelessness.
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Edgar Su / Reuters The Age of ‘Chimerica’ Is Coming to an End
By cutting off Huawei from U.S. technology, the Trump administration is forever changing the relationship between the world’s largest economies.
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Amit Dave / Reuters Modi's New Challenge Is Embracing Urbanization
His expansion of welfare benefits has won him votes from rural citizens—but if he wants to build a “new India,” he must focus on cities.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Immigration Proposal Is a Step in the Right Direction
Rebalancing admissions, rather than reducing them, could turn a divisive issue into a unifying one for the GOP.
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Ben Brewer / Reuters Beto O’Rourke Was Right, and Democrats Might Not Forgive Him
As the Democratic Party shifts leftward, can primary voters look past the candidate’s fiscal responsibility?
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Will Burgess / Reuters What Fiji Can Teach America About Immigration
Many people will invest in their own skills if they know that doing so will give them a shot at a better life overseas.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Trouble With Elizabeth Warren’s Child-Care Plan
The presidential candidate’s proposal risks accelerating the very trends she once warned against.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Gavin Newsom’s Big Idea
The California governor is pulling the plug on a boondoggle and focusing on a plan that could secure the future of his state.
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AP Trump’s Revealing Immigration Ad Lib
Is the president ready to strike a compromise deal?
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters What Tom Brokaw Got Wrong About Assimilation
It’s not how hard immigrants work that determines whether they are incorporated into the mainstream or consigned to the margins of American society.
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Carlos Allegri / Reuters Ron DeSantis Is Showing the GOP a Different Path Forward
As Trump continues to fixate on a border wall, the new governor of Florida is choosing to focus on more substantive issues.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Bill de Blasio and Gavin Newsom May Give Restrictionism New Life
The two Democratic politicians are trying to extend the safety net to include unauthorized immigrants—a move that may ultimately backfire on them.
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Agencja Gazeta / Reuters Democrats Are Wrong About Defense Spending
The need for investment is only likely to grow in the coming years.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters How Trump Can Challenge China
There’s a key vulnerability the president can exploit—aligning himself with the Chinese people and against the party-state.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters Trump's Unacknowledged Victory in Stemming the Flow of Asylum Seekers
A tacit agreement with Mexico could have a major impact.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump Needs a Secretary of Defense Who Agrees With Him
The president wants to withdraw from foreign military adventures. To pull that off, he’ll require a secretary who actually thinks he’s right.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters An Unexpected Solution to the Migrant Crisis
One potential means of easing the border crisis between the U.S. and Mexico comes from an unlikely place: Medicare regulations.
