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Dowd: So much about Trump’s business acumen isn’t adding up

For a man who says he doesn’t gamble, he sure seems to be taking risks with American stability.

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Stephens: Destruction of American ideal starts with accepting it

Denying due process to any, firing officials over rumors, disdain for law; are those our idea of America?

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Schwab: Tariffs meant to hand us tiny screws; we get a big one

His trade team says this will bring back manufacturing. What’s being manufactured are lies.

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Friedman: Trump’s 90-day pause won’t impress our allies

The damage is done. What Trump should have done is to work with other countries to confront China.

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Burke: With so many foreign names, why stop with one gulf?

If ‘Gulf of Mexico’ offends Trump’s sensibilities, we have far more places in need of rebranding.

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Friedman: Trump’s global trade attacks play into China’s hands

China has become a manufacturing juggernaut. We ought to be teaming with others to confront it.

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Brooks: Trump isn’t offering liberation, but stagnation

His tariffs and more are are walling us off from the crossroads of cultures and ideas that made…

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Schwab: After the lawyers, the judges, the free-thinkers …

The Trump administration’s hollowing-out of democracy is going after our ability to speak and decide.

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Stephens: Gaza won’t be free until it is free of Hamas

Palestinians in Gaza now are protesting Hamas’ leadership. And being met with familiar brutality.

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Welch: Latest state tax proposals threaten jobs and economy

Using fear of budget cuts, state lawmakers are taking the easy route with damaging tax increases.

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Douthat: Trump’s Signalgate denials not impressing non-MAGA

Even 60 percent of Republicans polled said the scandal was a serious one.

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Kristof: Violence surrounds detention of Oscar-winning filmmaker

The Palestinian’s ‘No Other Land’ won accolades. In his West Bank home, he was attacked.

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Schwab: Everywhere one looks, bullying, denial, illegal acts

This is how a democracy is dismantled if the good do not associate, as Edmund Burke advised.

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Douthat: ‘Oligarchy’ is not target Democrats should aim at

Their beef is more one of ideology than of class, as the oligarchs have gone where the wind…

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Burke: If Canada won’t join U.S., our state could look north

There are more pluses than minuses to becoming the 11th province, including an easy-to-sing anthem.

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French: Hegseth’s carelessness calls for his resignation

An encrypted chat among Pentagon and other officials was unwittingly shared with a reporter.

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Kristof: What can continued carnage in Gaza passibly achieve?

A resumption of air assaults are adding to the death toll, with no plan for what happens after.

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Friedman: I don’t believe a word Trump, Putin say on Ukraine

Trump has yet to be clear about what he thinks “peace” would look like for Ukraine and Russia.

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Kristof: America making Sudan’s humanitarian crisis worse

Amid a civil war, it’s pulled food aid and is silent about U.A.E.’s backing of a violent rebel…

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Goldberg: Meta tries to silence account of its ‘Lethal Carelessness’

The company is suing its author, a former insider; that should only encourage sales of the book.