By Neal Peirce
WASHINGTON - How fast are our downtowns, neighborhoods and regions truly changing? Are cities on a clear comeback path? What's the future... | By E.J. Dionne Jr.
WASHINGTON - Recently, a group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation ran a full-page ad in The Washington Post cast as an... | By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON -- Tea party advocates in Indiana are congratulating themselves on the Republican primary victory of one of their own, Richard Mourdock,... | By Clarence Page
As a political issue, same-sex marriage is like playing 3-D chess: Opponents of the idea need to move quickly because the game... | By Ross Douthat
For a generation or more, liberals have complained that the Republican Party uses social and cultural debates to distract voters from pocketbook... | By Thomas Friedman
Poring through Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel's new book, "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets," I found myself over and... | By Maureen Dowd
WASHINGTON - In 1983, Genevieve Cook brought a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream to a Christmas party in the New York's East... | By Nicholas Kristof
This is a Mother's Day tribute to a mighty woman and to the doctor who gave her back her life - and... | By Charles Blow
Mitt the menace.
That's the image that emerged of a high-school-aged Mitt Romney from a Washington Post article this week that recounted... | By Frank Bruni
I'm pretty certain it was six years ago. I know I was in a restaurant. I know, too, that I was a... | By Susan Estrich
Depending on which poll you believe, Obama is either up by 3, 7 or 9 points, or down by 1, 3 or... | By Joe Nocera
"It plays right into the hands of a bunch of pundits out there," sighed Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase,... | By Petula Dvorak
Of course we love those macaroni necklaces. And who wouldn't want another mug?
Cereal and syrup for breakfast? In bed? Bring it... | By Jo-Ann Armao
As more sordid details emerge in the trial of former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D, one question lingers: Why on earth did... | By Gail Collins
Today, let's do a favor for Mitt Romney.
Not on your to-do list?
Indulge me.
You have undoubtedly heard the... | By Alexandra Petri
As a culture, we're unhealthily obsessed with our mothers.
For the past several months, I have been deluged with e-mails wanting to... | By Robert Scheer
Once again, President Barack Obama has come tantalizingly close to being terrific. But his failure of courage on the gay marriage issue,... | By Eugene Robinson
WASHINGTON - President Obama's evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation's long march toward equality and justice.... | By Mark Jarmuth
Ask Newt, ask Rick (ask Barack in November). They'll tell you. Mitt Romney is not a nice guy. In fact, he can... | By Ruth Marcus
WASHINGTON - The White House, according to a senior official, always knew it was going to have to take the plunge on... | By Walter Brasch
Last year, not one of the 491,687 new minivans sold in the United States was made in America by unionized workers.
Some... | By Froma Harrop
On the HBO series "Girls," Hannah asks her boss at a publishing house for a salary. The 24-year-old has been working as... | By Paul Krugman
A few days ago, I read an authoritative-sounding paper in The American Economic Review, one of the leading journals in the field,... | By Richard L. Hasen
The politician's words captured the moment. "This is a historic time . . . and one side simply has to win... | By Susan Estrich
"They made me feel so small."
Bea does my nails. I found her because she works seven days a week until 8... | By Nicholas Kristof
PINE RIDGE, S.D. - This sprawling Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a Connecticut-sized zone of prairie and poverty, where the have-nots are... | By Ruth Marcus
WASHINGTON - I wrote earlier this week that same-sex marriage had turned into a test of character and leadership for President Obama.... | By Clarence Page
So what if Elizabeth Warren claims to be part Native American Indian? She's entitled, according to historical documents. Besides, Americans never have... |
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The overnight rating for the Kentucky Derby telecast has slipped again, hitting a six-year low. This was despite NBC's best efforts to... | By Charles Lane
I'm just back from the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, where billionaire Warren Buffett and 25,000 of his closest personal friends... | By Vic Strasburger
What can you say about an organization that won’t stop until everyone in the country is armed? That it has the... | By Dan Blumenthal and Lara Crouch
Everyone knows that China is on the rise, that the United States is in decline, and that the two... | By Maureen Dowd
PARIS - In the last election, Nicolas Sarkozy lost his wife. In this one, he lost France.
His friends worry about how... | By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON - The old debate question that helped put Ronald Reagan in the White House three decades ago -- "Are you... | By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON - The old debate question that helped put Ronald Reagan in the White House three decades ago -- "Are you... | By Thomas Friedman
AMMAN, Jordan - Fortunately, there is another Arab Spring going on alongside the drama in the streets of Cairo and Damascus. It... | By Donald Kaul
If you invented a pill that offers long life, good health, and a body to be proud of, you'd make a fortune.... | By William A. Collins
Oil from tar sands is our gripe;
Hard to keep it in the pipe.
Poor TransCanada. Everything looked so promising. The... | By E.J. Dionne Jr.
WASHINGTON -- We know there are coffee lovers and tea lovers, as well as lovers of baseball, football, art, literature, music... | By Jim Hightower
Maybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican miserliness was reached when Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Agriculture proposed that ketchup be... | By Albert R. Hunt
WASHINGTON - Several presidential candidates have called the 2012 U.S. elections the most important ever. That seems a reach: more important... | By Paul Krugman
The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And it's about time.
Both countries held elections Sunday that were in effect referendums on... | By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON - As Mitt Romney continues his quest for the silver bullet that will wipe out all the deep reservations about his... | By Benjamin Pauker
In an era of global turmoil, volatile oil prices, and muscle-flexing state-owned petroleum companies, ExxonMobil still rules the roost. In an exclusive... | By Neal Peirce
Defining "crowdsourcing" consumes close to 4,000 words on Wikipedia -- fitting enough for an electronic encyclopedia that's being updated 24/7 by more... | By Clarence Page
Like many of us who pontificate for a living, my column-writing colleague Jonah Goldberg apparently toils away in daily frustration that so... |
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