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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 1h
With roughly a month to Election Day, midterm races across the country are heating up. @shadihamid.bsky.social, James Hohmann, Nicholas Tomaino and Robert Gebelhoff share what the Democrats should do between now and Election Day:
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Opinion | ‘Progressives have struggled’: Four midterms strategies for Democrats
Post Opinions writers share what the Democrats should do between now and Election Day.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 8h
"What happens in the coming years will have worldwide implications, as the AI revolution is shaped and shipped from the West Coast." Read more from the Editorial Board:
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Opinion | Who can save California?
The Golden State’s problems need to be solved in Sacramento, not D.C.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 10h
"The Death Penalty Information Center has recorded 75 instances from 1890 to 2010 in which lethal injections went awry," Robert Gebelhoff writes. "Even in cases where a criminal’s guilt is without doubt, the government’s abysmal execution record should make one hesitate."
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Opinion | Tennessee’s bungled execution reveals a conservative blind spot
With the Christa Pike debacle, the state has twice failed to administer lethal injections properly this year.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 13h
The storms are growing more intense and damaging, but evidence does not support that they are becoming more numerous, the Editorial Board writes.
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Opinion | The Atlantic’s hurricane drought offers a lesson in climate science
The storms are growing more intense and damaging, but evidence does not support that they are becoming more numerous.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 14h
"Men are taught that silence is strength and that being 'weak' is unforgivable," @justicehorn.bsky.social writes. "Yet I broke that code when I reported the assault, and my perpetrator ultimately admitted what he had done and was forced to leave campus."
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Opinion | My school took my assault seriously. All students deserve the same.
The Cornell lawsuit and more, in readers' eyes.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 16h
Beijing is looking to establish a new trade route — and it is cooperating with Russia to do it. @eliselabott.bsky.social explains why this should be a wakeup call for the United States:
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China, Russia and the Ice Silk Road
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 17h
"It is sensible to hope that on Nov. 3 most of the Republican Party will be smashed to atoms," George F. Will writes. "Vast Republican carnage should not be entirely indiscriminate. Two Republicans especially deserve to win their Senate contests."
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Opinion | Bring on the midterm GOP carnage. But spare these two Senate candidates.
It is sensible to hope that on Nov. 3 most of the Republican Party will be smashed to atoms.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 19h
What are employers looking for when college degrees, cover letters and résumés reveal less than they used to? @mcmegan.bsky.social shares advice for Gen Z workers on Reasonably Optimistic:
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Opinion | The job interview advice Gen Z needs to hear - The Washington Post
A viral debate over bringing iced coffee to a job interview may seem trivial. But it points to a bigger divide over what employers are looking for when college degrees, cover letters and résumés revea...
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 20h
An editorial guest cartoon by Matt Percival. 🎨 wapo.st/4e13T3p
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 23h
How does Andy Beshear see the future of the Democratic Party? In this episode of @themimsshow.bsky.social, Kate Andrews talks with the Kentucky governor about his new book, "Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country," and whether he is considering a run for president in 2028.
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Opinion | Andy Beshear: Why Democrats need to talk about God again - The Washington Post
How does Andy Beshear see the future of the Democratic Party and American politics? In this episode of “Make It Make Sense,” Kate Andrews talks with the Kentucky governor about his new book, President...
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is at war. The enemy, for better or worse, is the U.S. military leadership and its traditional structure for promotions, training and procurement," David Ignatius writes.
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Opinion | The good, bad and dangerous in Hegseth’s Pentagon overhaul
The Trump team’s modern-day Jacobins are coming for the officer corps.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Rather than denying the lived reality of Americans struggling with high prices, President Trump needs to acknowledge the pain Americans are feeling," Marc A. Thiessen writes.
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Opinion | Most of today’s higher prices are Biden-era inflation
Crime is down, the economy is strong, and voters are unhappy.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years after our colleague Jamal Khashoggi’s body was dismembered by a bone saw, there has never been high-level accountability for the horrific crime, the Editorial Board writes. "The Saudis do not deserve the benefit of the doubt."
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Opinion | Saudi Arabia wants America’s nuclear trust. Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
The regime tried to cover up its assassination of a Post columnist eight years ago. Don’t believe it wants a peaceful nuclear program.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Heroes," as drawn by Michael Ramirez. 🎨 wapo.st/4rRPOLx
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Strategic success requires experienced and principled leaders who are strong, but who are also smart, creative, courageous, disciplined, discerning, moral, skilled and savvy," John Teichert writes.
