Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Bipartisan Dreams Are Alive, Up to a Point

There actually are a few important things that Democrats and Republicans could agree on. Unless ...

November 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

Bedfellows.
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The conventional wisdom has it that Washington policy gridlock is now back; a Democratic House of Representatives and an enlarged Republican Senate majority aren’t going to have anything in common except political bloodlust.

That’s probably the best bet, but it’s not necessarily so.