Thursday, 13 July 2017

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
 
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Get off the Trump train before it crashes
Vice President Pence and congressional leaders should disembark from the Trump train.
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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.
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How to make the Islamic State's defeat last
The liberation of Mosul should be celebrated and learned from.
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The lights go out on the Republican Party
Surely GOP leaders will move with dispatch to disavow Team Trump's behavior, right? Wrong.
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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.
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The constitutional crisis in Florida we're all missing
Gov. Scott is trying to take away his state attorney's prosecutorial discretion.
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Why robots won't steal all our jobs
New technologies inspire new jobs, a study concludes.
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The White House and lawmakers want to reinstate a 1930s law they don't understand
Glass-Steagall, Dodd-Frank and "Hotel California."
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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.
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Trump's defense of Western civilization is not alt-right
His Warsaw speech, criticized at home, had echoes of Reagan, Truman, Kennedy and Clinton.
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Editorial Cartoons
Donald Trump Jr. knows how to cut ribbons Congress is MIA
Or cut administration stories to ribbons, anyway. Last seen abandoning constitutional oversight.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
 
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!
 
Happy Hour Roundup
Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion.
 
We’re about to enter a whole new phase of ‘Fake News’ craziness
It's going to get a lot uglier.
 
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?
 
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."
 
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.
 
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