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BARONE: The new politics of Metropole versus Heartland

You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France's most recent national election and in Germany's. In Canada's election ...

ERICKSON: Eighty-twenty

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, armed with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, attacked a group of peaceful Jews in Boulder, Colo., who were remembering the hostages taken from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. At least one of Soliman's victims was a Holocaust survivor. Soliman and his ...

DE RUGY: The ‘China Shock’ myth is unraveling

When Donald Trump first campaigned in 2015, he capitalized on a potent narrative: that China's rise gutted American manufacturing, leaving countless blue-collar communities devastated. Known now as the "China shock," that idea paved the way for a dramatic resurgence in protectionism, ...

NAPOLITANO: The right to be left alone

Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies. Here is the backstory. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to ...