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Burke: Like a typhoon, confront the tycoon head on
As we saw this weekend, it’s best to confront storms like Trump directly and with determination.
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Goldberg: Trump’s bullying has only reawakened the resistance
More and more, Trump’s attempts to assert his strength appear to have backfired on him.
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Harrop: Trump’s exception for immigrants shows its hypocrisy
In excusing those in agriculture and hospitality, he makes the need for broader reforms clear.
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French: Trump’s support relies on theory more than its practice
There’s a significant number who back Trump’s goals but are less supportive of his methods on many issues.
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Goldberg: Like the right, the left needs to think globally
Conservatives have an international pact; progressives risk further loses without a similar network.
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Kristof: Restraint best course of action for Trump with Iran
Israel may have set back Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but it comes with the risk of escalating tensions.
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Schwab: Why keep up nonviolent protests? Because they work
Our greatest democratic victories came on the heels of massive, nationwide demonstrations.
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Bouie: Trump’s weaknesses show through theater of strength
His inability to calmly confront opposition and respond with force betrays brittleness and insecurity.
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Welch: Marcus Tageant embodied the spirit of Lake Stevens
I served with Marcus on the city council, witnessing an infectious devotion to his community.
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Goldberg: Watch carefully; this is what autocracy looks like
Trump, in stepping past state officials, has over-reacted to discourage legitimate protest of his actions.
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French: Trump, as he hoped, gets his excuse for conflict
It’s on the slightest of pretenses, but Trump is getting the showdown he desired in California.
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Goldberg: Musk should be a warning to CEOs aligning with Trump
Even if they chafed under Democratic policy, now they’re left to a president’s unpredictable whims.
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Goldberg: Musk’s leaves legacy of disease, starvation and death
DOGE may only break even, and at the cost of some 300,000 deaths from the end of USAID.
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Schwab: Reveling in the dis-Enlightenment of America
Fearing an educated and informed electorate, Trump and MAGA target knowledge, science and reason.
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Burke: A parade for Army? Sure; but let a sibling march, too
The U.S. Merchant Marine has supplied the country’s fighting forces since the Revolutionary War.
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Harrop: This isn’t the outcome that Musk likely imagined
After handing over $250 million to elect Trump, he got the job of taking heat for unpopular cuts.
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Dowd: Musk moved fast and broke his own reputation
The head of the failed-DOGE experiment leaves Washington with a black eye and less respect.
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Douthat: Trump should embrace the TACO; it actually serves him
Trump’s willingness to backtrack when a plan isn’t working may actually help him seal deals.
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Kristof: Rubio dead wrong that end of USAID hasn’t cost lives
He told Congress it was a lie, but consider two of thousands of examples of lives lost to…
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Harrop: GOP states seeing red over green energy
Even as renewables add to their energy mix, Republicans are loathe to admit that it’s working.