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How a long-ago fight over a dormant constitutional weapon echoes today

16.12.2024 50

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On Israel and Ukraine, Harris and Trump are mirror images

13.09.2024 9

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This provocative liberal theory about Netanyahu falls flat

06.09.2024 5

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Prosecutors test the Supreme Court’s limits on Trump and Jan. 6

30.08.2024 8

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The real reason Kamala Harris needs media scrutiny

One lesson of the Trump era is that politicians will ignore political convention to the extent they can get away with it. And Vice President Kamala...

29.08.2024 6

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The abortion endgame comes into view

While Democrats have a clear objective, Republicans do not. Attendees at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday. (Melina...

24.08.2024 40

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Chuck Schumer’s plan to create a constitutional crisis

The Senate majority leader is proposing a radical plan to hamstring the Supreme Court. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)...

08.08.2024 80

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Biden’s supreme stunt

The president’s Supreme Court proposals are much more about politics and resentment than reform. President Biden speaks at an event...

30.07.2024 7

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Are Democrats really going to do this?

Democrats’ rush to Kamala Harris bypasses the question of who has the best chance of beating Trump. Tony Tribby wears a T-shirt in support...

22.07.2024 20

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Did Vance sell a new kind of conservative nationalism?

On Wednesday night, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Vance fused with modern MAGA. Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance at the Republican...

18.07.2024 10

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The real reason the frenzy over Biden is so unsettling

The herd-like reversal of certain institutions regarding Biden’s abilities has been something to behold. President Biden delivers remarks at...

10.07.2024 9

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Don’t like the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling? Blame Merrick Garland.

With no straightforward case tying Trump to violence, Garland took a historically momentous risk. Left: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in...

03.07.2024 10

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The judicial independence of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined five conservatives in the Supreme Court’s Jan. 6 ruling on Friday. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in...

29.06.2024 10

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Three potential wild cards for a razor-close Biden-Trump election

With the 2024 race seemingly frozen and super-close, let’s consider some scenarios. (The Washington Post) Listen 6 min ...

20.06.2024 10

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After Hamas’s latest cease-fire rejection, Biden has two options

The president must stop trying to bridge unbridgeable gaps and and force Israel or Hamas to submit to U.S. will. President Biden at the Group...

14.06.2024 10

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How Congress could curb the use of lawfare for partisan attacks

Republicans think lawfare was used to convict Donald Trump. Congress needs to intervene. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks during...

11.06.2024 5

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Harvard and Stanford want culture-war neutrality. Can they sustain it?

The universities made an easy call amid turmoil over Israel and Gaza. The real tests will come later. Students pass by protesters while filing...

06.06.2024 6

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Trump’s prosecutors try their hand at election denial

An election is not fraudulent if material information surfaces after votes are cast. Former president Donald Trump returns to court in New...

30.05.2024 30

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How mirror-image politics mark the Biden-Netanyahu dance

The Israeli prime minister isn’t the only leader suspected of worrying about holding on to power. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

26.05.2024 50

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If Biden thinks Israel’s liberals are doves, he’s dreaming

Prominent progressive Yair Golan says Netanyahu is a “coward” for not taking out Hamas earlier. Yair Golan, Israel's deputy minister of...

20.05.2024 30

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Sinema predicts the Senate filibuster’s unfortunate demise

The outgoing Arizona senator believes U.S. politics will get worse before it gets better. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) speaks with reporters...

09.05.2024 50

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How civil rights law distorts the anti-Zionism vs. antisemitism debate

A sign at a protest encampment at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., on April 28. (David Ryder/Reuters) Listen 5 min ...

02.05.2024 20

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How the Justice Department should have argued against Trump’s immunity

The scene in the Supreme Court on Thursday during arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting...

26.04.2024 20

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How the Supreme Court could vindicate Bill Barr on obstruction

Attorney General William P. Barr arrives for a White House news conference in 2020. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 6 min ...

21.04.2024 70

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Jack Smith’s Trump immunity brief highlights the prosecutor’s mistake

Special counsel Jack Smith in June. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this story ...

10.04.2024 60

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Republicans down, abortion up. What did overturning Roe achieve?

Supporters of the pro-life group Florida Voice for the Unborn demonstrate at the state Capitol in Tallahassee on May 24, 2022. (Phil Sears/AP) ...

05.04.2024 40

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The most exciting idea in politics is indifference

People vote in the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 23 in Concord, N.H. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share ...

01.04.2024 10

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Biden’s Israel spat shows the limits of democracy as a foreign policy tool

Vice President Harris applauds as President Biden delivers the State of the Union address at the Capitol on March 7. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) ...

15.03.2024 10

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Why the Senate filibuster is hanging by a thread, again, in 2024

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mitt Romney talk outside the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 4, 2022. Both senators have announced that they won't seek reelection this...

10.03.2024 40

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Liberal justices’ rage at the Trump ballot decision is incoherent

The Supreme Court on Monday. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story Comment...

06.03.2024 30

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Trump’s immunity claim deserves to fail. So does his Jan. 6 prosecution.

Former president Donald Trump participates in a Fox News town hall in Greenville, S.C., on Feb. 20. (Sam Wolfe/Reuters) Listen 5 min ...

01.03.2024 20

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Trump the autocrat? This research suggests the odds are against him.

Former president Donald Trump speaks in Nashville on Thursday. (Seth Herald/Reuters) Listen 5 min Share Comment on...

26.02.2024 20

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The Senate and House are two poles of Republican decay

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post; Kent Nishimura for The Post.) ...

13.02.2024 20

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The eyebrow-raising line in the Trump immunity opinion

Former president Donald Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., on Jan. 20. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ...

07.02.2024 10

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The antislavery giant at the center of the Trump disqualification case

Opinion The antislavery giant at the center of the Trump disqualification case By Jason Willick Columnist | Add Follow ...

05.02.2024 30

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Push Israel now for a two-state solution? You must be kidding.

A display, in Jerusalem on Oct. 29, of posters of Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7. (Mahmoud Illean/AP) Listen 5 min ...

26.01.2024 20

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Why the Supreme Court ought to punt on Trump’s eligibility

(Jon Elswick/AP) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories ...

21.01.2024 70

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Remember ‘asymmetric polarization’? On immigration, Democrats drive it.

An immigration activist records video as police make an arrest at a protest near the White House on Sept. 15. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) ...

14.01.2024 10

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Why a Taiwan election upset could be a U.S. blessing

Supporters of Hou Yu-ih, a candidate for Taiwan's presidency, attend a campaign event in Keelung, Taiwan, Jan. 4. (Ann Wang/Reuters) ...

05.01.2024 10

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Politics are now clearly shaping Jack Smith’s Trump prosecution

Special counsel Jack Smith arrives to announce the indictment of former president Donald Trump at a news conference in D.C. on Aug. 1. (Ricky...

12.12.2023 40

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College presidents reveal three surprise truths about free speech and antisemitism

Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard University, speaks during a House Education Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. At right is Liz...

08.12.2023 50

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