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Trump is acting on an entirely personal and selfish priority. There's no principle at stake in embracing the Jan. 6 mob or advancing 2020 conspiracy theories.

Harris has the authenticity of Hillary Clinton, the charm of Al Gore, and the common touch of Adlai Stevenson.
Age comes for us all. It just happens to have come for Joe Biden when he is holding the most taxing responsibility on the planet.
It doesn't make any sense to strike a pose against gun violence in general without taking on this scourge in particular.
Trump's signature 2016 boost of, "I alone can fix it," has become, "I alone can fixate on it."
His anecdotes and personal stories are invariably studded with exaggerations or outright fictions.
Being an ambitious Republican doesn't have to mean promoting or accepting falsehoods about 2020.

The surge in the early vote shows that all the smears about the new voting law were complete nonsense.
There's no getting around the fact that it costs lots of money to support a country fighting against an advanced military foe.

There is an attempt to tar Republicans more broadly with the rancid "great replacement theory."
If we continue down this path, it will tear at our status as a nation of laws and further derange our public life with consequences no one can predict.

We are in for a long struggle. The first step is to acknowledge the severity of the fentanyl crisis.

In his dissent in Casey, Scalia analogized the Court's jurisprudence on abortion to its decision in Dred Scott.
The Supreme Court's loyalty isn't to Roe, but to the Constitution, and it can show it by issuing the Alito opinion that its critics want to foil by any means necessary.

It's up to voters in Marjorie Taylor Greene's district to decide her fate in a democratic republic worthy of the name.
"We must also remember the discipline, the fortitude, the comradeship and martial virtues which made them at this period beyond all challenge the most formidable and daring race in the world."

It made a mistake by allowing itself to get bullied and cajoled into becoming a combatant in the culture war.
In his critics' eyes, Elon Musk is guilty of a thought crime — namely, believing that thought should be free.

The Butcher of Syria, Aleksandr Dvornikov, takes over a war that had no single overall commander.
Neo-isolationists warn of a return to the belligerent mood that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The restrainers are making their own mistake of 2022.