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William Ruger, a proponent of restraint in American foreign policy, would skillfully use diplomacy to protect America’s interests.Ruger is among the leading proponents of restraint in American foreign policy. Restraint is not isolationism, as it is... >>>

Fixating on the open Supreme Court seat will provoke a culture war.Why? Fixating on the Court organizes the electorate along two fronts of a culture war, and forces people to make stark ideological choices. Instead of focusing voters on the... >>>

No matter the obstacle, RBG’s steadfast optimism and commitment to principle saw her through. We can and must follow her lead.With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already talking about confirming RBG’s successor, despite his refusal to... >>>

Our View: McConnell's bid to ram through a successor smacks of cynicism and hypocrisy.Courageous, brilliant and a cultural icon in her ninth decade, the nation's second female Supreme Court justice was a singular figure. Like the late Thurgood... >>>

Progressives say racism is everywhere in the criminal-justice system, but they don’t provide many specifics.In their offhand rhetoric — insouciant, because they know their bien pensant allies in politics and media will never call them on it — legal... >>>

Climate change is killing Americans and destroying the country’s physical infrastructure.I thought about those numbers a lot last week, as I tried to stop my toddler from playing in ash, tried to calm down my dogs as they paced and panted in... >>>

Is Obamacare doomed without Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Not quite.Ginsburg, who was appointed to the Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and served until her death on Friday, voted to uphold the law in 2012. Along with the three other liberal justices... >>>

After RBG’s death, the Senate majority leader will do everything he can to push the balance of the court to the right. Odds are in his favor.Ben: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. Tremendous legacy aside, her death obviously has momentous political and... >>>

The kitschy celebrations of the justice have always insisted, in their way, that the personal is judicial.Justices of the Supreme Court have traditionally existed above the fray. They wear body-obscuring black robes, stay stoic at the State of the... >>>

Ginsburg’s death places her entire legacy in dangerAnd yet her death means that the age of Trump will almost certainly be our new normal. With Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, the power to shape our Constitution was split between four liberals, four... >>>

Police brutality isn't just damaging black men. Confronting it and other forms of systemic racism are worsening maternal healthAfter having multiple heart attacks (the first came shortly after childbirth), she experienced one of the hundreds of... >>>

A president who lives in the moment discovers that history can be a great place to pick a fight.The primary target of Trump’s speech was the 1619 Project, a special issue of the New York Times Magazine published in August 2019 whose findings were... >>>

President Trump’s clumsy Thursday speech, given inappropriately at the shrine to thoughtful patriotism that is the National Archives, missed making a timely and useful point. © Provided by Washington Examiner The president gave a demagogic screed... >>>

A look at the country's profound fractures and what it might take to mend them: Your weekly guide to the best in booksThe staff writer Adam Serwer considers the failure of Reconstruction, drawing from historical texts such as The Dance of... >>>