Friday's Opinions: Like an ineffective parent, Paul Ryan is just enabling Trump

The brave new world of robots and lost jobs; The $400 million payment to Iran was American diplomacy at its finest; It's not just Trump: The GOP is not serious on the economy; Don't buy the hype: The U.S. is not experiencing a terrible new crime wave; Trump's applause-line economic plan was a disaster; Trump tries to wreck the political system; To each his own Olympics; There's no easy answer for the bereft boomer worker; Erdogan, Putin and the strongman ties that bind; Too many defendants in Maryland are in jail instead of in treatment; While the world is distracted, Putin escalates his war in Ukraine; Clinton sticks to Democrats' talking points, offers few specifics in her economic speech; Hillary Clinton’s late-night panic; An ode to local knowledge in the age of Google; Happy Hour Roundup; Clinton speaks Mormon while Trump speaks nonsense; Terrorism’s toll is bigger than what you see on cable TV; Will Trump’s BFF Putin stage another attack?     J. Scott Applewhite Danielle Allen Like an ineffective parent, Paul Ryan is just enabling Trump The only way he can move to the right side of history is to repudiate the GOP nominee. Read more » Latest Columns   David Ignatius The brave new world of robots and lost jobs Automation is more of a threat to job security than trade deals or immigration. Read more »   Allen S. Weiner and Duncan Pickard The $400 million payment to Iran was American diplomacy at its finest The money — hardly "ransom" — was part of a settlement reached after Iran's 1979 revolution. Read more »   Fareed Zakaria It's not just Trump: The GOP is not serious on the economy Republican economic plans nowadays are simply not serious. Just listen to Trump. Read more »   Mark Holden and Ronal Serpas Don't buy the hype: The U.S. is not experiencing a terrible new crime wave Political rhetoric to the contrary, our nation remains relatively safe. Keeping it that way means relying on facts, not fear. Read more »     Michael Gerson Trump's applause-line economic plan was a disaster Donald Trump must be looking for new ways to fail. Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT     Eugene Robinson Trump tries to wreck the political system With his bizarre utterances, he feeds anger and debases democracy. Read more »     Charles Krauthammer To each his own Olympics This fan is waiting for his favorite games to begin in November. Read more »     Catherine Rampell There's no easy answer for the bereft boomer worker Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump haven't proposed solid plans for helping older, displaced workers; that's because there's no easy solution. Read more »   Anne Applebaum Erdogan, Putin and the strongman ties that bind Ultimately, dictators support other dictators because power means more to them than ideology. Read more »   Editorial Cartoons Tom Toles Ann Telnaes Donald Trump: hair today, gone tomorrow Trump shoots off his mouth Everybody has been wondering. Donald Trump tries to explain his way out of his comment about "2nd Amendment people" stopping Hillary Clinton from appointing judges.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Post’s View Too many defendants in Maryland are in jail instead of in treatment And the problem goes beyond just a shortage of beds. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   While the world is distracted, Putin escalates his war in Ukraine We've seen this movie before. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Clinton sticks to Democrats' talking points, offers few specifics in her economic speech One thing she was definitive about was trade, specifically the Trans-Pacific Partnership. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Latest Blogs Hillary Clinton’s late-night panic 3 AM Thoughts. Hillary Clinton is not Donald Trump. Is that enough? By Alexandra Petri  •  ComPost  •  Read more »   An ode to local knowledge in the age of Google Happiness is knowing a secret parking space where you'll never get a ticket By Joel Achenbach  •  Achenblog  •  Read more »   Happy Hour Roundup Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion. By Paul Waldman  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   Clinton speaks Mormon while Trump speaks nonsense It's still unlikely Clinton will flip Utah. But just making the state competitive would be a problem for Trump. By Stephen Stromberg  •  PostPartisan  •  Read more »   Terrorism’s toll is bigger than what you see on cable TV The next president needs to level with us. By Jennifer Rubin  •  Right Turn  •  Read more »   Will Trump’s BFF Putin stage another attack? Putin may be setting the pretext for more war. By Jennifer Rubin  •  Right Turn  •  Read more » Recommended for you   In Theory Emerging ideas and the arguments behind the news. 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