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19 august
11h00
Rethinking the haphazard marijuana social experiment
George F. Will
Accumulating evidence is forcing some facile beliefs about the drug to evolve.
11h00
America has 3 billion words of legal code riddled with policy sludge’
Daniel E. Ho
Outdated rules are gumming up governments across the country.
10h45
Any little bit counts:’ Four writers on what Congress should do before the midterms
Washington Post Opinions
Congress has a lot it could accomplish before Election Day.
10h30
I see why this Black professor quit. But here’s why I wish he hadn’t.
Gary Rosen
By quitting, he has deprived higher ed of a dynamic figure who could agitate for change.
10h15
There’s real logic beneath Trump’s split nuclear strategy
Victor Cha
Iran and North Korea present very different nonproliferation problems.
10h00
The battle over a tiny fish that runs the East Coast food web
Mark Robichaux
Years of half measures and regulatory delays leave Atlantic menhaden potentially at risk.
10h00
What empty pews reveal about America
Regina de Heer
America is becoming less religious but the story is more complicated than empty pews. Host Megan McArdle is joined by political scientist and former...
18 august
22h26
Trump inverts his own foreign policy mantra
Editorial Board
U.S. moves in Asia show strategic confusion.
20h39
Washington’s 40 trillion debt milestone
Editorial Board
The threat to America is no longer a global pandemic but Congress’s addiction to spending money it doesn’t have.
20h12
How to commemorate Fidel Castro’s 100th birthday
Editorial Board
Cuba will be free one day, but communism’s wreckage should be memorialized.
20h11
Congress needs a backbone to rebuild America’s credibility
Letters to the Editor
Restoring credibility, China steel and data centers, in readers’ eyes.
15h18
Cartoon by Joe Heller
Joe Heller
Joe Heller cartoon on USS Abraham Lincoln, The Odyssey.
11h15
The government’s Intel bet was even worse than expected
Scott Lincicome
The equity stake has ballooned into an expansive, risky portfolio.
11h00
Why tools to detect AI-generated text are doomed
Adam Aleksic
Human- and machine-written texts are converging.
10h45
Assuming why military personnel serve ignores a basic fact
Gian Gentile
Trump’s comments about recent U.S. casualties, and some responses, misunderstand military service.
10h30
Our troops are exhausted. The answer isn’t to buy a key chain.
Jim Geraghty
Buying Support our troops T-shirts is swell, but our soldiers and sailors need real relief.
10h00
Two countries are keeping Iran armed and dangerous
Bradley Bowman, Cameron McMillan
Chemicals and intelligence keep Tehran’s war machine alive.
10h00
What’s behind Britain’s revolving door of leaders
Jeremy Hunt
How British Prime Minister Andy Burnham can navigate the populist churn sweeping Europe.
17 august
23h17
Todd Blanche is right about DOJ independence,’ like it or not
Editorial Board
The attorney general’s department is supervised by the president.
22h27
Mark Cuban bests Ro Khanna on wealth taxes
Editorial Board
The businessman raised a question that the congressman couldn’t answer.
20h40
Professors didn’t make a mistake by backing El-Sayed
Letters to the Editor
The American Association of University Professors’ endorsement, back to school advice and more.
20h22
Iran’s obsession
Michael Ramirez
Michael Ramirez cartoon on Iran war, nuclear weapons.
14h48
Will the AI bubble break American politics?
Damir Marusic, Tom Bilyeu
The latest from Make It Make Sense on artificial intelligence.
14h40
Will the AI bubble break American politics?
Is the massive investment in artificial intelligence creating a catastrophic economic bubble? In this episode of Make It Make Sense, Damir Marusic...
11h30
The 2030s will bring a fiscal cliff. Here’s how it got so steep.
Editorial Board
A timeline of how the U.S. reached its current debt level.
11h15
Don’t drain the Colorado River. Create water instead.
Jim Madaffer
An open market may lead to more water left in the river.
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