Opinions P.M.: Trevor Reed is free. Now, it’s time to save others like him.

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Sign up for this newsletter Read online Your afternoon dose of Post commentary and guest opinions.     (Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) Trevor Reed is free. Now, it's time to save others like him. As a country, do we believe that the U.S. government has a fundamental responsibility to do whatever it must to save citizens, or not? By Jason Rezaian ●  Read more »   Amend the Constitution to bar senators from the presidency The Senate has become a theater of performative behaviors by senators decreasingly interested in legislating, and preoccupied with using social media for self-promotion. By George F. Will ●  Read more »   The Republican primaries have gone off the rails What happens when some of these clowns get elected? By Paul Waldman ●  Read more »   No, Kevin McCarthy's leadership is not in peril The leaked audio of him disparaging Trump and other Republicans is not enough to do him in. By Henry Olsen ●  Read more »   The job Kevin McCarthy sold his soul for might elude him When you've lost Tucker Carlson, you know you've probably lost the speakership. By Jennifer Rubin ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   What Tucker Carlson's fury at Kevin McCarthy says about the GOP Let's stop saying Republicans are "cowards" who "fear" Trump. The truth is worse. By Greg Sargent ●  Read more »   The GOP is no longer a party. It's a movement to impose White Christian nationalism. Cruelty is the point. By Jennifer Rubin ●  Read more »   Once the toast of liberal parties, J.D. Vance has gone full MAGA Elegy for a Trump skeptic. By James Hohmann ●  Read more »   How does Chicago's once-gleaming Magnificent Mile get its luster back? Like shopping centers across North America, the famous retail stretch is being abandoned — by both businesses and the city. By Micheline Maynard ●  Read more »   Rep. Greene needs to work out a different part of her body During testimony about her alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can't recall her texts to Mark Meadows calling for "Marshall" law. By Ann Telnaes ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Was Martha Mitchell 'gaslit'? Or 'gaslighted'? Maybe neither? For thinking about the new Starz miniseries with Julia Roberts, let's go back to a 1944 MGM classic with Ingrid Bergman. By Benjamin Dreyer ●  Read more »   What ever happened to masking for the common good? Surely we can personally be "done" with the coronavirus pandemic while respecting the fact that others are not. By Kate Cohen ●  Read more »   Vice President Harris has covid-19. She can help shift how we live with it. If you are vaccinated and boosted, getting covid-19 isn't necessarily cause for alarm. By Jennifer Rubin ●  Read more »   Truth and politics don't necessarily go together. Good luck fixing that. Both Elon Musk and Barack Obama claim to be defending democracy and truth, but they come at it from very different angles. Who's right? By Charles Lane ●  Read more »   Michigan Republicans put truth vs. lies on this year's ballot The Michigan GOP endorsed a 2020 election denier to be the state's top elections official. By the Editorial Board ●  Read more »   Germany must keep its promise of a new foreign and defense policy The only way to deal with the expectations Mr. Scholz raised on Feb. 27 is to meet them. By the Editorial Board ●  Read more »   Tim Kaine's lessons for Glenn Youngkin on dealing with the legislature Pressure campaigns on policy matters stiffens the other side's resolve. By Norman Leahy ●  Read more »   Get breaking news alerts, offline reading lists and more. Download the app     We think you'll like this newsletter Check out The 5-Minute Fix for a weekday afternoon cheat sheet on the biggest story in politics — that can be read in 5 minutes or less. Sign up »

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