Opinion
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Philip Maddocks: Boehner hopeful that Putin will now help U.S. avoid fiscal crisisSep 19, 2013 11:00 pm - For the first time in more than a year, House Speaker John A. Boehner expressed confidence that lawmakers will agree to a deficit-reduction deal and recalcitrant conserv...
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Esther Cepeda: The tough world of boysSep 18, 2013 11:00 pm - It's been a windfall week for boys, those too-oft overlooked stakeholders in American education. First I found "Boys Have Deep Emotional Lives," an article in The Atl...
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Mark L. Hopkins: Are we in a constitutional crisis?Sep 15, 2013 11:00 pm - Sept. 17 is Constitution Day, and it is fitting that once each year we set aside a day of commemoration for this one-of-a-kind document that changed the way countries an...
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Eugene Robinson: Not in the national interestSep 08, 2013 1:00 am - Are we really going to do this? Are we going to wade into a struggle we don't really want to fight? Are we going to mire ourselves in a senseless, grinding conflict whos...
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E.J. Dionne: Syria and the return of dissentSep 07, 2013 1:00 am - The debate over Syria is a jumble of metaphors, proof that every discussion of military action involves an argument about the last war. Yet beneath the surface, the figh...
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Esther Cepeda: Lost in a changing AmericaSep 06, 2013 1:00 am - Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently told members of the Arizona Minuteman border-watch movement that they could end up "seeing 30 rounds fired into them" if they're not more car...
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E.J. Dionne: The Armageddon CaucusAug 31, 2013 1:00 am - Are you ready for the Big Magilla of American politics? This fall, every important domestic issue could crash into every other: health care reform, autopilot budget cuts...
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Esther Cepeda: For first generations, few miraclesAug 30, 2013 1:00 am - Twenty-one years ago this month, my parents drove 332 miles to drop me off at a college campus none of us had ever set foot on. Amazingly -- and despite many fears --...
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Dana Milbank: The weakest generation?Aug 29, 2013 1:00 am - In my mother's telling, I exist because of the March on Washington. Her account went something like this: In 1963, she was a student at Goddard College, an experimenta...
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Dr. Elaine Heffner: Are apps good for young children?Aug 26, 2013 11:00 pm - It seems like only yesterday that controversy raged about whether watching TV was good or bad for young children. The argument then moved on to the "Baby Einstein" video...