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- Feed Preview E.J. Dionne
Our country’s democratic antibodies are kicking in
A mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
What we owe to the Class of 2020
My hope is that this generation will imagine a better country, not resign themselves to things as they are.
Trump needs to be called out for his huckster brand of populism
His policies resolutely favor the wealthy and the connected over the working class.
This Memorial Day, will we find meaning in our suffering?
Our inability to mourn together hampers healing.
Trump’s signal is his noise. Stop trying to distinguish between the two.
He’ll say anything to distract from his crisis mismanagement.
Grading the electoral college: C for chaos
We really are playing Russian roulette with our democracy.
Recovery would be a bargain at $3 trillion
Republicans’ arguments are running thin.
Why the GOP may lose everything
Trump’s bungling of the pandemic could cost his party the Senate.
Half a Congress isn’t enough
There must be a way to get the House in working order.
The pre-coronavirus status quo is not good enough
We should begin building a better post-pandemic country now.
The class war against front-line workers
“Trump has created a false choice between worker safety and feeding America,” says one advocate.
To solve our problems, marginalize Trump
How the media, governors and Congress can shift as much influence and responsibility away from Trump as possible.
From now on, Pelosi is playing hardball
The House speaker has had enough of the GOP’s cynical game of denying aid to those who need it most.
Liberty or death is a perilous policy for a pandemic
Yelling at governors won’t get us to where we need to be.
Trump’s bad check
With the nation’s realities in harsh light, Democrats look more united than ever.
There are two paths out of this crisis. Which will we choose?
Covid-19 is exposing our social contagions.
What a difference Bernie Sanders made
The Vermont senator has accomplished far more than he might have imagined.
What we learned from Wisconsin
Now we know that Republican politicians will freely use the coronavirus pandemic to tilt electoral outcomes in their favor by obstructing access to the ballot.
Let’s avoid another Great Depression
$2.2 trillion in relief is a huge number. It’s also not nearly enough, not nearly fast enough.
Overestimating Trump is a mistake. So is underestimating him.
Democrats need to elevate their own without panicking.
Trump’s quarantine con should be the breaking point
We are learning about the importance of competent, energetic and empathetic government.
The presidency is now just a daily talk show
The government that works is trying hard to protect Americans from the the man in the White House.
The stimulus should focus on Americans who need the most help
Just this once, can Congress show us democracy’s best side?
Biden and Sanders should work together now to protect the election
If Sanders and Biden want an immediate joint project, they can unite in pointing to the dangers to the election process itself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/18/protecting-election-can-unite-biden-sanders/
Will the coronavirus socialize our thinking?
Containing it requires all of us to focus on the common good and respond to calls to altruism.
Sanders and Biden need each other. Here’s how they can make peace.
Bernie Sanders can quit the race and still get what he wants.
What should alarm Trump about Biden’s success
Biden is showing strengths at this stage of the campaign that Hillary Clinton did not.
Elizabeth Warren isn’t finished. Her ideas won’t go away, and neither will she.
Yes, sexism hurt Warren. But so did her mishandling of the health-care issue.
The Biden surge was all about Trump
Now he must avoid playing into Trump’s game of dividing Democrats.
Super Tuesday’s viral politics
Biden has at least some evidence for his case that he is not only the nominee most likely to beat Trump, but also, in an anxious moment, the most plausible president.
Democrats are dealing with a generational divide
It’s not clear that Sanders can carry the burden of the “socialist” label to victory in November.
Why Trump is gloating about Nevada
He would love to tie the entire Democratic Party to “crazy socialism” — and attack “the Democratic establishment” for denying Sanders the nomination.
Will Trump scare some sense into the Democrats?
This is not a normal time, candidates.
Diversity is the Democrats’ strength — and their challenge
Building unity is the only way to succeed.
The Democrats are still searching
The anti-Trump vote is split in New Hampshire.
The two battles that will define the New Hampshire primary
Will Bernie Sanders's rivals do so much damage to one another that they clear the path for him?
Political idolatry is the enemy of religious faith
Trump’s National Prayer Breakfast performance was not about God.
How Pete Buttigieg broke through
His results in Iowa speak volumes.
The Trump 51 and their challenge to Democrats — and democracy
The minds of Iowa Democrats are more concentrated than ever on who can defeat Trump — and end the GOP Senate dominance.
Progressives and moderates, don’t destroy each other. The enemy is Trump, not Clinton or Obama.
Democrats are part of a diverse party. They should thrive on it, not worry about it.
Because of Trump, Iowa voters can’t afford to make a mistake
The campaign to win Iowa underscores the agony of Democratic voters.
Trump’s selfishness harms you, too
How a group of mayors inspires hope and also a longing.
Why Democrats owe a debt to Mitch McConnell
Republican senators will now be on the defensive for their complicity in the Trump coverup.
We can’t give up on King’s Promised Land
Turning backsliding into progress must become the cause of all Americans.
Debating in the shadow of impeachment
Democrats go at it amid a heartbreak for democracy.
The stakes couldn’t be higher for the Democratic debates
It’s make-or-break time for anyone not named “Biden” or “Sanders.”
Hey Republicans, demagoguery won’t hide Trump’s incoherence
Ignoring his shortcomings could lead to war.
Will we be enemies — or fellow citizens?
What Sherrod Brown gets about Trump and polarization that others don’t.
Our political debate doesn’t have to be this stupid
Let’s become a nation of problem-solvers again.
Bob Greenstein’s life proves the Washington cynics wrong
Politics often rewards those who preach the futility of public action. Greenstein is the antithesis to that.
Let’s remember what Christmas and Christianity are all about
Love your enemies.
Democrats understand moderation. Republicans don’t.
How shifts in ideology have affected — and will affect — the impeachment debate and the 2020 election.
Impeaching Trump is just the end of the beginning
The House vote cannot halt efforts to hold the president accountable.
What Boris Johnson’s sweep means — and doesn’t
Don’t equate the British and U.S. political situations.
Our country is accepting the unacceptable
The GOP should be reacting with horror, not closing ranks around Trump.
Impeachment and the lost art of persuasion
Pelosi knows that opinion about impeachment is still fluid. It’s why she chose to answer partisanship with prayerfulness.
The moral imperative of impeachment
It’s clear that the case against the president is serious.
Why Democratic voters can’t make up their minds
They try on candidates, find them wanting and move on to someone else.
Why we should be thankful for this chaotic political and social moment
Just when you think it’s a winter for discontent, a hopeful spring for democracy is coming.
What unites Trump’s apologists? Minority rule.
Both evangelicals and Republican politicians want to lock in their current policy preferences.
A debate that actually covered the issues? This time, we don't have to imagine.
The Democratic debate contenders spent far more time in vehement agreement than loud disagreement.
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.