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GOP oversight seen during Obama years has gone missing

What happened to holding the president to the highest possible standard of ethical scrutiny?

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Megan McArdle: What’s really being normalized is leftist bad behavior

The process of not normalizing Trump has instead normalized a lot of other things — bad ones.

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Equifax messed up, and we have to clean up

The assumption of financial risk and the work it entails is now a constant feature of our society.

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Cathy O’Neil: What kind of information economy will support healthy democracy?

The internet has been great at connecting us with products, but not at connecting us as a polity.

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Mary C. Curtis: Those who see danger in diversity

Our country has changed, hardened into camps of mistrust, recrimination and blame.

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Jonathan Bernstein: Democrats try to steer clear of GOP’s mistakes

It’s a big mistake to equate Sanders with repeal-and-oh-we’ll-figure-it-out-later Republicans.

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Disasters test and teach us

From Katrina to Sandy to Harvey, our worst storms also have taught us a lot.

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Walter Shapiro: Both parties enduring rocky times

Both parties have long been in trouble, but now circumstance has forced them to look down.

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Sung-Yoon Lee: Tighten the North Korea sanctions; it’s the only way

Kim is ever closer to being able to kill millions of people outside North Korea, not least Americans

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Jonathan Allen: Trump did everyone a favor by working with Dems

Ryan had publicly said their proposal — the obvious solution to all three headaches — was “ridiculous.”

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Karen E. Quiñones Miller: Why I’m boycotting the NFL

This suggested boycott is much more than just supporting an individual.

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Jonathan Bernstein: Specific mistakes led Ryan to the bad spot he’s in now

A series of mistakes starting back in 2011 has left Ryan ill-prepared for governing in 2017.

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Ramesh Ponnuru: Obama did exceed presidential authority on ‘Dreamers’

The president does not have the authority to immunize immigrants from deportation.