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How the Supreme Court can limit Congress’s taste for self-diminishment

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Why ‘problems without passports’ especially worry the CIA director

CIA Director William J. Burns speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats on Capitol Hill on March 10, 2022. (Jabin...

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New York’s rent laws are a gross violation of property rights

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The UAW can strike, but it’s running out of gas

United Auto Workers strikers outside the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., on Sept. 15. (Valaurian Waller for The Washington Post) ...

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Trying to disqualify Trump is lawlessness masquerading as legality

Former president Donald Trump before departing from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Aug. 24. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo) ...

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A CDC director confirmation hearing? Good idea. Here’s what to ask.

CDC Director Mandy Cohen as she is being introduced at the Atlanta Press Club on Sept. 6. (Mike Stewart/AP) Listen 4 min ...

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Economically ailing China suffers from an incurable case of Leninism

Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit in Johannesburg on Aug. 23. (Gianluigi Guercia/Reuters) Listen 4 min Share ...

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Opposing U.S. aid for Ukraine contradicts a core conservative principle

Ukrainian servicemen fire small multiple launch rocket systems toward Russian troops, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region on Aug. 19. (Viacheslav...

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Drew Gilpin Faust grew into ‘necessary trouble’

Former Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust in 2015. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) Listen 4 min Share Comment on...

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Why colleges hide the truth about tuition (it isn’t as high as advertised)

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Ramaswamy brings a Trumpian brazenness to denying the undeniable

Vivek Ramaswamy in the spin room after the first Republican primary presidential debate, hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee on Aug. 23. (Al...

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Four prison murders lead to a sickening ruling on ‘qualified immunity’

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At last, college football admits it is an unembarrassable money machine

Alabama State quarterback Myles Crawley (7) is tackled by UCLA linebacker Laiatu Latu (15) during their college football game in Pasadena, Calif., on...

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Republicans aim to regain what used to be their California stronghold

Republican Scott Baugh outside a polling station in Huntington Beach, Calif., in 2018. (Krysta Fauria/AP Photo) Listen 4 min ...

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DeSantis’s ‘slitting throats’ rhetoric repels moderates he might need

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, seeking the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and his family took part in the Fourth of July parade in Wolfeboro,...

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How U.S. sugar protectionism could sour your Halloween and Christmas

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A fiscal crisis awaits. Here’s a provocative idea for heading it off.

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DeSantis’s dour, odd, pratfalling campaign does have one useful quality

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) campaigns in Chariton, Iowa, on Thursday. (Sergio Flores for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

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Meet the unusually qualified presidential candidate you’ve never heard of

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) on July 5 in Gilford, N.H. (C.J. Gunther/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) (Cj Gunther/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) ...

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It’s time to end the ‘era of the Great Distraction’

Nearly finished shells on the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant floor in Scranton, Pa., on Feb. 1. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) ...

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When government bureaucrats masquerade as financial savants, watch out

President Biden delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and his administration's effort to revive domestic manufacturing while visiting a factory of Flex...

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Progressive gloom ignores a marvelous historical economic measure

General Motors workers on a production line in Lake Orion, Mich., in 2021. (Nic Antaya for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

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Neither Trump nor DeSantis will get the GOP nomination

From left, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in Oxon Hill, Md., on April 21, and former president Donald Trump on March 4, also in Oxon Hill. (Alex...

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The U.S. debt tsunami meets with a reflexive, mindless bipartisan shrug

The national debt clock in New York in May. Last month, the national debt passed $32 trillion. (Mary Altaffer/AP) Listen 4 min ...

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Reasons for ambivalence about the ruling on web design and same-sex marriage

Lorie Smith, owner of a Colorado website design company, speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 5. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) ...

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On student loan forgiveness, Amy Coney Barrett makes a major statement

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation in Simi Valley, Calif., on April 4, 2022. (Damian...

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The court did not ‘end’ affirmative action. This was just a skirmish.

Protesters outside the Supreme Court on June 29, the day the justices ruled on affirmative action in higher education. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP) ...

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Why K-12 education’s alarming decline could be a dominant 2024 issue

Fairfax County Public School buses lined up at a maintenance facility in Lorton, Va., in 2020. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo) Listen 4...

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This South Dakotan wants to end Congress’s chronic immigration failure

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) on Capitol Hill on June 13. (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images) Listen 4 min Share this article Share...

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Meet the implacable, off-the-grid libertarian working to energize Congress

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) speaks during a meeting of the House Rules Committee on Capitol Hill on May 30. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) ...

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A Supreme Court blunder endangers Native American children

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Vivek Ramaswamy runs on the unlimited optimism of the inexperienced

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy outside the federal courthouse in Miami where former president Donald Trump was being arraigned on...

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Ruling on redistricting, the Supreme Court again repudiates colorblind law

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California’s reparations debate adds to a plague of solemn silliness

A still image from a video of California Gov. Gavin Newsom signing legislation in September 2020. (Office of the Governor/AP) Listen 4...

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Two-thirds of new cars will be EVs in nine years? That will not happen.

President Biden drives an all-electric Cadillac Lyriq through the showroom during a tour at the Detroit Auto Show on Sept. 14. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo) ...

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The Supreme Court votes for clarity from Congress. How refreshing.

Signage for the Environmental Protection Agency at an event with administrator Michael Regan in College Park, Md., on May 11. (Nathan Howard/AP) ...

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Ambivalent about abortion, the American middle begins to find its voice

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The Supreme Court’s California pork ruling invites interstate economic warfare

Demonstrators with PETA gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 11. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP) Listen 4 min Comment on this...

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Joe Manchin weighs challenging today’s stagnant party duopoly

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) talks to reporters on Capitol Hill, March 22. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

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Why even the preppy look is preferable to egalitarian shabbiness

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After a month of baseball’s new rules, it’s time to rejoice

The Texas Rangers celebrate after Jonah Heim hit a three-run walk-off home run against the Kansas City Royals at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Tex.,...

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In ‘ordinary man,’ a certain greatness emerges of Gerald Ford

As a navigation officer, Gerald Ford takes a sextant reading about the USS Monterey in 1944. (National Archives/Naval History and Heritage Command) ...

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Voters do not want a Biden-Trump rematch. A third option might appeal.

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The county seized her condo, sold it and kept all the money. Not nice.

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Fox News behaved egregiously, but the settlement was good for the law

Outside the News Corp. headquarters in New York in 2022. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg) Listen 4 min ...

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As enrollment plummets, academia gets schooled about where it went wrong

A student works in the library at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond in June 2019. (Steve Helber/AP) Listen 4 min ...

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A classless, socially fluid America? Not today, not in politics.

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How ‘I despise, therefore I am’ locks in the political status quo

A volunteer with Pinellas for Biden, waves a sign at passing cars next to a Pinellas GOP volunteer at the Supervisor of Elections office on the first...

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How the grim Branch Davidian anniversary echoes

Fire engulfs the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tex., on April 19, 1993, ending a 51-day standoff with federal law enforcement. (AP Photo/Ron...

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Maybe, just maybe, this is rock bottom for embarrassing U.S. politics

A supporter of former president Donald Trump on Tuesday outside the Manhattan courthouse where Trump was scheduled to be arraigned later in the day....

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