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Harrop: We should have taken Paine’s ‘Common Sense’ on Kennedys
What has hereditary succession gotten us but name plaques and a health secretary with a brain worm.
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Schwab: Is Epstein saga showing MAGA what Trump thinks of them?
In trying to divert attention from the scandal, Trump reveals it’s about what benefits him, not them.
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Douthat: If Trump doesn’t control MAGA, who will when he’s done?
He may insist he makes the decisions, but Trump reads MAGA first for much of what passes for…
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Goldberg: A movie about the year American went fully beserk
‘Eddington’ is a rare story about covid that is as unnerving as living through the pandemic was.
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Welch: State carbon auctions’ billions a costly climate illusion
Too little of the revenue is being used to reduce air pollution while costs are passed down to…
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Douthat: Who’s winning the latest world war?
America’s success has seen ebbs and flows in recent years, while China bides its time and builds strength.
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Saunders: So what if cuts to public radio, TV were small potatoes?
Just because it alone won’t balance the budget, doesn’t mean that cuts weren’t justified.
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Schwab: Rosie O’Donnell, immigrants and other Epstein distractions
MAGA puts up with the outrages because empathy is reserved only for their own prejudices.
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Harrop: Will America ever recover from what Trump has wrought?
Pundits and psychiatrists can debate why. We need to answer whether we can restore what is being lost.
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Dowd: Trump’s good-looking Cabinet making him look bad
Trump’s toadies are keeping the truth from him and making decisions on their own that dog the president.
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Goldberg: Why Nebraska may make GOP pay for its awful bill
It will be tough for Democrats to win the Senate, but an independent union leader could tip the…
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Saunders: Considering attacks from left, ICE agents must mask
It’s not ideal, but with physical attacks against agents up 700%, the precaution is understandable.
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Tufekci: Link between flood warnings and people wasn’t there
What might have saved many in Texas was a NWS coordinator position eliminated in the DOGE cuts.
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Tufekci: ‘Garbage in, garbage out’ behind AI’s Nazi meltdown
That Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot defaulted to internet hate speech is concerning. Our acceptance is scarier.
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Harrop: Trump Country should brace for less federal disaster aid
Red states have been among the largest recipients of FEMA aid. Trump says he’ll end that help.
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Schwab: Yes, your Medicaid’s gone but you can gloat over gators
What Trump is taking from the social safety net, he’s adding to the cruelty against working immigrants.
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Kristof: Women’s rights effort has work to do in Africa, elsewhere
Girls in Sierra Leone will sell themselves to pay for school. The feminist movement has looked away.
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French: Supreme Court hits a vile industry with its comeuppance
While disagreeing on the best test, the justices agreed on the threat that porn poses to children.
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Welch: A plan to supply drugs to addicts is a dangerous dance
A state panel’s plan to create a ‘safer supply’ of drugs is the wrong path to addiction recovery.
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Douthat: Conservatives sacrificed own goals to pay for tax cuts
Along with its cuts to Medicaid, long-held GOP priorities were ignored in the Big Beautiful Bill.