Matt Bai
Politics Contributing Columnist at The Washington Post
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." Read me now at @PostOpinions: https://t.co/JNAdzBh3lU. More at https://t.co/h8EOTiesaq.
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Matt Bai
If the ADL thinks Trump’s thuggery is protecting Jews, it’s wrong (washingtonpost.com) If the ADL thinks Trump’s thuggery is protecting Jews, it’s wrong By Matt Bai 2025040116470400 It's often said that protecting basic liberties is most important when it's hard to do. It's especially important when it means defending people whose worldview we might find odious or even threatening.
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Matt Bai
You're reading the Prompt 2025 newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. If I had a nickel for everyone who's asked me over the past few weeks why Democrats aren't mounting a more spirited resistance to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's joint upheaval of the federal government, I'd have a mountain of useless nickels.
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Matt Bai
14 minMore often than not, when conquering armies storm across borders or into rebel strongholds, they set about finding ways to humiliate the people they find there. They are capricious and cruel. They want their enemies to understand their own insignificance. In Elon Musk's siege on Washington, the first village taken was the U.S. Agency for International Development, which dispensed roughly $32 billion in foreign aid last year (or less than half a percent of the federal budget).
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2 months ago |
washingtonpost.com | Matt Bai
10 minIn my first essay about President Donald Trump's so-called DOGE commission last month, I wrote about David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, and his failed crusade to roll back federal spending in the 1980s. Imagine my surprise when I sat down at my desk that very morning and found, at the top of my inbox, a cheerful message from Stockman himself.
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Jan 6, 2025 |
independent.ie | Matt Bai
Joe Biden will be remembered as the president who didn’t know when it was time for him to goPresident Joe Biden in New Orleans: AP· In the long run, we tend to remember one-term presidents more for their principled stands than for their ultimate failures. Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard M. Nixon has become, over the years, a story of self-sacrifice.
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