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Ruth Marcus

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Hillary Clinton is hypocritical to call the mogul sexist while putting her husband on the campaign trail.

  • Dec 28, 2015

The Las Vegas contest was part pop quiz, part cage match and part actual policy debate.

  • Dec 16, 2015

You can imagine the billionaire making deals, while the senator from Texas is an extremist ideologue.

  • Dec 15, 2015

Oral arguments on affirmative action expose the gulf between college realities and out-of-touch conservative justices.

  • Dec 11, 2015

He has combined offensiveness and policy in threatening to exclude Muslims from the U.S.

  • Dec 8, 2015

Our children are coming of age in a world where mass acts of violence occur on a daily basis.

  • Dec 4, 2015

Politicians who fueled the ‘baby parts’ controversy bear partial responsibility.

  • Dec 1, 2015

A new biography of the former president should be required reading for every presidential candidate.

  • Nov 27, 2015

Anti-Muslim bias echoes prejudice against Jews that doomed people fleeing Nazi Germany.

  • Nov 24, 2015

The risk to the court lies in failing to step up to the historical moment and do so now.

  • Apr 29, 2015
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Ruth Marcus is a columnist for The Post, specializing in American politics and domestic policy. Marcus has been with The Post since 1984. She joined the national staff in 1986, covering campaign finance, the Justice Department, the Supreme Court and the White House. From 1999 through 2002, she served as deputy national editor, supervising reporters who covered money and politics, Congress, the Supreme Court, and other national issues. She joined the editorial board in 2003 and began writing a regular column in 2006. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007. She lives in Maryland with her husband, Jon Leibowitz, their two daughters, and the world’s cutest dog.
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