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George F. Will

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

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On Trump and Iran: But then what?

25.06.2025 40

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Progressives suddenly remember presidents shouldn’t act monarchically

21.06.2025 40

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The Supreme Court made the right call about the wrong house

19.06.2025 10

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Peak absurdity on campaign finance reform heads to the Supreme Court

14.06.2025 7

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Nine reasons for cautious optimism about individual liberty

11.06.2025 7

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Putin is an open book. U.S. leaders have refused to read it.

07.06.2025 70

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Ukraine’s valor is reminiscent of Britain’s in 1940

04.06.2025 5

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Ernie Pyle, Capt. Waskow and the common soldiers who died for America

24.05.2025 100

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Souter’s subtle reasoning defied ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ labels

22.05.2025 4

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This Supreme Court case could stall the charter school movement

26.04.2025 20

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The elevating, at times appalling, path to America’s founding

17.04.2025 30

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Even without the tariffs, Trump’s economic agenda is a disaster

05.04.2025 100

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Progressivism explains much of what the new book ‘Abundance’ deplores

02.04.2025 10

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Government and universities battle in a contest of bad behavior

28.03.2025 20

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Congress needs a Supreme Court jolt to rein in a rampant presidency

22.03.2025 100

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A dismal scorecard after two months of the Musk-Trump administration

20.03.2025 100

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How the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is like the human appendix

14.03.2025 30

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On qualified immunity, the Supreme Court commits an unqualified error

12.03.2025 3

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The perils of a screen-obsessed society incapable of patience

11.03.2025 40

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Urgently needed: A reborn patriotic belief in Western virtues

02.03.2025 70

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Multi-car pileup as electric vehicles collide with reality

26.02.2025 6

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The Supreme Court can fix this mess of its own making

19.02.2025 10

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A spurious U.S. ‘realism’ about Ukraine flirts with catastrophe

18.02.2025 100

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Here comes the betting and fretting

08.02.2025 10

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On the bright side, maybe Democrats and Republicans will be chastened

07.02.2025 50

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Counting up the costs if the U.S. chooses to lose in Ukraine

02.02.2025 100

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When trust in government collapses, that’s how you get RFK Jr.

30.01.2025 10

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There were ample reasons, not about his personal life, for rejecting Hegseth

25.01.2025 100

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Neither euphoric nor despairing be. Trump too shall pass.

21.01.2025 300

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Trump doesn’t have a mandate. But, oh, does he have executive orders.

17.01.2025 9

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Biden’s presidency got an early start on its road to ruin

15.01.2025 10

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Republicans, enjoy ineffectual control of Congress while you have it

10.01.2025 4

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Biden’s ‘security’ concern about TikTok and U.S. Steel is doubly specious

When, on Friday, the Supreme Court hears the Biden administration defend the law that bans TikTok, the justices should remember what the...

08.01.2025 3

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Memo to Musk: Overhauling government isn’t rocket science. It’s harder.

Elon Musk, a Don Quixote with Vivek Ramaswamy tagging along as Sancho Panza, recently ascended Capitol Hill to warn the windmills of tiltings to...

04.01.2025 100

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Jimmy Carter was the president who made Ronald Reagan necessary

30.12.2024 60

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Thanks for the laughs, 2024, you ridiculous year

29.12.2024 20

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Rickey Henderson was about so much more than the stolen bases

23.12.2024 30

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The Equal Rights Amendment, still dead after all these years

20.12.2024 4

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Longshoremen and Trump are in the same anti-automation boat

19.12.2024 30

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What is the Federal Reserve for, exactly?

With a recession deepening and the 1982 midterm elections approaching, Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker was summoned to the Oval Office, where...

30.11.2024 30

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A columnist’s first 50 years

It is tempting but mistaken to say that the current administration of the universe is defective because people are not required to read op-ed...

26.11.2024 30

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Sample George F. Will’s columns across half a century

23.11.2024 5

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At last, Woodrow Wilson’s reputation gets the dismantling it richly deserves

Arguments about past presidents shape the nation’s present understanding of itself, and hence its unfolding future. In recent years, biographies by...

23.11.2024 90

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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 3

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The U.S. Marines’ biggest fight right now is internal

15.11.2024 5

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The world’s richest person is about to receive a free public education

Being aggrieved is his pursuit of happiness, so 2020’s sore loser is 2024’s sore winner. Hence his announcement that his administration’s adult...

13.11.2024 5

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Steely patience underpins Mitch McConnell’s unrivaled reign

Afflicted by polio in July 1944 at age 2, Mitch McConnell was for several years an outpatient at the Warm Springs, Georgia, polio recuperation...

09.11.2024 20

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Republican self-degradation continues. Democratic self-sabotage helped.

07.11.2024 100

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Voters face the worst presidential choice in U.S. history

01.11.2024 20

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