Catherine Rampell

FILE - In this March 26, 2019 file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined at left by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Frank Pallone, D-N.J., speaks at an event to announce legislation to lower health care costs and protect people with pre-existing medical conditions, at the Capitol in Washington. If former President Barack Obama鈥檚 health law is struck down entirely, Congress would face an impossible task: pass a comprehensive health overhaul to replace it that both Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump can agree to. The failed attempt to repeal 鈥淥bamacare鈥� in 2017 proved to be toxic for congressional Republicans in last year鈥檚 midterm elections and they are in no mood to repeat it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rampell: If the GOP built their ideal health-care system … it’d be Obamacare

March 31, 2019 at 11:56 a.m.

Wanna know the reason Republicans have had so much trouble coming up with a "replacement" plan for Obamacare?

Rampell: “Socialist” rhetoric is lazy name-calling

March 24, 2019 at 10:21 p.m.

President Donald Trump has made fearmongering about "socialism" a key plank of his reelection campaign. It's more lazy name-calling from a lazy thinker, but this time the lazy name-calling may...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 11, 2018 Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Facebook announced April 18, 2018 it would begin rolling out changes to how it handles private data this week to comply with forthcoming EU rules, with European residents seeing the measures first. The social network, which has been rocked by disclosures about the hijacking of personal data on tens of millions of its users, said it will start implementing "new privacy experiences" to comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which become effective May 25.
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Rampell: The Internet just turned 30. We’re celebrating with anti-tech fervor.

March 17, 2019 at 10:30 p.m.

Happy 30th birthday, World Wide Web. Who knew that we'd be celebrating this three-decade tech milestone with such a frenzy of anti-tech fervor?

Rampell: What’s behind the ballooning trade deficit

March 10, 2019 at 7:09 p.m.

For years President Donald Trump has been obsessed with trade deficits, (incorrectly) viewing them as a good measure of which countries are "winning" and which are "losing." The United States...

FILE - In this April 13, 2014 file photo, the Internal Revenue Service Headquarters (IRS) building is seen in Washington. Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday. The information included tax returns and other tax information on file with the IRS. The IRS said the thieves accessed a system called "Get Transcript." In order to access the information, the thieves cleared a security screen that required knowledge about the taxpayer, including Social Security number, date of birth, tax filing status and street address. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Rampell: The biggest lesson from Michael Cohen’s explosive testimony

March 3, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

There were lots of takeaways from Michael Cohen's explosive congressional testimony this week: about Russia, racism, redemption.

Shipping containers from China and other nations are unloaded at the Long Beach Port in Los Angeles, California on February 16, 2019. - President Donald Trump said trade talks with China were going "extremely well," and he said he might extend a key March 1 deadline for increasing tariffs if a deal is near. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP)MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

Rampell: Lesson learned? Trade wars tough on U.S. businesses

February 24, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.

President Tariff Man may be learning all the wrong lessons from his trade wars. Specifically: that higher tariffs work.

1DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 09: Denver Classroom Teachers Association negotiations with the Denver Public Schools district officials at the DPS Acoma Campus February 09, 2019. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Rampell: Americans have healthier hearts. We have a healthier budget, too.

February 10, 2019 at 8:04 p.m.

Thanks to preventive medicine, older Americans have healthier hearts. Which also means, incidentally, that federal budgets are healthier, too.

Donald Trump, right, is interviewed by Larry King during a taping of "Larry King Live," Thursday, Oct, 7, 1999, in New York. Trump said he has formed an exploratory committee to help him determine whether he can win the White House as a Reform Party candidate. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Rampell: Elizabeth Warren wasn’t the first candidate to propose a wealth tax. Trump was.

February 3, 2019 at 3:37 p.m.

A brash political candidate forms a presidential exploratory committee. Almost immediately, the candidate announces a controversial policy: a wealth tax on the ultrarich.

Furloughed federal worker James Grant carries food distributed by Philabundance volunteers as others affected by the partial government shutdown wait in line to receive their parcels in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Rampell: The GOP has become the Soviet party

January 27, 2019 at 8:47 p.m.

Once upon a time, Ayn Rand-reading, red-baiting Republicans denounced Soviet Russia as an evil superpower intent on destroying the American way of life.

People walk by bulls sculptures titled "Five Bulls Gathering Fortune" on display at the Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Uncertainty over the outcome of China-U.S. trade talks is casting a pall over Asian markets as both sides kept quiet about what lies ahead. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Rampell: The risks of a recession are rising — and Trump might be to blame

January 20, 2019 at 9:24 p.m.

Presidents get too much credit when the economy is good, too much blame when the economy is bad.

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