Opinion
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E.J. Dionne: Obama's wake-up callMay 09, 2013 1:00 am - President Obama got roughed up by the pundit class last week. The question is what lessons he draws from the going-over. Here's one he should take: The nation's politic...
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Kathleen Parker: The Bush I knewMay 05, 2013 2:32 am - In a reprieve from the horror of the most recent terrorist attack, the nation's attentions turned to the man who declared the war on terrorism, George W. Bush. During...
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Dana Milbank: Washington at its best -- and worstMay 04, 2013 2:28 am - This last weekend of April displays the very best and the very worst of Washington. Most of the country sees the worst part: the triumph of money and power. For th...
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E.J. Dionne: The economic whodunitMay 03, 2013 2:24 am - The policy mystery of our time is why politicians in the United States and across much of the democratic world are so obsessed with deficits when their primary mission ...
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Esther Cepeda: Shrugging off words that hurtMay 02, 2013 2:20 am - What do you do when you get trapped in a stereotype that doesn't apply -- or just plain hurts? This is not a trivial question. As Hispanics start populating academia,...
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Kathleen Parker: The governor, the soul mate and ... The EndApr 29, 2013 4:09 am - As the reporter said to the novelist: Why bother to make stuff up? For stories and characters, one needs only a pair of walking shoes in this city, where recent attent...
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Dana Milbank: A lack of appetite for this conservativeApr 28, 2013 5:02 am - Whoever thinks there's no such thing as a free lunch has not been to the Heritage Foundation. After Sen. Mike Lee's speech to the conservative think tank Monday, his ...
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Michael Gerson: Ideological impairment over IslamApr 27, 2013 4:59 am - In 2009, Ruslan Tsarni and his nephew Tamerlan Tsarnaev had a bitter argument over the implications of their faith. Tsarnaev announced he had chosen "God's business" ov...
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E.J. Dionne: The way forward on gunsApr 26, 2013 2:56 am - Victories often contain the seeds of future defeats. So it is -- or at least should be -- with the Senate's morally reprehensible rejection of expanded background check...
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Eugene Robinson: Resolute, but with an asteriskApr 22, 2013 11:00 pm - The nation demonstrated again last week how resolute it can be when threatened by murderous terrorists -- and how helpless when ordered to heel by smug lobbyists for the...