Trump’s War on the D.C. Establishment Requires This Exact Cabinet to Fight | Opinion
When President-elect Donald Trump was first elected president in 2016, he talked about “draining the swamp” and fundamentally changing Washington. Trump’s administration could count many successes, especially on the economy and trade, and in curbing illegal immigration before the COVID-19 pandemic derailed him. Yet the D.C. establishment and its army of federal bureaucrats survived more […]
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Democrats Shouldn’t Make a Sharp Right Turn. It Won’t Help | Opinion
As Democrats sort through the wreckage of their 2024 catastrophe, they would do well to take some time to reflect on the path forward rather than jumping to knee-jerk conclusions, especially since higher-quality election data about the scale of losses with groups like Black and Latino voters will soon be coming from researchers, including gold-standard […]
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Democrats Should Become Liberals | Opinion
Here we are now, aghast and uncertain, with the body politic outstretched upon the autopsy table. It’s rightful to fear that Donald Trump‘s re-ascendance into the Oval Office, with practically unchecked power granted to him by his party and the Supreme Court, is the death knell for democratic values. Hopefully, though, it will also signal […]
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Healthy Aging is Relevant for Young People, Too | Opinion
With every passing year, I’m reminded of the special privilege of growing older. My beautiful big sister died when she was just 23, the delayed result of having been hit by a drunk driver while walking in daylight in our working-class neighborhood. She left behind grieving family members and friends who were forever transformed by […]
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What Tehran May Do Next | Opinion
What a difference a few weeks can make. As recently as this summer, the world seemed to be going Iran’s way. The campaign of terror carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, succeeded in denting Israel’s aura of military invincibility, while the resulting conflict in Gaza helped isolate Jerusalem on the world stage. Israel’s […]
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Chinese Methane Emissions Are Risking Climate Disaster | Opinion
As climate diplomats from 200 countries gather for the annual United Nations climate negotiations beginning Monday, fast-rising global temperatures over the last year have reached 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That’s the very limit the 2015 Paris climate agreement pledged to avoid. This super heating is already driving devastating climate impacts around the world, […]
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Donald Trump Didn’t Win. The Democrats Lost | Opinion
Forget about 270. Today, the number that matters most is 92—former and future President Donald J. Trump will now be presidents 45+47. But anyone who thinks the Republicans just won the election and the Democrats didn’t lose hasn’t been paying attention. The Democrats outworked nobody in this election. All they did was outspend and out-fundraise […]
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The Electoral College Makes the U.S. a Laughingstock | Opinion
Many Americans don’t want to hear it, but the Electoral College is a uniquely damaging system that wildly distorts the will of the voter, yields crazy outcomes and suppresses participation—since most of us live in places where the outcome is preordained. It also makes the United States into a global joke for seeming unable to […]
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Every American Will Be Better Off Under a Second Trump Administration | Opinion
The big winners in the 2024 presidential election, besides the American people, will be former President Donald J. Trump and President Joe Biden. Why? The election will have demonstrated that President Trump’s policies were working and were consistent with the desires of the American people. The election will also have made clear that President Biden, […]
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Donald Trump Feasts on a Banquet of Loathing, Jealousy and Retribution | Opinion
The interminably long presidential campaign of former President Donald Trump is finally winding its way down to its conclusion. Win or lose, this is almost certainly the last time he will appear on our ballots. Not even this Republican Party could be self-destructive enough to nominate him a fourth time at age 82 in 2028 […]
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