Editorial
Trump’s ‘Best People’ Are the Worst
What a cast of characters this White House has managed to recruit.
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At This Memorial, the Monuments Bleed
Rain drips blood-red from the rusted steel columns that hang from the ceiling, commemorating the thousands of lynchings of black Americans.
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Who Will Win the New Great Game?
The West is not in a new Cold War. It’s an old-fashioned fight with China and Russia for power and influence.
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Robert Mueller’s Last Resort
There are legal ways to disclose classified information. If we face a constitutional crisis, Mueller and his staff should take advantage of them.
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Photo CreditLeah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune, via Associated Press A New Mitt or the Same Old Weenie?
The world’s excited to know Mitt Romney’s still around.
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Photo CreditSpecial Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library Why Does Trump Treat Immigrant Kids Cruelly? Because He Can
The administration is fine with taking children away from their parents.
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Photo CreditLM Otero/Associated Press The Case for a Federal Jobs Guarantee
Democrats are getting behind an old idea to face new challenges of technologic disruption in the work force.
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Photo CreditChung Sung-Jun/Getty Images North Korea’s Phony Peace Ploy
If the past is any guide, Pyongyang will offer Seoul unenforceable verbiage at this week’s summit meeting.
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Photo CreditJonathan Ernst/Reuters ‘Fightin’ to Keep Slavery’
A common refrain among conservatives is that black people should get over it. Even though conservatives refuse to.
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Editorial Observer
Photo Credit So the South’s White Terror Will Never Be Forgotten
A new memorial and museum in Montgomery, Ala., bring attention to a disturbing chapter of the nation’s history — one that in some ways lives on.
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Editorial
Photo Credit When Presidents Go to War
A bipartisan bill prescribes when and where force can be used, but the terms are so broad that they may not limit presidential war-making.
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Editorial
Photo Credit Will the Court Stand Up to Donald Trump?
The travel ban case is the first major legal challenge to the president’s authority that the justices have heard.
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Editorial
Photo Credit Breaking News! A Prince Is Born!
Is our unflagging fascination with royalty really so wrong?
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Editorial
Photo Credit Mueller Guides Us Through the Swamp
The Russia investigation has uncovered shady practices in the interlinked worlds of banking, law and lobbying that have long flourished in the dark.
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We asked readers what views were underrepresented. They responded.
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Photo Credit Liberalism’s Golden Dream
Is California’s one-party rule our political destiny?
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Photo Credit Israel’s Got Its Own Refugee Dilemma: African ‘Dreamers’
The U.S. and Europe aren’t alone in feeling the effects of people fleeing a World of Disorder for a World of Order.
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Photo Credit Flattery Got Ronny Jackson Only So Far
The White House physician fawned his way into Donald Trump’s heart. Senators are less impressed.
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Photo Credit What Nonvoters Really Think
There are tens of millions of them, and they could seal Trump’s political fate.
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On Campus
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A freshman finally asks the clarifying question: “Do you mean we can write with the word ‘I’?”
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Exposures
Photo Credit The Real Cost of Cheap Shirts
Factory workers in Bangladesh toil for low wages and under precarious conditions to make clothing worn worldwide.
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Editorial
Photo Credit An Opioid Crisis Foretold
History supplies precedents and lessons for the opioid epidemic raging in America today — but we seem to have largely forgotten both.
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Photo Credit Despairing on Earth Day? Read This
Over time, mass migration to cities could be a driver of environmental progress.
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Opinion
Photo Credit The Business Deals That Could Imperil Trump
Forget Stormy Daniels. The business records subpoenaed by Robert Mueller might be Donald Trump’s greatest legal headache.
