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Diversity meets journalism
Opinion, Сolumns
RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR. 
Nov 01, 2014
SAN DIEGO — There’s a rift between CNN and the National Association of Black Journalists. Now the leader of the Congressional Black Caucus wants to ma...
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Bill Gates’ moment
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Oct 31, 2014
WASHINGTON — “Ebola has reminded people that it is not just poor people who can die of infectious disease,” Bill Gates tells me, in a characteristical...
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Jump in, Jeb
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Oct 31, 2014
WASHINGTON — Run, Jeb, run. I mean it, despite two powerful arguments against a presidential run by Jeb Bush — one specific to the former Florida gove...
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The ‘dictator’ is a bystander
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Oct 31, 2014
WASHINGTON — In July, when House Republicans voted to sue the president, they spoke of the urgent need to stop “tyranny” at the other end of Pennsylva...
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The people and the pendulum
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHLEEN PARKER 
Oct 30, 2014
WASHINGTON — To paraphrase Roger Miller — and, indeed, to reveal my vast store of musical trivia — America swings like a pendulum do. If projections, ...
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In Georgia, a capitalist struggles
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Oct 30, 2014
MCDONOUGH, Ga. — In a sun-dappled square decorated with scores of entrants in the community’s Halloween scarecrow contest, a balky sound system enable...
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The millionaire explosion
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Oct 29, 2014
WASHINGTON — The millionaire’s club isn’t what it used to be. Time was that “being a millionaire” was a mark of unimaginable success. You’d joined the...
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Two canine heroes at the Secret Service
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Oct 29, 2014
WASHINGTON — It’s a good thing for Dominic Adesanya that U.S. marshals don’t bite. If they did, he would have a new set of puncture wounds to match th...
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Getting smart at the border
Opinion, Сolumns
RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR. 
Oct 28, 2014
SAN DIEGO — Recently, after I took a jab at right-wingers with closed minds who want closed borders, a reader asked: “Are you for open borders and the...
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A matter of ends
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Oct 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — In an older, gentrifying, suburban Virginia neighborhood — the kind with porch flags and pumpkins on the front steps — I am welcomed at a...
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Done in by John Doe
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Oct 27, 2014
WASHINGTON — The early morning paramilitary-style raids on citizens’ homes were conducted by law enforcement officers, sometimes wearing bulletproof v...
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Sex and the poor
Opinion, Сolumns
CATHERINE RAMPELL 
Oct 25, 2014
America has decided: Sex is for rich people. Non-procreative sex in particular. How else would you explain the trap we’re laying for poor people who d...
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Still in denial on Ebola
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Oct 24, 2014
WASHINGTON — It is such a relief about that Ebola thing. The threat of an American outbreak turned out to be overhyped. A military operation is underw...
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Grimes goes off-script, finally
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Oct 24, 2014
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Last week, the national Democratic Party left Alison Lundergan Grimes for dead. So why does she still have a pulse? The Democrati...
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Lessons from Patient Zero
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Oct 23, 2014
WASHINGTON — Monica Lewinsky is trying to make lemonade out of 16-year-old lemons. Good for her, and good, ultimately, for us. Not so good, of course,...
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For GOP, no victory lap
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Oct 22, 2014
WASHINGTON — On the theory that chickens should not only be counted before they hatch but killed, let us consider the downsides for Republicans of win...
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Pennsylvania’s politics of virtue
Opinion, Сolumns
WALTER BRASCH 
Oct 22, 2014
The Pennsylvania Senate, possibly for the first time in its history, stood up against the NRA leadership and extreme gun-rights groups, and voted to b...
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