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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.
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Petri: ‘Baby Shark’ documentary provides parents no easy out
Sorry to disappoint those with ‘do do do’ stuck in their heads, but you have no reason not…
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Harrop: Democrats, listen to Pelosi; impeachment not worth it
It would give Trump the attention he craves, grate on the public and hobble the Democrats’ agenda.
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Milbank: This time, Manafort’s judge wasn’t having it
Her sentence wasn’t especially harsh, but her words — in condemning his play for a Trump pardon —…
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McArdle: One of FDR’s idea that shouldn’t be resurrected
Packing the high court to game outcomes would turn it fully over to the whims of the White…
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Milbank: GOP’s deference to Trump costs military projects
Too afraid to defy Trump on his ‘emergency,’ Republicans refuse to stand up for their own districts.
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Ignatius: Populists battling traditionalist in both parties
Trump now owns what’s left of the GOP, but Democrats may yet create a coherent political order.