Friday, 14 April 2017

Friday's Opinions: We don’t know where Trump stands. Neither does he.

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We don't know where Trump stands. Neither does he.
We may have the most erratic U.S. president ever, and his staff isn't any better.
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Liberals have to avoid Trump Derangement Syndrome
Do we want America to succeed, or the president to fail?
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Trump gets a taste of success
But beware leaning too hard on personality politics in foreign policy.
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Democrats finally have a chance to win on taxes
They should press the president on his promise to create jobs — and force him to release his tax returns.
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The Great Reversal — for now
The Trump administration has done a foreign policy about-face.
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How being a theater person got John Wilkes Booth killed
If Abraham Lincoln's assassin didn't have such a flair for the dramatic, maybe things would have ended differently for him.
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The hope of pardon and peace
The story of Good Friday challenges us to defy cynicism.
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Why should college students let their enemies speak? Naked self-interest.
Muzzling speech works against the muzzler.
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Big corporations are trying to silence their own shareholders
Lobbyists are trying their own version of voter suppression.
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Editorial Cartoons
Donald Trump’s foreign policy flip flops sound eerily familiar Trump’s many, many red lines
Where oh where have we seen them before?? Speaking of crossing many, many red lines ...
 
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The Post’s View
Trump's recent flip-flops are something to (cautiously) celebrate
Moving closer to the mainstream of American values is a good thing.
 
It's time for the Justice Department to disown Texas's discriminatory voting law
The justification is crumbling.
 
A World Cup bid with the weight of a diplomatic coup
The U.S. stakes a claim as front-runner for the 2026 World Cup, thanks to a little unity.
 
 
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Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion.
 
The NRA threatens the New York Times. The New York Times shrugs.
Will they do more videos about the newspaper's coverage?
 
Trump could rack up easy victories on foreign policy
Congress could give Trump what he needs
 
Republicans in a funk
Maybe Republicans are already tired of Trump
 
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