Opinion | The Panama Canal is in dire straits

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "No one has ever mistaken me for a conservative," Gene writes, "but I believe our democracy functions best when there is healthy, fact-based competition between liberal and conservative viewpoints.
50% : Shadi's column looks at what makes Trump so appealing to so many; the movement he has created is "extreme without being dogmatic," which suits an angry, unprincipled America just fine.
49% : All right, things are perhaps not quite that dire, but as the Editorial Board reports, climate change has driven the water levels of the reservoir that feeds the canal perilously low, bottlenecking global trade through the route.
43% : If Trump wins again, it will be off this ability.
38% : "Alas, that isn't happening with today's version of the party, which has once again fully given itself over to Donald Trump.
36% : On fossil fuels, Republicans can't crow that the United States is producing more oil than any other country in history because that ruins the narrative that the industry is overregulated and undersupported.

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