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2024-06-14 15:03:20

Democrats are wrestling with an age-old problem
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Seemingly unrelated news items collided midweek to suggest a possible solution for a vexing problem: President Biden’s age.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/14/biden-trump-hillary-clinton-age-north-dakota/

2024-06-14 15:03:16

We get more clarity on the Israel-Hamas war
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/14/trump-democracy-gaza-newsletter/

2024-06-14 13:34:00

Brits are dominating American journalism — and British journalism, too
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When The Washington Post’s CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, first met with staffers in November, he was asked to compare British and American journalism. “American journalism at the level of The Washington Post … is better,” said Lewis, a Brit who has
worked at the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and News International, a group of Rupert Murdoch properties. “There’s just no two ways about it.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/14/british-media-editors-us-journalism/

2024-06-14 13:05:05

Republicans would really prefer to run against 2022 Biden
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Republicans insist they have a winning strategy in running against President Biden’s record in 2024. There’s just one problem: They’re actually running against his record from 2022.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/14/republicans-biden-economy-crime-inflation-immigration/

2024-06-14 12:32:29

Europe’s biggest problem: It is falling way behind America’s powerhouse economy
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An American in Europe these days might find themself in a strange situation — or at least that was my experience, having recently spent a week there, traveling from Germany to Norway to Spain. In the United States, we talk about our economic problems. In
Europe, the talk is all about how Europe has been unable to keep up with the U.S. powerhouse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/14/europe-competition-economy-reform-populism/

2024-06-14 02:56:15

Deborah Lipstadt on the rise of antisemitism, threats to democracy and lessons from history
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Stories of mixed race Americans grappling with questions about who they are, and what it means to be American today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/capehart/deborah-lipstadt-on-the-rise-of-antisemitism-threats-to-democracy-and-lessons-from-history/

2024-06-13 23:44:59

We are witnessing a war on women
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For the religious right, erasing the constitutional right to abortion was just the beginning. They are coming after all our reproductive rights and freedoms, every single one of them, and the only way to stop them is with our votes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/ivf-procedure-details-religious-banned/

2024-06-13 22:42:21

Joey Chestnut, the best there ever was
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Will Leitch is the author of the novels “How Lucky” and “The Time Has Come,” a contributing editor at New York magazine and founder of the former sports website Deadspin. He also writes a free weekly newsletter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/joey-chestnut-goat-eating-hot-dog-contest/

2024-06-13 22:26:31

What AIPAC weighs when it supports a candidate
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Karen Attiah’s June 13 op-ed, “The war in Gaza comes to New York’s 16th Congressional District,” about AIPAC’s involvement in the Democratic primary between George Latimer and Rep. Jamaal Bowman gave readers a deeply unfair impression of our organization
and our approach to the 2024 elections. Readers should not be misled by Ms. Attiah’s insinuation that we are targeting Black and Latino candidates in favor of White contenders.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/clarence-thomas-vacations-supreme-court/

2024-06-13 18:06:41

What will the debates be like? I’m answering your questions.
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I’m traveling the country covering my 10th presidential campaign, and this one promises to be unlike any we have ever seen. The stakes couldn’t be higher: the White House. Control of Congress and state houses across the country are all on the edge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/karen-tumulty-live-chat/

2024-06-13 13:48:37

In calling out Trump, Harris finds her mission
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Just a couple of weeks ago, Democrats were wringing their hands, worried that the Biden-Harris campaign would not do enough to highlight former president Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts. They need not have worried. Nearly every day, the
campaign sends out a flurry of statements, ads and social media postings repeating the catchy phrase “convicted felon.” President Biden, on the day after Trump’s conviction, deplored MAGA attacks on the courts. But the most pointed, and arguably
effective, denunciations have come from Vice President Harris.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/kamala-harris-trump-conviction-hush-money/

2024-06-13 13:21:52

The environment is losing. Which means we’re all losing.
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The cause of the environment is losing the public debate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/environment-climate-congestion-pricing-hochul-eu/

2024-06-13 12:35:24

The single mother’s Father’s Day club
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Ke’Yonna Hall is a social worker and community organizer in Mansfield, Tex.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/single-motherhood-fathers-day-substitute-dads/

