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Andrew Freedman: The U.S. is already transforming Greenland, and it’s imperiling Americans here at home

Tue., Aug. 20, 2019

U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, as well as emissions from other countries, have tipped the balance to make Greenland a major contributor to global sea level rise.

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Robert J. Samuelson: Learning from the Great Depression

Tue., Aug. 20, 2019

There are parallels between the present financial turmoil and past episodes of economic disruption, including the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Leonard Pitts Jr.: The ‘peculiar institution’ is no artifact of the dead past

Mon., Aug. 19, 2019

Visitors taking a tour of a Southern plantation felt ‘lectured and bashed’ when the tour included material on – of all things – slavery.

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Marc A. Thiessen: China does not have the upper hand in Hong Kong. Trump does.

Sun., Aug. 18, 2019

China does not have the upper hand in this standoff; Trump does. He should use his leverage to save Hong Kong.

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Michael Gerson: By siding with bigots, white evangelicals risk the reputation of the gospel

Sun., Aug. 18, 2019

The problem does not lie in Christianity but in the moral formation of Christians. Are they getting their view of refugees from Christian sources? Or are they taking their view from Fox News, talk radio and Donald Trump?

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Catherine Rampell: Trump has a dream team for mismanaging a recession

Sat., Aug. 17, 2019

If we have an economic downturn, Donald Trump might or might not be the cause. But you know what would unequivocally be his fault, rather than fickle fortune? A badly

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David Von Drehle: Why is sexual abuse so often common knowledge before it becomes a lawsuit?

Sat., Aug. 17, 2019

If everyone knew, everyone whispered, everyone warned their kids – yet nothing changed – why would children think there was any value in reporting?

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Ted Gup: Ghislaine Maxwell read my book at In-N-Out Burger. Then it sold out on Amazon.

Sat., Aug. 17, 2019

I have yet to get my promised 15 minutes of fame, but Thursday night brought me a good five minutes, when Ghislaine Maxwell was spotted reading my book.

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Eugene Robinson: Trump’s climate denial could hasten the demise of his own empire

Fri., Aug. 16, 2019

Much of the damage this administration is doing can, and I believe will, be repaired after Donald Trump is gone. But we will never get back the precious time he is squandering on climate change.

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Robert J. Samuelson: Is the economy turning against Trump?

Tue., Aug. 13, 2019

There is growing evidence of a possible recession. If one materializes, President Trump could lose his most powerful argument for reelection: a strong economy.

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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Fifty years on, hope still remains

Mon., Aug. 12, 2019

It is worth remembering that what drew the Woodstock generation together was ultimately not anger, but a hope – idealistic, naive and impossibly young – that yet tugs at the imagination, the hope of a better, fairer, cleaner, saner, more peaceful world.

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Kathleen Parker: The shaming of America

Sun., Aug. 11, 2019

One of the everlasting social forces in directing human behavior – shame – has become part of the 2020 presidential race.

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Marc A. Thiessen: There were no ‘safe spaces’ or ‘trigger warnings’ for young people fighting in the Warsaw Uprising

Sun., Aug. 11, 2019

In our colleges and universities, first millennials and now their Generation Z successors have demanded “emotional safety,” insisting on “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” to protect them from ideas they don’t like, because they tell us that “words are violence.” No, they are not.

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Ann McFeatters: McConnell might be worse than Trump

Sat., Aug. 10, 2019

Perhaps even more than the morally bankrupt Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell is the worst among us. He is one of the most powerful people in the world but doesn’t understand that power has responsibilities as well as privileges.

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Froma Harrop: Economy not so rosy for the middle class

Sat., Aug. 10, 2019

Good economic times don’t last forever. Jobs can disappear. When things go in the other direction, many Americans will learn yet another lesson in the economic risk of piling on debt.

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Jonah Goldberg: We have problems, yes, but let’s put things in perspective

Sat., Aug. 10, 2019

The fact that the country is so concerned about bigotry and violence is good, because it’s a sign that our tolerance of such things has shrunk. All I’m doing is asking that people take a breath, count to 10 and put it all in some perspective.

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Francis Wilkinson: ‘Guns don’t kill people, bullets do’

Fri., Aug. 9, 2019

Americans buy guns designed and marketed as hyper-lethal. They fill their magazines with bullets specifically manufactured to rip human bodies to shreds and make human lives unsavable.

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Marc A. Thiessen: If Trump is to responsible for El Paso, Democrats are responsible for Dayton

Fri., Aug. 9, 2019

If Democrats want to play politics with mass murder, it works both ways.

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Dana Milbank: Foreign countries warn about travel to Trump’s U.S. Can you blame them?

Thu., Aug. 8, 2019, 12:01 a.m.

Foreign nationals should take extreme precautions in Trump’s America. So should the rest of us.

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Froma Harrop: Good men with guns won’t protect us

Wed., Aug. 7, 2019

It was a remarkable 15 hours in American history. A mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, taking nine lives was overshadowed by a massacre in El Paso, Texas, costing 22. Others are dwelling on the El Paso gunman’s alleged online “manifesto” about Hispanics’ growing political clout in Texas – and Donald Trump’s use of code words appearing to validate the frothing. But here let’s discuss the guns themselves.