Saturday's Opinions: The damage Comey’s bad timing could do

One bright spot for the GOP; It's mourning in America; Why is Trump suddenly talking about World War III?; Struggling to keep faith during a revolting election season; The half-baked Bethesda plan; How to balance Black Lives Matter with support for the police; The Old Dominion deserves better from Dominion Electric; Why the establishment was blindsided by Donald Trump; My Halloween email led to a campus firestorm — and a troubling lesson about self-censorship; Newt Gingrich, Alex Jones and the other bricks in Trump's Wall of Shame; Bill Clinton's role as first spouse: To disappear; Blue lives: Pop culture's minority cops; The damage Comey's bad timing could do; Get rid of audiences at presidential debates; Maryland is jailing people for poverty; This. Cannot. Be. Happening.; Happy Hour Roundup; Hillary Clinton’s campaign is in for a bumpy landing; American Bar Association to publish controversial report on Trump being a ‘libel bully’; After 2016, will everyone please admit that Republicans are more extreme than Democrats?; Parallel universes, even among the young     Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Editorial Board The damage Comey's bad timing could do The FBI director better have a good reason for resurrecting Hillary Clinton's email scandal. Read more » Latest Columns   George F. Will One bright spot for the GOP As New Hampshire goes, so goes the Senate? Read more »     Kathleen Parker It's mourning in America Our next president will be chosen with the forlornness that comes of having no better option. Read more »   Anne Applebaum Why is Trump suddenly talking about World War III? Putin uses the scare tactics to stay in power — and in Syria — but now Trump is repeating the threats. Read more »   Colbert I. King Struggling to keep faith during a revolting election season It's what Donald Trump inspires in others that prompts prayers of deliverance. Read more »   Allison Macfarlane The half-baked Bethesda plan We don't want to be another Rosslyn or Tysons Corner. Read more »   Michael Alexander Smith How to balance Black Lives Matter with support for the police I was shaped by an encounter with an officer at age 12. Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Pat Tiller The Old Dominion deserves better from Dominion Electric Transmission lines across the James River should be rejected. Read more »   Danielle Allen Why the establishment was blindsided by Donald Trump He has revealed the U.S. to be one nation living in two very different worlds. Read more »   Erika Christakis My Halloween email led to a campus firestorm — and a troubling lesson about self-censorship The irony is that this culture of protection may ultimately harm those it purports to keep safe. Read more »     Dana Milbank Newt Gingrich, Alex Jones and the other bricks in Trump's Wall of Shame So many have "chipped in" to make Trump possible. Read more »     Ruth Marcus Bill Clinton's role as first spouse: To disappear In a Hillary Clinton presidency, her baggage-laden husband should keep a low profile. Read more »   Blue lives: Pop culture's minority cops Pop culture dramatically simplifies the complex relationships between police and women and minorities. Read more »   Editorial Cartoons Tom Toles Ann Telnaes Donald may know his new hotel is the closest he’s going to get to the White House What’s the difference between an armed occupier and a peaceful protester? Perhaps he can hold a Miss Housekeeping pageant there. If you're white and armed, it's okay to break the law.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Post’s View The damage Comey's bad timing could do The FBI director better have a good reason for resurrecting Hillary Clinton's email scandal. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Get rid of audiences at presidential debates At the least, stop letting candidates build cheering sections. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Maryland is jailing people for poverty Can the state break the shackles of the bail bond system? By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Latest Blogs This. Cannot. Be. Happening. What happens when Hillary Clinton begins to hope. 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 »   Hillary Clinton’s campaign is in for a bumpy landing Especially after the FBI announcement, the final days are not quite smooth sailing for Clinton. By Carter Eskew  •  PostPartisan  •  Read more »   American Bar Association to publish controversial report on Trump being a ‘libel bully’ Move follows controversy over a lawyers' association handling of edits to a story describing Trump's woeful approach to the First Amendment. By Erik Wemple  •  Erik Wemple  •  Read more »   After 2016, will everyone please admit that Republicans are more extreme than Democrats? Advocates of the they're-both-the-same view should finally throw in the towel. By E.J. Dionne Jr.  •  PostPartisan  •  Read more »   Parallel universes, even among the young Three new massive polls of millennials illustrate striking differences in worldviews, by race and ethnicity. By Catherine Rampell  •  Rampage  •  Read more »   Recommended for you   5-Minute Fix Keeping up with politics is easy now, three days a week. 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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