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The Battle of Michigan Avenue is finally over, and it was won by the protesters.
If it wasn't obvious before, it should be now: President Donald Trump is in an impeachment fight.
John Brennan may not know it, but he is acting in a drama scripted and produced by Donald J. Trump.
The worst disaster in the history of the United States Navy only began with the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.
It's never a good idea to negotiate with a hostage-taker, but when it's a NATO ally, there isn't much choice.
Bernie Sanders is the prophet with honor in his own party. The former socialist gadfly is now the socialist trendsetter.
A voice crying in the wilderness is supposed to be ignored, not rewarded with accolades and growing influence.
It's begun. We are having a debate over socialism.
It's a symptom of our time that a tape of the future president of the United States discussing machinations related to an alleged affair with a former Playboy Playmate isn't truly a blockbuster.
It's Tehran's turn for the "fire and fury" treatment.
Donald Trump thrives on an image of strength, so it's never a good look when he inadvertently invokes the spirit of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister whose name has become a watchword for appeasement.
Donald Trump is not, and never will be, the Moscow correspondent for The Nation magazine, and he shouldn't sound like it.
In an era of partisan polarization, it is rare to get agreement on anything, but about this there should be a consensus: The Supreme Court is an undemocratic institution whose power should be carefully circumscribed.
Angela Merkel is, her supporters like to gloat, the leader of the free world. Just don't ask her to spend as if she is.
There are few things more powerful in politics than a dumb idea whose time has come.
The prospect of overturning Roe v. Wade will be at the foreground of the battle over Justice Anthony Kennedy's replacement, and it should be.
The Nazi analogy has long been recognized as the crudest and dumbest form of argument, but it is enjoying a renaissance.
In the 1950s, the great neoconservative intellectual Irving Kristol acknowledged Joe McCarthy's stark failings, but famously refused to take the side of his critics. "For there is one thing," he wrote, "that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesman for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing."