2024-06-13 12:19:37

Alito worries leaked remarks will undermine hard-won vindictive image
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WASHINGTON — In the hours after Samuel A. Alito Jr. learned that secretly captured recordings of a private conversation were going to be made public, the Supreme Court justice was frantic, close associates say, worrying the tapes would undermine the image
he has worked to create of exactly what kind of judge he is. But when publication revealed the comments to be merely an endorsement of the need “to return our country to a place of godliness,” that worry gave way to relief.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/alito-secret-recording-reputation-satire/

2024-06-12 22:11:06

The courts have become too politicized. Congress can help.
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Remember when U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk suddenly ordered the abortion pill off the market, all over the country? Or when two separate judges in two separate cases blocked the use of billions of military dollars to build a border wall?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/12/judge-shopping-nationwide-injunction-courts/

2024-06-12 12:32:35

Why congestion pricing — a great idea! — is doomed
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Fans of Friedrich Hayek know that a price is a glorious thing. In his 1945 essay, “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” Hayek asks us to imagine that for some reason tin has come to be in short supply. In less time than it would take the government to form a
committee to study the shortage, the invisible hand of the marketplace resolves it. As tin gets scarcer, users with a pressing need for the metal bid up the price, sending a strong signal to all users of tin: Economize! As if by magic, across the globe,
suppliers look to see whether they can supply more at the higher prices, while processes are rejiggered to use less of the now-precious metal, and some low-margin products are taken out of production entirely, freeing up tin for higher-value uses.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/12/congestion-pricing-great-idea-people-hate/

2024-06-12 12:20:51

What’s that noise? Cicadas? Or a raucous election year?
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The noise was cause for concern. We were on the interstate in a car we just got back from the shop when the whirring began to drown out the speakers. My ride’s a 2011, so any number of mechanical failures were imminent. In and out, the sound crescendoed
and decrescendoed as we zoomed along I-70. It wasn’t until we pulled off at an exit that I had the chance to investigate. It wasn’t the car. It was the insects.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/12/cicadas-super-brood-election-year/

2024-06-12 00:17:08

The paradox ahead for Gaza: A postwar where war goes on
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When I ask a senior Israeli official to describe what “the day after” will look like in Gaza, assuming a cease-fire can be reached, he gives an honest but chilling answer: “It’s going to be long and bloody.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/gaza-israel-hamas-ceasefire-security-plans/

2024-06-11 23:53:35

Our goal should be a planet with fewer humans
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Regarding the June 2 editorial, “The great population bust”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/birthrates-depopulation-anti-natalism/

2024-06-11 22:42:44

Hunter Biden’s conviction shows there’s not a two-tier system of justice
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No one is above the law, not even the president’s son. Hunter Biden’s Tuesday conviction in a Delaware federal court undercuts former president Donald Trump’s claim that his conviction in New York showed that the justice system is rigged. And the Biden
verdict highlights the importance of strictly enforcing what few gun-control laws this country has.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/hunter-biden-conviction-gun-drugs/

2024-06-11 22:36:14

All the ways Apple’s AI could change how you use your iPhone
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2024-06-11 17:09:29

What’s a dog’s favorite Shakespeare play? I’m taking your jokes.
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Humor columnist Alexandra Petri is online every Tuesday for a live chat where she’ll offer a lighter take on the news of the day. Submit your question or comment below.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/alexandra-petri-live-chat/

2024-06-11 15:43:27

Trump telegraphs plans to neuter Congress, this time by seizing spending
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Donald Trump hasn’t won a second term yet, but he’s already preparing to constitutionally nuke Congress. So far, lawmakers in his party seem to be welcoming their own obliteration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/trump-impoundment-congress-spending/

2024-06-11 13:48:27

The ‘double haters’ misnomer: Biden’s secret weapon
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You hear a lot about “double haters” from pundits. The term is actually a misnomer. The language the news media are using to discuss these voters — “loathe,” “hate” — does not reflect what they tell pollsters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/double-haters-false-equivalence/

2024-06-11 13:37:30

How could a city built on a lake run out of water? Look at Mexico City.
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It’s not been two months since I settled in Mexico City, and the water service to my apartment has been cut off at least three times. My mother is thinking about installing a contraption named after the Mexica rain god “Tlaloc” to capture, filter and
store rainwater in a tank in her front yard.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/mexico-city-water-human-degrowth/

