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George F. Will

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Neither euphoric nor despairing be. Trump too shall pass.

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Trump doesn’t have a mandate. But, oh, does he have executive orders.

17.01.2025 9

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Biden’s presidency got an early start on its road to ruin

15.01.2025 10

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Republicans, enjoy ineffectual control of Congress while you have it

10.01.2025 4

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Biden’s ‘security’ concern about TikTok and U.S. Steel is doubly specious

When, on Friday, the Supreme Court hears the Biden administration defend the law that bans TikTok, the justices should remember what the...

08.01.2025 3

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Memo to Musk: Overhauling government isn’t rocket science. It’s harder.

Elon Musk, a Don Quixote with Vivek Ramaswamy tagging along as Sancho Panza, recently ascended Capitol Hill to warn the windmills of tiltings to...

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Jimmy Carter was the president who made Ronald Reagan necessary

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Thanks for the laughs, 2024, you ridiculous year

29.12.2024 20

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Rickey Henderson was about so much more than the stolen bases

23.12.2024 30

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The Equal Rights Amendment, still dead after all these years

20.12.2024 4

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Longshoremen and Trump are in the same anti-automation boat

19.12.2024 20

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What is the Federal Reserve for, exactly?

With a recession deepening and the 1982 midterm elections approaching, Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker was summoned to the Oval Office, where...

30.11.2024 20

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A columnist’s first 50 years

It is tempting but mistaken to say that the current administration of the universe is defective because people are not required to read op-ed...

26.11.2024 30

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Sample George F. Will’s columns across half a century

23.11.2024 4

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At last, Woodrow Wilson’s reputation gets the dismantling it richly deserves

Arguments about past presidents shape the nation’s present understanding of itself, and hence its unfolding future. In recent years, biographies...

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The Senate’s Madisonian opportunity on those nominations

Accelerant : noun. A substance used to aid the spread of fire. Donald Trump, a political accelerant, has ignited, with malice aforethought, a...

17.11.2024 1

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The U.S. Marines’ biggest fight right now is internal

15.11.2024 3

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The world’s richest person is about to receive a free public education

Being aggrieved is his pursuit of happiness, so 2020’s sore loser is 2024’s sore winner. Hence his announcement that his administration’s...

13.11.2024 4

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Republican self-degradation continues. Democratic self-sabotage helped.

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Voters face the worst presidential choice in U.S. history

01.11.2024 10

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Regulators reflexively try to strangle disruptive tech. Now it’s AI’s turn.

26.10.2024 2

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If demography is destiny, bring on immigration. We’re going to need it.

Inevitably, presidential campaigns focus on immediate domestic difficulties or foreign dangers. Momentous developments — inexorably gathering...

23.10.2024 100

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In the Michigan Senate race, progressive baggage may be decisive

HOWELL, Mich. — Late afternoon at American Legion Devereaux Post 141, an hour northwest of Detroit. Flannel shirts, denim trousers and longneck...

19.10.2024 3

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World War III is already under way. Not that Harris or Trump has noticed.

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‘College for all’ needs a rethink. National security could depend on it.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The means of preventing, or prevailing in, a major war are made here by the 27,000 who work in three shifts, around the clock...

12.10.2024 20

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Nuclear submarines, crucial for U.S. defense and in short supply

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Calamity in a keystroke: How the FBI copes with mounting threats

Everyone lives in, and enjoys the myriad cultural and commercial benefits of, today’s connected world. Few think about how connectedness, which...

04.10.2024 10

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Between Harris and Trump, it’s hard to tell who’s worse on economic matters

02.10.2024 10

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Stopping Putin in Ukraine could also arrest a slide toward World War III

Many people who dismiss warnings about a third world war were, before February 2022, confident that state-on-state war in Europe had become...

27.09.2024 60

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As Putin’s military barbarism continues, U.S. credibility is at stake

25.09.2024 4

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Those beloved progressive initials, DEI and ESG, have lost their gleam

Progressives’ alphabet soup ingredients are DEI hiring and ESG investing. Both often are illegal, and the latter is medieval. “Diversity, equity...

20.09.2024 2

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Have you committed a felony yet? Probably so.

30.08.2024 2

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History is on Trump’s side for this one thing. It’s still a bad idea.

29.08.2024 10

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Abracadabra! It’s the dueling Harris and Trump economic magic acts.

Between Harris’s price controls and Trump’s tariffs, this campaign is a travesty of economic policy. A combined photo shows former president...

21.08.2024 20

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Two candidates, blithely campaigning on a treadmill to oblivion

The national debt surpasses $35 trillion. The unserious Trump and Harris roll on. Key takeaways Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed. Vice...

02.08.2024 2

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Progressives’ abortion fearmongering turns, ridiculously, to Comstock

Opinion Progressives’ abortion fearmongering turns, ridiculously, to Comstock Today, the Comstock Act is a travesty and an irrelevance, not a...

31.07.2024 3

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Giving Democrats a clear Senate majority is a very bad idea

If you think today’s political climate can’t get worse, wait until Democrats jettison the filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer...

26.07.2024 3

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Democrats, fear not an open convention

Let’s hope Biden’s endorsement is the last irresponsible act of an irresponsibly long public career. Vice President Harris during an event with...

22.07.2024 1

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This election is Democratic progressivism vs. GOP progressivism-lite. Alas.

Republicans and Democrats haven’t been this aligned on policy since the Eisenhower ’50s. Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance speaks...

19.07.2024 20

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