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Burke: A distressing accounting of what Trump has wrought
Not even 100 days into his second term, the president is implementing the worst of Project 2025.
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Brooks: How did we get here? By not bothering to read.
Trading literacy for screen time has cost us — kids and adults — our ability to reason and…
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Harrop: Trump’s war against elite universities is a smokescreen
Washington’s conservatives are enthralled by the Ivies. The ultimatums are simply a distraction.
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Brooks: Trump divides and conquers; we must unite and build
In his isolated attacks, Trump has divided our loyalties. It’s time for a civic and civil uprising.
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Stephens: Solving ‘Iran problem’ is about more than the bomb
To eliminate the threat, an agreement must seek an exchange of ‘normal for normal.’ That won’t be easy.
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Schwab: Is there a hole for us to get sick in?
How can conservatives justify the flouting of due process in sending away any without conviction or charge?
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Tufekci: Why RFK Jr. has relaunched his fluoride crusade
Cowed to voice the mildest of approvals for the MMR vaccine, he maneuvers to reassure his base.
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Welch: State tax proposals will punish workers, businesses
A range of proposed tax legislation piles costs on families, rather than looking for spending cuts.
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Gssen: Harvard made only response it could to Trump demands: No
True, it risks $2.2 billion in federal funding, but submitting would been capitulation to an unconstitutional order.
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French: Due process isn’t for our safety as much as our morality
Due process doesn’t just protect a person’s liberty. It’s an acknowledgment of our own limitations.
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Dowd: So much about Trump’s business acumen isn’t adding up
For a man who says he doesn’t gamble, he sure seems to be taking risks with American stability.
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Stephens: Destruction of American ideal starts with accepting it
Denying due process to any, firing officials over rumors, disdain for law; are those our idea of America?
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Schwab: Tariffs meant to hand us tiny screws; we get a big one
His trade team says this will bring back manufacturing. What’s being manufactured are lies.
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Friedman: Trump’s 90-day pause won’t impress our allies
The damage is done. What Trump should have done is to work with other countries to confront China.
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Burke: With so many foreign names, why stop with one gulf?
If ‘Gulf of Mexico’ offends Trump’s sensibilities, we have far more places in need of rebranding.
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Friedman: Trump’s global trade attacks play into China’s hands
China has become a manufacturing juggernaut. We ought to be teaming with others to confront it.
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Brooks: Trump isn’t offering liberation, but stagnation
His tariffs and more are are walling us off from the crossroads of cultures and ideas that made…
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Schwab: After the lawyers, the judges, the free-thinkers …
The Trump administration’s hollowing-out of democracy is going after our ability to speak and decide.
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Stephens: Gaza won’t be free until it is free of Hamas
Palestinians in Gaza now are protesting Hamas’ leadership. And being met with familiar brutality.
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Welch: Latest state tax proposals threaten jobs and economy
Using fear of budget cuts, state lawmakers are taking the easy route with damaging tax increases.