An editorial guest cartoon by Jimmy Margulies 🎨 https://wapo.st/4mVFKgu

“What if Russia’s winning in Ukraine were only the beginning? The beginning of the enfeeblement of the United States?” The latest from George F. Will:

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An editorial guest cartoon by Matt Davies. 💸

"Trump is encouraging coal production and downplaying climate change, but future presidents and investors might not take the same approach," Salena Zito writes. https://wapo.st/4nEbJTp

"Executing dissidents is no laughing matter." The latest from the Editorial Board:

"AI holds real promise to tackle health care’s most entrenched problems, but its benefits must be directed to patients rather than technology companies," Dr. Leana S. Wen writes. https://wapo.st/42rm3G6

"In the space of four years under the Taliban, Afghanistan has become a place where women’s dreams glow only in a dim light," Shabana Basij-Rasikh writes. https://wapo.st/3Kwu8Dg

"Making the system more coherent will ensure that America properly takes care of its veterans," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/4nLReEI

"Here in the world’s internet hub, residents have long shouldered the costs of powering our insatiable digital demand," Stephen Voss writes. https://wapo.st/4nxAOQ1

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this." The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

"Growing use of AI accelerates the spread of foreign falsehoods," L. Gordon Crovitz writes. https://wapo.st/46DMVFf

"Launching another broad public health prevention campaign based on ambiguous observational studies and weak clinical trials risks a redux of the low-fat diet debacle," David S. Ludwig writes. https://wapo.st/4q2F5Nc

"The latest goods subject to U.S. tariffs," as drawn by Edith Pritchett 🎨 https://wapo.st/4ocGvD3

"Israelis themselves will decide how best to keep the peace, rebuild their frayed relations with much of the world and ensure that nothing like Oct. 7 ever happens again," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/48iv7AF

"Today’s rise in antisemitism shows how quickly welcome can give way to violence," Austin Albanese writes. https://wapo.st/3KJBTpj

"It has become a depressingly familiar strategy for a Saudi regime that is using its oil riches to buy credibility around the world," Richard Zoglin writes. https://wapo.st/470GLhp

"Not allowing judicial review of sending the military into U.S. cities would create a recipe for dictatorship," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/4mV43LF

"What are they doing in Tokyo, a population-dense city, that could be replicated in other cities?" a reader writes in Post Letters. https://wapo.st/42YYdl5

"Protein products are everywhere," as drawn by Edith Pritchett 🎨 https://wapo.st/4nxCado

"I fear my newfound expertise in drone-recognition and tourniquet-handling will become a globally useful skill," Anna Husarska writes. https://wapo.st/488xw0N

"Trump’s administration, ardently admired by 'national conservatives,' is the most economically interventionist administration — by this important metric, it is the most progressive administration — since the New Deal," George F. Will writes. https://wapo.st/4mJLCcr

"In general, acetaminophen is safe for most people when taken as directed for short-term use. Longer-term use, however, should be reviewed with a clinician," Dr. Leana S. Wen writes. https://wapo.st/46YNsAG

Comedy’s cultural center of gravity has shifted under Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert’s feet, Mark Robichaux writes.

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, Leonardo DiCaprio captures a generation in middle age, @williamfleitch writes. https://wapo.st/4gF6HmW

"Our elected and appointed leaders, on both sides, are failing — and, frankly, I don’t know if we have leaders out there who will take responsibility to set things back on track," a reader writes in Post Letters. https://wapo.st/3VQ1cbF

"After Trump took office determined to eliminate the Education Department, this represents an unsettling expansion of federal power in higher learning," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/4pZ5ITc

"As Washington has left friends and foes grappling with how to respond to its volley of tariffs and insults, China presents itself as a serious country with predictable, consistent policies," Fareed Zakaria writes. https://wapo.st/4nwNeaF

"As much as you insist that the shutdown is about delivering health insurance to ordinary Americans, that gets lost in the noise," @mattbaidc.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4o67zUo

An editorial guest cartoon by Matt Davies 🎨 https://wapo.st/46ROwpG

"The blame game," as drawn by Michael Ramirez 🎨 https://wapo.st/3ITAZ99

"President Donald Trump has a long record of prioritizing appearance and eager complicity over experience and competence," @drtedj.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/3WiZHTt

Thomas Jefferson accused Aaron Burr of treason, Jason Willick writes. John Adams’s reproach of the move resonates today.

"Police all over the country report gaggles of these mini-marauders wearing balaclavas, throwing rocks and M-80s, hassling anyone with the gall to be 20 or older," Rick Reilly writes. "You have any idea how hard it is to catch motorized teens who can go 50, screaming down alleys and up staircases?"

Here’s why people need to be cautious about acetaminophen, Dr. Leana S. Wen writes. https://wapo.st/42fmrr1

"Virginia’s gubernatorial campaign this fall has been not a comparison of policies so much as a clash of rhetorical styles — caution and restraint against combativeness and sensationalism," @marcfisher.bsky.social writes.

"My faith in Jesus has been tested by classmates who have asked me difficult questions," a reader writes in #PostLetters. "If a religious person is unwilling to answer questions about their faith ... then they might be committing what Albert Camus described as 'philosophical suicide.'"

An editorial guest cartoon by Dana Summers. 🎨

"'A House of Dynamite' is a product of today’s more complex world, where the dangers extend beyond a superpower confrontation," @maxboot.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4pRoWdd

"People on the move, including the young, have shifted preferences in a major way," Mitch Daniels writes. https://wapo.st/3IPeSAK

Without a U.S. assault weapons ban, cartels will get all the guns they need, @leonkrauze.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4mOaMa6

"Kimmel and his late-night confreres can take some solace in the knowledge that, far from being comedy outliers, they are the latest in a long American tradition," Richard Zoglin writes. https://wapo.st/4mKp9My

Obituaries have described Lally Weymouth as an “heiress” and a “socialite,” Jon Meacham writes. She was both, it is true, but to appreciate her remarkably original life, one must see her whole: https://wapo.st/4870MoJ

"Dems are picking the wrong hill to die on," James Hohmann says in a conversation with Robert Gebelhoff and @benjysarlin.bsky.social.

"What’s really at stake is the independence of the Federal Reserve, which must be free to make difficult but unpopular decisions to prevent the economy from overheating," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/4nPAegR

"Regulatory reforms have the potential to significantly reduce Obamacare premiums, especially for the younger and healthier enrollees that the law has punished," @avik.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/3Kvnv43

An editorial guest cartoon by Jimmy Margulies 🎨 https://wapo.st/4pNBLVM

"America’s cities ought not to be training grounds for preparing troops for future conflicts," the Editorial Board writes. "That’s not why soldiers serve. Defending the homeland is different from policing it."

The latest from Marc Fisher:

"Should an organization be considered a charity if most of its revenue comes from noncharitable sources?" Scott Hodge writes. https://wapo.st/48P7mjM