Thursday's Opinions: Get off the Trump train before it crashes

The Democrat who knows the tax code is a 'rotting carcass'; How to make the Islamic State's defeat last   Democracy Dies in Darkness       Joshua Gunter / AP   E.J. Dionne Jr. Get off the Trump train before it crashes Vice President Pence and congressional leaders should disembark from the Trump train. Read more » Latest Columns   George F. Will The Democrat who knows the tax code is a 'rotting carcass' It's hard to believe we'll restore the system's health in a single legislative session. Read more »   Ash Carter How to make the Islamic State's defeat last The liberation of Mosul should be celebrated and learned from. Read more »     Dana Milbank The lights go out on the Republican Party Surely GOP leaders will move with dispatch to disavow Team Trump's behavior, right? Wrong. Read more »   Michael E. Mann, Susan Joy Hassol and Tom Toles Doomsday scenarios are as harmful as climate change denial The evidence that climate change is a serious challenge that we must tackle now is very clear. There is no need to overstate it. Read more »   Karl Racine, Beth McCann and Miriam Aroni Krinsky The constitutional crisis in Florida we're all missing Gov. Scott is trying to take away his state attorney's prosecutorial discretion. Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT     Robert J. Samuelson Why robots won't steal all our jobs New technologies inspire new jobs, a study concludes. Read more »   Hal S. Scott The White House and lawmakers want to reinstate a 1930s law they don't understand Glass-Steagall, Dodd-Frank and "Hotel California." Read more »   Andrew C. McCarthy The Donald Trump Jr. emails definitely show collusion. But collusion in what? Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin's regime should be examined — and not in a vacuum. Read more »   Marc A. Thiessen Trump's defense of Western civilization is not alt-right His Warsaw speech, criticized at home, had echoes of Reagan, Truman, Kennedy and Clinton. Read more »   Editorial Cartoons Tom Toles Ann Telnaes Donald Trump Jr. knows how to cut ribbons Congress is MIA Or cut administration stories to ribbons, anyway. Last seen abandoning constitutional oversight.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Post’s View This is what makes Russia a hostile power It's about Putin's adherence to a set of values that are antithetical to what have been bedrock American values. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Worried about trust in government, senators? Prove you deserve it. The GOP response to Donald Trump Jr.'s newly public emails has been to play down the issue. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   There's no way to replace Planned Parenthood Despite claims to the contrary, other health-care providers wouldn't be able to fill the gap if Congress defunded Planned Parenthood for a year. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Latest Blogs With a single tweet, Kellyanne Conway illustrates the hypocrisy of White House media attacks Some stories are "fake news." Others depict the United States as thriving, and we really want you to read them! By Erik Wemple  •  Erik Wemple  •  Read more »   Happy Hour Roundup Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion. By Paul Waldman  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   We’re about to enter a whole new phase of ‘Fake News’ craziness It's going to get a lot uglier. By Sarah Posner  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   Did David Brooks get permission from the alleged sandwich naif before embarrassing her in the New York Times? Who would ever go out for a sandwich with this guy? By Erik Wemple  •  Erik Wemple  •  Read more »   Court orders online tabloid not to post ‘any articles about’ former Obama nominee to the federal CFTC The New York trial court also ordered the tabloid (the Blot) to take down all its past articles about Christopher Brummer, who had been nominated in 2016 for a position on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Brummer's lawyers had also earlier asked Google to deindex material about Brummer in large part on the grounds that the material included "racial hate speech and slurs." By Eugene Volokh  •  The Volokh Conspiracy  •  Read more »   Do constitutional rights constrain US government actions abroad? My review of an important new article on whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment applies to US government actions beyond our borders. By Ilya Somin  •  The Volokh Conspiracy  •  Read more »   Recommended for you   DemocracyPost Opinions and commentary that illuminate the challenges facing democracy around the world. 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. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071