2024-06-11 13:03:00

5 practical ways to cut ultra-processed foods from your diet
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This has been a bad year for ultra-processed food. In January, a British Medical Journal review compiled results from 45 studies and demonstrated direct associations between ultra-processed food and negative health outcomes, from increased deaths due to
heart attack and stroke to a higher risk of developing diabetes, cancer, sleep disorders, anxiety and depression.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/ultraprocessed-foods-cut-diet/

2024-06-11 12:50:38

How Congress could curb the use of lawfare for partisan attacks
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Lawfare — the distortion of the legal system to pursue political adversaries — is a growing threat to constitutional government. For Republicans, former president Donald Trump’s election-season conviction in a highly unusual case brought by a Democratic
district attorney is strong evidence of the danger. For Democrats, Trump’s threats to retaliate highlight what could happen if the shoe were on the other foot: “Mr. Trump, if he wins the presidency again, would gain immense authority to actually carry out
the kinds of legal retribution he has been promoting,” the New York Times warned.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/congress-lawfare-partisan-prosecutions/

2024-06-11 12:34:31

An epidemic of scientific fakery threatens to overwhelm publishers
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Adam Marcus, editorial director for primary care at Medscape, and Ivan Oransky, editor in chief of the Transmitter and a journalism professor at New York University, are the co-founders of Retraction Watch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/scientific-journals-retractions-paper-mills/

2024-06-11 11:48:45

Don’t worry, Trump will go back in time and fix everything
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In 2016, Donald Trump promised to a build a wall. This year, he should promise to build a time machine to go back and fix all the world crises he claims would never have happened if only he hadn’t lost the 2020 election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/trump-foreign-policy-mistakes/

2024-06-11 11:13:42

‘I would never claim that it’s 100 percent’: Tim Cook on Apple’s new AI
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Post Opinions columnist Josh Tyrangiel sat down with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday in Cupertino, Calif., just after the company unveiled its new AI tech, Apple Intelligence. This conversation was condensed and edited for clarity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/tim-cook-apple-interview/

2024-06-11 00:13:37

Is Donald Trump okay?
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It is irresponsible to obsess over President Biden’s tendency to mangle a couple of words in a speech while Donald Trump is out there sounding detached from reality. Biden, who is old, at least makes sense. Trump, who also is old, rants like someone you’d
cross the street to avoid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/trump-sharks-electrocuted-boat-story/

2024-06-10 23:31:46

America’s immigration problems don’t stop at the border
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If President Biden feels that there is indeed a crisis at the border, why has he waited until the end of his first term to address it? Border Patrol reported nearly 250,000 migrant encounters in December; the monthly number has fallen by nearly 30 percent
in recent months. Even if the administration believes this new executive order might be thrown out by the courts, what harm would there have been in attempting this tactic much earlier?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/biden-immigration-border-daca-workers/

2024-06-10 22:42:56

Hamas isn’t interested in releasing hostages. Cue the next rescue.
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Based on history, the only way any additional Israeli hostages are getting freed is by rescue operations like the one the Israel Defense Forces launched on Saturday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/israel-hostage-rescue-hamas-gaza/

2024-06-10 22:36:26

Trump wants to take us back to 19th-century corruption
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2024-06-10 21:44:45

Macron will struggle to stem France’s ethnocentric tide
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VITROLLES, France — The long path that led to French President Emmanuel Macron’s humiliation in European elections on Sunday began nearly 30 years ago in this sun-soaked Provençal city a short drive from the Mediterranean coast.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/macron-eu-elections-parliament/

2024-06-10 14:07:07

The U.S. military plans a ‘Hellscape’ to deter China from attacking Taiwan
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SINGAPORE — President Xi Jinping has called on China’s People’s Liberation Army to be ready to take Taiwan by force by 2027. The United States, together with regional partners, must ensure a Chinese invasion can’t succeed. That plan hinges on quickly
building and deploying thousands of new drones that would swarm the Taiwan Strait and keep China’s military busy until more help can arrive, according to the top U.S. military official in the Pacific. But time is running out to turn these plans into a
reality.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/taiwan-china-hellscape-military-plan/

