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Schwab: Are we content to surrender to white nationalists?
While still small in number — but loud of voice — silence and complicity aids nationalists’ growth.
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Ignatius: Private, business data needs protection, but how?
U.S. agencies have successfully ‘hacked back,’ but there are cautions for those outside government.
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Milbank: Comes now Don Jr. to instruct England on democracy
Much of the U.K. is — if not amused — laughing at his assessment that democracy is ‘all…
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Parker: Are some Democrats too rich to succeed with voters?
Never mind humble beginnings, wealth has become a disqualifier in the minds of some on the left.
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McArdle: What’s it say when old ethnic slurs lose their sting?
The RNC’s swipe at Beto O’Rourke didn’t appear to srike most as stereotyping of Irish Americans.
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Milbank: Don’t let cows’ docile nature fool you; they’re vicious
And Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Milking Sympathy, is suing a cow for tweeting mean things about him.
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Harrop: Keeping calm in face of unhinged racial abuse
Call it racism or mental illness, the patience shown by the outbursts’ victims is an example for all.
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Ignatius: Trump’s Rust Belt promises losing their luster
The jobs he promised can’t be tweeted into being. But some communities have found a way forward.
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Petri: What if the ‘Hokey Pokey’ is what Beto is all about?
Beto didn’t prepare this speech; you pulled it out of him, turned it around and shook it all…
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Mlbank: OK, it’s a witch hunt; it’s already caught half a coven
A historian of witchcraft says — Salem notwithstanding — some witch hunts enforced societal norms.
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Gerson: Right counting on cultivation of desperation
Such authoritarian ‘end times’ politics turn opponents into enemies and turns compromise into heresy.
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Harrop: Inland Democrats have ear of once-ruby-red states
O’Rourke, Klobuchar and Buttigieg know what’s wrong and have a good idea of how to fix it.
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Milbank: What happens when corporations run government
A host of former corporate heads leading top agencies doesn’t lead to sound — or safe — regulation.
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McArdle: Does coverage of mass shootings beget more of them?
Would depriving the perpetrators of massacres notoriety deny them their real reason for killing.
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Saunders: Media holds double standard on executive action
Critical of Trump for defying public opinion on the wall, it praises Newsom’s death-penalty reversal.
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Rampell: Happy 30th, World Wide Web; now go away
Now that its excesses are being revealed no one knows just how to rein in our tech overlords.
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Ignatius: Congress has fondess for military’s legacy weapons
When it starts to cut its budget, Congress may favor 20th century’s programs over the 21st’s.
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Parker: Beto’s likeable, in a precious, if inexperienced, way
O’Rourke offers little substance except to say that he wants to make the country a better place.
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McArdle: Joke’s on the rich who bought ‘old school’ eilte rules
What the admissions scandal has scratched away is the elite universities’ thin veneer of meritocracy.
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Schwab: Why C-3P0 won’t be asking for a scalpel during surgery
Robotic surgery is a thing; but it has more to do with remote controls than artificial intelligence.