The Plum Line



  • Opinion

Polls show that Americans disapprove of Biden's handling, but approve of withdrawal overall.

  • Opinion

You think having corporations mad at you will be bad, just wait until the public decides you're ineffectual and weak.

  • Opinion

This is what it looks like when conservative individualism is taken to an extreme degree in the middle of a pandemic.

  • Opinion

For many right-wing personalities, the insurrectionists' cause has a righteous core.

  • Opinion

Communities struggling against covid-19 — and against GOP governors — get a bit of support.

  • Opinion

All our self-delusions are still on display as we withdraw from Afghanistan.

  • Opinion

A new report sounds an urgent warning. Will we listen?

  • Opinion

If you think an industry worth trillions of dollars is going to let Congress mess around with its profits without a fight, think again.

  • Opinion

We need a real accounting over Afghanistan. Republicans will never provide it.

  • Opinion

The Afghanistan withdrawal reminds us that the existential threat to America is no longer supposed to come from outside.

  • Opinion

The combination of anti-mask derangement and ethnonationalist cruelty bodes badly.

  • Opinion

The select House panel is casting an extraordinarily wide investigative net.

  • Opinion

Democrats are thanking their lucky stars for the likes of Herschel Walker.

  • Opinion

He's only the latest Democratic president to take on big challenges while having to clean up Republican messes.

  • Opinion

The Democrats' big new voting rights push crosses an important threshold.

  • Opinion

Large majorities are rejecting just about every one of the Florida governor's covid-19 stances.

  • Opinion

Anybody can be independent; the value of a shameless panderer shouldn't be underestimated.

  • Opinion

The whole Republican Party should feel shame at what it has been doing.

  • Opinion

More Democrats should denounce these efforts to derail Nancy Pelosi's two-track strategy.

  • Opinion

Every side needs to be able to say it won.

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