2024-06-10 13:46:56

MAGA Republicans tip their hand: They’re after contraception, too
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For decades, the forced-birth crowd pooh-poohed pro-choice activists’ warnings that partisan right-wing judges were out to gut Roe v. Wade. “Hysterical!” “Fearmongering!” Then the six-person radical majority shredded nearly 50 years of precedent to
deprive women of bodily autonomy. The right responded, “Leave it to the states, they’ll be reasonable!” What followed were a series of inhumane, unworkable and dangerous abortion bans that have threatened women’s lives, created a shortage of doctors and
sparked legal chaos and endless litigation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/maga-contraception-vote/

2024-06-10 13:17:55

Here’s the No. 1 reason why Trump should win on appeal
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New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over the hush money trial of former president Donald Trump that returned 34 felony convictions, ought never to have accepted the case. And Merchan surely should have stepped away once Trump’s
lawyers moved that he disqualify himself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/trump-win-appeal-merchan/

2024-06-10 13:02:22

Don’t blame the Supreme Court for universities’ stunning reversal on DEI
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After a decade of ever-escalating commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, elite campuses are reversing course.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/dei-colleges-reputation-diversity-harvard/

2024-06-10 12:52:10

Obama tried to pivot to Asia in 2011. We must succeed this time.
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Robert D. Blackwill is Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Richard Fontaine is CEO of the Center for a New American Security. They are co-authors of “Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/trump-obama-biden-asia-pivot/

2024-06-10 12:07:50

A scientific controversy at the Supreme Court
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Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and author of the Substack newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, where a version of this column initially appeared. Heidi Moseson is an epidemiologist at Ibis Reproductive Health.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/scotus-mifepristone-abortion-studies-retracted/

2024-06-09 19:17:33

What Biden needs to say about the economy if he wants to win
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I agree there’s a really good chance that President Biden can lose Nevada because of housing costs. Along with programs he has already proposed to increase supply — which are sensible but too slow-moving to make an immediate difference, as well as
meaningless to low-information and desperate voters who only see that their rent or mortgage is expensive and are looking for someone to blame — I don’t understand why the campaign is not mercilessly hammering the current situation that allows, in fact,
encourages, Wall Street and real estate investment trusts to snap up homes and apartments to raise rents and strangle supply.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/09/inflation-housing-costs-biden-bonds/

2024-06-09 13:47:57

For presidents, it’s not age but judgment that matters
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The widespread media condemnation of a shoddy front-page Wall Street Journal article about President Biden “slipping” with age suggests we may have reached a journalistic inflection point.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/09/wall-street-journal-biden-slipping-article/

2024-06-09 13:01:54

Raising taxes this much in D.C. will backfire
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Like many U.S. cities, D.C. faces a cash crunch. Costs have risen for nearly everything, while revenue has been relatively flat. Cities have run through federal pandemic relief dollars, of which D.C. received more than $3 billion. Commercial property
taxes have fallen sharply, in tandem with property values, and are likely to deteriorate further as buildings sit empty. The District’s leaders have tough choices to make in their 2025 budget to close a $700 million hole. The top priorities are clear:
public safety, downtown revitalization and youth. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s proposed budget would spend just shy of $21 billion. The D.C. Council’s plan spend about $41 million more than the mayor’s. Their big differences lie in the policy details, and
they matter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/09/dc-budget-2025-tax-increase/

2024-06-09 12:32:53

Europeans seem to grasp the threat to U.S. democracy better than we do
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STOCKHOLM — Sometimes, things come into focus more clearly at a distance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/09/democracy-europe-biden-trump-2024-election/

2024-06-08 18:41:55

Americans are being held hostage in Gaza. We cannot forget them.
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The hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza — the ones who we hope are still alive, and the ones who have been murdered but whose bodies remain — are not just an Israeli tragedy. They are an American tragedy, for the simple but often forgotten reason that
eight of them, five living and three dead, are Americans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/08/gaza-hamas-american-hostages/

2024-06-07 23:49:22

Anatomy of a D.C. carjacking: Two paths cross and an innocent life is lost
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I care less that D.C. carjackings are significantly down in the first half of 2024 compared with a year ago because I’m so sickened by what happened to Leslie Marie Gaines. She was the 55-year-old victim of an unarmed carjacking at the MedStar Washington
Hospital Center on Monday afternoon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/07/dc-crime-carjacking-drug-trade-death/

