opinion

Words to the wise
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHLEEN PARKER 
Oct 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — Words have a way of seeping into our vocabulary and, through overuse or distortion, soon begin to lose their meaning. Who could have imag...
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Obama steps up
Opinion, Сolumns
RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR. 
Oct 08, 2014
SAN DIEGO — There is nothing wrong with having a president who likes to debate. But things get awkward when he debates himself. We really don’t want a...
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One amazing transformation
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Oct 08, 2014
WASHINGTON — Who would have thought: — That gay rights groups’ biggest concern would not be how the Supreme Court would rule on same-sex marriage but ...
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The GOP’s mug-shot primary
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Oct 07, 2014
WASHINGTON — Why is the lineup of prospective GOP presidential candidates beginning to look like, well, a lineup? Chris Christie went to campaign last...
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On Ebola, hard choices
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Oct 07, 2014
WASHINGTON — Here is what officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health have been telling us: Amer...
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In Texas, an undue burden
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Oct 05, 2014
WASHINGTON — I was in the jittery Supreme Court chamber on a summer morning in 1992 when the right to abortion was on the line. As the justices took t...
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A Bell-ringer in New Jersey
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Oct 05, 2014
PRINCETON, N.J. — Every 36 years, it seems Jeff Bell disturbs New Jersey’s political order. In 1978, as a 34-year-old apostle of supply-side economics...
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Jobs and marriage go together
Opinion, Сolumns
CATHERINE RAMPELL 
Oct 04, 2014
WASHINGTON — When I wrote recently about how most millennials wanted to marry but found marriage out of economic reach, lots of skeptical readers wrot...
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The Lehman Brothers mystery (cont’d)
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Oct 04, 2014
WASHINGTON — The New York Times had a fascinating story the other day, which again raises a crucial historical question about the financial crisis: Di...
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Discipline along with love
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Oct 03, 2014
CLEVELAND — Ginn Academy resembles no urban public school I’ve ever visited: all male, dress shirt and tie, the Socratic method employed in classrooms...
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Yes, ‘mistakes were made’
Opinion, Сolumns
DANA MILBANK 
Oct 03, 2014
WASHINGTON — Julia Pierson is really putting “secret” into the Secret Service. First, her agency declared that the White House fence jumper who made i...
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Whose war on women?
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHLEEN PARKER 
Oct 02, 2014
WASHINGTON — It has long been accepted by the conventionally wise that the Republican Party is waging a “war on women.” Let’s be clear. The war on wom...
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A new case for term limits
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Oct 02, 2014
“The legislative department is everywhere ... drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.” — James Madison, Federalist 48 WASHINGTON — Unfortunately,...
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Let’s export oil
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Oct 01, 2014
WASHINGTON — One of the economy’s good-news stories is the oil boom, a derivative of the natural gas boom. When the drilling techniques used to tap va...
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In Holder’s exit, a vacuum
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Oct 01, 2014
WASHINGTON — Who’ll be the next attorney general? Washington’s favorite parlor game is filling Cabinet vacancies; I like playing as much as the next p...
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The bad rep of for-profit colleges
Opinion, Сolumns
CATHERINE RAMPELL 
Sep 30, 2014
For-profit colleges can’t get no respect, at least not from employers. Which suggests that maybe they should be getting less generous taxpayer subsidi...
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The Three-D election
Opinion, Сolumns
G. TERRY MADONNA and MICHAEL L. YOUNG 
Sep 30, 2014
What is the biggest problem facing America today? Certainly, there is a long litany to choose from: foreign wars, corrupt politicians, out-of-control ...
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Battle royal in Iowa
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Sep 29, 2014
URBANDALE, Iowa — The Machine Shed restaurant, where the waitresses wear bib overalls and suggest a cinnamon roll the size of a loaf of bread as a bre...
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Setting a deadline on death
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Sep 29, 2014
WASHINGTON — My friend Ezekiel Emanuel, in his typically smart, provocative and bullheaded way, has decreed that he hopes to die at age 75, which woul...
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