opinion

The importance of history
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Sep 01, 2014
WASHINGTON — The monumental tapestry triptych by Marc Chagall, hanging in the State Hall of the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, hints at some of the art...
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Workers at the mercy of markets
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Sep 01, 2014
WASHINGTON — The questions hanging over Labor Day 2014 are whether and when America gets a pay raise. Ever since the 2008-09 financial crisis, the job...
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Do Dems do it better? Nope
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Aug 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — It’s a Democratic campaign consultant’s dream: a study from two respected academic economists concluding that, since the late 1940s, the ...
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Navy with a mission in mind
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Aug 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — Russia’s ongoing dismemberment of Ukraine and the Islamic State’s erasing of Middle Eastern borders have distracted attention from the ha...
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Tech firms’ poor record of diversity
Opinion, Сolumns
CATHERINE RAMPELL 
Aug 27, 2014
Tech companies are finally spilling some of their most sought-after secrets. No, not related to their R&D. I’m referring instead to other tightly guar...
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What line to draw on beheadings?
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Aug 27, 2014
WASHINGTON — “Don’t watch the video. Don’t share it. That’s not how life should be.” So tweeted Kelly Foley, a cousin of beheaded journalist James Fol...
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A legacy in question
Editorials, Opinion
RUTH MARCUS 
Aug 26, 2014
WASHINGTON — I’ve thought for some time that the Obama administration could look better in the rearview mirror of history than it does in the bumpy ri...
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Too detached to lead?
Editorials, Opinion
MICHAEL GERSON 
Aug 26, 2014
WASHINGTON — Having once served a president, I don’t begrudge any president a vacation. There is, in fact, no escape from this relentless job. A chang...
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Advice best left ignored
Opinion, Сolumns
RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR. 
Aug 25, 2014
SAN DIEGO — When it comes to what to do about the turmoil in Ferguson, Mo., President Obama is getting some bad advice. It came from one of the nation...
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In defense of the defenders
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Aug 25, 2014
WASHINGTON — What is called “the” 1964 Civil Rights Act is justly celebrated for outlawing racial and other discrimination in employment, “public acco...
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Corporate tax returns should be public
Opinion, Сolumns
CATHERINE RAMPELL 
Aug 23, 2014
Tax inversions. Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich. Spinning off tangible assets into real estate investment trusts. Son-of-BOSS shelters. These are a...
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No time to lead from behind
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL GERSON 
Aug 22, 2014
WASHINGTON — Responding to the horrifying murder of photojournalist James Foley, Secretary of State John Kerry declared, “ISIL (the Islamic State) and...
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Tell the story, don’t be it
Opinion, Сolumns
RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR. 
Aug 22, 2014
SAN DIEGO — Here are four tips for young reporters willing to learn from the mistakes of those caught up in the events of Ferguson, Mo. — Learn how to...
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When to police political behavior
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Aug 21, 2014
WASHINGTON — The headlines bring the accidentally colliding tale of two governors and, with it, a valuable debate about the proper role — and proper l...
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Fed up with cupcake cops
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Aug 21, 2014
WASHINGTON — In physics, a unified field theory is an attempt to explain with a single hypothesis the behavior of several fields. Its political coroll...
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When to police political behavior
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Aug 20, 2014
WASHINGTON — The headlines bring the accidentally colliding tale of two governors and, with it, a valuable debate about the proper role — and proper l...
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Scandals hiding in plain sight
Opinion, Сolumns
CATHERINE RAMPELL 
Aug 20, 2014
The laboratories of democracy are blowing up. A rash of relatively convoluted, thoroughly unsexy political scandals involving governors is moving thro...
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In a stew over inversions
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Aug 19, 2014
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama, presiding over an unusually dismal post-recession economy, might make matters worse with a distracting crusade against the ...
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