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Race Is No Excuse for Violence or Impunity

Public arguments about crime and justice have drifted into territory that should be straightforward: intentionally attacking people with a knife is wrong, and a lack of remorse after harming others is morally repugnant. Those judgments do not change based on the attacker’s race, the victim’s race, or the politics of the moment.

Trump Leads a Hands-On Washington Cleanup Effort

Reports from Washington highlight an unusually literal form of “cleanup” associated with former President Donald Trump, focusing on tangible maintenance rather than rhetorical battles. The episode has drawn attention because it centers on physical conditions in the nation’s capital, not the familiar cycle of messaging and counter-messaging that typically dominates political coverage.

Democrats Keep Misrepresenting Citizens United—and Regulation of Speech Won’t Stay on Their Side

More than a decade after the Supreme Court decided Citizens United, the case is still routinely described in a way that doesn’t match what the ruling actually did. In today’s political arguments, it is often treated as a convenient villain for everything people dislike about campaign politics, even when the facts and legal limits of the decision say otherwise.

Maine Democrat Graham Platner Faces Scrutiny Over Credibility and Claims

Maine’s congressional race is increasingly being shaped less by policy proposals and more by questions about whether Democratic candidate Graham Platner can be taken at his word. With limited public accomplishments to point to, Platner’s campaign is asking voters to accept his version of events and his promises for the future, even as his background continues to draw controversy.