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The Republican shell game on tax cuts

Republicans continue to profess deep concern about the federal debt even as their top priority is to pass a bill that will increase it by trillions...

yesterday 30

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Dodgers are not the resistance, and that’s okay

It is difficult to overstate how much money the Leitch family — me, my parents, their parents, their parents and a seemingly infinite gaggle of...

yesterday 10

Will Leitch

What is a jury supposed to make of the Diddy trial?

The trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs was a sprawling odyssey into the perverse desires of the rich and famous, six weeks of learning more than any of us...

yesterday 10

Monica Hesse

This is what ICE is doing with the tax dollars you already provide it

Should the Republican budget bill pass both chambers of Congress and be signed into law, there will be a lot of Americans who suffer as a result....

yesterday 9

Philip Bump

This punctuation mark is semi-dead. People have thoughts.

LONDON — Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over...

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Mark Lasswell

Justice Kavanaugh explains what the injunctions ruling won’t change

Landmark Supreme Court decisions sometimes don’t have the results partisans fear or hope for. The 2010 Citizens United decision loosening...

saturday 50

Jason Willick

Exploding U.S. indebtedness makes a fiscal crisis almost inevitable

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was more tantalizing than illuminating when he recently said, regarding the nation’s fiscal trajectory,...

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George F. Will

It’s too hot!

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — As I cruised west on I-20 toward the state’s capital city Wednesday, my car’s thermostat measured the outside...

27.06.2025 40

Kathleen Parker

The pen is still mightier than the bunker buster

The debate about the military effectiveness of the U.S. airstrikes against Iran misses a more profound point: Brilliant battlefield success by...

27.06.2025 20

Fareed Zakaria

Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize odds are bombing

Two days after dropping bunker-buster bombs on Iran, President Donald Trump strode onto the South Lawn and deployed another weapon from his armory:...

27.06.2025 100

Dana Milbank

Iran’s nuclear program is damaged — not ‘obliterated’

The 12-day war pitting Israel and the United States against Iran is over. Now the questions begin over what it did — and did not — accomplish. The...

26.06.2025 4

Max Boot

The Democrats’ generational rift just got harder to ignore

If it were up to the establishment of the Democratic Party — the party leaders and funders, the old guard that has steered the ship for decades —...

26.06.2025 5

Philip Bump

What the Democratic establishment should learn from Mamdani’s win

New York City is a political ecosystem all its own, one that doesn’t translate — or set the direction — for the rest of the country. Consider...

26.06.2025 3

Karen Tumulty

Farewell for now

26.06.2025 3

Drew Goins

How Zohran Mamdani beat the Democratic machine

25.06.2025 10

Philip Bump

New York Democrats ignored party elders and chose the better candidate

It was the best version of the Democratic Party: a political upstart with fresh ideas coming out of nowhere and building a base of...

25.06.2025 20

Perry Bacon Jr

RIP, MAHA

RIP, MAHA. We hardly knew ye. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda has a simple premise: Americans don’t need more access to...

25.06.2025 100

Catherine Rampell

At the NATO summit, fear of Trump dominates

PARIS — Fear is the midwife of mendacity, and no one generates more fear in Europe than Donald Trump — with the possible exception of his illiberal...

25.06.2025 30