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.
Latest from Jason Willick

Why DeSantis and Trump are hyping the death penalty

A grim constant in Republican presidential politics is the persistence of the death penalty as an issue, even as its use has dramatically faded.

April 22, 2023

This Jan. 6 case could make U.S. politics even worse

The DOJ's use of the "obstruction of an official proceeding" statute invites the exercise of raw power. With luck, the Supreme Court will intervene.

April 13, 2023

From Manhattan to Madison, a bruising week for American federalism

If state institutions start to appear ineffectual, the balance of power will tend to shift toward Washington.

April 9, 2023

How ‘no one is above the law’ became anti-Trump sloganeering

The phrase, now echoing in progressive circles, could be used to justify any prosecution, no matter how poorly predicated, selective or malicious.

March 31, 2023

Did Ron DeSantis really flip-flop on Russia and Ukraine?

The Republican supported arming Ukraine after Russia's seizure of Crimea in 2014. But his current stance is not so contradictory as critics claim.

March 18, 2023

What the misinformation scare reveals about faith in democracy

Study finds that people who see the greatest social threat from misinformation tend to be those who have gravest doubts about ordinary people's common sense.

March 12, 2023

How Israel’s culture war turns America’s upside-down

If some Christians fear becoming a minority in the United States, it’s secular Israelis who worry about the country’s increasingly religious trajectory.

March 5, 2023

How one Republican senator wants to hold his party together on Ukraine

Sen. Tom Cotton favors arming Ukraine to strike deep into Russia, hastening the war's end and freeing the United States to focus on the threat from China.

February 25, 2023

How Biden’s Ukraine strategy benefits from Republican opposition

The president's caution runs counter to his soaring rhetoric about the war. Luckily, he has GOP critics to use as a foil.

February 20, 2023

The conservative challenge to liberalism goes deeper than self-interest

New studies reveal a fascinating conservative-liberal divide on two important procedural norms — federalism and free speech — and the partisan interests served.

February 12, 2023