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Schwab: Why keep up nonviolent protests? Because they work
Our greatest democratic victories came on the heels of massive, nationwide demonstrations.
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Bouie: Trump’s weaknesses show through theater of strength
His inability to calmly confront opposition and respond with force betrays brittleness and insecurity.
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Welch: Marcus Tageant embodied the spirit of Lake Stevens
I served with Marcus on the city council, witnessing an infectious devotion to his community.
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Goldberg: Watch carefully; this is what autocracy looks like
Trump, in stepping past state officials, has over-reacted to discourage legitimate protest of his actions.
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French: Trump, as he hoped, gets his excuse for conflict
It’s on the slightest of pretenses, but Trump is getting the showdown he desired in California.
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Goldberg: Musk should be a warning to CEOs aligning with Trump
Even if they chafed under Democratic policy, now they’re left to a president’s unpredictable whims.
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Goldberg: Musk’s leaves legacy of disease, starvation and death
DOGE may only break even, and at the cost of some 300,000 deaths from the end of USAID.
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Schwab: Reveling in the dis-Enlightenment of America
Fearing an educated and informed electorate, Trump and MAGA target knowledge, science and reason.
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Burke: A parade for Army? Sure; but let a sibling march, too
The U.S. Merchant Marine has supplied the country’s fighting forces since the Revolutionary War.
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Harrop: This isn’t the outcome that Musk likely imagined
After handing over $250 million to elect Trump, he got the job of taking heat for unpopular cuts.
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Dowd: Musk moved fast and broke his own reputation
The head of the failed-DOGE experiment leaves Washington with a black eye and less respect.
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Douthat: Trump should embrace the TACO; it actually serves him
Trump’s willingness to backtrack when a plan isn’t working may actually help him seal deals.
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Kristof: Rubio dead wrong that end of USAID hasn’t cost lives
He told Congress it was a lie, but consider two of thousands of examples of lives lost to…
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Harrop: GOP states seeing red over green energy
Even as renewables add to their energy mix, Republicans are loathe to admit that it’s working.
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Schwab: We’re witnesses to a new China syndrome
What’s melting down now, with America’s retreat from the world, is our standing and economic influence.
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Welch: Governor went back on cuts-first, taxes-last promise
By signing his party’s budget and its $9 billion in tax increases, he’s OK’d financial disaster.
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Klein: What do we get out of Trump’s Big Budget Bomb?
By adding $3T to the national debt, we’re kicking millions off Medicaid and giving that money to the…
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Harrop: GOP’s decades-long tax cut fantasy needs to end
Tax cuts never paid for themselves; now they could add trillions of dollars to the national debt.
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Schwab: Words, numbers mean what Trump and cadre say they mean
It’s best if you 86 past and present; they only keep you from accepting what’s happening around you.
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Kristof: Helpful tips from an anti-authoritarian playbook
Don’t underestimate the power of mockery, pointing out corruption and the influence held by one person.