Friday 29 December 2017

Today's Opinions: Republicans’ attack on conservation law would shock their conservative predecessors

 
Opinions
 
 
Rick Bowmer / AP
Republicans' attack on conservation law would shock their conservative predecessors
I should know. I wrote the Endangered Species Act for the Nixon administration.
No, the Vanity Fair staffers behind the Clinton video shouldn't be fired
The urge to drive people who have said or done offensive things out of their jobs isn't about pragmatism; it's punitive, and remarkably unprincipled.
 
Why do so many Republicans hate college?
Some Republican politicians clearly view beating up on colleges as a way to prove their conservative bona fides
 
One nation, divided under Trump, with perilous consequences
Could this divided country mobilize for war?
 
 
Leave Robert Mueller alone
Let's hope for the best from Congress,but protect and continue the work of the special counsel.
 
The decline of U.S. influence is the great global story of our age
Trump's administration is foolishly withdrawing the country into self-centered isolation.
 
A storm is gathering
Churchill's ominous warnings to future generations will be more relevant to 2018 than the post-World War II years.
 
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I had a front-row seat to the Pentagon Papers intrigue. Here's what happened.
The Defense Department played games with Rand Corp. and lost.
 
The euphemisms I refuse to use in 2018
Words such as "far-right" and "populist" disguise what's actually at stake in our democracies.
 
We're ripping off some of the best musicians of the last century. It needs to stop.
Federal copyright law doesn't protect music made before 1972. That should change.
 
 
Editorial Cartoons
Trump explains his tax bill as different strokes for different folks The best Ann Telnaes cartoons of 2017
But everybody gets a cut. 2017 in review.
 
 
The Post's View
A Chinese dissident takes on the dictatorship — and pays the price
Activist and performance artist Wu Gan gets eight years for dramatizing the absurdity of China's police state.
 
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Will this U.S. citizen get to see a lawyer before time runs out?
A judge reaffirms the right to habeas corpus.
 
 
Letting Saudi Arabia host a chess tournament was a big mistake
The kingdom bars the Israeli team, and a female champion stays home.
 
 
Latest Blogs
Open Thread
All yours.
 
'Leave the lesbians out of it': Who wants to edit Milo Yiannopoulos?
Comments on the "ugly-people chapter" are included in this post.
 
 
Afternoon links: NYC crime at lowest rate in 60 years
Plus: Activist Erica Garner suffers severe heart attack, botched police raids hit the wrong house, and cop not liable for shooting at van full of children.
Guidelines for news-watching and staying sane in 2018
For starters, turn anger into action.
 
 
Blue states may get their revenge for the GOP tax bill
Confusion resolved: The Republicans are to blame.
 
 
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