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The truth about bike lanes: They’re not about the bikes

Despite its reputation as a liberal enclave, D.C. is not and will never be Amsterdam, Portland or one of those college towns where the streets teem...

yesterday 20

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Marc Fisher

Why Democrats’ green agenda didn’t pay off with voters

On the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris spent a lot of time explaining away her former support of a green policy agenda. She explained...

yesterday 3

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Charles Lane

Five reasons Democrats should turn off ‘Morning Joe’

Monday was a day of beatdowns for Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the married couple who anchors the “Morning Joe” franchise on MSNBC....

yesterday 30

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Erik Wemple

The GOP is setting a trap on trans rights. Sarah McBride has an answer.

Republicans have perfected a pretty good shtick for putting Democrats in a box when it comes to trans rights. This week, it was Nancy Mace, a...

yesterday 30

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Matt Bai

This is the golden age of bitcoin. You can thank Trump for that.

yesterday 1

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Adam Lashinsky

The one thing that should worry Trump: The housing crisis

President-elect Donald Trump has about everything going for him lately, except this: Mortgage rates are rising again, nearing 7 percent. He got...

yesterday 0

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Heather Long

Assessing RFK Jr.’s health proposals

You’re reading the Today’s Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today’s edition: With “fast food is poison except when...

yesterday 0

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Amanda Katz

Congress should be one big slumber party

You’re reading the Today’s Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today’s edition: “I sleep in my office,” reads the...

previous day 20

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Drew Goins

New York is my country now

The day after the election, my son and I texted, commiserating, musing about where he might move. “Yearning for Copenhagen,” he wrote but without...

previous day 40

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Kate Cohen

Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price

As justifiably alarmed as Democrats are by President-elect Donald Trump’s radical agenda and his nominations of unqualified candidates for...

previous day 70

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Jennifer Rubin

A Democrat shows how to deal with Musk beyond reflexive criticism

No matter what becomes of Elon Musk’s out-of-government “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, Musk himself isn’t going anywhere for...

previous day 10

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Jim Geraghty

Sometimes, Donald Trump tells the truth

For 50 years, every “outsider” running for president has campaigned on a sweeping promise: to end the status quo in Washington and dislodge its...

previous day 10

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Matt Bai

There’s something scarier than rising costs behind Trump’s victory

Kamala Harris was defeated, economists tell us, by rising prices. Simply put, the vice president could not overcome working-class voters’ anger...

previous day 9

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Eduardo Porter

Some hope for AI’s future

PERRY, Ga. — First came the swarm of drones. They rapidly surveyed the site of a simulated plane crash to make a map of where the actors and...

monday 20

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Bina Venkataraman

Sapped and struggling, Europe is unready for a Trump trade war

PARIS — Spend a little time in Europe, and it’s easy to be dazzled by the veneer of progress that has been made in wiping away borders and...

monday 10

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Lee Hockstader

What Islam taught me about accepting defeat

monday 8

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Shadi Hamid

Democratic governors must step into the breach

monday 30

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Jennifer Rubin

Liberal media bias is hurting Democrats. Really.

I used to spend a lot of time complaining that liberal media bias hurt Republican politicians and conservative causes. I no longer make that...

monday 10

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Megan Mcardle

Can George Will’s merciless Matt Gaetz burn give a jolt to the Senate?

You’re reading the Today’s Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today’s edition: As President-elect Donald Trump spent last...

monday 50

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Drew Goins

The House speaker’s pathetic case for deep-sixing the Gaetz ethics report

House Speaker Mike Johnson, fresh from seeing the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago, has changed his hands-off views about the House Ethics...

monday 100

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Ruth Marcus

How a progressive Democrat won in a swing state that went for Trump

In an election in which many Democrats suffered defeats, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin nevertheless squeaked out a win by less than one...

17.11.2024 7

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Jennifer Rubin

The Democrats weren’t stupid or crazy — just wrong

How could the Democrats have been so foolish? That’s the subtext of a lot of their recriminations, served with a generous helping of...

17.11.2024 10

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Ramesh Ponnuru

The Senate’s Madisonian opportunity on those nominations

Accelerant : noun. A substance used to aid the spread of fire. Donald Trump, a political accelerant, has ignited, with malice aforethought, a...

17.11.2024 10

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George F. Will

Trump will take office as a lame duck. That could matter — a lot.

Fourteen words should guide how citizens and politicians approach the next four years: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President...

17.11.2024 10

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E.j. Dionne Jr

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