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Opinion | ‘Lethality and readiness’ have always been cool
Pete Hegseth takes Pentagon policies to the next level in distracting the military from effective warfighting.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"While conservatives should be embarrassed, they also need to ask why Mamdani was able to outsmart them." The latest from Damian Thompson: wapo.st/4hsOkm0
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The country faces tough questions about immigration," former Texas representatives Richard J. Noriega (D) and Byron Cook (R) write. "People have different opinions about solutions, but 'dreamers' educated in our public schools should not be collateral damage in that debate."
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Opinion | Republicans and Democrats can agree on ‘dreamers.’ Just look at Texas.
'Dreamers,' shelter dogs, naming AI and more, in readers' eyes.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Cutting the purse strings," as drawn by Michael Ramirez. 🎨
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Opinion | Cutting the purse strings
Michael Ramirez cartoon on Donald Trump’s plan to cancel funding approved by Congress.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In an era without ticket-splitting, the generic ballot has proven remarkably predictive. Henry Olsen has the latest in his newsletter:
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Opinion | How many House seats will the Democrats win? The polls may already know.
In an era without ticket-splitting, the generic ballot has proven remarkably predictive.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"When Republican presidents take a beating in the midterms, Cabinet changes can come the next day," @drtedj.bsky.social writes. "This year, signs point to another potential blue wave, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems the prime candidate for a pink slip."
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Opinion | Why Trump might finally fire Pete Hegseth
The Pentagon would have to rebuild expertise, trust and stability if the secretary is forced out.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"There is no putting the AI genie back in the bottle," the Editorial Board writes. "The better course is what the Trump administration embraced this week: Keep innovating while developing better mechanisms for human control."
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Opinion | On AI, a light touch is the right touch
There is no putting the AI genie back in the bottle.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the end, an editorial-integrity structure is more symbolic than truly protective, Marcus W. Brauchli writes.
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Opinion | CNN, CBS News and the limits of outside editorial oversight boards
Paramount’s agreement to protect integrity is mostly symbolic. I saw why at the Wall Street Journal.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The administration calls this a 'pocket rescission.' The GAO, Congress’s spending watchdog, calls it 'illegal.'" Read more from the Editorial Board:
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Opinion | The worst way to cut federal spending
The Government Accountability Office said Tuesday that Trump's pocket recissions are illegal.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The story itself is a masterpiece, written in exquisite deadpan by Annalisa Quinn," @mcmegan.bsky.social writes. "It’s made extra enjoyable by the fact that it matters only to one small town in Massachusetts." wapo.st/4rDRgkA
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The base salary for members of Congress is $174,000 annually," the Editorial Board writes. "It hasn’t been raised since 2009."
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Opinion | Lawmakers won’t vote to raise their own pay. What they did instead looks worse.
The base salary for a House member hasn't changed since 2009.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Every Russian escalation should make Moscow’s position worse," the Editorial Board writes. "Attacks on Ukrainian cities should bring greater pressure on Russia. Attacks on Europe should produce greater European support for Ukraine."
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Opinion | De-escalation with Russia requires a bigger show of Western strength
Only counterpressure, not concessions, will lead Russia to lay off Ukraine and NATO.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Societies without vibrant writing cultures are timid, hidebound, uncurious," George F. Will writes. "To gauge the leakage of complexity and nuance from our culture, compare the lyrics of Cole Porter with those of Justin Bieber."
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Opinion | A grim prognosis for the post-literate future
James Marriott's “The New Dark Ages” on the death of reading may not be sufficiently pessimistic.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Washington Capitals — and the NHL as a whole — serve as a huge advertisement for Russia’s imperialist war as long as Alexander Ovechkin is in the league, Dominik Hasek writes. wapo.st/4yofamR
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Trump is right about why rates should go down. Unfortunately, he is also the cause of them rising." The latest from Zachary Karabell:
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Opinion | Trump threw a fit about the interest rates he caused. He’s still right.
Inflation might be a transitory problem.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The latest from @drtedj.bsky.social:
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Vehicle batteries keep improving, promising faster charging times and lower prices," the Editorial Board writes. "If that trajectory continues, sales of fully electric vehicles may rebound."
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Opinion | Trump’s fuel efficiency rules do not doom climate goals
Consumers are buying more environmentally friendly cars, thanks to market forces.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I recently launched the 'Pardon Dolly the Bear' campaign, which successfully saved a black bear from being euthanized," Hannah Furgiuele writes.
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Opinion | I fought to save Dolly, my neighborhood bear. Here’s how to save others.
