One of President Obama’s cherished conceits is that disagreement with him can have no rational basis, and it was the theme of his most recent speech in defense of his health-care law. Only “ideology” and “politics” are keeping Republicans from working with him to expand Obamacare’s reach. He himself is, as always in his self-portraits, the picture of reasonableness, …

  Can she get anything done? That’s the question now that nearly every poll shows Hillary Clinton winning the presidency and the Republicans holding on to the House, albeit with a weaker hand. Even if the Democrats take control of the Senate — a strong possibility though not a certainty — House Republicans could block Clinton’s agenda of taxing the …

  Their situation can be described by the proverb ‘out of the frying pan into the fire’. Their past was gloomy and future appears to be dark. They are trapped between hope and despair. They are the migrants at Calais ‘Jungle’ camp. On Monday, over 1,000 migrants rode buses out of the ‘Jungle’ as French authorities kicked off an operation …