James Hohmann
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Deputy Opinion Editor, The Washington Post || [email protected]
Joined March 2009
RT @DanLamothe: Secretary Hegseth lives on a military installation and pays for it. So did Secretary Mattis when he was in office. So d….
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New editorial: Boston politicians fight the future by slow-rolling Waymos.
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Autonomous vehicles are already safer drivers than humans, but the Teamsters brush aside that data.
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New editorial: China cries foul over Labubu counterfeits. That’s rich.
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Intellectual property has been a one-way street for too long. Trump’s trade talks could help.
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China cries foul over Labubu counterfeits. That’s rich.
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Intellectual property has been a one-way street for too long. Trump’s trade talks could help.
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New editorial: A U.S.-led triumph of ‘trade over aid’ for Africa lapses next month
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Trump’s tariffs risk upending a 25-year success story. Lesotho shows how.
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Jeanine Pirro op-ed for The Washington Post: The fight to make D.C. safe and beautiful
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These three laws are detrimental to public safety and to my ability to fight crime.
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How the White House wriggled out of contempt of court
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The risk of the D.C. Circuit ruling is that Trump is emboldened to defy future judicial orders.
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Fighting crime in D.C. cannot end with Trump’s show of force
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The president’s takeover of the D.C. police will be temporary. Longer-term solutions will be needed.
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Helping undocumented students afford college isn’t discrimination.
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The Education Department targeting scholarships for DACA recipients is as absurd as it is cruel.
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A risky peace gamble in Alaska
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The time has come to discuss territorial concessions, but Ukraine also needs security guarantees.
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The trade deals Trump has announced are based on little more than handshakes. They often seem designed more for flashy headlines than fine print. No formal texts have been made public. Usually these take years to negotiate. But these are slapdash.
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More chaos is a safe bet, as Trump makes handshake deals and negotiations continue.
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Watching administration officials boast about raising taxes on Americans is surreal, but that’s what they’re doing. On Thursday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he expects the number to reach $50 billion a month. Americans will pay that.
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More chaos is a safe bet, as Trump makes handshake deals and negotiations continue.
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Just because tariffs are not as bad as they could have been does not mean they won’t hold back growth. The markets have not fully priced in the costs of the new world trade order that Trump has ushered in.
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More chaos is a safe bet, as Trump makes handshake deals and negotiations continue.
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Sunday editorial for The Washington Post: A growing disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street over tariffs
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More chaos is a safe bet, as Trump makes handshake deals and negotiations continue.
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Jim Lovell, astronaut who commanded Apollo 13, dies at 97. Played by Tom Hanks in the movie.
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He guided the spacecraft on its lunar voyage, including a perilous journey back to Earth. “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” he told Mission Control.
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We are experimenting with new vertical videos about our editorials. Check it out: Annoying pharmaceutical ads have real value. 💊💊💊
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Kennedy’s proposals to reduce the ads might sound reasonable. Here’s why they’re misguided.
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Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels in Latin America. via @NYTimes.
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The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.
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New Washington Post Editorial: D.C.’s crackdown on crime is working. Trump taking over won’t help.
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D.C.’s crackdown on crime is working. Trump taking over won’t make our streets safer.
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RT @PostOpinions: What’s really depressing America’s young men, @RahmEmanuel writes.
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The U.S. has two overlapping problems: the housing crisis and despondency in young men.
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RT @ELaserDavies: NEW: Phillip Todd, a staffer for Sen. Rand Paul, was nearly killed 2 years ago in a random stabbing on H Street. We've b….
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Phillip Todd, a staffer for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), was nearly killed in a random attack in D.C. He took two years to figure out what he wanted to say.
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