Human-bear encounters, sea-level rise, communicating invisible illnesses and more, in readers' eyes.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley’s journal rivals the best British travel accounts of pre-Civil War America, Andrew O’Shaughnessy writes. "It offers a vivid account of travel before the advent of railways."
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Opinion | The forgotten precursor to Tocqueville’s American journey
Edward Stanley visited in 1824, when Americans feared the possibility of a Black president one day.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in Texas for 32 years,” Jim Geraghty writes. “To make it a race, Talarico probably needs four or five factors to break his way. By my count, he has at least seven.” wapo.st/4AGrQqE
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Additional money cannot substitute for strategic judgment," John Lehman and Bing West write.
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Opinion | More money won’t fix a Navy without a strategy
Budget decisions once flowed out strategic thinking. Now the budget does the strategizing.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The U.S. military needs a radical change in its thinking: It can no longer expect to operate from invulnerable bases near the front," @maxboot.bsky.social writes.
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Opinion | Iran destroys a fundamental U.S. military assumption
The war exposes a vulnerability that could be disastrous in a conflict with China.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The full damage caused by DOGE may take years to understand," a reader writes in #PostLetters. wapo.st/3VUbwCz
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Post Opinions writers — Carine Hajjar, Jim Geraghty, Dominic Pino and Robert Gebelhoff — share what the GOP should do between now and Election Day. Later this week, another set of writers will do the same for the Democratic Party.
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Opinion | Four strategies for Republicans before the midterms
Post Opinions writers share what the GOP should do between now and Election Day.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones recently published an essay in the New York Times reflecting on her decision to send her daughter to a high-poverty, segregated public school. On an episode of Reasonably Optimistic, @mcmegan.bsky.social asked Harvard professor Roland Fryer for his reaction to the article:
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Roland Fryer on Nikole Hannah-Jones and Race in Education
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“AI companies and their employees alike are loudly proclaiming the unprecedented dangers of the very products they are designing — while frontier labs demand unprecedented special treatment from government,” Sen. Josh Hawley writes. “It’s time to change the game.” wapo.st/3VHt4ln
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Censorship teaches the next generation that the way to fight disagreeable speech is to silence the speaker," @ctfitzpatrick.bsky.social writes.
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Opinion | Why ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ is worth a legal fight
The effort to regulate the “profane” political slogan runs up against decades of Supreme Court precedent.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Trump is clearly losing ground with Latino voters who helped return him to the White House — though it remains to be seen by what margins," @leonkrauze.bsky.social writes.
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Opinion | Trump’s immigration crackdown is testing Latino Republicans
María Elvira Salazar’s Miami race exposes a growing tension inside the GOP.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The talks are ongoing, an encouraging sign that lawmakers might act before the end of the year on one of America’s most pressing problems," the Editorial Board writes.
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Opinion | Permitting reform is good politics and good for markets. Bring it on.
A truly tech-neutral deal would serve the interests of both parties.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"States are coequal sovereigns, not regulators of one another," Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers Hilgers writes.
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Opinion | I’m Nebraska’s attorney general. No state can dictate the law for America.
Colorado’s climate regulations would undermine the sovereignty of other states.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Against the currents of geopolitical, technological and economic upheaval, protecting the environment can seem like ... a concern to be deferred until the world is finally at peace,” Henry M. Paulson Jr. writes. “But by then, it will be too late.” wapo.st/3VczCIu
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dominic Pino, @drtedj.bsky.social, Jenna Portnoff and Thomas McKenna share the four best books they read this summer:
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Opinion | ‘Totally absorbed’: Four writers pick their favorite books this year
Science fiction. Media history. An epic journey through purgatory.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The trajectory of the debt is still in the government’s control," the Editorial Board writes. "Washington just needs to act before the debt begins to spiral and fiscal space vanishes."
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Opinion | When America’s pot of debt will overflow
A nation’s success depends on fiscal space. The U.S. is almost out.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“For all his talk about defeating ’radical left lunatics,‘ the president seems awfully cozy in their company,” Carine Hajjar writes. “Smiling for the camera doesn’t make Trump a socialist — but the White House’s growing corporate portfolio might.” wapo.st/4rKE8tZ
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"AI systems can never be fully trusted, so they must be heavily constrained," the Editorial Board writes.
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Opinion | AI doesn’t need a conscience. It needs a leash.
The safest autonomous agents will be surrounded by systems that limit what they can access and do.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The Arc de Trump flouts the McMillan Plan’s assertion that preserving the view from Arlington Cemetery is vital." The latest from Ronald G. Shafer:
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Opinion | 2026 triumphal arch, meet 1887 bridge
The grandiose memorial to Ulysses S. Grant never got built.
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