'Many pro-choice voters are still quite willing to vote for Republican candidates'
Ruy Teixeira in The Washington Post
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'Bizarre badmouthing of Operation Warp Speed'
Will Saletan in The Bulwark
"Nikki Haley is running as the sane Republican alternative to Donald Trump," says Will Saletan in The Bulwark. So, it's "cringey to see her criticize Trump for the best thing his administration did." Haley, in an outburst of "free-market orthodoxy," criticized Operation Warp Speed, the project to quickly develop coronavirus vaccines, as if it were "just another subsidy." Solving a crisis like the pandemic required "help from the government. Even Donald Trump understood that."
'Never have college campuses exerted so great or so destructive an influence'
John Ellis in The Wall Street Journal
College campuses are among America's most "destructive influences," says John Ellis in The Wall Street Journal. Many "calamities" plaguing the United States, from "an outbreak of virulent antisemitism" to poorly educated children, "can be traced wholly or in large part" to "the corruption of higher education by radical political activists." State lawmakers help fix things by using their control over education funding to get schools to "install new campus leadership" willing to end the tyranny.
'If Israel's actions lead to a wider war, the U.S. will find itself with few allies'
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies in Salon
If U.S. officials want to keep the Israel-Hamas conflict from "exploding into a regional war, they "should work to stop Israel's massacre in Gaza," say Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies in Salon. Warning others to stay out while Israel acts "with impunity" increases the odds other Arab nations will jump in. It would be wiser to "cool hostilities" and "get out of the way” while others "negotiate a real solution to the occupation of Palestine."
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Eel-egal trade: the world’s most lucrative wildlife crime?Under the Radar Trafficking of juvenile ‘glass’ eels from Europe to Asia generates up to €3bn a year but the species is on the brink of extinction
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Trump’s White House ballroom: a threat to the republic?Talking Point Trump be far from the first US president to leave his mark on the Executive Mansion, but to critics his remodel is yet more overreach
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‘Not every social scourge is an act of war’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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Pentagon unable to name boat strike casualtiesSpeed Read The Pentagon has so far acknowledged 14 strikes
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41 political cartoons for October 2025Cartoons Editorial cartoonists take on Donald Trump, ICE, Stephen Miller, the government shutdown, a peace plan in the Middle East, Jeffrey Epstein, and more.
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Trump limits refugees mostly to white South AfricansSpeed Read The administration is capping the number of refugees at 7,500
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Dutch center-left rises in election as far-right fallsSpeed Read The country’s other parties have ruled against forming a coalition
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Judge rules US attorney ‘unlawfully serving’Speed Read Bill Essayli had been serving in the role without Senate confirmation
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Trump ends Asia trip with Xi meeting, nuke threatSpeed Read Trump had spent the last six days in Asia