2024-06-07 22:54:40

How to help D.C.’s kids learn the math they need to succeed
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Regarding The Post’s May 28 Metro article “Parents polled on area schools”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/07/dc-schools-math-nationals-commanders/

2024-06-07 22:42:47

D-Day is 80 years old. Let’s not have another one.
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2024-06-07 22:31:20

The White House is no place for old men
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The first shots of the 2024 battle for the presidency have been fired by the two oldest humans ever to suffer self-delusion at the country’s expense. The highest-stakes contest in the democratic world is between a criminal and a codger.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/07/presidential-election-biden-old-trump-criminal/

2024-06-07 15:03:22

How to cover an abnormal presidential race
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2024-06-07 12:32:35

The law-and-order party defunds the IRS. Again.
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Americans trust Donald Trump and Republicans more than President Biden and Democrats on tax policy, according to recent polling. Yet as has been the case with other major issues, the GOP is pursuing tax policies that are the opposite of what voters say
they want.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/07/republicans-taxes-irs-funding-direct-file/

2024-06-07 12:05:03

As Biden rallies the free world, Trump serves a higher cause: Himself
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The 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday provided the contrast that should define the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/07/trump-phoenix-campaign-rally/

2024-06-06 22:50:48

Kids yearn to be saved from their own phones
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2024-06-06 22:39:43

Now that Trump’s been convicted, what sentence does he deserve?
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The probability of Donald Trump being sentenced to jail even after he was convicted of 34 felonies in New York is near zero. Any sentence short of jail time will be used by Mr. Trump to mock the system of justice at political rallies and on Truth Social.
However, there is one sentence that would undercut Trump’s ability to spread disinformation without hampering his free speech rights. It also would address Mr. Trump’s deficiencies as a candidate and a low-information American citizen, while promoting his
rehabilitation instead of feeding into his claim of martyrdom. The sentence would consist of the following parts:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/trump-sentence-jail-community-service-civics/

2024-06-06 22:20:53

A better way to fix the border than Biden’s executive order
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President Biden came into office promising to reverse cruel and irrational Trump administration policies on migration. Yet the lenient signals he sent contributed to a surge in illegal crossings of the U.S.-Mexico border by asylum seekers. The resulting
burden on states and localities caused a backlash and new Biden administration efforts to limit asylum seekers and direct them away from the border: a cellphone app to make asylum application appointments at border stations rather than try to enter the
country illegally; humanitarian parole for tens of thousands of people from a few “sender” countries who apply for entry at home; and a declaration that anybody caught trying to cross illegally will be presumed ineligible for asylum. The administration
has enlisted Mexico’s help to stem the flow.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/asylum-immigrants-border-biden-executive-order/

2024-06-06 19:15:16

Harvard and Stanford want culture-war neutrality. Can they sustain it?
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In the days after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Harvard University’s president declared that “we must use this moment to confront and remedy racial injustice.” The dean of its school of public health wrote to students, “Our community stands
united in doing everything we can … to be agents of anti-racist social transformation.” Stanford University’s president emphasized “the shameful legacy of anti-Black racism and how it endures in our communities and our country,” while its medical school
leadership wrote, “Collectively, we cannot breathe — not until meaningful change occurs.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/harvard-stanford-israel-neutrality/

2024-06-06 15:36:18

The Biden immigration order exposes MAGA hypocrisy
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President Biden called Republicans’ bluff in February when he backed a tough, bipartisan border security plan. When now-felon and former president Donald Trump told Republicans to block the deal for fear of giving Biden a “win,” Democrats lost the battle
to pass immigration reform but seemed to have negated the Republicans’ tough-on-the-border talking point. On Tuesday, however, Biden went one step further, putting out an executive order that raises legal questions but tightens the screws on MAGA border
hawks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/biden-border-executive-order-politics-republicans/

2024-06-06 15:36:10

I’m your new AI search assistant! I want you to eat glue and die.
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Hello, yes, I know you were trying to search for something, but, unfortunately, I am here instead. I don’t know what “search” means, and I won’t allow it!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/ai-search-assistant-glue-rocks-satire/

2024-06-06 15:35:58

Don’t call Trump a ‘felon’
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Carroll Bogert is president of the Marshall Project, a nonprofit publication dedicated to covering criminal justice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/donald-trump-felon-media/

