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Jennifer Rubin

Washington, D.C.

Opinion columnist covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic

Education: University of California at Berkeley, BA in history; University of California at Berkeley, JD

Jennifer Rubin writes reported opinion for The Washington Post. She covers politics and policy, foreign and domestic, and provides insight into the conservative movement, the Republican and Democratic parties, and threats to Western democracies. Rubin, who is also an MSNBC contributor, came to The Post after three years with Commentary magazine. Prior to her career in journalism, Rubin practiced labor law for two decades, an experience that informs and enriches her work. She is a mother of two sons and lives with her husband in D.C. She is the author of “Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy f
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June 5, 2024

What more need Alito do before Durbin gets off the stick?

Passivity in the face of Supreme Court corruption is unacceptable.

May 26, 2024
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Capitol Hill on Dec. 19, 2023. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Trump had a hair-raising week

Trump had a string of terrible debacles, and Justice Juan Merchan set the law-and-order standard.

May 24, 2024
Former president Donald Trump, accompanied by attorney Todd Blanche, speaks to the media on May 16 in New York. (Victor J. Blue for The Washington Post)

Take it from conservative national security experts: Trump is unfit

Bolton and Gates deliver a warning on global security to America.

May 23, 2024
President Donald Trump chats with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the White House on May 10, 2017. (Russian Foreign Ministry/AP)

Who will be worse in the Trump-Biden debates? I answered your questions.

Read the chat’s transcript for Wednesday, May 22.

May 22, 2024

Abortion was already a top issue. Alito made the Supreme Court one, too.

A Democratic agenda: Lose the filibuster, reform the court and revive Roe.

May 21, 2024
General view shows the United States Supreme Court on Feb. 8. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/Reuters)

How to save the Supreme Court from Alito’s ethical malfeasance

The justice’s unconscionable violations of ethics demand the court be reformed.

May 20, 2024
Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Capitol Hill on March 7, 2019.

How Biden’s debate performance could blow open the race

He needs to goad Trump to be Trump, while reassuring voters about his own fitness for another term.

May 19, 2024
Donald Trump and Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate, on Oct. 22, 2020, in Nashville. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Trump’s promises to oil executives ought to be illegal

Plus, Democrats can benefit from both presidential debates and Maryland’s Democratic Senate primary.

May 17, 2024
Pump jacks in an oil field in Midland, Tex., on Aug. 22, 2018. (Nick Oxford/Reuters)

Biden’s right: The U.S. should oppose Israel’s tactics in Gaza

The U.S. must stand up to the strategic stupidity that is creating a humanitarian disaster.

May 16, 2024
Israeli tanks are seen in southern Israel after leaving the Gaza Strip near Rafah on May 11. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post).