Thursday's Opinions: How miserable it must be to be a progressive

Trump's voter-fraud propagandist cooks up extremely fuzzy math; Sessions wants a leak investigation rule-change. That could cripple the free press.   Democracy Dies in Darkness       Little, Brown   George F. Will How miserable it must be to be a progressive A novel about Brooklyn is a glimpse of how arduous life is for the incontinently conscientious. Read more » Latest Columns   E.J. Dionne Jr. Trump's voter-fraud propagandist cooks up extremely fuzzy math Kris Kobach's op-ed for Breitbart made absurd leaps. Read more »   Kiran Raj and Paul O'Brien Sessions wants a leak investigation rule-change. That could cripple the free press. We wrote the current rules, and they work. Read more »     Dana Milbank The Democrats have become socialists Bernie Sanders rolled out his Medicare for All plan and was supported by 16 of his Senate Democratic colleagues. Read more »   James G. Stavridis and Johan Bergenas The fishing wars are coming China's fishing tactics are leading to global conflict. Are we ready to confront it? Read more »   Hugh Hewitt Katy Tur's must-ride roller coaster of a memoir 2016 really did happen that way. We aren't all crazy. It was that crazy. Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Jim Obergefell Jim Obergefell: Edie Windsor, my hero and my friend In her fight for equality, she helped others turn their possibilities into reality. Read more »   Miles Osgood The Olympics used to feature art competitions. Let's bring them back. Paris and Los Angeles are the two most successful organizers of the long-lost Olympic art competitions. Read more »     Robert J. Samuelson The growing black-white wage gap is unexplained — and scary A new study examines five possible explanations. Read more »   Marc A. Thiessen Hillary Clinton still doesn't get 'what happened' in the 2016 election Working-class voters had legitimate grievances that Democrats ignored. Read more »   Diane L. Rosenfeld Why DeVos's position on campus sexual assault is flawed The Education Department must not abandon the effort to purge our colleges of the scourge of sexual violence. Read more »   Editorial Cartoons Tom Toles Ann Telnaes The GOP is still wrestling with consent issues The real picture of the Trump presidency Does 'like' mean 'don't like,' or 'kind-of like'? Federal buildings are still waiting for official photographs of the president and vice president.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Post’s View The Senate finally does what it failed to do for a decade and a half A vote shows new appetite for reforming the government's authorization to fight terrorism abroad. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   The Justice Department goes out of its way to side against a gay couple Supporting the baker in an upcoming Supreme Court case is an attempt to turn back the clock. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Should assaulting a Metrobus driver be a felony? An attack against a bus driver puts not only the driver but also everyone else on the bus at risk. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Latest Blogs Memo to Sarah Huckabee Sanders: You don’t decide who gets fired in the U.S. media The truth about this president is harsh. Sometimes that gets reflected on Twitter. By Erik Wemple  •  Erik Wemple  •  Read more »   Happy Hour Roundup Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion. By Paul Waldman  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   Can the GOP survive Trump? Finding a way to persuade the volatile president to become a benefit to the GOP rather than its gadfly should be job No. 1 for a sizable portion of the Republican leadership. By Ed Rogers  •  PostPartisan  •  Read more »   Will America finally wise up to the Russian media war on our democracy? A new report paints a disturbing and alarming picture of a new kind of threat. By Sarah Posner  •  The Plum Line  •  Read more »   ‘Chuck and Nancy’ should bring these three suggestions to dinner They could give Trump the deals he craves. By Jennifer Rubin  •  Right Turn  •  Read more »   The enormous power of prosecutors More than any other public officials, prosecutors have the power to reduce mass incarceration. But they probably won't. By Radley Balko  •  The Watch  •  Read more »   Recommended for you   Must Reads Compelling, ambitious stories you can't afford to miss, delivered every Saturday morning. 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