2024-06-06 15:35:50

Want to go back in time? Visit a school where cellphones are banned.
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We feel like we’re in the 1980s again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/schools-cell-phone-ban-students-education/

2024-06-06 15:35:39

Note to Fed: It’s okay to cut interest rates now
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Jim Parrott is co-owner of Parrott Ryan Advisors and a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute. Mark Zandi is chief economist of Moody’s Analytics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/federal-reserve-interest-rates-inflation/

2024-06-06 15:28:35

Submit a question for Jennifer Rubin about her columns, politics, policy and more
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2024-06-06 15:24:51

For The Post, a Supreme black eye
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It’s one thing to get scooped when your competitors bust their humps. Or when they catch a lucky break one way or another. It’s quite another thing to get scooped when the story has sat in your notebook for 3½ years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/05/washington-post-alito-upside-down-flag/

2024-06-06 15:24:46

On immigration, the too-little-too-late president strikes again
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In autopsies of Joe Biden’s presidency, one word will be explanatory: disorder. From urban crime to campus tumults to inflation’s comprehensive disruption — the currency becoming emaciated — Americans fear societal fraying. The most infuriating
provocation is immigration. An essential attribute of national sovereignty — control of borders — has been sacrificed on the altar of “equity,” with collateral damage far from the southwestern border. Far-flung communities — their hospitals, their schools
— experience the truth that “every state is a border state.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/05/biden-failed-immigration-policy/

2024-06-06 15:24:30

Why it’s so hard to get big things done in D.C.
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In one of the nation’s richest Zip codes, a supermarket, shuttered since 2011, sits boarded up, pockmarked with graffiti, an abandoned eyesore marooned for more than a decade in a circular debate over how many and what kind of apartments should be built
there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/05/housing-shortage-washington-dc/

2024-06-06 15:19:38

Costco is the hero America needs right now
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All hail Costco, the hero America needs right now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/04/costco-hot-dogs-prices-inflation/

2024-06-06 15:18:38

The Pentagon is learning how to change at the speed of war
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For several decades, military reformers such as retired Navy Capt. Jerry Hendrix have pleaded with the Pentagon to stop buying wildly expensive but vulnerable aircraft carriers and fighter jets and instead focus on getting vast numbers of cheap drones.
But nobody seemed to listen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/04/united-states-drones-pentagon-military-weapons-evolution/

2024-06-06 15:17:12

Do Black voters deserve more from Biden?
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2024-06-06 15:14:55

What does Chinese repression look like? View these photos of Hong Kong.
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June 4, 1990: The first anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2023/tiananmen-anniversary-photos-hong-kong-repression-protest/

2024-06-06 15:12:36

Invisible and exposed — but adaptable, as only the old can be
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Anyone who survived eighth-grade gym class believes that the worst is over, that it will all be downhill from that peak of vulnerability and mortification.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/04/aging-vulnerable-invisible-adaptable/

2024-06-06 15:08:39

Should Trump do time in jail? Here’s how Justice Merchan might rule.
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Mr. Trump, I have thought long and hard about the appropriate sentence in this case. I am going to sentence you to 60 days in jail and six months of community service. I am going to suspend imposition of the sentence until the conclusion of any appeals
that you may bring.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/03/trump-jail-prison-sentencing/

2024-06-06 15:04:29

Genocide looms again in Darfur. Will the world stop it from happening?
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David Simon is director of Yale University’s Genocide Studies Program and a senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/03/darfur-genocide-sudan-peacekeepers-famine/

2024-06-06 14:56:58

How to reduce the number of abortions in Virginia
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If you want to see the number of abortions decrease, as I do, our No. 1 goal should be to decrease abortion demand in Virginia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/02/abortion-virginia-pro-life-bans/

2024-06-06 14:54:55

Five ways to respond to Alito’s contemptuous letter
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When Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. responded last week to a letter from Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) urging his recusal from the immunity case involving felon and former president Donald Trump, the justice’s reply did not, in
one respect, surprise his critics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/02/alito-letter-flags-controversy/

2024-06-06 14:54:42

Democrats weaponing flags to intimidate Alito is an embarrassment
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Here’s my only question for Martha-Ann Alito: Were you a flag girl in high school?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/02/alito-flag-marriage-jan-6-recusal/

