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Dennis Cook / AP A Forgotten Legacy of George H. W. Bush
He was an architect of one of the most important environmental achievements of the past three decades.
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Trump Is Exposing a Major Flaw in American Democracy
The recent appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general threatens the rule of law in the U.S.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Mr. Brexit
The president encouraged Britain to leave the EU—but now that things are falling apart, he’s abdicating his responsibility to help.
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Mike Segar / Reuters There Is No Progressive Majority in America
“Anti-left” still beats “anti-Trump” in Texas, Georgia, and Florida, and in many other places besides.
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Bettmann / Corbis / Getty The Day of Fate
Kristallnacht, on its 80th anniversary, still offers a potent lesson: We all face the choice between right and wrong, responsibility and recklessness, conscience and complicity.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Forcing Out Sessions Is an Attack on Accountability
Voters elected a Democratic House to impose a check on the president. Now Trump is waging a frontal assault on efforts to hold him accountable.
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Adria Malcolm / Reuters Beto’s Loss Was a Blessing in Disguise for Democrats
And other lessons of the 2018 midterm elections
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters The Real Lesson of My Debate With Steve Bannon
I argued against the false promise of what Trump's former strategist bills as populism. Then events took a strange turn.
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John Altdorfer / Reuters America’s Fatal Shame
At least 10 people were killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting Saturday morning. Must this nation worship only behind bars and guards?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A President Who Condones Political Violence
Trump’s statements over the past 48 hours reveal a president willing to breach a core rule of democracy.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters The Caravan Is a Challenge to the Integrity of U.S. Borders
If Trump’s opponents stand opposed to policing America’s boundaries, they will not help immigrants—they will only lose votes.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Republican Party Moves Beyond Hypocrisy
The president’s supporters live a double-folded state of being, in which the same action that’s shameful for Democrats is praiseworthy for the GOP.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Woodward Missed Everything That Matters About the Trump Presidency
The ultimate White House tell-all actually tells disturbingly little of what the American public most needs to know.
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Edmon De Haro The Republican Party Needs to Embrace Liberalism
Classical liberal values have disappeared from the right and are now disappearing from the left. Someone needs to adopt them. Why not the GOP?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why Is Everyone So Unfair to Donald Trump?
In a rambling, 81-minute press conference, the president praised himself and aired his grievances.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Rosenstein’s Departure Is a National Emergency
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is now in mortal peril.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Delay the Kavanaugh Vote
This Senate is singularly ill-equipped to assess the allegations against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
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Tyler Comrie America’s Slide Toward Autocracy
Democracy has taken a beating under President Trump. Will the midterms make a difference?
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters This Is a Constitutional Crisis
A cowardly coup from within the administration threatens to enflame the president’s paranoia and further endanger American security.
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Siphewe Sibeko / Reuters The Dangerous Myths of South African Land Seizures
Reactionaries on either side of the Atlantic are empowering one another.
