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Trump’s defenders may argue that he is simply enforcing party discipline. But discipline is not the same as strength.
No cause should be allowed to turn the streets into a battlefield where ordinary people pay the price for someone else’s ideology.
The country’s sharp disagreements are real, but voters do not always sort themselves neatly by party.
Party leaders increasingly govern under threat from their own flanks.
Our politics increasingly presents voters with a false choice.
Thomas’ record merits rigorous examination and more than a verdict written in advance.
Beneath the missiles, smoke and official declarations lies something potentially more consequential: the quiet maneuvering of Moscow and Beijing.
We should be very careful about measuring another person’s love by how visibly that person suffers.
Can power be exercised without being pushed immediately to its maximum?
Bitcoin survived because its future was never dependent upon one bill, one president or one Senate vote.
The first two years of Trump’s second term have reminded Washington that forgotten Americans cannot be ignored without consequence.
A nation that forgets its workers eventually forgets who built it.
Prevention must begin long before a courtroom asks jurors to decide whether a mother was evil, ill or some agonizing combination of both.
The meeting is more than a curious New York encounter. It is an early negotiation over the balance of power that may emerge after November.
This is not merely a political challenge. It is a cultural one.
When you have never lived without freedom, freedom can become invisible.
If biological sex becomes irrelevant to eligibility for women’s competition, then the justification for having a separate women’s category begins to collapse.
Public criticism may energize supporters and dominate news cycles, but it can also harden positions among those whose cooperation remains essential.
The measure of a civilized society is not merely how it pursues justice but how it preserves human dignity while justice is pursued.
