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Raheb Homavandi / Reuters Trump's Iran Strategy Would Be Smart—If He Were Credible
Even when the president speaks sense, there’s no trusting his execution of those words.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Problem With 'Containing' Donald Trump
When Bob Corker says officials are trying to “contain” the president, he’s pointing to a long-term threat to democratic stability.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Rules of the Gun Debate
The rules for discussing firearms in the United States obscure the obvious solutions.
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Eric Gay / AP Mass Shootings Don't Lead to Inaction—They Lead to Loosening Gun Restrictions
The most probable policy response to the atrocity in Las Vegas will be new laws allowing more guns to be carried into more places.
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Jon Nazca / Reuters What Canada Can Teach Spain About Secessionists
The Catalonia referendum has shown how violence inflames passions.
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Evan Vucci / AP Photo A Presidential Speech Steeped in Hypocrisy
Trump would have done better to say a few things that sound real than a great many that sound false.
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Jon Nazca / Reuters Catalan Nationalism Means More European Division
An accident of history is suddenly top of mind for modern Europe.
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Andrew Boyers / Reuters Why Cede the Flag to Trump?
Colin Kaepernick and other athletes have a better claim on the United States’s symbols and their meaning.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Challenging the Dogmas of Right and Left
Two authors, Mark Lilla and Henry Olsen, see a politics rejecting the broad messages of Roosevelt and Reagan for the narrow claims of victim-group grievance and purist ideology.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Will America Accept Refugees From Trump's White House?
In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Sean Spicer demonstrated why those fleeing the administration may find it difficult to start fresh.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Trump's Impending Immigration Sell-Out
By leading with DACA, Trump puts immigration control on the path to failure.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Trump Won't Back Down
What the president is saying by pardoning America’s second-most famous birther
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Omar Sobhani / Reuters Trump's Speech Can't Change Recalcitrant Realities
It was a performance that seemed designed to garner immediate approval, and it failed to grapple with long-term challenges.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Chilling Effects of Openly Displayed Firearms
Charlottesville marks a new era of even bolder assertion of the right to threaten violence for political purposes.
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Kevork Djansezian / AP Time for Republicans to Leap From the Boat
President Trump is attacking the Senate for his own failures—and after Charlottesville, senators may realize the damage they’re inflicting on their own party by standing by him.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Leaking Transcripts of Trump's Calls Is So Dangerous
When the president’s opponents violate norms to undermine him, they do lasting damage to American security.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Real Reason Trump’s Obamacare Repeal Push Failed
Trump’s failure in health care wasn’t tactical. It was that he refused to acknowledge or redress the fundamental issues.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The 10 Challenges Republicans Now Face
With efforts to repeal Obamacare collapsing, the GOP faces a difficult landscape as it looks ahead to 2018.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Paradox of Mitch McConnell's Repeal-Only Vote
The Senate majority leader is punishing and rewarding senators all at once—in ways that diminish everybody in his caucus other than himself.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Will Congress Hold Russia Accountable for the Behavior Trump Excuses?
With the president letting Putin off the hook for meddling in elections, it's up to the congressional GOP to defend the integrity of American democracy.
