Saturday's Opinions: Congress is fleeing its warmaking responsibilities

The fundamental error in the CBO's health-care projections; The latest evidence of Trump's unfitness may be the most revolting; Donald Trump, the great uniter?; Russia will be back. Here's how to hack-proof the next election.; Americans put Trump in the Oval Office. What does that say about the country?; The next step on health care: Let the states decide; The overpopulation doomsayers are at it again. And they're still wrong.; There's no 'compelling need' to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School; I just moved out of D.C. General. Here's how shelters can change lives.; The terrible cost of once-a-year health care; Montgomery County's expensive private attorneys; Watching America lose its moral authority in real time; Myths about sexual assault on campus from the Department of Education; How Congress should fight child sex trafficking on the Internet; Spare us another loathsome Corey Stewart campaign; In a review of Jay-Z's album, we are told only some bigotries are worthy of attention; The John Henry principle: Eventually, the steam drill wins; What else was on fire this week?; Some consistency in all the GOP health-care plans; Happy Hour Roundup; The GOP is in peril as vote on repeal and replace looms; NYT Washington bureau chief on Trump’s Paris trip: A ‘paradox’ of openness     Alaa Al-Faqir / Reuters   George F. Will Congress is fleeing its warmaking responsibilities The United States needs a clear authorization of military force. Read more » Latest Columns Marc Short and Brian Blase The fundamental error in the CBO's health-care projections The agency attributes magical powers to Obamacare's individual mandate. Read more »     Ruth Marcus The latest evidence of Trump's unfitness may be the most revolting We are at risk of suffering outrage overload here. Read more »     Kathleen Parker Donald Trump, the great uniter? The train-wreck presidency has galvanized civic action. Read more »   Tom Donilon Russia will be back. Here's how to hack-proof the next election. So far, Putin has paid too small a price for last year's interference to deter him in the future. Read more »   Colbert I. King Americans put Trump in the Oval Office. What does that say about the country? His character defects were on full display well before the polls opened, yet millions voted for him anyway. Read more »   Bill Cassidy The next step on health care: Let the states decide We need a clean repeal and replace of Obamacare. Here's how we should do it. Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Christine Emba The overpopulation doomsayers are at it again. And they're still wrong. The natural response also seems the correct one: You can't be serious. Read more »   Tom Davis There's no 'compelling need' to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School Doing so would come at too high a cost and without "sufficient support." Read more »   Deana Howard I just moved out of D.C. General. Here's how shelters can change lives. Give the planned family shelters a chance. Read more »   Norma McLemore The terrible cost of once-a-year health care An annual free health-care fair in Southwest shows why Virginia should expand Medicaid. Read more »   Joel M. Cockrell Montgomery County's expensive private attorneys Officials waste taxpayer money by not using government lawyers. Read more »     Dana Milbank Watching America lose its moral authority in real time You see it at the street level and at the highest levels of government. Read more »   Editorial Cartoons Tom Toles Ann Telnaes Trump feels the press turn him every which way but loose Don Jr. doesn’t fall far from the tree Whatever! Lying and an eagerness to deal with the Russians seems to run in the family.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Post’s View Myths about sexual assault on campus from the Department of Education It is a real problem. Any official who doubts that shouldn't be an official. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   How Congress should fight child sex trafficking on the Internet Reporting this week on Backpage.com raises new questions. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Spare us another loathsome Corey Stewart campaign We hope the state GOP can come up with a more plausible, and honorable, challenger to Tim Kaine. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   "Free For All" Letters In a review of Jay-Z's album, we are told only some bigotries are worthy of attention I was taken aback by the review of Jay-Z's album "4:44" by Chris Richards published rather ironically on the Fourth of July ["The 5 stages of listening to Jay-Z's album '4:44,' " Style]. The reviewer... Read more »   Latest Blogs The John Henry principle: Eventually, the steam drill wins Steam drills — driverless cars — and much more to come, I hope and fear. By Eugene Volokh  •  The Volokh Conspiracy  •  Read more » What else was on fire this week? But at least David Brooks rescued that woman from those lunchmeats. By Alexandra Petri  •  ComPost  •  Read more »   Some consistency in all the GOP health-care plans McConnell should have moved on By Jennifer Rubin  •  Right Turn  •  Read more »   Happy Hour Roundup Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion. By Paul Waldman  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   The GOP is in peril as vote on repeal and replace looms The ball is in Mitch McConnell's court. Every Republican should light a candle and say their prayers for him. By Ed Rogers  •  PostPartisan  •  Read more »   NYT Washington bureau chief on Trump’s Paris trip: A ‘paradox’ of openness How much more would we know about the world if PR types weren't always getting in the way? By Erik Wemple  •  Erik Wemple  •  Read more »   Recommended for you   The Health 202 Your daily guide to Washington's health-care debate. Sign Up »         Share Opinions:       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. 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