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French: The podcast that surrendered the GOP to its fate

Actually, it’s the ideological split following Tucker Carlson’s interview of Nick Fuentes that sealed it.

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Klein: Democrats had the upper hand. Why did they give in now?

Trump has a higher tolerance for others’ pain than Democrats do. And they made their point with voters.

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Kristof: Trump’s cuts to aid killing more Christians than Jihadis do

At Trump’s insistence, the U.S. has plans to invade Nigeria. A restoration of aid would save far more…

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Schwab: Trump continues course blithely as voters begin to rouse

Against a backdrop of Democratic election wins, Trump continued with the same old, same old.

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Bouie: Election shows Trump as albatross around GOP’s neck

Voters are telling Trump and Republicans that they’ve baldy misread the mandate of the 2024 election.

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Stephens: Why do dumb ideas — from left and right — persist?

A little reflection on past failures ought to be enough to have us keep searching for solutions.

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Burke: If you ever need a TAVR, thank medicine and Medicare

Nothing short of a medical marvel, the procedure replaces a heart valve and proves the value of Medicare.

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Kristof: Once again, world has failed to stop Darfur atrocities

The U.S. doesn’t have to send troops. It can demand the U.A.E stop supplying one side in Sudan’s…

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Schwab: Trump lives the life of a flexible dog, because he can

With a pliant Congress and Court, the president finds every impulse easily bent to his whims.

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Welch: Why is our foot on the gas when the wheel is broken?

State and local governments continue to raise taxes without delivering on promises. How do we fix this?

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Schrager: Can America afford to reopen the goverment?

A deal in Congress that restores health care subsidies would add $350 billion over a decade to the…

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French: Trump has dragged our discourse down to his level

We’re trapped in a dynamic that is tempting many millions of Americans to indulge their worst impulses.

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Schwab: 7 million American demonstrators can’t be wrong

Last Saturday wasn’t a ‘Hate America’ rally of Hamas supporters and criminals. Just concerned citizens.

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Douthat: Swift’s ‘Showgirl’ provides a text for the Trump era

Taylor hasn’t gone to the Trump side, but her embrace of marriage raises questions for a shifting culture.

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Burke: Pardon me? It’s an easy ask if you’re a Trump ‘rogue’

A pattern — and a revelation about crime — emerges as you scan Trump’s list of pardons and…

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Dowd: Hegseth unwittingly challenges journalists to do their jobs

The ‘War’ chief’s demands of reporters, rejected even by Fox News, will only increase scrutiny on him.

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Kristof: Stop seeing Israelis, Palestinians in good vs. evil terms

Both have the right to exist. Both are guilty of atrocities. Both must recognize the other’s humanity.

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Schwab: Peace in our time, but where can we get some of that?

If peace lasts in Mideast, give Trump his due. But where’s the goodwill for his fellow Americans?

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Dowd: The gold that President Trump will never hold in his hands

The Nobel committee will note Trump’s work to end the war in Gaza, but also his brutality in…

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Kristof: Portland isn’t ‘burning’; Trump should leave it alone

It isn’t the ‘war-ravaged’ hellhole that Trump and Fox News claim. Does he want to incite violence?