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Why Donald Trump is standing up for the Confederacy; What social isolation may be doing to our brains; The Fed and Treasury are now on the same page on our recovery. Congress should follow suit.; Trump's irrationality is undermining his own campaign; How to find out whether asymptomatic covid-19 carriers are infectious; Republicans' fiscal foolishness disproportionately hurts African Americans; Trump's rage at another governor makes him look weak and pathetic ; Viral videos sensationalize the viewing of black men being killed. Stop airing them.; Trump might not have reached bottom; No police reforms would be complete without gun reforms; Want to purge bad cops? Fix collective bargaining.; Republicans have no response to tackle racism; How to avoid hours-long waits to cast ballots on Election Day; Trump's irrationality is undermining his own campaign; As the pandemic rages on, I'm grateful to be in almost-normal New Zealand; Politico debates the proper way to cover Trump; The rule of law makes a comeback; Vladimir Putin's latest trick for making Russia look like a democracy; Is Canada's virtual-government experiment undermining Parliament's oversight powers? ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Sign up for this newsletter Read online Your afternoon dose of Post commentary and guest opinions.     (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images) We seek reforms to policing. But something even deeper needs repair. We need a new social compact. By Danielle Allen ●  Read more »   Why Donald Trump is standing up for the Confederacy It's obscene that U.S. military bases are named for traitors who fought to defend slavery. But not to Trump. By Paul Waldman ●  Read more »   What social isolation may be doing to our brains Isolation seems to have negative effects on the brain and the ability to think. By Richard A. Friedman ●  Read more »   The Fed and Treasury are now on the same page on our recovery. Congress should follow suit. Delays in helping the economy are dangerous. By Editorial Board ●  Read more »   Trump's irrationality is undermining his own campaign The president's tactics are better designed to spread covid-19 than to win in November. By Jennifer Rubin ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   How to find out whether asymptomatic covid-19 carriers are infectious Concentrating testing efforts exclusively on those with symptoms, as has largely been done so far, is a mistake. By Daniel P. Oran and Eric J. Topol ●  Read more »   Republicans' fiscal foolishness disproportionately hurts African Americans The Federal Reserve delivers the hammer blow to Trump. By Jennifer Rubin ●  Read more »   Trump's rage at another governor makes him look weak and pathetic Does Trump understand why his generals have rebuked his threat to send in troops? By Greg Sargent ●  Read more »   Viral videos sensationalize the viewing of black men being killed. Stop airing them. Videos of black men and women being killed by police or vigilantes may serve a role in bringing justice, but they also dehumanize black people. Video ●  By Joy Yi, Kevin Blackistone and Kate Woodsome ●  Read more »   Trump might not have reached bottom The president behaves worse and sure enough, his polling gets worse, too. By Jennifer Rubin ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   No police reforms would be complete without gun reforms We need both to address systemic racism in law enforcement. By Robert Gebelhoff ●  Read more »   Want to purge bad cops? Fix collective bargaining. Just like teachers unions make it nearly impossible to fire bad teachers, police unions make it nearly impossible to fire bad officers. By Marc Thiessen ●  Read more »   Republicans have no response to tackle racism That's because they have nothing to say. By Jennifer Rubin ●  Read more »   How to avoid hours-long waits to cast ballots on Election Day Provisional ballots are an emergency backup that works only if voters can actually get a ballot. By Edward B. Foley ●  Read more »   Trump's irrationality is undermining his own campaign The president's tactics are better designed to spread covid-19 than to win in November. By Jennifer Rubin ●  Read more »   As the pandemic rages on, I'm grateful to be in almost-normal New Zealand This week, New Zealand celebrates being covid-19 free after 1,504 cases and just 22 deaths. By Clare Alexander ●  Read more »   Politico debates the proper way to cover Trump Things get a bit testy in a newsroom-wide discussion of the news organization's approach to covering a mendacious and unprincipled president. By Erik Wemple ●  Read more »   The rule of law makes a comeback The Trump administration's assaults are receiving backlash. By Jennifer Rubin ●  Read more »   Vladimir Putin's latest trick for making Russia look like a democracy The Kremlin is setting up fake parties to control next year's election — but this may no longer be enough. By Vladimir Kara-Murza ●  Read more »   Is Canada's virtual-government experiment undermining Parliament's oversight powers? Given that the government has yet to introduce a full budget — in a Parliament in which it has a minority of members of the House, no less — the pared-down Parliament is cause for concern. By David Moscrop ●  Read more »     We think you'll like this newsletter Check out The Trailer for news and insight on political campaigns around the country, from David Weigel. 435 districts. 50 states. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings. Sign up »

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