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SHAPIRO: What does Russia want?

Russia's war to conquer Ukraine has been raging since February 2022. At first, the Russian offensive seemed fated for success: Russian troops came within a few kilometers of Kyiv, and Western powers offered President Volodymyr Zelenskyy exit from the country. Zelenskyy refused; Ukrainian forces ...

BARONE: Trump’s push for equal rights and against quotas

"It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals." Those words, the operative section of "Restoring Equality of ...

WILLIAMS: The right to privacy under siege

The right to privacy — the right to be let alone — is the most cherished right among civilized peoples. It was the right that gave birth to the American Revolution in opposition to British writs of assistance authoring petty officials to rummage through homes in search of contraband goods. ...

De RUGY: Why tariffs won’t fix America’s work-attachment problem

When Donald Trump reentered office in 2025, he inherited a strong economy partly fueled by the possibility of lower taxes on capital, fewer overbearing regulations, energy abundance and the rise of AI. Instead of stewarding that prosperity and optimism, Trump quickly upended it through a ...

COOPER: This is Trumpism

It's high time commentators stop trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn't fit. Donald Trump's brand of government is as unique as it is volatile. Sometimes history neither repeats nor rhymes. Sometimes a whole new species bursts onto the scene. We’ve never seen a ...

PARKER: Can’t make government efficient

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple when he was 21 years old. Nine years later, at age 30, he was purged and fired from the company he founded and built by the professional management he helped recruit. Eleven years later, after that management brought the firm to the edge of bankruptcy, Jobs ...