Opinion
Robinson: Crowded 2020 Democratic field means more ideas
And let’s not get sidetracked by labels; let’s let the best ideas sort out the field of candidates.
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Milbank: Why did ‘adults in the room’ stay quiet until leaving?
Trump’s former staffers have washed their hands of their old boss, but only to burnish their resumes.
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Burke: A birdwatcher’s guide to 2018 and the year ahead
Trump’s chickens started coming home to roost in 2018; will he have flown the coop by 2019’s end?
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Harrop: Left and right should end fixation with Ocasio-Cortez
Conservative pundits can’t decide if she’s ‘simple’ or their greatest threat; she’s clearly neither.
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Ignatius: Your chance at political punditry — 2019 predictions
So what does 2019 hold in store for world and national politics? Lock in your answers now.
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Saunders: Cop’s death should prompt Democrats to deal on wall
Ronil Singh, a legal immigrant, was allegedly slain by an illegal one. A sanctuary law is to blame.
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Rampell: Trump’s positions on deals consistently inconsistent
Trump likes to trust his gut, but he seems to have perpetual indigestion, given how often it flips.
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Dionne: Left needs to understand the appeal of nationalism
The best response to populist ‘nationalism’ — and Trumpism — isn’t globalism, but internationalism.
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McArdle: The biggest problem with the criminal justice reform bill
For many reasons, we can’t afford mass incarceration, but we need alternatives for criminal justice.
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Robinson: Trump plays to his base because it’s all he has left
Trump’s shutdown isn’t about his wall; it’s about reassuring his supporters he can get it done.
Business
The Fed’s transparency policy needs careful review
Oversharing can reveal doubts and uncertainties to no positive purpose.
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Schwab: If not auld acquaintance, let’s forget this past week
After Trump’s pull-out from Syria, the shutdown and plunging markets, here’s hoping for a better 2019.
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Ignatius: N. Korea could prove a bright spot for Trump’s 2018
‘There remains a long ways to go,” Pompeo says, but the dialog continues and no missiles are flying.
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Harrop: Farmers, ranchers might rethink Trump, GOP support
Trump’s tariffs and ‘easy-to-win’ trade wars have hit the U.S. where it hurts, right in the farm belt.
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Milbank: Of all conspiracies to debunk, Trump picks this one?
The president bewilders a 7-year-old, telling her that her belief in Santa Claus was ‘marginal.’
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Ignatius: Trump’s order abandons 10,000 Kurds who fought ISIS
“This is something immoral, leaving your ally in the battle alone,” a Syrian Kurdish leader said.
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Rampell: Trump fails his own unintended financial stress test
His threat to fire the Fed chief and Mnuchin’s botched calls to calm markets had the opposite effect.
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Thiessen: Guns or nunchuks, the Second Amendment stands
A 1974 New York City law, which caught up the columnist, has been overturned in federal court.
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Milbank: Trump has forfeited America’s Cold War victories
Against his advisers’ counsel, the president has weakened alliances and acted to benefit adversaries.