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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Liz Cheney’s mettle will be tested by taking on Donald Trump41899139

It is not often that you see Democrats tear up over a message from former vice-president Dick Cheney. However, his campaign ad for his daughter, Republican Liz Cheney – part swansong, part defiance, part nostalgia – tells us more about the decrepit state of the party than any Democrat’s ad has this cycle.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Letting Donald Trump off the hook would be an act of banana republicanism

Nervous pundits warn that for the good of the US, the American justice department ought not to indict Donald Trump, since prosecuting a former president is the sort of thing “banana republics” do.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Only US election issue that matters from now on is 1860 vs 2022

It gives me no joy to say that my prediction in April that the Supreme Court was set to launch a war on modern America – on its social and legal progress over decades – was accurate.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion A powerful rebuke of Trump and his reckless minions

The House January 6 committee’s members and staff deserve praise for their masterfully executed hearings made for the YouTube era.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Grieving gun reform activists stand in stark contrast to ‘spineless’ politicians

When Americans endure another preventable, horrific mass murder, their hearts turn to the latest victims and their loved ones as well as any survivors whose lives will be irreparably changed.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Joe Biden deserves credit for his support of Ukraine

When a courageous underdog country such as Ukraine suffers devastating losses to a genocidal invader, it is easy to say that other nations should do more to help. But what does “more” mean?

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Vladimir Putin has inadvertently become Nato’s best recruiter

Russian president Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine with the intention of wiping out a democracy on his border, a first step in rebuilding the Russian empire.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson stays calm and courageous in face of unfair barrage

No person in my memory has better exemplified the intellectual rigour, basic decency and phenomenal temperament we hope for in our judiciary than US Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Judge Jackson shows exactly why she was nominated

The opening session of the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was not about Jackson at all.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Invoking ‘cancel culture’ is just a way for perpetrators of unacceptable conduct to escape accountability

The Republican Party’s profligate use of “cancel culture” – like its use of “critical race theory” and “wokeness” – has turned the phrase into an all-purpose epithet to be flung at the left.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Putin has already failed in Ukraine – and that might make it harder to end the war

Joe Biden, in signing off on another $800bn (€720bn) in military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, said the goal is to ensure that the war “will never be a victory for Putin, no matter what advances he makes on the battlefield”.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Biden finds a foothold to regain some lost ground

Joe Biden just had one of his better weeks. He delivered a well-received State of the Union address. His stewardship of the unified democratic alliance has exceeded expectations, while heroic Ukrainians have set off an unexpected outpouring of public excitement and admiration. At least one poll showed a substantial lift in Biden’s approval rating .

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion The past week should serve as a deafening wake-up call to the West

We live in a time of soul-crushing evil. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is seeking to obliterate a sovereign country. And he’s murdering innocents in the process.

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Eyes of the world will be on Biden – his actions on Ukraine must match White House rhetoric

The expectation that Russia will mount a major aggressive war against Ukraine has heightened dramatically over the past few days.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Republican Party has become an Orwellian horror show

The Republican Party has betrayed the democratic system, first by refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, then by exonerating the violators and censuring the defenders of the constitution at its recent meeting in Salt Lake City. The party time and again has sided with treacherous seditionists.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Foreign Dispatch: Legal walls are closing in around Donald Trump

Donald Trump just had a really bad week. He faces, perhaps for the first time in his political career, a real prospect of being held accountable for his conduct in multiple legal challenges.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Republicans must denounce ‘big lie’ and uphold democracy

The image of Liz Cheney and her father, former vice president Dick Cheney, standing on the floor of the House as the sole Republicans to honour the police officers who died as a result of the January 6 insurrection should be seared into the minds of voters and reporters. It perfectly depicted a Republican Party utterly devoid of leadership, decency and honesty. (Apparently, Republicans no longer respect the “blue line”.)

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Journalists also have an obligation to fix democracy

Looking back on the first 10 months of Joe Biden’s presidency, we see little evidence the US media has examined its role in Republicans’ assault on democracy.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion US media and Republicans are fanning fears that do not exist

According to Republican politicians and right-wing media, a battle is raging between American parents and schools trying to impose mask requirements and other protections against Covid-19.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Republicans stand to gain if they detach from Donald Trump

Most media outlets, as they cling to their ‘Biden is doomed’ narrative despite a sunnier economic and legislative outlook, do not seem interested in exploring a giant challenge for many Republicans: They cannot associate themselves too closely with the most dominant personality in their party – who refuses to be ignored.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Alarmist media got the ‘failure’ narrative all wrong on Biden

President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party had a much-needed great-news day on Friday, upsetting the favoured political media narrative.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Biden must now back up his lofty words with actions

President Joe Biden’s remarks at the UN General Assembly focused on the notion the US faces an “inflection point”. The president talked about multiple challenges (ailing democracies, the climate, the coronavirus) that can only be addressed through multilateral action and “relentless diplomacy”.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Real mystery is why Republicans are in thrall to a crackpot

We already knew the former US president was suffering from the delusion that he won the 2020 election. We knew he tried to twist arms to overthrow the result. We knew he refused for hours to call off the insurrectionists he inspired to attack the US Capitol on January 6.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion When George W Bush became an unlikely font of wisdom about terrorist attack on US Capitol

Few expected wisdom from former president George W Bush on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Even fewer expected wisdom on the current state of US politics.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Joe Biden restores some common sense as patience with vaccine deniers wears thin

On Thursday, the Biden administration delivered some long-anticipated tough talk on behalf of America’s sane majority.

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A force that keeps Democrats from veering too far left

James Clyburn , the Democratic Party whip in the US House of Representatives, arguably saved President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign with his endorsement before the South Carolina primary.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion In tackling latest crisis, US must show up and lead with diplomacy

President Joe Biden joins a long list of US presidents who tried not to focus on the Israel-Palestine problem, only to be dragged into the conflict. With good reason, Biden seeks to tackle the greatest international challenges – China, Russia, Iran and transnational threats such as cyber-terror and climate change. However, reality gets a vote, so in the case of Israel, the new president will have to devote time, attention and political capital to a seemingly intractable issue he would rather avoid.

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Kamala Harris weighs in on xenophobia and sexism debate and takes on border crisis role

White House officials tells us Vice President Kamala Harris has been “in on everything” in the early days of the administration, acting as a vigorous adviser internally and shouldering much of the work during the outreach to Congress regarding the rescue plan. They also note her string of separate calls with world leaders.

Jennifer Rubin Opinion Republicans lost any remaining moral authority by backing Donald Trump

The decision should have been easy: Do you want to stick by an overwhelmingly unpopular former president who potentially has both civil and criminal liabilities, or do you want a fresh start for a party in need of new ideas?

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Jennifer Rubin Opinion Republican cowards reveal US has just one functioning, pro-democracy party

In a masterly job of lawyering, public education and civic performance, US House of Representatives impeachment managers got every available Republican vote to convict former president Donald Trump on Saturday.