Jason Willick

Opinion columnist

Education: Stanford University, BA

Jason Willick writes a regular Washington Post column on legal issues, political ideas and foreign affairs. Before coming to The Post in 2022, he was an editorial writer and assistant editorial features editor for the Wall Street Journal, and before that a staff writer and associate editor at the American Interest.
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Latest from Jason Willick

This provocative liberal theory about Netanyahu falls flat

The theory: Netanyahu prolongs the war with Hamas to avoid going to jail. It crumbles upon close inspection.

September 6, 2024
Signs posted outside the New York City offices of the United Jewish Appeal by critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this month. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Prosecutors test the Supreme Court’s limits on Trump and Jan. 6

The latest indictment proves that some “divisive battles of the past” can be awfully convenient to keep alive.

August 29, 2024
Special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against former president Donald Trump this week. (Jon Elswick/AP)

The real reason Kamala Harris needs media scrutiny

It’s not about democratic norms, nor is it about building trust with voters.

August 28, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz board Air Force Two in Eau Claire, Wis., on Aug. 7. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/Getty Images)

The abortion endgame comes into view

Unless Republicans hold off a Democratic “trifecta” indefinitely, Democrats will have a chance to make good on their promise.

August 23, 2024
Attendees at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

How Alexis de Tocqueville explains Democratic Party conformity

Why Democrats could so easily pivot from defending Biden’s abilities to celebrating Harris’s takeover.

August 21, 2024
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris onstage Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Chuck Schumer’s plan to create a constitutional crisis

The Senate majority leader is proposing a radical plan to hamstring the Supreme Court.

August 8, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Aug. 1. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

The death penalty controversy that almost derailed Harris’s rise

As a district attorney, she stuck to her position despite pressure from Democratic politicians.

August 5, 2024
Kamala D. Harris, San Francisco's district attorney at the time, after a 2004 hearing for murder suspect David Hill. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle/AP)

Biden’s supreme stunt

The president’s Supreme Court proposals are much more about politics and resentment than reform.

July 30, 2024
President Biden speaks at an event commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin on Monday. Biden outlined his proposed Supreme Court reforms. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Are Democrats really going to do this?

Democrats’ rush to Kamala Harris bypasses the question of who has the best chance of beating Trump.

July 22, 2024
Tony Tribby wears a T-shirt in support of Vice President Harris outside of the White House on Sunday. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)

Did Vance sell a new kind of conservative nationalism?

On Wednesday night, “Hillbilly Elegy” Vance fused with modern MAGA.

July 18, 2024
Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)