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"What this administration says and what this administration does are often no more than distant cousins, particularly when it comes to the Chinese government," Jim Geraghty writes. https://wapo.st/490B6tK
Opinion | What China gets from Trump for buying some U.S. soybeans
The president is buddy-buddy with Xi and won’t let cyberattacks or saber-rattling get in the way.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"What this administration says and what this administration does are often no more than distant cousins, particularly when it comes to the Chinese government," Jim Geraghty writes. https://wapo.st/490B6tK
"Some of the damage done by 'campaign finance reforms' has been reversed," George F. Will writes.
Opinion | The Supreme Court can strike another blow against political cynicism
Campaign finance reformers’ nibbling away at the First Amendment is gradually being reversed. Good.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Some of the damage done by 'campaign finance reforms' has been reversed," George F. Will writes.
What’s the best place for young families? See how your county ranks.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What’s the best place for young families? See how your county ranks.
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From @zhoyoyo.bsky.social: https://wapo.st/4rGcyxB
"I’d be deeply offended that President Donald Trump is citing the plight of a vulnerable portion of our population to justify what are clearly illegal activities in the Caribbean," a reader writes in Post Letters. https://wapo.st/48B7AJT
Opinion | Move over, ‘Soup Nazi.’ Behold Trump’s absurd new phrase.
Caribbean boat strikes, Marjorie Taylor and Southwest water use, through readers’ eyes.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"I’d be deeply offended that President Donald Trump is citing the plight of a vulnerable portion of our population to justify what are clearly illegal activities in the Caribbean," a reader writes in Post Letters. https://wapo.st/48B7AJT
"Hawley’s proposal would be a clunkier way of replicating the good premise of HSAs," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/48BzjtL
Opinion | Josh Hawley’s non-solution on health care
A proposed tax deduction won’t bring down prices.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"Hawley’s proposal would be a clunkier way of replicating the good premise of HSAs," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/48BzjtL
"This week began with a glimpse into how the gritty details of protectionist trade policy get hashed out – and it wasn’t pretty," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/48FMr1b
Opinion | How to ‘solve’ a self-created trade mess
Tariff policy for rice is formulated by a combination of flattery and rent-seeking.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"This week began with a glimpse into how the gritty details of protectionist trade policy get hashed out – and it wasn’t pretty," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/48FMr1b
"The National Security Strategy’s entire section on Europe reads as if it were written by far-right trolls," @maxboot.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4pTCzrk
Opinion | Trump is sending a clear message to the free world
Trump’s national security strategy slams Europe, not Russia.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"The National Security Strategy’s entire section on Europe reads as if it were written by far-right trolls," @maxboot.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4pTCzrk
"Harvard convinced me that the spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places," Eric Holcomb writes. https://wapo.st/4rHpJOM
Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Harvard convinced me that the spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places," Eric Holcomb writes. https://wapo.st/4rHpJOM
"He was just an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary things in the face of extreme danger," a reader writes in Post Letters. https://wapo.st/49VvLoA
Opinion | I found out my father was a war hero — at his funeral decades later
‘Secret war heroes,’ lost medals and unknown valor, through readers’ eyes.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"He was just an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary things in the face of extreme danger," a reader writes in Post Letters. https://wapo.st/49VvLoA
"Benefit cliffs are a serious problem for poor, working families, not the middle class," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/4oGww8O
Opinion | The ‘two-income trap’ is nonsense. Here’s a real problem.
No, $140K is not the poverty line. But benefit “cliffs” are a serious issue.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Benefit cliffs are a serious problem for poor, working families, not the middle class," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/4oGww8O
"Hypertension is often called a silent killer because many people have no symptoms even when their blood pressure is dangerously high," Dr. Leana S. Wen writes. https://wapo.st/4oB90tM
Opinion | Hypertension treatment wasn’t working. New changes could help.
Experts are rethinking treatment goals to get more people the preventive care they need.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"Hypertension is often called a silent killer because many people have no symptoms even when their blood pressure is dangerously high," Dr. Leana S. Wen writes. https://wapo.st/4oB90tM
"With these higher park fees, Trump saves foreign governments from the bother of imposing tariffs to protect their tourist industries," a reader writes.
"He himself is protecting other countries’ tourist industries from American competition."
"He himself is protecting other countries’ tourist industries from American competition."
Opinion | Why the National Park fee for foreign visitors will backfire
Readers respond to Post articles and commentary.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"With these higher park fees, Trump saves foreign governments from the bother of imposing tariffs to protect their tourist industries," a reader writes.
"He himself is protecting other countries’ tourist industries from American competition."
"He himself is protecting other countries’ tourist industries from American competition."
“For two Black men now in their 70s to see the next generation in their family wear the bright blue NASA jumpsuit with the large American flag on the shoulder is hard to describe,” Juan Williams writes.
“Let me just say it is improbable.”
“Let me just say it is improbable.”
Opinion | My nephew is in space. ‘Local kid makes good’ doesn’t cover it.
The Thanksgiving Day launch to the International Space Station moved me to tears.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
“For two Black men now in their 70s to see the next generation in their family wear the bright blue NASA jumpsuit with the large American flag on the shoulder is hard to describe,” Juan Williams writes.
“Let me just say it is improbable.”
“Let me just say it is improbable.”
