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So, 112 ignoble, infantile Republicans voted to endanger civilization

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questions Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill on April 18. (Andrew...

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The homeless right-to-camp issue comes to the Supreme Court

Cassy Leach, right, leads a group of volunteers to check on people living in Baker Park in Grants Pass, Ore., on March 21. (Jenny Kane/AP) ...

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Whee! The nation flies past another trillion-dollar milestone.

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Biden’s impossible dream: Any car you want, as long as it’s an EV

President Biden during a 2021 visit to a General Motors electric-vehicle assembly plant in Detroit. (Evan Vucci/AP) Listen 4 min ...

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Why the abortion fight will ease into split-the-difference agreement

Protesters outside of the Supreme Court, during a hearing to restrict an FDA-approved abortion medication, on March 26. (Will...

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Fighting the phone-warping of Gen Z doesn’t require government intrusion

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Arizona is a model for school choice. Naturally, Democrats aren’t happy.

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These two GOP Senate candidates exemplify today’s political squalor

Kari Lake, left, and Bernie Moreno. (Alex Brandon; David Dermer/AP) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this story ...

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You can’t get thrown out for thinking, so take a swing at George Will’s baseball quiz

Opinions Opinion You can’t get thrown out for thinking, so take a swing at George Will’s baseball quiz (AP and Getty Images) ...

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Why good news about inequality is awkward for the left and right

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Now, ‘qualified immunity’ fans justify jailing a forgetful grandmother

Sylvia Gonzalez in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in D.C. (Courtesy of Institute for Justice) Listen 4 min Share ...

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Government has no business bullying social media platforms on speech

President Biden speaks at the White House with Anthony S. Fauci on Oct. 25, 2022. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

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On race-based school admissions, the Supreme Court flinched

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Va., in 2020. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Listen 4...

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A so-called activist Supreme Court shrugs at extreme campus speech rules

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Skewering ‘luxury beliefs,’ with a past informed by foster-care chaos

Rob Henderson and his book, "Troubled." (Carmen Hui Jing Lim, book cover; Simon & Schuster) Listen 4 min Share ...

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Crybaby conservatives vs. self-appointed democracy savers

Delegates at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, holding banners promoting Eugene McCarthy, who was seeking the party's presidential...

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Despite anticipation of a Trump nomination, Super Tuesday demands to be heard

A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley reacts Saturday after former president Donald Trump was declared the winner of the South...

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Roosevelt fixed his serious VP mistake. Will Biden?

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Local media is struggling. Government subsidies would make it worse.

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Why Biden’s dishwasher regulations are a dirty joke

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Republicans, once a noble party, fall to ignoble acts on Ukraine aid

Protesters against U.S. aid to Ukraine on Sept. 26. (Elizabeth Frantz for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share ...

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The ultimate Vegas wedding: The Super Bowl and sports betting

Opinion The ultimate Vegas wedding: The Super Bowl and sports betting By George F. Will Columnist | Follow author Follow ...

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Patrick McHenry: In like a thespian, out like a Madisonian

Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.), as speaker pro tempore, gavels out to adjourn on Oct. 20 at the U.S. Capitol. (Jabin Botsfordi/The Washington Post) ...

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Rigor? No. Merit? You must be joking. Elite? Oh, so much elite.

Opinion Rigor? No. Merit? You must be joking. Elite? Oh, so much elite. By George F. Will Columnist | Add Follow ...

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Haley is the last candle fending off darkness. And she’s fired up.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley at a rally in Conway, S.C., on Sunday. (Randall Hill/Reuters) Listen 4 min ...

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Economic illiteracy and unseemly xenophobia hit the U.S. Steel deal

A portion of U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, Pa., shown on Dec. 18. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo) Listen 4 min ...

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Trump would drain the South Carolina wallets that Haley helped fill

GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. (AFP/Getty Images) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this...

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It’s an election year, so here comes a ‘manufacturing crisis’ that isn’t

A worker moves a container at Seeler Industries in Joliet, Ill., on Aug. 25, 2021. (Taylor Glascock for The Washington Post) Listen 4...

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Iowa nudged the nation closer to a revolting rematch next fall

Former president Donald Trump arrives for his Iowa caucuses watch party in Des Moines on Monday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ...

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How the Supreme Court could end the ‘Chevron deference’ foolishness

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Texas makes a most unconservative Supreme Court argument

Abandoned vehicles sit in the flood water from Tropical Depression Imelda on Interstate Highway 10 on Sept. 20, 2019, in Winnie, Tex. (Yi-Chin...

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An NCAA football championship free of all that ‘amateurism’ nonsense

Outside the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston on Wednesday. The center is home to Playoff Fan Central as part the festivities for...

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A Constitution-flouting ‘authoritarian’ is already in the White House

President Biden boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Dec. 1. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Listen 4 min ...

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Cheering Hamas on campus, too uneducated to grasp how grotesque that is

Demonstrators rally at an “All Out for Gaza” protest at Columbia University in New York on Nov. 15. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images) ...

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Two parties, two wildly different spending solutions, both implausible

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Any way you slice it, Elizabeth Warren’s war on Big Sandwich is crummy

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Capitol Hill on April 27. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Listen 4 min Share Comment...

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Nikki Haley, patient and practical, awaits her moment

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley at a campaign stop in Hooksett, N.H., on Nov. 20. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Listen 4 min ...

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Kissinger nimbly managed a Cold War that needed winning, not managing

Henry Kissinger, national security adviser for President Richard M. Nixon, in his White House office in September 1973 after the Senate voted to...

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A Supreme Court case with momentous implications for government power

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Thankful for soon being able to say ‘Good riddance, 2023’

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It beggars belief that Democrats will keep sleepwalking ahead with Biden

President Biden in New Castle, Del., on Nov. 6. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this story ...

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Is the House GOP about to give Putin a pat on the back for his barbarism?

Firefighters rescue a survivor from the ruins of a residential apartment complex hit by a Russian strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, in January. (Wojciech...

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Surging GOP isolationism is a dreadful development in a dangerous time

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in March. (Andrew Harnik/AP) Listen 4 min ...

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Complacency and neglect weaken the Navy amid growing threats

A Chinese warship fires toward the shore during a military drill near the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands on April 8. (Thomas Peter/Reuters) ...

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Why identity politics is poisonous to the ideal of human equality

Crowds of Black and White people are separated by a long counter covered with slices of bread at a barbecue in Alabama, circa 1930-1941. (Library of...

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Trump and today’s repulsive politics echo George Wallace in 1968

Former Alabama governor George Wallace campaigns as an independent presidential candidate in Boston in June 1968. (AP) Listen 4 min ...

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The Supreme Court blew a chance to fix its second-worst decision ever

Social worker Ursula Newell-Davis in an undated photo outside her office in New Orleans. (Pacific Legal Foundation) Listen 4 min ...

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As ominous threats rise, the U.S. is mired in moronic, clownish politics

A sign on Capitol Hill in D.C. on Sept. 29. (Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Listen 4 min Share Comment on...

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Tim Scott, please drop out, urge others to follow and unite behind Haley

Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Aug.15. (Demetrius Freeman/The...

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In the disaster that is Chicago, its teachers union plays a starring role

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