Opinion
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Michelle Teheux: An unlikely triumvirate reaches agreementJan 14, 2014 10:00 pm - I'm not sure how often bad-boy celebrity Russell Brand, President Barack Obama and the pope all agree upon something, but I'm guessing not very often. All three are talk...
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Dana Milbank: Robert Gates should have spoken soonerJan 14, 2014 10:00 pm - The criticism has been coming from all ideological quarters: Robert Gates should have waited longer before airing his differences with President Obama, Vice President Bi...
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Charita Goshay: Rodman's willful ignorance is a must-read for college athletesJan 14, 2014 10:00 pm - The latest antics of former NBA star Dennis Rodman show why a recent CNN investigation on the abysmal literacy rates among some college athletes is important. Education ...
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Michael Gerson: The coming test for Chris ChristieJan 13, 2014 10:00 pm - There is something inherently absurd about a political scandal resulting from an event that could also have been caused by a stray deer and a truck filled with watermelo...
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Mark L. Hopkins: Share the wealth?Jan 12, 2014 10:00 pm - President Barack Obama has identified growing inequality of wealth as a major issue. In short, the rich seem to get richer and the poor stay that way. Presidential candi...
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Esther Cepeda: Opening up Hurricane Katrina's woundsJan 12, 2014 10:00 pm - At first blush, you might mistake Sheri Fink's book "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital" for simply a disturbing and deeply engrossing pla...
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Michael Gerson: For a new fight against povertyJan 12, 2014 12:01 am - Assessing the outcome of the War on Poverty -- announced 50 years ago -- has always been complicated by the hopes it initially inspired. After his election in 1964, Lynd...
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Charles Krauthammer: How to fight academic bigotryJan 09, 2014 10:00 pm - For decades, the American Studies Association has labored in well-deserved obscurity. No longer. It's now made a name for itself by voting to boycott Israeli universitie...
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E.J. Dionne: Marijuana injusticesJan 08, 2014 10:00 pm - I have no desire to smoke marijuana, partly because doing so might drive me back to the cigarette habit I broke two decades ago. I don't want to be one of those "cool pa...
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Kathleen Parker: The meaning of wordsJan 07, 2014 10:00 pm - In politics, it's all in how you say things. George Orwell knew what he was talking about when he described political language as "designed to make lies sound truthfu...