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MICHAEL GERSON
WASHINGTON - It is often argued, including by me, that the GOP needs its own Bill Clinton or Tony Blair – a leader to reposition the party and reinvigorate its political appeal. But if these figures are examples of successful reform, British Prime Minister David Cameron is a warning of its perils.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON — In Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: An old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA arms-running operation, the traditional plan to prop up ostensible “moderates” whose prospects are doubtful and, of course, the customary shaky grasp of what the fighting is really about.
KATHLEEN PARKER
WASHINGTON – At a party a few years ago, a young reporter bounded over to my cluster of social nodders and, with the breathlessness of a born tweeter, chirped: “What’s the new hot thing?!”
AIDAN O'NEILL
It’s the original Kodak moment. On a sunny June day, a loud cheer rises as hundreds of caps fly into the air. The snapshot captures the handshakes, the robes, the congratulations, the teary-eyed parents hugging their sons and daughters. This moment is the bittersweet ending and the fresh start, all in one.
LEONARD PITTS JR.
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EUGENE ROBINSON
The Supreme Court’s ruling last week allowing police to compel DNA samples from persons arrested for serious offenses will solve cold cases around the country, putting dangerous criminals behind bars. But despite this clearly beneficial impact, the court’s 5-4 ruling was wrong — and may be more far-reaching than we can now imagine.
MICHAEL GERSON
A number of libertarians and conservative populists have found data collection by the National Security Agency to be the final confirmation of their worst fears about Barack Obama and modern government.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
I’m glad I live in a country with people who are vigilant in defending civil liberties. But as I listen to the debate about the disclosure of two government programs designed to track suspected phone and email contacts of terrorists, I do wonder if some of those who unequivocally defend this disclosure are behaving as if 9/11 never happened — that the only thing we have to fear is government intrusion in our lives, not the intrusion of those who gather in secret cells in Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan and plot how to topple our tallest buildings or bring down U.S. airliners with bombs planted inside underwear, tennis shoes or computer printers.
MICHAEL GERSON
President Barack Obama’s newly designated national security adviser, Susan Rice, and his proposed United Nations ambassador, Samantha Power, are political loyalists. They are also known as liberal interventionists — emotionally seared by American passivity during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and advocates for military action to prevent a Libyan bloodbath in 2011. So the question arises in Washington and foreign capitals (say, Moscow, Tehran and Damascus): Is the president repaying his debts or making a foreign policy statement?
DAVID BROOKS
From what we know so far, Edward Snowden appears to be the ultimate unmediated man. Though obviously terrifically bright, he could not successfully work his way through the institution of high school. Then he failed to navigate his way through community college.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON — The important thing right now isn’t whether Edward Snowden should be labeled hero or villain. First, let’s have the debate he sparked over surveillance and privacy. Then we can decide how history should remember him.
KATHLEEN PARKER
NEW YORK — It was never quite clear what feminizing the workplace would mean when women en masse invaded corporate America a generation ago.
NANCY MAGNUSSON
It was with some trepidation that my husband and I loaded the boys into the car and headed over to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma to soak up some culture.
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