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Kristof: World leaders realizing they must not appease Trump
Leaders will need to answer further threats of tariffs and worse with their own harsh measures.
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Schwab: It isn’t GOP cowardice but approval that emboldens Trump
In message and manner, an ICE-like cruelty is on proud display. And about last week’s column: “Pysch!”
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Douthat: What’s left that can restrain Trump’s fevered ambitions?
In his first term, his Cabinet and advisers were the guardrails. Now the checks are less certain.
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Stephens: Trump brings spirit of fear — not dialogue — to Davos
A century-old novel set in the Swiss city encapsulates the world mindsets competing for Europe’s future.
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Bouie: What Trump’s text to Norwegian leader revealed to world
The product of a disordered mind, the text shows the wounded ego of an unpredictable, unrestrained leader.
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Welch: State of the state reflects continuing challenges
The governor was optimistic, but affordability, housing and flooding response remain unresolved.
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Dowd: Nobels and nations; if Trump wants it, he’ll try to take it
Trump says his power is limited only by ‘my own morality.’ So, too, is his desire for possession.
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Stephens: Iran’s leaders falling to their own antisemitism
The regime would rather pursue a perpetual jihad against Israel and Jews than feed its own people.
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Lozada: Two questions podcasters, moderators should stop asking
How did we get to the point where ‘How did we get here?’ seemed a useful way to…
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Schwab: Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Don
As I have always said, the facts side with Trump and his team; on the ICE fatal shooting…
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Kristof: ‘We’re No. 1”? How does 32nd of 171 countries sound?
Regardless of presidential administration, the nation’s standing on several measures has dropped over the years.
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Goldberg: ICE killing of Renee Good meant as message for us all
Civil rights, not just of immigrants, but of all Americans are being curtailed. Protest no longer is protected…
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Kristof: In Venezuela, Trump trades rule of law for rule of oil
Its socialist government, which lost the last election, remains in power; as long as it bends to Trump.
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Schwab: Will murder of a mother by ICE at last remove all doubt?
If not the death itself, the lies in defense of the slaying should move MAGA to take a…
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Schwab: Oil’s well won’t end well with Venezuela adventure
It wasn’t over drugs. Or democracy. As long as Maduro’s cronies hand over the oil, Trump’s satisfied.
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Goldberg: This isn’t regime change; it’s mob-level extortion
Trump doesn’t really want to run Venezuela; he just wants loyalty and a fat ‘envelope.’
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Stephens: There were good reasons to depose Maduro; oil wasn’t one
If Trump wants to turn Venezuela around, he still can by demanding free and fair elections.
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Welch: State lawmakers have a chance to chart a better course
Rather than being driven by ideology, the Legislature needs to set policies that focus on outcomes.
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Boule: Over centuries, a sickness has eaten away at democracy
At full speed in the 21st, it festers in the nation’s inability to hold corrupt leaders responsible.
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Kristof: ‘Pottery Barn Rule’ could haunt Trump if Venezuela fails
‘If you break it, you own it,’ a warning from the Iraq war goes; deposing Maduro starts an…