Opinions P.M.: The Freedom Caucus blows its chance to govern

Get your act together, GOP, or risk your majority     Nicholas Kamm / AFP/Getty Images The Freedom Caucus blows its chance to govern They torpedoed health-care reform — and made themselves irrelevant. By Marc A. Thiessen  •  Read more » Get your act together, GOP, or risk your majority The party's current trajectory could spell disaster in the midterm election, but there's time to turn things around. By Tom Davis  •  Read more »   Why Trump and the GOP could fail on tax reform, too He's still wedded to the idea that you don't need to know anything about government to succeed in governing. By Paul Waldman  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   We’re not a part of Somalia, Mr. Trump — and don’t belong in your ban My government of Somaliland is seeking an exemption from the executive order. By Saad Ali Shire  •  Global Opinions  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Memo to Jared Kushner: Managing government isn’t like business. It’s much harder. It's one thing to blow up agencies. It's quite another to actually make them function better. By Alyssa Rosenberg  •  Act Four  •  Read more »   Jared Kushner’s project is doomed Government is not a business. By Jennifer Rubin  •  Right Turn  •  Read more »   Israel’s ambassador breathes a sigh of relief More than anything else, Israel is relieved. By Jennifer Rubin  •  Right Turn  •  Read more »   Golf-nut Trump runs into trouble on the very first hole As we try to learn the rules of Donaldball. By Tom Toles  •  Read more »   Act Four Live: Pop culture with Alyssa Rosenberg (Mar. 27) A chat about the best and worst in pop culture and why the stories we love mean so much to us. By Alyssa Rosenberg  •  Read more » Why does Sean Hannity care what Ted Koppel thinks? Asks veteran newsman if he thinks his show is bad for the country. By Erik Wemple  •  Read more »   Republicans’ Russia crackup Nunes destroys his own credibility. By Jennifer Rubin  •  Right Turn  •  Read more »   Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions No $1.8 million award for needle-fearing pharmacist, no $500,000 sanction for lawyers who goofed on diversity jurisdiction and no 131.75 years before possibility of parole for juvenile offender. By Eugene Volokh  •  The Volokh Conspiracy  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Why Trump won’t ‘let Obamacare explode’ Trump apparently cares not at all about health care. By Jennifer Rubin  •  Right Turn  •  Read more »   America may yet escape disappearing forever down the greasy Trump Funnel Failure attaches. By Tom Toles  •  Read more »   After the health-care fiasco, Trump’s next move may be even more disastrous Trump and Republicans may now try to sabotage Obamacare. The strategy is unlikely to work. By Greg Sargent  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   Recommended for you   DemocracyPost Opinions and commentary that illuminate the challenges facing democracy around the world. Sign Up »         Share Opinions P.M.:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you are signed up for Opinions. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071