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The Good Gals and Guys Win One

The Good Gals and Guys Win One

By Ruth Gadebusch
Certainly, President Obama's support of gay marriage is to be celebrated but let us not get too far ahead. That support still has to be transferred into legislation - better yet into a constitutional amendment. Only with this latter will this right enjoyed by the majority of the population be extended to all without question....

Romney's Quasi-Apology

By Ruth Marcus
WASHINGTON - None of us wants to be judged by the dumb stuff we did in high school -- or in college, for that matter, whether they...

Republicans Have Lost Interest in Compromise

By Ezra Klein
"We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional," wrote Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein...

Obama Evolves, With A Nudge From Biden

By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden was accused of committing another gaffe the other day when he declared on a Sunday television talk show that he was...

Obama's American Exceptionalism

By E.J. Dionne
WASHINGTON - Can a Republican primary in Indiana have even the remotest connection to a presidential election in France? Richard Mourdock, the tea party giant-killer who defeated...

Obama Leads Way On Same-Sex Marriage

By Bill Press
Samuel Gompers, the cigar maker who became a labor leader and founder of the AFL, was once asked: "What does labor want?" His answer was simple and...

Your Vote: Man vs. Morel

By Gail Collins
Our question for today is: How do you feel about the defeat of Sen. Richard Lugar in the Indiana Republican primary?
The emphasis here is entirely on...

You Can't Reason With Crazy

By Gene Lyons
Following the comprehensive failures of President George W. Bush, conservatives faced a hard choice: rethink or go crazy. For too many, the election of Barack Obama appears...

Was Lugar Too Polite for the Senate?

By Margaret Carlson
WASHINGTON - Republican moderates are no longer a dying breed. With Tuesday's defeat of Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, they are dead.
Known as Richard Nixon's favorite...

Austerity As A Bridge To Nowhere

By Eugene Robinson
WASHINGTON - Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that's what it (BEG ITAL)was(END ITAL), given Sunday's election results in Europe. Perhaps...


Urban U.S.A. Remade: A Grand Inversion?

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...

I'm Not Quitting The Church

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...

The Defeat Of A Man Of Reason

By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON -- Tea party advocates in Indiana are congratulating themselves on the Republican primary victory of one of their own, Richard Mourdock,...

Obama's Gay Marriage Gamble

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...

Winning The News Cycle, Losing The Race


Winning The News Cycle, Losing The Race

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...

This Column Is Not Sponsored By Anyone

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...

Seeking Original Bliss


Seeking Original Bliss

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...

Saving The Lives Of Moms

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...

Romney's Actions, Response Show No Courage

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...

Muddling Through Mother's Day

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...

Who's on First?

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...

When Will They Learn?


When Will They Learn?

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,...

What Do Moms Want? (Hint: Not Brunch)

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...

They're Sorry For Getting Caught


They're Sorry For Getting Caught

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...

The Anatomy Of A Jokester


The Anatomy Of A Jokester

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...

Mothers Don't Stand a Chance These Days

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...

Hope and Hesitation in Obama's Sudden Conversion


Hope and Hesitation in Obama's Sudden Conversion

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,...

A Wiff Of 'Hope and Change'


A Wiff Of 'Hope and Change'

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....

Rubio Must Think Romney is Doomed

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...

Obama's Decision On Same-Sex Marriage


Obama's Decision On Same-Sex Marriage

By Ruth Marcus
WASHINGTON - The White House, according to a senior official, always knew it was going to have to take the plunge on...

Mission Impossible: Finding a Minivan Made in America by Union Workers

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...

Education Should Have Second and Third Acts

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...

Easy Useless Economics

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,...

Why Washington Can't Be Fixed

By Richard L. Hasen
The politician's words captured the moment. "This is a historic time . . . and one side simply has to win...

Saturday Night with Bea

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...

Poverty's Poster Child

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...

Obama Is Right To Support Same-Sex Marriage


Obama Is Right To Support Same-Sex Marriage

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....

Is 'One Drop' Rule Overruled?

 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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Throwing American Tradition in the Cultural Mixmaster

By Froma Harrop
The overnight rating for the Kentucky Derby telecast has slipped again, hitting a six-year low. This was despite NBC's best efforts to...

Housing 'Folly'

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...

Hey, Hey, NRA – Let’s Have a Mass Shooting Every Day!

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...

For Better or Worse, China and the U.S. Still Need Each Other

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...

Desamour and Amour

By Maureen Dowd
PARIS - In the last election, Nicolas Sarkozy lost his wife. In this one, he lost France.
His friends worry about how...

Are We Better Off Than In 2008?

By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON - The old debate question that helped put Ronald Reagan in the White House three decades ago -- "Are you...

Are We Better Off Than In 2008?

By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON - The old debate question that helped put Ronald Reagan in the White House three decades ago -- "Are you...

A Plan For Entrepreneurs To Lead In Jordan

By Thomas Friedman
AMMAN, Jordan - Fortunately, there is another Arab Spring going on alongside the drama in the streets of Cairo and Damascus. It...

Vegan Confessions

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....

The Pipeline from the Black Lagoon

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...

Little Journals That Loom Large

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...

Food Stamp Foolishness

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...

Congressional Elections May Define Next Presidency

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...

Those Revolting Europeans

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...

The Power Of The Incumbency

 By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON - As Mitt Romney continues his quest for the silver bullet that will wipe out all the deep reservations about his...

Really, Really Big Oil

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...

Crowdsourcing's Golden Moment

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...

Cliches Conservatives Say

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...