2024-06-06 14:54:38

Europe’s far right may be advancing, but its opponents are waking up
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BARCELONA — No, the far right is not about to take over Europe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/02/europe-far-right-elections-eu-parliament/

2024-06-06 14:52:23

The First Amendment gives the NRA a right to be wrong about the Second
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The big legal event of recent days was former president Donald Trump’s guilty verdict — so momentous it overshadowed a unanimous Supreme Court decision on the First Amendment. Yet the court’s 9-0 ruling in National Rifle Association v. Vullo was a
positive development in two ways: it showed that the fractious justices can still unite around certain basic constitutional principles; and the constitutional principle they rallied behind in this case was the sacred one of free speech.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/01/supreme-court-nra-new-york-free-speech/

2024-06-06 14:52:10

South Africa’s ANC lost its majority. Time for a pivot to the center.
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The votes are still being counted in South Africa, but the African National Congress looks certain to lose its governing majority in parliament. It’s a dramatic post-apartheid first: The ANC — the party of the late Nelson Mandela — has been in power since
1994. Despite this historic rebuke, the ANC remains the largest faction with about 40 percent of the seats in the 400-member body. Parliament will pick the next president. Hence the incumbent, Cyril Ramaphosa, has to find a coalition partner to reach the
necessary 201 votes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/01/south-africa-elections-anc-democratic-alliance/

2024-06-06 14:39:46

Don’t assume everyone is paying attention to the election
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2024-06-06 14:33:31

The verdict is in: Trump is guilty on all counts
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On Thursday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his prosecutorial team, after a grueling trial punctuated by multiple contempt citations against the defendant, former president Donald Trump, obtained guilty verdicts on 34 counts of falsifying
business records. Credit goes to the jury of 12 ordinary Americans who heard the evidence and applied the law. The charges were straightforward, not obtuse as critics claimed. (Similar business records cases have been brought against hundreds of other
defendants.) And, as Bragg promised, the evidence was overwhelming — coming from witnesses ranging from David Pecker to Hope Hicks to, yes, Michael Cohen. A boatload of documents confirmed the “catch and kill” scheme designed to pull the wool over voters’
eyes in 2016.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/trump-trial-convicted-impact/

2024-06-06 14:33:05

One verdict is already in, and Trump lost — his focus
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NEW YORK — On Monday evening, before closing arguments in his hush money trial, Donald Trump found something else to complain about.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/early-trump-verdict-campaign-impact-lost-focus/

2024-06-06 14:32:17

Beating back a new wave of overdoses requires an honest conversation
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Regarding The Post’s May 23 front-page article “Among teens, fentanyl use sees a lethal rise”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/fentanyl-crisis-overdose-youth-treatment/

2024-06-06 14:27:04

The latest mass killing of civilians brings Israel to an inflection point
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The latest mass casualty event in Gaza, the accidental killing of at least 45 civilians in a horrific fire set off by shelling, echoes the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers last month. After that tragedy, fierce condemnation forced Israel
to increase humanitarian aid and intensify efforts to “deconflict” (i.e., take measures to prevent accidental killings). Now, in the wake of the killing of 45 innocents, pressure on Israel mounts again. As a result, two starkly different possibilities
emerge: another cycle of recrimination and Israeli defiance, fueled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal desperation to remain in power, or domestic and international pressure galvanizing to bring about a negotiated end to the ordeal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/rafah-israel-civilian-deaths-pressure-ceasefire/

2024-06-06 14:26:28

To restrain Putin in Ukraine, tighten sanctions
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Benjamin Harris is vice president and director of the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution. David Wessel is director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/russia-putin-ukraine-war-sanctions/

2024-06-06 14:26:17

To win the chip war, the U.S. must prioritize revolutionary research
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Chris Miller is the author of “Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology.” Jordan Schneider is the founder of ChinaTalk, a podcast and newsletter on technology and U.S.-China relations. Arrian Ebrahimi writes the Chip Capitols
newsletter on Substack.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/semiconductor-industry-china-research-development/

2024-06-06 14:22:35

A memorable ‘thank you’ from Bill Walton
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David Bragdon, a former president of Portland’s Metro Council, is a public transportation consultant.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/29/bill-walton-death-thank-you/

