Opinion

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Opinion: The Constitution doesn’t let Trump murder at will

The president of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously when he ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S. Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they were members of a ...

Opinion: Is an era of political violence upon us?

In his life’s work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or left, a great deal of optimism about the direction of our nation’s partisan politics. But his brutal assassination, captured in ...

Opinion: Trump now has NRA standing up for trans rights

Given the tsunami of news demanding your attention you might have missed an interesting trial balloon launched by the Department of Justice last week. Officials briefed reporters on preliminary discussions among the department’s top brass to ban transgender people from buying guns. This was ...

Opinion: MAGA has a real moral problem

The rush to exonerate Donald Trump from the implications of the Epstein birthday book message reveals a contradiction at the heart of MAGA. In the immediate aftermath of the Wall Street Journal July scoop about the smarmy message Trump included in the book of friendly tributes assembled in ...

Opinion: Which tax breaks work and which ones don’t

Everyone in Washington loves tax credits and deductions. Politicians tout them as a painless way to help families pay for green energy, buy homes or lower the cost of health care. They’re also politically irresistible: No one wants to be accused of “raising taxes” by trimming perks that ...

Opinion: A race to the gerrymandered bottom

Poor Elbridge Gerry. He wasn’t even a fan of this. Toeing his party’s line, he approved a newly drawn Boston district that was lampooned as a mythological menacing-winged dragon, or salamander. While a salamander-shaped district helped his party hold onto the legislature, this Bill of ...