Editorials

Editorial: To fight COVID-19, the US needs a more detailed view

Americans have a good sense of how the COVID-19 pandemic is going in their country: very badly. Infections,…

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Azerbaijan’s president aims to finish off the political opposition

Ilham Aliyev has blown a gasket. The president of Azerbaijan has never looked kindly on independent journalists or…

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Editorial: Texas Sen. John Cornyn’s Juneteenth proposal failed. He should try again

Last week, Sen. John Cornyn proposed a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. The proposal failed, but…

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Editorial: This is no way to design coronavirus fiscal policy

With millions of Americans losing their expanded unemployment benefits this week, Congress and the Trump administration are still…

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Public often knows little about political appointees

Early on in the coronavirus pandemic, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar assigned a top aide to…

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Anderson column: Today’s combat soldiers learned from veterans of the past

As Memorial Day and July 4 came and went, the focus of the country seemed to be less…

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Chaos in Libya and a dam dispute in East Africa reflect a world without U.S. leadership

What does a world without U.S. leadership look like? This month, a good answer can be glimpsed in…

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Vaccine makers might expose volunteers to coronavirus

The novel coronavirus is inflicting global suffering that is likely to persist until scientists produce an effective vaccine.…

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Trump threatens a new troop withdrawal. It would endanger yet another U.S. relationship.

Since early in his administration, President Donald Trump has advanced the profoundly wrongheaded notion that close U.S. allies…

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Time is running out to make voting safe

Congress has several urgent tasks and little time to complete them. One is to help ensure the legitimacy…