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The Roberts court’s first Trump II move: A quick sidestep

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Jason Willick

The case against Ed Martin as U.S. attorney for D.C. gets even worse

I’ll say it again: My Jan. 3 column predicting that D.C. would soon be in the new U.S. attorney’s crosshairs fell short of capturing the full...

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Colbert I. King

McConnell is the second-most important political figure of our time

thursday 40

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Perry Bacon Jr

Half of Trump’s first month in office saw him visiting Trump properties

Perhaps the simplest way to explain Donald Trump’s second term as president is that it takes all of the patterns seen during his first...

thursday 8

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Philip Bump

Junk the penny. And the nickel and dime, too!

19.02.2025 7

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Drew Goins

What’s behind Vance’s stunning decision to embrace Germany’s AfD?

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Lee Hockstader

A Nobel Prize winner decodes why people aren’t having kids

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Heather Long

America’s new foreign policy: Who cares?

After four disorienting weeks, the Trump administration’s foreign policy has become crystal clear: Screw the rest of the world, allies and...

19.02.2025 200

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Eugene Robinson

Trump 2.0? These Democratic AGs are prepared.

LOS ANGELES — For nearly a year, Democratic attorneys general — the chief law enforcement officers in 22 states, plus D.C. — have been planning for...

19.02.2025 60

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Karen Tumulty

The only new president Trump outperforms in the polls is himself

19.02.2025 90

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Philip Bump

Why I still criticize Democrats more than Trump

The comment sections of my recent columns have been awash with a familiar refrain: How dare you criticize Democrats when President Donald Trump...

19.02.2025 50

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Shadi Hamid

Two surprise Senate retirements are an ominous sign for Democrats

19.02.2025 10

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Jim Geraghty

In Trump vs. a million gays, who wins?

19.02.2025 10

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Drew Goins

The Supreme Court can fix this mess of its own making

19.02.2025 10

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George F. Will

What the Trump-Musk carnival act fails to realize about federal workers

Fourteen people were dead and 14,000 were in danger. A never-before-seen form of fungal meningitis was spreading fear and illness from Tennessee to...

19.02.2025 1

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Marc Fisher

Mexico has lessons for Democrats trying to oppose Trump

Ninety days after Donald Trump’s victory, Democrats are still debating when and how to effectively resist the president’s agenda. They should look...

19.02.2025 3

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León Krauze

The tactical ignorance of Elon Musk

With President Donald Trump sitting quietly to his left in the Oval Office last week, Elon Musk offered White House reporters an example of the...

19.02.2025 7

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Philip Bump

While Musk dismantles a pro-democracy group, America’s enemies cheer

19.02.2025 3

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Max Boot

Bowser has a stadium plan. Let the debate begin.

19.02.2025 20

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Colbert I. King

Elon Musk is about to find out the truth about magic money

19.02.2025 100

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Megan Mcardle

This is a perfectly fine hill for the AP to die on

The world is now filled with media critics, media analysts, media prognosticators, media experts, media everything. Not one of them foresaw, or...

19.02.2025 200

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Erik Wemple

No rubber stamp for the Eric Adams case judge

Seven prosecutors have quit in protest, but the Justice Department has finally found lawyers willing to sign a motion to dismiss the indictment of...

19.02.2025 30

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Ruth Marcus

This college president isn’t afraid of Donald Trump

19.02.2025 200

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Perry Bacon Jr

The GOP is pushing a false choice

Americans want change. Yet Republicans have somehow backed Democrats into defending the status quo — or sounding like it, anyway. That’s because...

19.02.2025 200

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Catherine Rampell

Spy writers lost their go-to bad guy. Again.

18.02.2025 7

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Drew Goins