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The debates' biggest losers? American taxpayers. Never have so many candidates proposed to spend so much on so many. By Marc Thiessen · Read more This Fourth of July, Trump should learn from Frederick Douglass The great abolitionist preached that the promise of his country was denied to so many — just as now. By Colbert King · Read more   Do the 2020 Democrats really want to 'abolish' private insurance? Not really. Here's what they actually want to do. By Paul Waldman · Read more   It's the party of no ideas vs. the party of bad ones Democrats are playing into Trump's hands. By Max Boot · Read more   Be very skeptical about how much revenue Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax could generate The economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman say it could rake in $187 billion a year, but that's probably overly optimistic. By Lawrence Summers and Natasha Sarin · Read more   ADVERTISEMENT From Stonewall to Mayor Pete: How far LGBTQ rights have come since 1969 A typical raid of a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1969 led to an atypical response. The patrons fought back. By Jonathan Capehart · Read more   We need a mandatory retirement age for professors The groves of academe risk turning into a graveyard. By Robert Zaretsky · Read more   Joe Biden appears to be a candidate from a different era After the first round of debates, its time to recalibrate expectations for Biden. By Karen Tumulty · Read more   Kamala Harris gambled and won But will her debate victory last? By E.J. Dionne · Read more   And here is what happened in the second debate, as seen by me A chill wind blows across the stage. A tomato plant labeled "Joe Biden's Plant" withers and dies. By Alexandra Petri · Read more   The Plum Line Trump sucks up to Putin, embarrassing us yet again The horror of watching an American president appearing to joke about murdered journalists. By Paul Waldman · Read more   Look who's back on top The torch wasn't so much passed as smacked down. By The Ranking Committee · Read more   America's last hideous man E. Jean Carroll refuses to conform to the typical script. By Molly Roberts · Read more   The Plum Line Kamala Harris's takedown of Joe Biden was more lethal than it seems Harris's devastating takedown of Joe Biden will continue to resonate. By Greg Sargent · Read more   Whose fault is it really that the humanitarian bill isn't better? Horse-race reporting and progressives' circular firing squads get it wrong. By Jennifer Rubin · Read more   ADVERTISEMENT Recommended for you Get The Cybersecurity 202 newsletter PowerPost's daily guide to cybersecurity news and policy, by reporter Joseph Marks. Sign Up

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