Editorial Cartoons of the Week
Remember the true meaning of Memorial Day
Too soon, the burden of remembering will be passed along to those who did not experience such things firsthand. The post-9/11 veteran generation must recognize its promise to uphold the honor and dignity of their sacrifice, while sharing our own.
Dems are the anti-immigrant party
Immigration policy is about a lot more than just border enforcement or ICE raids. It’s also about what kind of a living immigrants to the U.S. can earn.
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How the Democratic field is winnowing itself
By the time Mitt Romney had run the Republicans nominating gantlet in 2012, he had the lowest positive rating and highest negative rating of any recent major-party nominee. Biden’s Democratic rivals should ponder this as they sharpen their knives.
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Is America preparing for the wrong war?
The old truism — that the best way to avoid a war is to be prepared to fight one — has a special and specific meaning in the scenarios envisioned by the Pentagon’s strategic review.
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Same old song if Trump pardons SEAL
If indeed President Donald Trump pardons one or more U.S. military men accused or convicted of war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq, it could be his most Nixonian moment yet.
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Nuclear war still possible, still scary
Looking forward, the reality is that the risks of such a war are quite small in any particular year. But let the clock run and enough years pass, and a nuclear exchange of some kind becomes pretty likely.
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Military needs Pentagon-based sex-assault unit
DOD has begun to acknowledge the gravity of military rape, its devastating psychological and physical impact on victims, and its corrosive effect on the military in general. Yet it has so far resisted entreaties to bring in qualified outsiders to investigate and prosecute, the most important step in addressing the problem.
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NC redo sets stage for copycat campaigns
The battle of the Dans will certainly preview 2020 races across the country, with Republicans trying to take down those first-term Democrats who won last fall in GOP-leaning districts by portraying them as extreme.
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What this White House understands about Iran
President Barack Obama’s fruitless effort to lure Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei into changing the behavior of his rogue regime never had a chance because it began from the premise that appeasement works. It never does.
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‘Deepfakes’ are coming, and we’re not ready
If 2016 was the election of “fake news,” 2020 has the potential to be the election of “deepfakes,” the new phenomenon of bogus videos created with the help of artificial intelligence.
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The grim logic of the US trade war with China
So far, China’s ascent in the 21st century has looked unstoppable, as it gobbled up one manufacturing industry after another, shouldered the U.S. aside as the world’s biggest exporter, and became the beating heart of an East Asian economic supercluster.
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Putin’s Syrian playbook won’t work in Venezuela
Any kind of negotiation with Maduro is a trap. To start, he will use the time he purchases at the bargaining table to divide the opposition that has rallied behind the interim president, Juan Guaido.
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Trump is wrong to pardon war criminals
Trump’s posture endangers our deployed men and women by betraying the trust of host nations that we will prosecute those rare individuals who commit crimes against their people.
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What TVs show on military installations is big news
This policy is truly a disservice to our brave men and women in uniform, no matter what AAFES says about “Proudly Serving Those Who Serve.” How are they supposed to form their own judgments as to what’s going on around them?
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Encouraging the high road on wages
The stagnation in the living standards of ordinary American workers ultimately threatens the legitimacy of our private-market system and the stability of our politics.
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Not a time to leave Pentagon in limbo
The White House’s reluctance to designate a permanent successor to Mattis is threatening to become a Trump “moment,” adding to speculation about uncertain presidential decision-making at a time when he has big national security problems accumulating in a wobbly stack.
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Boeing’s 737 Max defense is a textbook mess
For decades, business schools have taught Johnson & Johnson’s handling of its 1982 Tylenol scandal as a textbook example of good crisis management. In the future, we can expect Boeing’s treatment of its two 737 Max crashes to join the syllabus — as an example of what not to do.
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Add Israel, Japan to Five Eyes agreement
As we look at the effectiveness of the concept and the increasing number of global challenges, there is good reason to think about expanding from the original five allies to at least seven.
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Biden is running against a myth about Trump
The greatest challenge for the Democratic presidential field is not choosing Medicare for some or all. It is figuring out how to chart a viable national path in a fractured nation.
