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- Feed Preview E.J. Dionne
Between impeachment and the election, politics is literally on a split screen
Democrats shouldn’t let their focus on campaign issues distract them from impeachment.
Nunes and Kent tell us everything we need to know about impeachment
Nunes wanted to make everything about party. Kent wanted to make everything about country.
Democrats have put their differences above beating Trump. Bloomberg is a symptom not a cure.
The party needs a leader who can remind progressives and moderates what they have in common.
Trump is in trouble. Tuesday’s elections are proof.
Voters want elections to be about them, not the narcissist in the White House.
All politics used to be local. Then along came Trump.
The president could play a role in elections in three states on Tuesday.
We’re polarized and fragmented at the same time. Trump likes that.
The economic and cultural forces pushing toward polarization and fragmentation will be hard to overcome.
Trump’s madness is not enough to doom him in 2020
His reelection will hinge on the electoral college.
Canadian voters brilliantly delivered their message
Trudeau has a second chance — with a catch.
Trump’s Fifth Avenue theory is showing some cracks
Everything Trump does is designed to turn all criticism of himself into a socialist-liberal-radical conspiracy.
For Elizabeth Warren, the hard part begins now
Going forward, she will need to confront challenges from both her left and her right.
Trump is the culmination of all that has gone wrong in our politics
The arrests of two Giuliani associates say a lot of about the dangers facing the U.S. electoral system.
Only hyperpartisanship will save Trump
For congressional Democrats, facts are their friends.
Trump’s base is smaller than he thinks
The feeling behind the polling numbers will matter in the elections.
Will impeachment finally organize the Democrats?
Because things have suddenly become so serious, the brawling Democrats just might learn to behave differently.
Not too fast, not too slow. Democrats have to get impeachment just right.
Finding a way to strike the right balance will be difficult — and imperative.
Democrats had no idea Trump would hand them so much ammo
Now they can’t let internal politics get in the way of performing their duty.
Why Trump gets away with everything
Republicans rally around him no matter what he does or what dangers our republic might face.
Striking workers are the ones who saved GM
The battle at GM is a fight that unions and workers cannot afford to lose.
The Kavanaugh revelations: Why the Supreme Court is broken
Questions about Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court itself will continue to haunt us.
Democrats finally realized who their real opponent is
After tearing each other apart for the first half hour of the Houston debate, the Democrats eventually came together against Trump.
North Carolina’s election results provide a thought experiment for 2020
The state’s special election suggests that suburban Democratic first-termers can feel hopeful about next year.
Like it or not, Thursday’s debate is about electability
The Democratic presidential race has come down to three candidates, and then everyone else.
It’s time to rethink our ‘democracies’
Brexit and America’s inaction on guns are the antithesis of democratic rule.
Remembering the legacy of Labor Day
To move into the next economic era, we should recall the solidarity of past generations.
The electoral college is in trouble
At some point, the majority will rise up against the blithe acceptance of the electoral college.
The government doesn’t have to take over everything. But it should expand choice.
Public and private sectors can exist in harmony.
Trump is weaponizing evangelicals’ mistrust. And he’s succeeding.
Some Christians’ tribal feeling of being under siege is carrying more weight than any doubts they have about the president.
Real change after 2020 depends on who controls the Senate
Democrats’ chances of winning a majority took a modest step forward last week.
The steep price of Trump’s incoherent nihilism
He is embarrassing our country — and weakening it, too.
On guns and white nationalism, one side is right and one is wrong
Sane gun laws are the middle ground.
Booker broke through. Biden struck back. Harris got put in the hot seat.
If Tuesday’s Democratic debate was overwhelmingly ideological, Wednesday’s debate was intensely personal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/01/democrats-get-intensely-personal/
The first night of the CNN debate showed just how fractious the Democratic primary fight may get
Moderate candidates went in determined to upend the far-left front-runners.
Kicking Trump out is the important thing. Fights over how to do it shouldn’t get in the way.
Impeachment or no impeachment, Democrats need to keep the pressure on the president.
Mueller’s hearing proves that Trump and his apologists are lying
And Democrats make clear that many questions remain about the president’s actions in the 2016 election and in office.
It’s a difficult time for religion. But these two groups restored faith in faith.
