Wednesday's Opinions: Sherrilyn Ifill exposes the absurdity of Trump’s election integrity commission

The future of the Trump presidency is in the hands of — wait, who is this guy?; This is no 'rookie mistake.' The Trump team shouldn't even be on the field.   Democracy Dies in Darkness       Jonathan Capehart Sherrilyn Ifill exposes the absurdity of Trump's election integrity commission "We don't have a problem of too many people showing up to vote." Read more » Latest Columns   Kathleen Parker The future of the Trump presidency is in the hands of — wait, who is this guy? This is "collusioney," at the very least. Read more »     Dana Milbank This is no 'rookie mistake.' The Trump team shouldn't even be on the field. Errors and outrages are so common that we've become numb to them. Read more »     David Ignatius America can succeed militarily in the Mideast. ISIS's defeat in Mosul tells us how. U.S. strategy of working closely with partners on the battlefield yields dividends. Read more »   Randall Eliason Donald Trump Jr.'s emails are far more damning than anyone could have imagined He should have run screaming from the Russian lawyer's offer. The opposite happened. Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Sarah Sherman-Stokes Immigration judges were always overworked. Now they'll be untrained, too. Just as the administration ramps up caseloads, it's canceling training for judges. Read more »   Garrison Keillor Expect goodness, and ye shall find it The beautiful thing about New York is not that it confers success but that it teaches civility. Read more »   Katrina vanden Heuvel The debate Democrats can't duck The conservative and corporate factions of the party need to wake up to the populist reality. Read more »   Editorial Cartoons Tom Toles Ann Telnaes The Trump-Russia story has reached a dripping point Congress is MIA Everything is coming together as everything is coming apart. Last seen abandoning constitutional oversight.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Post’s View The Russia meddling story is no longer just smoke. It's fire. Donald Trump Jr.'s damning interactions with Russians during the campaign. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   The cancellation of a new FBI headquarters is illogical and embarrassing The U.S. government's decision will be costly in the long term. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   The Pentagon sends a dispiriting message to its transgender troops By delaying a new rule allowing transgender recruits, the military undermines the service of thousands of veterans and current service members. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Latest Blogs How Never To Do Anything Wrong OR The Trump Administration Did Not Chop Down The Cherry Tree The story has not changed. The story has always been that they did nothing wrong. The only thing that has changed are the details of that story. It is quite simple, really. By Alexandra Petri  •  ComPost  •  Read more »   Happy Hour Roundup Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion. By Paul Waldman  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   Republicans trying to destroy Medicaid have only made it stronger. Take note, Democrats. This is the vehicle for Democrats to move toward single payer health care. By Paul Waldman  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   Nancy MacLean’s conspiratorial response to criticism of ‘Democracy in Chains’ Instead of responding substantively to substantive criticism, MacLean has circulated bogus conspiracy theories. By David Bernstein  •  The Volokh Conspiracy  •  Read more » 20 years after ‘Contact’ came out, the rest of pop culture still hasn’t caught up "Contact" knew that first contact didn't have to lead to invasions and that smart female characters didn't need to be only one thing. By Alyssa Rosenberg  •  Act Four  •  Read more »   The media's mass hysteria over ‘collusion’ is out of control Donald Trump Jr. took the one-off meeting and nothing happened. Is that not proof of non-collusion in and of itself? By Ed Rogers  •  PostPartisan  •  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. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071