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Carlos Lozada

Carlos Lozada

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The Shields Are Down, Mr. President

Personnel once meant policy; now it means flattery.

27.02.2026 10

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An Elegy for My Washington Post

Seven governing principles still hang in the newsroom, but now as more reproach than reminder.

06.02.2026 50

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‘Melania’ the Book Was Bad. ‘Melania’ the Movie Is Somehow Worse.

The surface is all there is.

03.02.2026 40

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Trump’s Fantasies Are Killing Us

But being a “hot” country does not make you a good country. Or a decent one.

28.01.2026 150

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You Can’t Denaturalize Me

Is purging America of immigrants so crucial that in the process you must unmake America itself?

21.01.2026 10

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Trump Has a New Motto

What happens when America First becomes the Americas first?

08.01.2026 5

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How Did We Get to Such a Bad Question?

How did we get here? I don’t want to know.

01.01.2026 20

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Olivia Nuzzi, Karine Jean-Pierre and Eric Trump Have All Written the Same Book

A recent spate of books highlights the presence of a new category, one well suited to our time: the grievance memoir.

16.12.2025 10

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You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.

Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America.

20.10.2025 30

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Why Comey Should Not Have Been Indicted, According to Trump

The best case against indicting James Comey is the one the president made for firing him.

27.09.2025 8

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Kamala Harris Is Out of Time

“107 days” is not merely the duration of Harris’s campaign; it is also her excuse for losing the election.

20.09.2025 10

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What MAGA Lost When It Lost Charlie Kirk

His death makes it harder to look ahead and glimpse what MAGA will stand for.

12.09.2025 20

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Stop Calling It the Trump Era

The compulsion to zero in on the president keeps us from understanding the era fully, and from glimpsing what it might become.

09.09.2025 10

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How I Built My Ruthless Summer Reading List

Whichever books you choose, and however you choose them, may your summer reading be satisfying, and your curating ruthless.

07.08.2025 20

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My First America

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

01.07.2025 10

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How’s It Playing? POTUS Wants to Know.

Foreign policy by FOMO is not a sustainable strategy.

27.06.2025 7

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What I Learned About Trump’s Second Term by Reading His First 100 Executive Orders

Even with Republican congressional majorities, Trump favors the flourish of the order over the hassle of lawmaking.

01.04.2025 10

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America Doesn’t Need an Official Language

What is our shared culture if not the mix of cultures that make and remake America every day?

06.03.2025 30

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Trump’s Common-Sense Revolution Is No Revolution at All

A lot hinges on how the president invokes the term, which has a rich political history.

25.02.2025 10

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Apparently, America Is Full of the Wrong Kind of People

If, according to the president, so many people in the United States are the wrong kind, who makes up the right kind?

11.02.2025 10

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Born in the U.S.A. Doesn’t Mean What It Used To

Trump wants to change what it means to be American.

28.01.2025 10

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The 73 Percent Solution

Advertisement Supported by Carlos Lozada By Carlos Lozada Opinion Columnist Whenever someone agrees wholeheartedly with something I write, I die a...

03.01.2025 10

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