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Philip Bump
The incoming Trump administration — like his first administration and like the Biden administration — wants to use old stereotypes about disease as a tool to seal the border. Thursday’s ...
The gutting of American institutions has led to Trump gutting America itself
The Trump administration’s upending of governmental systems and processes is part of a familiar pattern. Sen. Lindsey Graham ...
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Americans worry about democracy — particularly the ‘representative’ part
(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Column by Philip Bump Exit polling suggests that about a third of those who cast a vote in the 2024 presidential election viewed American democracy as the ...
Are we past peak social media?
Social media might never be the same. Is this the new normal, or will things get worse?
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From the Pig Town Boys to the Green Avenue Stompers: A 1954 map of New York City street gangs
In his Washington Post newsletter "How to Read This Chart," Philip Bump presents a map of New York City street gangs from a ...
Opinion
Trump’s DEI push doesn’t level the playing field. It digs trenches.
This isn’t an accident, obviously. The government is deliberate about ensuring that physical constraints aren’t barriers for employees — deliberate as a matter of law, yes, but also as a matter of ...
Falsehoods around the L.A. fires are proliferating on the right
There is nothing political about the wildfires that have annihilated thousands of buildings around Los Angeles this week, with two exceptions. The first is that California and Los Angeles are run by ...