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Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich, a Republican, served as House speaker from 1995 to 1999 and ran as a presidential candidate in 2012. He is an adviser to the Center for Union Facts.

Columns by Newt Gingrich

Labor Day Americana Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

NEWT GINGRICH: A Republican Labor Day message

Thanks to the leadership of Sen. Orrin Hatch and Congressman Tom Price, Republicans have in the Employee Rights Act a solid, positive message for American workers. Published September 3, 2015

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (Jim Lee/Sioux City Journal via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT **FILE**

NEWT GINGRICH: Liberal hysteria and the growing populist rebellion

This is a party with its largest state legislative base in history, a majority of the governorships, control of the House and Senate, and more candidates for president than it can get on one stage -- yet there are reasons enough for some columnists to believe it is on the verge of dying. The establishment is beginning to panic and it is going to get worse -- a lot worse. Published September 1, 2015

NEWT GINGRICH: Comparative government corruption

When people read my report that 75 percent of the American people thought corruption was widespread in government, a number asked me how that 75 percent figure compared to other countries. Published August 20, 2015

Newt Gingrich August 18, 2015

Newt Gingrich on debt and national security

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is asked: The CBO recently said America's crushing debt is a threat to our future security. How would you bring the deficit and debt under control? Published August 18, 2015

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

NEWT GINGRICH: Take Bernie Sanders seriously

It is increasingly possible that the 73-year-old socialist from Vermont could be a real contender for the Democratic Party's nomination for president. Published August 13, 2015

Newt Gingrich on Iran, China, Russia

WATCH: Newt Gingrich on Iran, Russia and China

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is asked: How would you address our relationships with Iran, Russia, and China compared to President Obama's approach? Published August 11, 2015

Ducks wade in the Animas River as orange sludge from a mine spill upstream flows past Berg Park in Farmington, N.M., Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. About 1 million gallons of wastewater from Colorado's Gold King Mine began spilling into the Animas River on Wednesday when a cleanup crew supervised by the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally breached a debris dam that had formed inside the mine. The mine has been inactive since 1923 ( Alexa Rogals/The Daily Times via AP)

NEWT GINGRICH: EPA should face criminal charges

For environmental regulators, victories take the form of fines or jail time for the sinners, whose efforts to produce what humans find useful are insufficiently tempered by reverence for "the environment" -- an imagined perfection of the world before humans. Those regulators must be tormented this week. Published August 11, 2015

Hillary Must Be Lying Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

NEWT GINGRICH: Who’s unserious?

It's a bit much to endure the national media speculating for the last couple of weeks about whether Donald Trump will turn the Republican primary contest into an unserious reality television show. Most of them, we can be sure, would like nothing better. Unserious is what they feed on. Published August 4, 2015

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray

NEWT GINGRICH: The divine right of bureaucrats

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acts as judge, jury and executioner in administering laws it has invented through an interpretation of its authority that appears unlimited. Published July 27, 2015

NEWT GINGRICH: Sometimes, the good guys win

For a model of ordinary citizens coming together to defeat prison guards of the past, it would be hard to do better than the parents of Palm Lane Elementary School in Anaheim, California. Published July 23, 2015