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Rampell: Perhaps Sanders and Warren are the ones being politically expedient
Another Democratic debate, another argument about how anyone who questions the merits of various lefty ideas just doesn't have "the guts" (to use Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' preferred term) to...
Rampell: We’re in the midst of Trump’s War on Children
You've heard of the Wars on Drugs, Terror, Poverty, even Women. Well, welcome to the War on Children.
Rampell: Trump’s tendency to double down on bad ideas doesn’t bode well for the economy
There are lots of reasons to worry about how President Donald Trump would handle a recession, should we tip into one. There's his incompetent economic team. Or the limited fiscal...
Rampell: Trump has a dream team for mismanaging a recession
President Donald Trump inherited a good economy, and for roughly two-and-a-half years managed (mostly) not to mess it up. As with his business empire, he also somehow convinced much of...
Rampell: What are Republicans afraid of?
It's almost funny, in a twisted sort of way. Election after election, Republicans have based their core political appeal on fear.
Rampell: A question missing from the health-care debate: Will doctors make less money?
Won't single-payer health care require higher taxes? (Yes, obviously.) And won't abolishing employer-sponsored insurance face opposition from some of the 160 million people happily on those plans now? (Almost certainly.)
Rampell: Trump is the true socialist
Republicans are right. The scourge of socialism is already upon us. They're just wrong about which party is to blame.
Rampell: Trump’s immigration policies speak louder than his racist, xenophobic words
Vile, chilling, dangerous and life-threatening.
Rampell: Alex Acosta gave a pass to Jeffrey Epstein years ago. He’s still failing victims today.
It's scandalous that more than a decade ago then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta gave a sweetheart deal to a known sexual predator.
Rampell: Trump’s proposed tennis ball tariff represents a grand slam of terrible trade policy
Want to know how ill-conceived President Trump's proposed China tariffs are? Look to the tennis ball tariff. It represents a sort of grand slam of terrible trade policy. Head Penn...