The Washington PostOpinion The democratic success story that no one is talking aboutThe Washington Post - By Christian CarylPresident Trump is lashing out against the media and his opposition as he faces impeachment for turning U.S. foreign policy into an extension of his reelection campaign. The British Parliament is poised
The Washington PostOpinion For U.S. soldiers, ‘it’s a dagger to the heart’ to abandon the KurdsThe Washington Post - By David IgnatiusAt a gathering last Saturday night of military and intelligence veterans, one topic shrouded the room: President Trump’s decision to abandon Kurdish fighters in Syria who had fought and died to help America
The Washington PostWilliam P. Barr Is this Barr’s cry for help?The Washington Post - By Catherine RampellOn Friday, in a closed-door speech at the University of Notre Dame, Attorney General William P. Barr talked at length about a “campaign to destroy the traditional moral order.” “Militant secularists,”
The Washington PostOpinion Words have consequences. Trump either doesn’t know or doesn’t care.The Washington Post - By Editorial BoardPRESIDENT TRUMP wasn’t at his Miami golf resort when a fake video was shown that depicted him as a mass killer systemically executing members of the news media and his political opponents. His spokeswoman
The Washington PostOpinion We aren’t focused enough on why so many black women die before their timeThe Washington Post - By Will JawandoWill Jawando, a Democrat, is an at-large member of the Montgomery County Council. Early Saturday in Fort Worth, a white police officer executed a young black woman, Atatiana Jefferson, in her own home.
The Washington PostOpinion Why I won’t watch the body-camera videoThe Washington Post - By Nana Efua MumfordThe writer is executive assistant to The Post’s editorial board. On Sunday, the Fort Worth Police Department released body-camera footage of the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson. In the video, an shoots
The Washington PostTitle VII A more appropriate target for the LGBTQ discrimination case: Mitch McConnellThe Washington Post - By Charles LaneThe Supreme Court last week heard arguments in the most crucial LGBTQ rights cases since the court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015. Alas, the cases pose a dilemma: The court can reach the fairest or
The Washington PostOpinion Investigate the president, of course, but keep your hopes for impeachment in checkThe Washington Post - By Letters to the EditorIn his Oct. 8 op-ed, “Republican senators are right to resist impeachment,” Henry Olsen closed with these words, “And Republican senators will be acting on high principle by following their constituents’
The Washington PostOpinion Sadly, it used to be common practice to fire pregnant womenThe Washington Post - By Letters to the EditorWhen Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, said she was fired from a teaching job in 1971 for being pregnant, she was telling the truth [“Warren reiterates
The Washington PostOpinion The Redskins aren’t beyond redemptionThe Washington Post - By Letters to the EditorCourtland Milloy was absolutely correct when he wrote in his Oct. 9 Metro column, “Changing coaches won’t fix it. Change the name,” “surely there are names more worthy of a team that calls the nation’s
The Washington PostOpinion What can a black person do to keep from getting killed by police in this country?The Washington Post - By Eugene RobinsonThis is a serious question: What can a black person do to keep from getting killed by police in this country? Driving-while-black has long been potentially a capital offense, as witnessed by the case Philando
The Washington PostBeto O'Rourke Beto O’Rourke’s church taxation proposal would hand Trump reelectionThe Washington Post - By Michael GersonBeto O’Rourke, innovative for interpreting a failed Senate campaign as a steppingstone to the presidency, is now famous for (1) his use of profanity on the campaign trail, (2) his pledge that “hell, yes”
The Washington PostChina Here’s the real foreign policy disaster that Trump has created for the U.S.The Washington Post - By Robert D. KaplanRobert D. Kaplan is managing director for global macro at Eurasia Group and author of “ The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century .” The most slow-moving
The Washington PostOpinion A senseless police shooting in Fort WorthThe Washington Post - By Editorial BoardNOTHING COMPUTES in the killing of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old pharmaceutical saleswoman who died after a police officer fired through a window into her house in Fort Worth, where she had been playing
The Washington PostOpinion Atatiana Jefferson was a victim of law-and-order rhetoricThe Washington Post - By Radley BalkoLast Saturday, a neighbor in Fort Worth called the city’s non-emergency line because he was concerned about his neighbors, 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson and her 8-year-old nephew. It was the middle of
The Washington PostOpinion Eight debate questions Joe Biden should be required to answerThe Washington Post - By Marc A. ThiessenWhen Joe Biden was asked during a recent news conference whether he had a conflict of interest leading Ukraine policy while his son was working for a Ukrainian oligarch, he said “I’m not going to respond
The Washington PostFrench Revolution Why an IVF bill is the next fault line for the French republicThe Washington Post - By Camille RobcisCamille Robcis is an associate professor of history and French at Columbia University and author of “ The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France .” Since 1994, France has
The Washington PostColumbus Day Getting rid of Columbus Day entirely is a sad developmentThe Washington Post - By Henry OlsenToday is Columbus Day — except in a growing number of cities and states that instead recognize Indigenous People’s Day. This trend is a sad development. There is no particular reason the United States
The Washington PostRepublican Party Here lies the Republican PartyThe Washington Post - By Ann Telnaes Republicans continue to ignore President Trump’s actions and their own oaths of office.
The Washington PostOpinion Trump’s blunder in Syria is irreparableThe Washington Post - By Editorial BoardUNTIL NOW, it was possible to hope that the damage caused by President Trump’s terrible incompetence, ignorance and impulsivity in foreign policy was largely theoretical, and possibly reparable. That no
The Washington PostOpinion Why the Democratic candidates need to start talking about the Supreme CourtThe Washington Post - By Paul WaldmanThe Democratic candidates for president will be holding their fourth debate on Tuesday, and through the three previous debates, what may be the most consequential issue of the 2020 campaign has been all
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The Washington PostOpinion For Trump, it’s all ‘Whistle while you work’The Washington Post - By Tom Toles
The Washington PostOpinion Republicans have no red line for TrumpThe Washington Post - By Jennifer RubinFormer Ohio governor John Kasich had this exchange with Jake Tapper on CNN on Sunday after an embarrassing appearance by Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) in which he refused to say it was wrong to solicit a
The Washington PostEvo Morales How Evo Morales running again — and again — undermines Bolivia’s democracyThe Washington Post - By Ben Raderstorf, Michael J. CamilleriBen Raderstorf is a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley and a non-resident fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue. Michael J. Camilleri is director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of
The Washington PostElizabeth Warren What Elizabeth Warren must do to secure front-runner statusThe Washington Post - By Jennifer RubinSen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), written off by the chattering class earlier in the year as “unelectable," now sits at the top of several polls in the first two state contests’ polling and a whisker behind
The Washington PostJim Mattis It’s time we hear the unvarnished truth from Jim MattisThe Washington Post - By Jennifer RubinFormer defense secretary Jim Mattis appeared on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. He has come under fire for refusing to speak candidly about his time in the administration or even to denounce specifically president’s
The Washington PostWorld Leaders Administration enablers cannot justify remaining in officeThe Washington Post - By Jennifer RubinThirteen months ago, an anonymous administration figure wrote an op-ed in the New York Times rationalizing the decision to remain in the service of an unfit president. At the time, we argued that this