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How we can fix the broken primary process
If we started from scratch, nobody would tolerate the idea that two states would always get such outsize influence. But over time, tradition has supplanted rationality, and our broken system has become entrenched.
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Singleton’s unflinching film endures, inspires
Just a few months after South Central was set aflame during the Rodney King riots — violence that “Boyz N the Hood” had presciently anticipated — here was Singleton both critiquing the world he came from and correcting the most reductive and damaging misconceptions about it.
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The 2020 election isn’t going to be close
Democrats have to campaign on something else besides a great economy, rising values of savings, low unemployment across every demographic, clarity about allies and enemies abroad, and a rebuilding military. It’s a tough needle to thread.
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Big Tobacco craftily morphing into Big Vape
By supporting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s bill raising the minimum age for tobacco products from 18 to 21, Altria and Juul are attempting to freeze the tobacco market just where they want it: with them on top.
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Border agents should denounce impostors
The president’s irresponsible rhetoric has inflamed matters at the border, requiring urgent action by the executive branch to close off any possibility of coordinated efforts between unlawful militias and government agents.
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Sri Lanka has come a long way, but not all the way
Sadly, suicide bombings have long been part of the history and culture of life — that is, terrorism’s horrific ending of life — in the small island nation of Sri Lanka, just off the eastern coast of India.
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Vietnam vet fights on after fifth cancer strikes
At 75, Vietnam War vet Patrick Toal is lean, whip-smart, self-deprecating and living in pain. His body has been deteriorating for a long time, but this month, doctors diagnosed Toal with late-stage bone cancer.
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New Civil War statue going up for right reasons
A chief insight in the reappraisal of Grant is the recognition that, at the beginning of the post-Civil War period of oppression, he acted courageously to protect the rights of freed men and women.
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The West must shake off Ukraine fatigue
The West must stop acting as if it has no stake in the outcome and move quickly to help the newly elected president lead his compatriots toward a more democratic, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine.
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Buttigieg still lacking policy positions
Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., could turn out to be the biggest, boldest surprise of the 2020 presidential campaign. But he’d better come up with some policies first.
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S. Korean president key to successes
Moon’s impressive military experience signifies not only his personal abilities and skills, but also the wider close alliance relationship with the United States. Those ties were forged in the enormously intense, destructive Korean War.
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Don’t impeach Trump. There’s another way.
Either house, could, with a majority vote, formally censure Trump, something that has not happened to any chief executive since the Senate censured Andrew Jackson in 1834.
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Contractors are giving away America's military edge
In a connected world, no government or company can perfectly protect all its data from hackers and rival states. Even so, it's astonishing that, from January 2016 to February 2018, nearly 6 percent of U.S. military and aerospace contractors reported data breaches.
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Generals can't fix what ails North Africa
In Algeria and Sudan, where popular protests have recently toppled long-reigning tyrants, military cabals are re-emerging from the shadows to bid for power. In Libya, eight unstable years since the fall of a dictator, another aspiring caudillo is trying to seize control by force of arms.
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Assange’s rickety Ecuadoran safety net finally collapsed
Latin America’s far-left regimes support press freedom only when doing so gives them a chance to give the United States a bloody nose. It is this dogged determination to prize hurting the United States above all other values that they have in common with Assange.
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Blueprint for fight against white supremacy
U.S. government agencies will have to use surveillance and infiltration to penetrate these groups, just as Secret Service men, using skills previously honed fighting counterfeiters, donned disguises and spied on Klan units.
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Trump offers clarity on Iran’s true aims
Now the U.S. government has formally recognized that a key part of Iran’s military is legally indistinguishable from the terrorist groups it has been sponsoring for decades.
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Financial incentives could encourage more to vote
Cash incentives for voting will materially increase the participation rates in current elections, especially in non-presidential election years, and would help build a lifelong habit of voting among younger adults.
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Dems in race are misleading their voters
The Electoral College is not going away. The Constitution’s provisions for selecting Supreme Court justices are not going to change. And candidates who suggest they can change them are misleading the voters they are wooing.
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Whistleblowers are gutsy. Protect them.
If accurate, Tricia Newbold’s allegations suggest a crass corruption of the security-clearance process that placed national security second to political influence.
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