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Saunders: Joe Biden backtracked on the wrong thing
Biden could have shown his moderate cred by sticking with the Hyde Amendment, not siding with racists.
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Parker: Both Biden and Booker could have put it better
Biden had other ways to illustrate his point. Booker was blatantly trying to score political points.
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Petri: A brief history of the world, as tweeted by Donald Trump
From the wheel to a planet of the sharks, a look how we got here and why there’s…
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Petri: How Democrats should have answered Time’s questionnaire
Forget climate change. What we want to know is: What’s your favorite comfort food while campaigning?
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McArdle: Facebook wants to be your bank; what could go wrong?
The social network already faces broad-based mistrust. Running a currency system won’t help.
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Robinson: Biden a known quantity; that’s advantage and curse
His attempt to speak for bipartisanship was pure Biden and shows the challenge ahead for his campaign.
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Schwab: On brink of war, how to trust leader of 10,000 lies?
We now may be asked to follow a president into war. By what standard can we believe Trump?
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Ignatius: Backed into corner, Iran tries to fight its way out
Neither side wants war, but the incremental escalation brings the U.S. and Iran closer to the brink.
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Harrop: High time high heels dropped from work dress codes
Women should insist that they no longer be required to wear painful and damaging high heels at work.
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Milbank: World leaders know flattery works with Trump
The latest example: To win continued support, Israel named a settlement for Trump in the Golan Heights.
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McArdle: Hong Kong proof Chinese people still want democracy
Of the city’s 7.4 million people, 2 million jammed streets to protest an extradition law. And they won.…
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Parker: Eight years after Haiti’s quake, pilot recalls mission
What started as relief flights of medical supplies has turned into schools that will help hundreds of kids.
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Petri: Well, we know what the border crisis definitely is not
If something terrible was happening on the border, we wouldn’t need people using words to alert us.
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Milbank: Trump’s new campaign slogan for 2020? But Her Emails
And why is Trump still running against Hillary? Because he can’t — truthfully — point to many successes.
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Ignatius: Timing of Shanahan’s retreat hurts U.S. on Iran
The White House already faces a lack of trust among U.S. allies in dealing with Iranian hard-liners.
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Petri: Richard Nixon having second thoughts about resigning
Not only is he kicking himself for quitting, Nixon says he shouldn’t have stopped at taking that dog.
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Milbank: Don’t like a Trump opinion? Wait and it’ll change
Trump has the Fitzgeraldian ability to hold two opposed ideas in his mind at the same time.
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Robinson: How American celebration becomes a political rally
Trump’s takeover of D.C.’s July 4 festivities will replace patriotism with self-focused partisanship.
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Harrop: Many Democrats happy to go with Warren over Sanders
They still get a progressive, but one without the baggage of having helped Trump win in 2016.
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Saunders: Summit was about deficit, yet time spent on Trump
During an interview on ‘fiscal sustainability,’ even Pelosi tired of the obsession with Trump.