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Jennifer Rubin

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The Los Angeles fires won’t affect climate denial. They should.

12.01.2025 10

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Our democracy needs more defenders

10.01.2025 9

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Surprise! The media just discovered Bidenomics works.

10.01.2025 400

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Dems picked the wrong senator for Senate Judiciary leadership

07.01.2025 90

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Juan Merchan defends the rule of law

06.01.2025 100

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Dems need to learn to handle legislative poison pills. Fetterman got it right.

24.12.2024 100

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Democrats shouldn’t try to find ‘common ground’ with Trump

24.12.2024 200

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Courage is in short supply among Democrats and the media

20.12.2024 4

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I talked to Ruben Gallego. Democrats should listen to him.

20.12.2024 6

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Abortion advocates see a few wins — and more tragedies

American voters saw fit in November to elect a president who crowed about stacking the Supreme Court with justices determined to reverse Roe v....

17.12.2024 4

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Biden must ignore pardon myths and protect Patel’s and Trump’s targets

17.12.2024 100

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McConnell has the chutzpah to complain about Trump’s ‘America First’

15.12.2024 6

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History turns on a dime in Syria: A crucial lesson

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox . This week, I look at what lessons the fall of Syrian...

14.12.2024 60

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How to sustain the Democratic economic success story

As a new White House website underscores, President Joe Biden will leave office with one of the strongest economic legacies in memory. On Tuesday,...

13.12.2024 70

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Democrats can make education a winning issue

11.12.2024 30

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How House Democrats flipped New York and California seats

In an adverse political environment, Democrats found success in House races, increasing their seats from 213 to 215 and reducing the Republicans’...

11.12.2024 30

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Sherrill’s run for governor: ‘Lead, follow or get out of the way’

Rep. Mikie Sherrill — a former Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor in her fourth House term — does not suffer do-nothing, self-promoting...

08.12.2024 20

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GOP self-interest can protect us from the MAGA agenda

07.12.2024 20

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Hunter’s pardon isn’t the issue. What matters are pardons for everyone else.

05.12.2024 80

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Biden’s $1 trillion investment is a model for economic growth

03.12.2024 90

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What Harris does next if she wants a second act

Democrats can be merciless when it comes to defeated presidential candidates. Unlike Republicans, whose defeated nominees (e.g., Richard M. Nixon,...

02.12.2024 5

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Democrats need ‘shortcuts’ to reach low-information voters

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox . This week, I look at low-information voters, pick the...

30.11.2024 100

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Take it from Bush 43: Overreading a ‘mandate’ might doom Trump’s second term

Former congressman Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration for attorney general prompted much debate about whether President-elect Donald Trump...

26.11.2024 30

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Dems’ future — and democracy itself — might depend on the DNC chairman pick

As Democrats try to rebuild after the losses of 2024, there is lots of chatter about creating new organizations to work on communications or...

25.11.2024 20

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A model for Democrats’ comeback? Spanberger vies for Virginia’s top job.

Over the past few decades, after a presidential election, Virginia usually has elected a governor from the party opposing the one that gained the...

25.11.2024 40

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Thanksgiving is almost here. Don’t be an ingrate.

23.11.2024 20

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Our democracy needs a different model for journalism

21.11.2024 100

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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 Cabinet...

19.11.2024 60

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Democratic governors must step into the breach

18.11.2024 30

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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 2

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Democrats need to reclaim reality from the right-wing disinformation machine

Whether you believe that Americans embraced President-elect Donald Trump’s misogynistic, racist and bullying persona because they misunderstood...

12.11.2024 200

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Trump can keep campaign promises or be popular. Not both.

11.11.2024 80

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Stop obsessing about the election and start talking to fellow citizens

Understandably, in the wake of a stunning national election, scores of media outlets, pundits and politicians have turned their attention to...

10.11.2024 5

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Trump won, but green shoots rise in the road ahead

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. This week, I look ahead to the challenges we all face,...

09.11.2024 100

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A ‘republic if we can keep it.’ Perhaps we cannot.

Americans have no one to blame but themselves. Felon and President-elect Donald Trump did not conceal who he was. He did not hide his racism,...

07.11.2024 300

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Ignoring bad advice is a key to winning

By Wednesday morning, we may know the results of the presidential election. Or not. But we already know how Vice President Kamala Harris got to the...

05.11.2024 30

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Women can send Trump packing

Felon and former president Donald Trump has always been defined as much by his misogyny as by his racism. A long line of women have stepped forward...

04.11.2024 3

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Garbage in, garbage out: Trump’s error-filled week

The New York Yankees’ disastrous fifth inning in Game 5 of the World Series was the perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s series of blunders, missed...

03.11.2024 100

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The case for election optimism

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox . This week, I make the case for optimism about the...

01.11.2024 40

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Trump may try to overturn the election. But it won’t be easy.

Ever since felon and former president Donald Trump announced his current run, democracy defenders have worried about a replay of 2020, when Joe...

31.10.2024 30

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The U.S. can learn from other countries’ encounters with fascism

The mainstream media — spurred by the disturbing outpouring of racism at Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden — has finally...

29.10.2024 2

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Voting for Trump means putting Vance in charge

Mainstream news outlets now feature stories about felon and former president Donald Trump’s “strikingly erratic, coarse and often confusing”...

28.10.2024 10

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To understand the U.S. economic success is to love Harris’s plan

Despite the compulsion of Republican MAGA voices to run down the country’s economic strength, the U.S. recovery over the past few years has been...

28.10.2024 550

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Trump reverts to what he does best: Reality TV

26.10.2024 60

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What the Harris-Cheney road show accomplished

25.10.2024 100

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The risk of exaggerating Trump’s ability to overturn the election

23.10.2024 100

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Sinwar’s death is revealing but not necessarily game-changing

21.10.2024 2

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Harris’s innovative media strategy shouldn’t end on Election Day

21.10.2024 100

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‘Unstable and unhinged’: This is Harris’s best attack on Trump

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox . This week, I drill down on the final and most...

19.10.2024 60

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What Liz Cheney and other honorable Republicans should do next

Felon, former president and presidential candidate Donald Trump has dominated — devoured, actually — the Republican Party. Virtually every elected...

18.10.2024 100

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