Christianity can be misused, but it can also be a source of liberation.
We can either choose Trump’s vision of America, or John Paul Stevens’s
The Supreme Court justice famously reminded conservatives of ‘the profound importance’ of post-Civil War amendments that finally wrote racial equality into our Constitution.
The Democrats are fighting each other when they should be fighting Trump
Being the opposition is difficult, but their only hope is to unify.
Would Republicans prefer socialized medicine?
The GOP is fighting the most middle-of-the-road ways of getting people coverage.
We’re in an ‘Age of Impunity.’ It will have consequences for us all.
A recent speech by David Miliband reminds us of the “democratic recession” happening around the world.
We shouldn’t turn our backs on American patriotism
Loving a country’s ideals doesn’t equate to nationalism.
The 2020 issue that matters is democracy itself
This time, for Democrats, winning really is everything.
Kamala Harris gambled and won
But will her debate victory last?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/28/kamala-harris-gambled-won/
The first debate showed Democrats are far more in consensus than at odds
No Democrat (and we can be thankful for this) tried to stand out in the ways Trump did in 2016.
Thursday will be a big deal for both Biden and Sanders
Some advice to candidates as they head into the Democratic debate-fest.
Democratic moderates are owning their mistakes
Their focus is on the whole electorate, not Twitter.
We don’t usually put ‘moral’ and ‘economics’ in the same sentence. It’s time we started.
Productivity and growth definitely matter, but so, too, does the value of our day-to-day lives.
Trump picked Kim Jong Un over the CIA. Is anyone surprised?
Once more, the president waxed rhapsodic about his love affair with the North Korean dictator.
Give Trump an ultimatum on his stonewalling
Democrats should publicly time-limit their forbearance.
It'll be harder for Republicans to smother gun control this time
With an election looming and the power on the gun issue shifting toward those who favor regulations, Virginia’s special session will test the GOP.
Dear Robert Mueller: Your report can’t speak for itself
Your job isn’t over.
Mitch McConnell just proved he’ll do anything to pack the Supreme Court
So, why would Democrats give in to this naked power grab?
The Trump coverup no one is talking about: The emperor has no money
Trump and the GOP put tax cuts above infrastructure and other public problems.
Don’t get it twisted. Trump is the one with the picket sign.
He goes on strike in the Rose Garden, grinding the government to a halt to keep his own secrets.
Alabama shows we need a different abortion dialogue
Here’s how to defend the right to life: support women and lift up the poor.
The NRA is imploding. We have fancy clothes to thank for that.
The high-living gun lobbyists do not have rural America’s interests at heart.
Protect the Constitution, Democrats — and health care, while you’re at it
The House’s newest members know they were elected with an obligation to take on one of the most corrupt administrations in our history.
In the battle over impeachment, Trump and the GOP have fired the first shots
The president and his party are unwilling to take steps to avert an all-out political war.
Democrats are playing down foreign policy. It’s shrewd — and it may be a mistake.
A Center for American Progress study uses a new typology to define how Americans view foreign policy.
William Barr has shamelessly corrupted the debate over the Mueller report
It is heartening to know that one person infuriated by what Barr did was Mueller himself.
Can Biden be the helmsman who gets us past the storm?
Those who see Trump as a disaster will have to decide if they want tranquility over adventure.
Will Trump and the Supreme Court tear our democracy apart?
Once upon a time, we could depend on justices regardless of party to stand up to a paranoid, power-mad president.
What House Democrats should do now
The bottom line is that rushing into impeachment — or summarily ruling it out — are equally foolish.
Mueller’s report is the beginning, not the end
It may invite the start of an impeachment inquiry and a constitutional confrontation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/18/muellers-report-is-beginning-not-end/
The whole church is burning, not just Notre Dame. Both have a chance for rebirth.
The cathedral burned at a time when the Roman Catholic Church is also burning in a different way.
Democrats need to pick up this trait. Republicans need to nix it.
A hint: It involves one of the most boring words in politics.
Mnuchin flouts the law to help Trump
Why is Trump so afraid to release his tax returns?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/11/mnuchin-flouts-law-help-trump/
Israel’s election has made the path to a two-state solution even rockier
Netanyahu’s decisive victory is the result of his brazen tactics of dividing his country and stoking right-wing nationalism.
