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April 9, 2026
Trump’s Wreckage of Social Security and Medicare
The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them.
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April 8, 2026
Mass Protest: Where Are the Kids?
The latest No Kings marches attracted a record eight million people. Most of them were of an advanced age that suggested they personally remembered the 1960s.
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April 6, 2026
Trump’s Death Panel
The proposed cuts in several forms of health care spending are a real version of the fake “death panels” that the right attributed to Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
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April 3, 2026
Bumping Bondi
There are several other Trump cabinet members even more deserving of dismissal. Who’s next?
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April 3, 2026
Capital Ideas
Two books on the history of capitalism provide lessons for how to tame it.
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April 1, 2026
Trump’s Losing Streak in Court
Based on today’s oral arguments, the Supreme Court seems poised to block Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.
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March 31, 2026
Notes for Next Time
My generation got a very good economic deal. We need to restore opportunities to our children and grandchildren, or there will be more recruits to MAGA.
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March 30, 2026
Trump’s Delusional Escalations in Iran
Trump is assembling a force of some 10,000 potential ground troops to intensify his Iran war. What will they do? Does he even know?
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March 27, 2026
TSA Gets Funding, Now the Fun Begins
The measure financing most of the Department of Homeland Security has nothing constraining the actions of ICE. But to get ICE more funding, Republicans have a tall task.
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March 25, 2026
The Deeper Airport Disaster
Everything from interminable lines to near-miss collisions and controller burnout predates Trump. It’s a metaphor for the long-term neglect of public systems.
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March 24, 2026
Who Will Govern AI?
Trump’s top officials are in the pocket of Big Tech. It remains to be seen whether Democrats will be much better.
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March 23, 2026
Dire Strait
Trump’s fantasy about clearing the Strait of Hormuz risks leading to a much wider and more prolonged war.
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March 20, 2026
How Trump Lost the Courts
With every passing day, another federal judge issues a scathing order to contain Trump’s autocracy and Trump keeps alienating the Supreme Court.
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March 19, 2026
Competition for Jeff Bezos’s Shabby Washington Post
Robert Allbritton, who founded and then sold Politico, is launching a kind of rival to the Post.
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March 18, 2026
Israel’s Manipulation of Trump on Iran
The worse the Iran war goes, the more blame is likely to be directed at Israel, and by association the Jews.
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March 16, 2026
Exit or Escalation
Will Trump look for a way to limit his Iran debacle, or will he double down on catastrophe?
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March 13, 2026
Elizabeth Warren’s Amazingly Progressive Housing Bill
How the Massachusetts senator enlisted most Senate Republicans to support sweeping legislation
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March 11, 2026
The War’s Winners: Putin and Netanyahu
Regardless of how Trump extricates himself from the Iran mess, the biggest winner is Russia, with Bibi a close second.
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March 10, 2026
Antisemitism, Israel, and Jewish Identity
A tangled tale of Wikipedia and the perversion of the mission of the Anti-Defamation League
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March 9, 2026
Trump’s Economy
Bad news everywhere you look, and worse is to come.
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February 24, 2026
How to Tax Billionaires
The details are complicated. The politics should be simple.
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February 23, 2026
Will Trump Attack Iran?
It’s a far less promising military gambit than Venezuela, but Trump today is more desperate for a distraction.
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February 20, 2026
Trump’s Steady Loss of Support From Republicans and Courts
Every day’s headlines produce another Trump tantrum and more defections from House and Senate Republicans—and court decisions.
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February 18, 2026
Resistance Comes to Higher Education
Trump’s threat to revoke universities’ accreditation meets a political and legal dead-end.
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February 17, 2026
The 2026 Elections: Resisting the Rigging
As Trump becomes more desperate, citizen resistance only grows.
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February 13, 2026
Isolating ICE
Democrats offered a way out of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, but Republicans refused to play. What now?
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February 11, 2026
House Says No to Tariff Man
Speaker Mike Johnson can’t hold a united Republican caucus to support Trump’s unpopular and economically perverse tariffs.
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February 10, 2026
The Next Financial Collapse
In the coming crisis, the Fed is not likely to be in good hands.
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February 9, 2026
Republican Frostbite
Defense of ICE has become a political loser, and the deal to trade reforms for continued funding is off the table.
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February 6, 2026
Post-Mortem
What will it take to preserve a great newspaper in the nation’s capital, and to sustain independent daily journalism generally?
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