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Why Biden Should Not Debate Trump

The networks want their show, but for President Biden to meet his challenger on a TV stage would be a normalization of Trump’s attempted coup. A...

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A Test of Strength

Biden stands with America’s allies. Trump doesn’t. Israel stopped an Iranian drone and missile barrage last night, with help from the United...

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What America Must Do for Israel Now

The account must be settled, but in the right way. Israel stopped an Iranian drone and missile barrage last night, with help from the United States...

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Miranda’s Last Gift

When our daughter died suddenly, she left us with grief, memories—and Ringo. I was at the kitchen counter making coffee when my daughter Miranda’s...

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The Ego Has Crash-Landed

If Donald Trump loses November’s election, it will be for one reason: He can’t help making it all about himself. Donald Trump dominated the news...

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The Man Who Now Controls the U.S. Border

Mexico’s president gets to determine whether an immigration crisis dominates headlines in a U.S. election year. In early January, I drove along the...

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Confessions of a Presidential Cheat-Sheet Writer

Even the most youthful commanders in chief use them. Axios recently reported that President Joe Biden carries cheat sheets with him into meetings...

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The Republicans’ Last Great Test of Character

Will enough of Trump’s party finally be willing to stick up for Ukraine rather than follow his lead and bow to Russia? After weeks of backroom...

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The Art of No Deal

The Republicans who won’t take yes for an answer Sometimes, a negotiation produces a deal. Sometimes, a negotiation reveals the truth. Negotiators...

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In Defense of Woodrow Wilson

Despised as a racist by today’s left and a tyrant by today’s right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack. ...

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The GOP’s Great Betrayal

Congressional Republicans are blocking crucial aid to Israel and Ukraine out of sheer servility to Trump. On January 17, House Speaker Mike Johnson...

28.01.2024 60

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Joe Biden Is the Nominee Democrats Need

Against Donald Trump, who insists on making elections a referendum on him, the least objectionable candidate offers the best way of beating him. It...

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What a Trump Nomination Means

As GOP leaders get in line, the outlook for democracy looks grim—in Ukraine, and even in America. In 2016, Republicans could profess some...

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Suddenly, Trump Is Interested in Democracy

As Maine throws him off the ballot, the president who betrayed democracy is now pleading for its protections. Donald Trump won the presidency with...

29.12.2023 10

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The Colorado Supreme Court Just Gave Republicans a Chance to Save Themselves

They should take it. “The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary,” John Kenneth Galbraith wrote. “No economist should be denied it,...

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They Do It for Trump

Behind the GOP’s shifting excuses for abandoning Ukraine The White House and Senate continue to work frantically toward a deal to supply Ukraine...

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Why Getting to ‘No’ Is the GOP’s Deal

The congressional Republican opposition to funding aid for Ukraine, Israel, and border security explained—as far as it can be “We’re not going...

12.12.2023 10

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The Right to Intimidate

Progressives who once argued that free speech is violence now claim that violence is free speech. Yesterday, the presidents of Harvard, the University...

06.12.2023 2

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An Unimaginable Threat

American democracy survived the first Trump presidency. That doesn’t mean it would survive a second. For all its marvelous creativity, the human...

04.12.2023 8

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Ron DeSantis’s Mad-Bull Strategy

Debating Gavin Newsom made very little sense for the flailing Republican candidate—except as an exercise in huffing, snorting, and lunging at an...

01.12.2023 2

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A Business Plan to Save Harvard

Keep the endowment. Spin off the university. Ethically and academically, 2023 has been a bad year for America’s most richly endowed university. The...

21.11.2023 10

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For Biden, It’s Time to Triangulate

The president is in poll trouble. He needs to remind Americans who he isn’t. Why are President Joe Biden’s poll numbers so bad? Is it because of...

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Can Germany Resist the Trump Disease?

A new far-left party now joins an older far right in threatening an enfeebled centrist consensus. Israeli flags. Guitar music. Bicycles. Strollers,...

25.10.2023 8

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Yes, the U.S. Can Afford to Help Its Allies

In fact, it can’t afford not to. As his address to the nation from the Oval Office Thursday night underlined, President Joe Biden is expected to...

20.10.2023 7

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The Republican Delusion Machine

The requisite for GOP leadership is delivering fantasies—that Trump won in 2020, that the Republicans did not lose in 2022. Fail at that and...

04.10.2023 2

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