By Ed Rogers Special to The Washington Post This has been a remarkable week of head-spinning incoherence from this White House. And for this White House, that is saying something. Yet despite that, it appears that nothing disastrous happened at the Group of Seven meeting in France. If you just ignore the fact that President […]
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Cal Thomas: They’ve lost their minds in San Francisco
San Francisco, a city described in song for its natural beauty, is descending into an abyss of homelessness, the use of sidewalks as toilets and a place you might not want to visit, much less live. The latest, but surely not the last demonstration of insanity, is San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors’ adoption of new […]
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Froma Harrop: Democrats need a smarter nominating process
Is anything really wrong with Jay Inslee? Was John Hickenlooper not qualified to be president? And is Steve Bullock a weak candidate? The answers are no, no, no and for all three, “on the contrary.” Any of them could be a remarkably attractive Democratic nominee for president. In a general election, they might do better […]
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Robert Samuelson: Deficit gamble is a test of our ignorance
WASHINGTON — It’s getting more and more difficult to write these budget columns, because it must be obvious to almost everyone by now that hardly anyone in Washington (or perhaps any place) cares about the budget deficits. The assumption is that we can raise spending and cut taxes forever — or until some crisis occurs […]
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Robert Gebelhoff: Administration scientists being silenced
By Robert Gebelhoff The Washington Post President Donald Trump may ridicule reporters and deride his opponents on Twitter. But there is a group of people he treats even worse than his most visible targets: scientists in his own administration. Whatever the president says about the media or his online foes, they can all respond. After […]
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Washington Post: Twitter, Facebook respond to Internet attacks
The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: A lesson learned from Russia’s use of disinformation and weaponized social media in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign is how it can be both invidious and insinuating, creeping up where it is least expected. Millions of people saw the Russian posts — and did not know they […]
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Leonard Pitts: Cruelty is the point, but is it evil?
We meet, my friends, in the face of evil. In popular culture and historical memory, of course, evil has many faces. It is Darth Vader raising a lightsaber and Dr. Doom glowering from behind a metal mask. It is Charles Manson grinning his lunatic’s grin and Adolf Hitler ranting himself into a frothing rage. But […]
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‘Stubborn facts’ need to be considered before Auburn develops AG zone
“Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams famously remarked during his defense of British soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials of 1770. Facts can be ignored, rationalized, suppressed or distorted in the interest of political partisanship, business profit, or ideological zealotry, but they still persist in intruding on reality, sometimes with disastrous consequences. Why then is Auburn […]
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Jennifer Rubin: There’s a reason Elizabeth Warren is surging
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., held a town hall in Los Angeles on Wednesday in front of a huge audience. If you saw her just a few months ago, you would have been impressed by how she weaves her personal story into her policy objectives, the ease with which she […]
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Marc Thiessen: Trump’s idea of buying Greenland is far from absurd
WASHINGTON — President Trump is upset that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called his interest in purchasing Greenland “absurd.” Her dismissive response should have come as no surprise. In 1946, when President Harry Truman tried to purchase Greenland, Secretary of State James Byrnes wrote that the proposal “seemed to come as a shock” and an […]