A Biden run would be good for the country. It could be hell for Biden.
The former vice president belongs in this fight.
We need constitutional reform — starting with the electoral college
Our forebears were willing to work on reform, so what are we afraid of?
Congress is right to subpoena the Mueller report. It shouldn’t have had to.
What is William Barr up to?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/03/what-is-william-barr-up/
It’s Trump who’s obsessed with Russia
The president can’t let go of the scandal.
Memo to Trump foes: Buck up!
President Trump and his minions’ celebration is wildly premature.
Six takeaways from Barr’s letter about Mueller’s probe
Trump's issues are not resolved.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/24/six-takeaways-barrs-letter-about-muellers-probe/
Pete Buttigieg has broken through the noise on community and religion
The Democratic candidate makes a plea for integrating faith and ideology.
The reality and limits of Beto-mania
Democratic voters are fiercely serious and listening more to their heads than to their hearts.
Trump relishes autocracy. What are Republicans willing to do about it?
His provocations constitute a call to conscience in the Republican Party.
Don’t focus on impeachment. Focus on Trump’s vile budget.
Why not drop impeachment long enough to tell more people about what Trump is doing to them?
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are equally wrong. May Ilhan Omar learn this lesson.
Surely Omar understands prejudice better than most people.
How will we repair our democracy after Trump? H.R. 1 offers a clue.
It is perhaps the most comprehensive political-reform proposal ever considered by our elected representatives.
A bigger challenge to Democrats than socialists: Their liberal Republicans
They must appeal both to their left-leaning base as well as Trump-averse Republicans.
Can a Midwestern mayor prove he’s ready for the presidency?
Pete Buttigieg makes a case for the big-league training he got in a small town.
Michael Cohen just breached Trump’s GOP stone wall
It’s no wonder the president’s apologists sought to keep Cohen from speaking to a national audience.
History will mark how many Republicans shy from Trump’s extremism
It’s up to the current GOP to separate themselves from the president’s vitriol.
A very British lesson for the American left
Nothing makes the privileged few happier than a left that becomes too maximalist to win, and then tears itself apart.
The real national emergency is the triviality of our politics
The president overreaching his authority is really the true cause for concern.
Trump’s fixation on a wall looks juvenile. Democrats should learn from his mistakes.
They should leave the incendiary tweets to Trump and keep the focus on his extremism.
Trump’s war on socialism will fail
The s-word never should have been an obscenity.
Trump delivered the Eddie Haskell State of the Union
The president’s two-faced politics was on display Tuesday night.
The state of the union is petrified
Despite claims that he’ll try to sound bipartisan, Trump needs to depict a country facing a crisis.
Howard Schultz is suffering from the Frappuccino Syndrome
If Schultz is serious about running, the backlash against him is appropriate.
The real wall is between conservatism and fresh ideas
The president’s cratering poll numbers show that only the true believers remain behind him.
The president is the paralyzer-in-chief. He must be stopped.
Any deal to end this nonsense must include a measure akin to the no-more-shutdowns proposal from Sen. Mark Warner.
Hating the government won’t improve it
Only by examining the anti-government view in its unabashed form can we understand why rational negotiations are so difficult.
The many red flags raised by William Barr’s hearing
His testimony sent up red flags for those who care about the independence of the Mueller investigation.
The media’s bias should be toward democracy
Mainstream journalists greatly influence how we talk to one other about politics and should take this responsibility seriously.
After Trump’s dud, it’s up to the Senate GOP
The only path forward is for McConnell and other Senate Republicans to stop enabling the blusterer in chief and put bills on Trump’s desk.
This is what democracy looks like
Voters have just changed the face of government in our country — in both a literal and figurative sense.
Nancy Pelosi vows that House Democrats won’t act like Republicans
The Democratic leader wants “America’s heart to be full of love,” but, for Trump, that’s likely to translate as tough love.
There is much to fear about nationalism. But liberals need to address it the right way.
Worrying about the decay of national sovereignty does not automatically make someone a reactionary.
How progressives can get identity politics right
Political challenges to liberals and the left are also philosophical problems.