"In practice, the continent often cannot agree, let alone act, to make the choices and sacrifices required to help its neighbor," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/3KfSdOY
Opinion | The European Union’s hypocrisies on Ukraine
France, Germany and Belgium see the speck in Trump’s eye but don’t notice the log in their own.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"In practice, the continent often cannot agree, let alone act, to make the choices and sacrifices required to help its neighbor," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/3KfSdOY
"A perverse benefit of this devastation is that it has brought a day of reckoning for Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon," David Ignatius writes. https://wapo.st/4oINvaq
Opinion | Hegseth’s ‘who cares?’ doctrine is finally taking heat
In U.S. history, war crimes have been rare. Accountability is needed to keep them that way.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"A perverse benefit of this devastation is that it has brought a day of reckoning for Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon," David Ignatius writes. https://wapo.st/4oINvaq
“At least it was expected that the Biden administration would haplessly defend an outdated regulation at the behest of union bosses,” the Editorial Board writes.
“Why would the Trump administration want to follow in its footsteps?”
“Why would the Trump administration want to follow in its footsteps?”
Opinion | Trump mimics Biden’s approach to railroad safety
Advancing automated track inspection technology would be an easy win for the White House.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“At least it was expected that the Biden administration would haplessly defend an outdated regulation at the behest of union bosses,” the Editorial Board writes.
“Why would the Trump administration want to follow in its footsteps?”
“Why would the Trump administration want to follow in its footsteps?”
"President Donald Trump will present us with the Kennedy Center Honors. ... Yet, for all the success Kiss has enjoyed, I worry about the challenges facing the next generation of recording artists."
The latest from Gene Simmons, the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss: https://wapo.st/3Mjs02q
The latest from Gene Simmons, the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss: https://wapo.st/3Mjs02q
December 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"President Donald Trump will present us with the Kennedy Center Honors. ... Yet, for all the success Kiss has enjoyed, I worry about the challenges facing the next generation of recording artists."
The latest from Gene Simmons, the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss: https://wapo.st/3Mjs02q
The latest from Gene Simmons, the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss: https://wapo.st/3Mjs02q
“University athletic departments should no longer be treated as charities.”
The latest from Scott Hodge, who is a tax and fiscal policy fellow at @arnoldventures.bsky.social:
The latest from Scott Hodge, who is a tax and fiscal policy fellow at @arnoldventures.bsky.social:
Opinion | It’s a strange ‘charity’ that pays fired football coaches $228M
The government should not treat university athletic departments like food banks.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“University athletic departments should no longer be treated as charities.”
The latest from Scott Hodge, who is a tax and fiscal policy fellow at @arnoldventures.bsky.social:
The latest from Scott Hodge, who is a tax and fiscal policy fellow at @arnoldventures.bsky.social:
"Health policy decisions are no longer being rooted in solid science, but in speculation and suspicion," Dr. Leana S. Wen writes. https://wapo.st/3MJbFnN
Opinion | The CDC’s change to hepatitis B vaccination is even worse than it seems
The new recommendations portend even more harmful shifts ahead.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"Health policy decisions are no longer being rooted in solid science, but in speculation and suspicion," Dr. Leana S. Wen writes. https://wapo.st/3MJbFnN
"Netflix’s Friday deal to acquire Warner Bros. might create more drama than either company has produced in a while," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/48CfsuB
Opinion | Grab some popcorn for the political battle over this movie mega merger
Warner Bros. is the cursed monkey’s paw of the entertainment industry.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"Netflix’s Friday deal to acquire Warner Bros. might create more drama than either company has produced in a while," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/48CfsuB
"The people who make feature films, or like to watch them, should be worried," @mcmegan.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4ozTVZl
Opinion | The last act of the feature film
Netflix’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery could mean curtains for going to the movies.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"The people who make feature films, or like to watch them, should be worried," @mcmegan.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4ozTVZl
"Either you oppose the campaign of summary killings of civilians allegedly running drugs in the Caribbean, or you endorse all of it," Jason Willick writes. https://wapo.st/3KCtBQj
Opinion | There’s no middle ground on the boat strikes
The second strike matters less than the warped policy that justified the operation at all.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"Either you oppose the campaign of summary killings of civilians allegedly running drugs in the Caribbean, or you endorse all of it," Jason Willick writes. https://wapo.st/3KCtBQj
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy, Fareed Zakaria writes.
Opinion | Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy, Fareed Zakaria writes.
As the Supreme Court lets Texas use its new map, the Florida GOP looks to squeeze three more seats, the Editorial Board writes.
"These gerrymandering gambits are about nothing more than trying to pad their party’s numbers in Congress. They are undemocratic power grabs."
"These gerrymandering gambits are about nothing more than trying to pad their party’s numbers in Congress. They are undemocratic power grabs."
Opinion | The gerrymandering doom cycle gets more ridiculous
As the Supreme Court lets Texas use its new map, the Florida GOP looks to squeeze three more seats.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
As the Supreme Court lets Texas use its new map, the Florida GOP looks to squeeze three more seats, the Editorial Board writes.
"These gerrymandering gambits are about nothing more than trying to pad their party’s numbers in Congress. They are undemocratic power grabs."
"These gerrymandering gambits are about nothing more than trying to pad their party’s numbers in Congress. They are undemocratic power grabs."
“By being everything all at once, it risks being nothing at all.”
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Opinion | The National Security Strategy is less a strategy than a mood board
The Trump administration attempts to define “America First” in the broadest possible terms.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
“By being everything all at once, it risks being nothing at all.”
The latest from the Editorial Board:
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