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There was a moment during a recent meeting between the Post-Dispatch Editorial Board and a high-ranking Israeli diplomat that provided some jolting clarity to the global debate over the war in Gaza. We noted during the discussion that, as a board, we have consistently supported Israel’s right to defend itself. “I appreciate that, but it’s part of the problem,” responded Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, Israeli consul general for the diplomatic subdivision that includes St. Louis. “Would you or anybody else … refer to any other country in the world [as having] the ‘right to defend themselves?’” he continu...
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The political leaders of Missouri have spent the better part of the past year working to make sure that residents of this state have no direct voice in the fundamental question of whether women should be allowed to control their own bodies. They’re still working at it. So tight is the Republican grip on Missouri government, and so intractable their opposition to even the most reasonable abortion-rights concessions, that it’s easy to wonder if the will of the people could possibly be allowed to prevail. But it can. Regular Missourians can, right now, join the abortion-rights signature campaign ...
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As exonerations go, it was the worst kind imaginable. It might be stretching things, but only a little, to suggest that President Joe Biden would have been politically better off had Thursday’s Department of Justice report concluded that he was legally culpable for mishandling classified documents than to let him off the hook with the explanation that he is a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Then there was the forehead-slap moment during Biden’s angry press conference response, in which he appeared to reassign the president of Egypt to Mexico. Sigh. In fairness, Biden was a gaff...
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Missouri once held the shameful distinction of being among America’s top havens for child marriages, drawing statutory rapists and their underaged victims from around the country to take advantage of lax marital laws here. That changed six years ago, when the state finally set a minimum marital age of 16. That’s still too young, but is in line with most states in the nation. Missouri now has an opportunity to stand out nationally once again on the topic of marriage, this time with pride instead of shame. Pending bipartisan legislation would set a minimum age of 18 for marriage. It would put Mi...
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For someone who has been writing about politics for the past several years in this current political environment, it came as a surprise when I heard a politician say something that shocked me. Yet that was my exact reaction when I heard U.S. Rep. Cori Bush’s speech at her reelection campaign kickoff Jan. 27. Bush, the Missouri Democrat from St. Louis, spoke in front of the crowd of approximately 200 of her supporters at a rally in north St. Louis County. About 20 minutes in, she started talking about U.S. aid to Israel. For context, at the end of October, President Joe Biden requested from Con...
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Last week’s made-for-TV Senate grilling of several of America’s top tech moguls drove home the serious issue of harm that social media platforms can do to children. It also demonstrated yet again — with performative and at times outright clownish grandstanding by senators — why a political solution has been so elusive. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing Congress can do. What came through all the sound and fury of Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is that these companies’ biggest fear is being exposed to lawsuits holding them accountable for their negligence regarding content. T...
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Did you hear the one about the cops who crashed their police cruiser into a bar and then handcuffed the owner for creating a disturbance? The sick joke that is the city’s handling of the incident at a south St. Louis bar in late December just keeps getting less funny. Newly revealed bystander video confirms that the officers' belligerent behavior and handcuffing of the bar's co-owner after the crash was utterly unjustified. And how is this for a punchline? The city has sent a threatening letter to the owner of the building ordering him to ( Wait for it! ) repair the damage done by the police c...
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The apparent collapse in Congress of a bipartisan agreement on America’s southern border has exposed two glaring truths regarding today’s Republican Party: One, despite all the apocalyptic rhetoric from congressional Republicans, the party does not actually want to solve the border crisis — at least not while a solution could be politically advantageous to a Democratic president. And two, the central driver of this and so much other dangerous dysfunction on the political right — former President Donald Trump — has become the Republican establishment he once challenged. His wish is his party’s ...
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It isn’t often that a shift in federal tax policy has an immediate, positive and widespread impact on America’s struggling working families. And it’s perhaps even more rare in today’s fractious political environment that both parties can get together to make that happen. Yet it appears Congress is headed toward exactly that kind of breakthrough with a plan to revive the Biden administration’s pandemic-era child tax credits — a brief policy that ushered in an unprecedented reduction in child poverty levels before it was allowed to expire two years ago. Bringing it back would help both working f...
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As Missouri lawmakers embark on yet another legislative session sure to be defined by right-wing extremism and entrenched partisanship, positive exception has arisen regarding, of all things, public assistance: A bipartisan proposal would finally end a cruel and counterproductive lifetime ban on food stamp eligibility for people with felony drug convictions in their past. Technically, the state modified that ban a decade ago, but under such onerous restrictions that it effectively still prevents almost anyone with a felony drug record from accessing the federal-state Supplemental Nutrition Foo...
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