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Marc A. Thiessen

Marc A. Thiessen

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Putin is stalling and Trump is angry. It’s time for ‘maximum pressure.’

31.03.2025 4

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My half-million miles as a hockey dad

21.03.2025 40

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5 things people get wrong about Trump and Ukraine

12.03.2025 9

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Zelensky must mend the breach with Trump — or resign

04.03.2025 100

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Trump just dealt Russia a devastating blow

02.03.2025 100

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What happened to the border crisis?

Last year, Joe Biden tried to blame the border crisis on Republicans and their refusal to pass a bipartisan border bill. He needed the legislation...

25.02.2025 10

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Behind the DOGE outrage machine

14.02.2025 30

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A move so MAGA it was championed by ... Bill Clinton’s secretary of state?

08.02.2025 50

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Donald Trump finally gets his honeymoon

21.01.2025 10

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The 10 worst things Biden did in 2024

04.01.2025 7

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The 10 best things Biden did in 2024

As the Joe Biden era comes to a close, I once again offer my annual lists of the 10 best and 10 worst things the president did in the past year (a...

02.01.2025 5

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The 10 best shows I saw in 2024

26.12.2024 9

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Does Trump want Putin to get Ukraine’s $26 trillion in gas and minerals?

19.12.2024 100

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Trump can deliver immediately for working-class voters. Here’s how.

Donald Trump won over millions of new working-class voters with his promises to eliminate taxes on tips, overtime pay and Social Security income...

11.12.2024 4

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How Trump can end the war in Ukraine for good

As the bloodiest century in human history drew to a close, Americans looked back at the catastrophic mistakes that paved the way for World War II...

03.12.2024 10

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Biden should pardon Trump

Marc A. Thiessen is a columnist for The Post and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Danielle Pletka is a distinguished senior...

25.11.2024 5

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8 Democratic choices that paved the way for Trump’s comeback

Donald Trump deserves enormous credit for his historic victory, in which he increased his support among almost every demographic group in the...

10.11.2024 3

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Trump is my president — and yours

07.11.2024 10

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Trump has an edge in winning uncommitted voters. He should pursue it.

With Election Day just days away, the presidential race remains stubbornly tight but surprisingly fluid. According to the RealClearPolitics average...

31.10.2024 20

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Harris’s closing argument is dishonest, desperate and hypocritical

25.10.2024 10

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Why does Trump like Zelensky? He’s a Ukrainian Donald Trump.

It might have come as a shock to the anti-Ukraine right, but Donald Trump made clear during his recent meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky that he not...

15.10.2024 2

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Why isn’t Trump deploying Nikki Haley on the campaign trail?

With a month to go before Election Day, the presidential race is effectively tied. Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former president Donald...

09.10.2024 2

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Trump wants to make deterrence and (really) legal immigration great again

30.09.2024 7

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Trump disavowed Project 2025. But Harris still owns her Project 2019.

At last week’s debate, Vice President Kamala Harris warned that Donald Trump has “a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025” that he...

19.09.2024 10

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Shots fired and ‘rather quick golf carts’: Trump tells the story

18.09.2024 60

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The two datapoints that explain why voters hate the Biden-Harris economy

19.08.2024 1

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Biden’s failure to avenge the Abbey Gate bombing is a national disgrace

Israel quickly responded to an attack. Why won’t Biden do the same for the U.S.? President Biden, first lady Jill Biden and Secretary of...

02.08.2024 10

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