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Trump's reckoning is well under way

By Eugene Robinson
Jan 1, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: For the new year, critics of President Donald Trump should resolve not to be intimidated by the potential wrath of his vaunted political base. The only one who should cower before the Make America Great Again legions is Trump himself.
A grieving father's plea

By Eugene Robinson
Mar 5, 2013 5:00 AM - Colunist Eugene Robinson: Congress might not be moved by what Neil Heslin had to say about assault rifles. But I believe the nation has more compassion and better sense.
A power to act on warming

By Eugene Robinson
Mar 1, 2013 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: The test of President Obama's seriousness about addressing climate change is not his pending decision on the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline. It's whether he effectively consigns coal-fired power plants -- one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions -- to the ashcan of history.
No winners in this game

By Eugene Robinson
Feb 24, 2013 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: The standoff over the package of budget cuts known as "the sequester" is the dumbest, most self-defeating fight between President Obama and Republicans in Congress since ... let's see, since the last dumb, self-defeating fight less than two months ago.
Winning the argument on government

By Eugene Robinson
Feb 19, 2013 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: President Obama is gradually winning the argument about what government can and should do. His State of the Union address was an announcement of that fact -- and a warning to conservatives that to remain relevant, they will have to move beyond the premise that government is always the problem and never the solution.
Wrong on drone hits

By Eugene Robinson
Feb 8, 2013 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: When the government wants to violate a citizen's right to privacy with wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance, a judge from a special panel has to give approval. Surely there should be at least as much judicial review when the government wants to violate a citizen's right not to be blown to smithereens.
A solvable problem

By Eugene Robinson
Feb 5, 2013 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: President Obama and a group of influential senators of both parties will try to work together to bring 11 million people out of the shadows. Our government is tackling a big problem and may actually solve it. Imagine that.
Questions that need asking

By Eugene Robinson
Jan 29, 2013 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: The correct U.S. response is not to go looking for wars to fight; we've been there, done that. But neither should we blithely ignore developments that may turn into threats.
Our vital move from race to legacy

By Eugene Robinson
Jan 23, 2013 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: Reaction to the inaugural address took remarkably little notice of the fact that President Obama is an African-American. That seems to be old news. Not for me, though.
Our dysfunction quagmire

By Eugene Robinson
Jan 21, 2013 5:00 AM - Columnist Eugene Robinson: It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is not true, however, that the Republican split is philosophical and fundamental. And that a hopelessly divided GOP is therefore headed for decline, perhaps irrelevance.

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