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Imaginary emergencies are powering Trump’s agenda

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Karen Tumulty

Are we past peak social media?

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Drew Goins

Trump’s Friday night massacre is blatantly illegal

Contempt for law. Contempt for Congress. Contempt for oversight. That is the lesson of President Donald Trump’s Friday night massacre of at least...

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Ruth Marcus

Trump returns — and so does his astounding ignorance

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Dana Milbank

The real reason Trump wants to end birthright citizenship

President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to abolish birthright citizenship is unambiguously and profoundly racist. We can conclude...

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Eugene Robinson

Why McKinley makes an alarming Trump presidential role model

When most presidents cite illustrious predecessors, they usually turn to all-time greats such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D....

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Max Boot

Battleground DOJ: How Trump is waging war on the so-called deep state

It didn’t take long for the Trump Justice Department to launch an all-out war against what it considers the “deep state.” The department on...

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Ruth Marcus

The immigrant crackdown has begun. Its first target might surprise you.

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Catherine Rampell

The D.C. police send Trump an early valentine

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Colbert I. King

9 questions senators should ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Members of two Senate committees will have a lot of ground to cover at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing to be Health and Human...

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Leana S. Wen

Is the U.S. a patsy? The premise of ‘America First’ is bizarre.

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Fareed Zakaria

Pardon me: What were the folks at DOGE thinking?

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Ruth Marcus

Americans asked for it, and they’re going to get it

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Kathleen Parker

On a global stage, an imperial Trump offers some positive surprises

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David Ignatius

Keep sending money to Ukraine. Ideally, Russia’s.

You’re reading the Today’s Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today’s edition: Remember the “Great Resignation” of...

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Drew Goins

The owner of CBS News is talking about caving to Trump

CBS News’s flagship program “60 Minutes” issued a clichéd statement last October, after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump filed a...

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Erik Wemple

Trump shows no sign of slowing down

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Drew Goins

Trump’s DEI push doesn’t level the playing field. It digs trenches.

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Philip Bump

‘A roster change for the ages’: 8 writers on the Washington Commanders

The Commanders’ matchup Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles will be the team’s first NFC championship game since the 1991 season . Ahead of...

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How the TikTok ban brought Americans and Chinese closer

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Youyou Zhou

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

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George F. Will

The Commanders’ kicker wrestles with OCD. That’s inspiring.

Maybe you saw him. Frantically taking his right shoe off, adjusting the toe of his sock, putting the shoe an eighth of the way on again, yanking it...

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Rick Reilly

Prince Harry’s coming of age

As the defining battle of Prince Harry’s life approached this week, I did what legions before me have done. I bought and read his memoir,...

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David Von Drehle