Hosted by Rich Lowry, Charles C.W. Cooke, Reihan Salam & Michael Brendan Dougherty
Guests tour the “Acquisition Room,” which receives television feeds from around the world, during the opening of the new Univision and Fusion network newsroom in Doral, Fla., August 28, 2013. (Joe Skipper/REUTERS)
This week on The Editors, Rich, Reihan, Charlie, and Michael discuss the Covington controversy, speculate on the continuing shutdown, and debate the chances of the current Democratic presidential candidates.
Light items:
• Rich: Mariano Rivera, the greatest reliever of all time, is someone of whom all Americans should be proud.
• Reihan: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss.
• Charlie: Wireless charging.
• MBD: Sleeping babies.
The Editors is hosted by Rich Lowry and produced by Sarah Schutte.
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Smollett told GMA that the ...
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that President Trump will sign the homeland-security-spending bill pending before Congress while simultaneously declaring a national emergency in order to fund his long-promised border wall.
The spending bill, which provides just $1.35 billion for the construction ...
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Mitch McConnell says the president will sign the budget deal and he will also declare a national emergency to build the wall, as I expected.
We’ll see the legal justifications he uses, but as a political and constitutional matter this is a long-term disaster. Oh, it might be good for Trump according to the ...
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In 1994, the Clinton administration decreed a bright shining future for education. Its Goals 2000 legislation proclaimed that by that year America's high-school-graduation rate would be 90 percent and American students would lead the world in math and science achievements. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) ...
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