2024-06-06 14:22:05

Pros and cons to new tech: Stupidity, productivity and whales
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I enjoyed reading Shira Ovide’s May 21 perspective, “Exactly how stupid was what OpenAI did to Scarlett Johansson?” — right up until the writer trivialized OpenAI’s flagrant misuse of a woman’s voice without her consent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/29/ai-scarlett-johansson-technology-environment/

2024-06-06 14:19:01

Amid scandal and deliberation, all eyes are on the courts
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2024-06-06 14:15:24

How an outrageous smear of U.S. troops wound up in history books
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Brian P. Walsh is the author of “The ‘Rape of Japan’: The Myth of Mass Sexual Violence During the Allied Occupation,” to be published by the Naval Institute Press on June 15.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/29/soldier-rape-japan-propaganda-history/

2024-06-06 14:15:14

Hogan says he’s a feisty maverick. (Shh. He’s also a Republican.)
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You probably won’t hear about it on Larry Hogan’s incessant TV ads from now until November, but you’ll hear it ad nauseam from the Democrats: Hogan is the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/29/larry-hogan-senate-republican/

2024-06-06 14:14:59

In India’s polarized election, voters seek a return to normal
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Barkha Dutt, a broadcast journalist and anchor in Delhi, is the author, most recently, of “To Hell and Back: Humans of COVID.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/29/india-election-modia-religious-rhetoric-economy/

2024-06-06 14:12:06

Russian gains push White House to revisit some red lines
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To combat Russia’s advances in Ukraine, President Biden is considering two tough new countermeasures: punishing China for supplying key technology to Moscow and lifting limits on Ukrainian use of U.S. short-range weapons to attack inside Russia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/28/russian-ukraine-war-biden-weapons-china-sanctions/

2024-06-06 14:04:26

How geography and religion drive America’s blue vs. red divide
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After Barack Obama’s 2012 victory, political commentators, including some Republicans, fixated on the racial divide. Democrats, they (wrongly) predicted, would win most elections in the future because voters of color were overwhelmingly backing them. The
past few years, education has replaced race as the explanation for everything. Journalists and officials in both parties at times speak as if every Democratic voter has a college degree and none of the Republicans do.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/28/political-identity-beyond-education-race/

2024-06-06 14:04:19

Biden’s deal with Saudi Arabia may be dead on arrival, thankfully
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The Biden administration is racing to complete a set of agreements with Saudi Arabia that U.S. officials claim are a step toward a future three-way deal including Israel that could lead to broader Middle East peace. The deal comes with huge benefits for
Saudi Arabia and risky new commitments for the United States. But there’s no chance Israel will agree to the conditions Saudi Arabia has set for normalizing the two countries’ relations — so whatever agreements President Biden makes with Riyadh will
likely never get implemented.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/28/biden-saudi-security-deal-charade/

2024-06-06 14:04:12

When desegregation came to Harlan County, U.S.A.: An oral history
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Karida L. Brown is a professor of sociology at Emory University and the author of “Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/28/desegregation-brown-v-board-harlan-county/

2024-06-06 13:40:21

Here’s who The Post endorses in D.C. Council primary elections
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After years of free spending, the D.C. government faces a $4 billion budget shortfall through fiscal 2029. Pandemic relief money has dried up and a commercial real estate recession threatens the tax base — but raising taxes could undermine the capital
city’s competitiveness. Meanwhile, D.C. needs to hire hundreds of police officers to reduce crime — a serious concern of the public — while addressing chronic absenteeism in public schools and repurposing the site where RFK Stadium will soon be
demolished. The D.C. Council desperately needs fiscally responsible and serious-minded members to tackle these hard choices.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/25/dc-city-council-endorsements-2024/

2024-06-06 13:34:39

Why we should reschedule Memorial Day
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2024-06-06 13:34:30

Easing civilian suffering should be the easy part of this war
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In Gaza City last November, I watched thousands of Palestinian civilians slowly march south from their shattered homes toward what Israel promised would be food and shelter in Rafah.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/24/palestinians-civilian-suffering-gaza-israel/

2024-06-06 13:33:43

Vote like Jan. 6 could happen again — because it can
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There have been 19 presidential elections in my lifetime. In every one, the losing candidates accepted the results as lawful, with one exception: Donald Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/24/vote-insurrection-trump-biden-jan-6-again/