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Airbnb and Vrbo are going downhill like a hippo on a water slide

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Rick Reilly

Why Israel would benefit from defeating Iran on its own

yesterday 20

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Jason Willick

Trump’s lazy insult for liberals is deeply confusing

yesterday 100

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Monica Hesse

Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims

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Philip Bump

The risks and benefits of bombing Fordow. Spoiler alert: It’s a close call.

To bomb or not to bomb? That is the question which, quite unexpectedly, has come to dominate U.S. politics in the past day or so. For months,...

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Max Boot

A look inside the president’s nuclear war briefcase

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Jasmine M. Green

I hiked the Appalachian Trail. It fixed my brain.

I hiked the Appalachian Trail last week. I hasten to add, for those who remember a certain former governor of South Carolina, that this is not a...

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Dana Milbank

Mike Huckabee or sycophantic chatbot? Hard to tell.

“Mr President, God spared you in Butler,PA to be the most consequential President in a century—maybe ever,” U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee...

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Mark Lasswell

Israel cleared the way, but only Trump can end Iran’s nuclear program

President Donald Trump has set the terms for Iran to end the military conflict over its nuclear program: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.” Asked what this...

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Marc A. Thiessen

The Supreme Court made the right call about the wrong house

The Chicago Police Department’s motto is: “We serve and protect.” Philadelphia’s is: “Honor. Integrity. Service.” Dallas’s is: “One...

previous day 10

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George F. Will

A bully vs. a socialist? New York’s mayoral race is lost in the wilderness.

For Democratic Party malaise in the age of Donald Trump, proposed cures are a dime a dozen. But a couple of ideas stand out. Find some fresh,...

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David Von Drehle

The GOP budget bill is most popular with this group

It is the nature of a Donald Trump presidency that there is a lot going on, all the time. The president fosters this environment, constantly...

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Philip Bump

The retreat from aid is a costly mistake

It has been easy to dismiss efforts to raise the prospects of the world’s poorest as an abject failure. The United Nations reported 712 million...

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Eduardo Porter

How does the Israel-Iran conflict end?

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Max Boot

Israeli bombs can’t build the Iran its people deserve

tuesday 20

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David Ignatius

Sorry, Trump voters, no take-backs

tuesday 20

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Jasmine M. Green

Trump is finally building his wall. We’ll all suffer the consequences.

President Donald Trump is finally building his wall. And Americans will pay for it. Trump has been walling off the United States from foreign-made...

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Catherine Rampell

Thailand and Cambodia have started a conflict nobody wants

In recent weeks, a long-simmering dispute over an unsettled border area has erupted into a full-on skirmish between two Asian neighbors. Shots were...

tuesday 10

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Keith B. Richburg

Trump wavers on workplace sweeps, revealing why they don’t work

It should have occurred to President Donald Trump that his aggressive sweeps of places where large numbers of undocumented people work were going...

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Karen Tumulty

The tepid theatrics of Trump’s parade

tuesday 20

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Carolina A. Miranda

‘Based’ Mike Lee, utterly debased

Raise your hand if you thought the worst social media reaction to the assassination of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, would come...

tuesday 10

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Jim Geraghty

Heading to Paris and hungry? Maybe bring some trail mix.

PARIS — More than half a century ago my father was lucky enough to visit Paris, where, he said, you couldn’t get a bad meal. Like most clichés,...

tuesday 10

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Lee Hockstader

Bombing won’t deliver the reform Iranians deserve

tuesday 1

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Jasmine M. Green

I was worried about Trump’s Army parade — until I saw it

I arrived for the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington on a drizzly Saturday afternoon with considerable consternation and concern. I...

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Max Boot

Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump

It’s understandable that media coverage of Saturday’s events would focus on an obvious political contrast: While President Donald Trump summoned...

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Philip Bump

This tax testifies to the utter corruption of conservative thought

There’s so much wrong with the sprawling budget bill that the House just passed and the Senate is debating — I refuse to call it by its cringey...

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Matt Bai

Headline of the year: ‘He voted for Trump. Then [INSERT CATASTROPHE]’

16.06.2025 10

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Erik Wemple

How red states tiptoe around Trump’s wreckage

LOUISVILLE — Community leaders here have big plans for Alberta O. Jones Park, which is named after a civil rights activist who also worked as a...

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Perry Bacon Jr

Barack Obama is not your emotional support president

America, no one is coming to save you. Especially not Barack Obama. We have once again seen the force of the U.S. security apparatus turned on its...

16.06.2025 30

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Karen Attiah

A vibe shift in San Francisco — and its new centrist mayor

While Democrats may seem in retreat around the country, the new mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, is off to a promising start in a way that...

16.06.2025 10

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Adam Lashinsky