Tuesday's Opinions: Don’t despair over Trump’s travel ban just yet

For once, Trump is right about Obama; Humans reach for godhood — and leave their humanity behind   Democracy Dies in Darkness       James Lawler Duggan / Reuters David J. Bier Don't despair over Trump's travel ban just yet The Supreme Court allowed the executive order to move forward, but it's not all bad. Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   Latest Columns   Richard Cohen For once, Trump is right about Obama Unfortunately, the president is just as weak on Russia as his predecessor. Read more »     Michael Gerson Humans reach for godhood — and leave their humanity behind The thesis of Yuval Noah Harari's new book is that the alliance of science and humanism is breaking down. Read more »     Catherine Rampell How the Republicans' health-care plan betrays Republicans' own principles Except for one. Read more »     Eugene Robinson Is the GOP trying to repeal and replace itself? The real danger to Americans' health is that Mitch McConnell might not fail. Read more »   Jon Ossoff Jon Ossoff: Lessons for Democrats from the Georgia election Put the economy first, build coalitions, and you can overperform. Read more »   Editorial Cartoons Tom Toles Ann Telnaes Under game show host Trump, you may also win a trip to the front line The best health care money can buy Feeling lucky? Vice President Pence tweets support for an ineffective, costly health-care system that would result in increased visits to emergency rooms for Americans with no other options.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Post’s View Want to know the worst thing about the GOP's health-care bill? The huge losses of coverage are entirely unnecessary, the CBO finds. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   The Supreme Court splits the baby on Trump's travel ban — for now The compromise is no victory for the president. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   The seal of biliteracy is a distinction worth celebrating Other states should join the District, Maryland and Virginia and more in recognizing high school graduates for their biliteracy. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Latest Blogs The travel ban endgame It does rather seem as if the effect of today's ruling is to schedule the case for an argument date that it will never reach, and to order the parties to brief a mootness question that will itself be moot, while ignoring the mootness question that will be more relevant in October. By Will Baude  •  The Volokh Conspiracy  •  Read more »   Making religious arbitration work in America: The Jewish experience Making it work: Jewish arbitration and the Beth Din of America. By Michael Broyde  •  The Volokh Conspiracy  •  Read more »   Three CNN employees resign over retracted story on Russia ties Major ramifications for a story gone wrong. By Erik Wemple  •  Erik Wemple  •  Read more »   Justices Gorsuch and Sotomayor, in support of veterans’ disability claims "Congress imposed on the VA an affirmative duty to assist -- not impair -- veterans seeking evidence for their disability claims." By Eugene Volokh  •  The Volokh Conspiracy  •  Read more »   The CBO confirms: Senate Republicans’ health-care bill is a turkey This will make Mitch McConnell's task much harder. By Jennifer Rubin  •  Right Turn  •  Read more »   Happy Hour Roundup Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion. By Paul Waldman  •  The Plum Line  •  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. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071