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It’s journalism we’re practicing, not espionage

EUGENE ROBINSON

Published May 21st, 2013 - 12:05AM

The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their emails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn’t chilling, it’s just plain cold.

Localism should never trump excellence in education

MICHAEL GERSON

Published May 21st, 2013 - 12:05AM

Modern conservatism comes in two distinct architectural styles. The first seeks to build from scratch, using accurate ideological levels and plumb lines, so every wall is straight and every corner squared. The goal of politics is to apply abstract principles in their purest form.

A special place in the heart for all our dogs

SUSAN GORDON

Published May 20th, 2013 - 12:05AM

“How much is that doggie in the window? The one with the waggly tail?”

In Florida, they’re trying to hurry up the injustice process

LEONARD PITTS JR.

Published May 19th, 2013 - 12:05AM

At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.

Coffee pots and other lethal kitchen gadgets

BILL HALL

Published May 18th, 2013 - 12:05AM

How bizarre it is that a prime instrument of a mother’s love for her children — one of her pots and pans — has become a creepy instrument of death.

Redacted truth and some subjunctive outrage

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Published May 17th, 2013 - 7:05AM

Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don’t know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn’t meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing on the political effects simply plays into the hands of Democrats desperately claiming that this is nothing but partisan politics.

Whether nalevolence or misfeasance, IRS stepped in it

LEONARD PITTS JR.

Published May 16th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Well, this is a fine mess.

Media, conservatives not such strange bedfellows

KATHLEEN PARKER

Published May 16th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media.

Conflicting views aside, business surveys do have value

RICHARD S. DAVIS

Published May 15th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Economist Peter Fisher doesn’t think much of business climate studies. And he and the groups he works with hope you agree with them. If you do, they think it will make it much easier for them to convince legislators to raise taxes and expand regulation.

Someone needs to turn the tables and audit the IRS

MICHAEL GERSON

Published May 15th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Suppose that the Environmental Protection Agency were to admit offhandedly that the fluoridation of water had only modest communist mind-control effects. Or the United Nations were to concede it has been running fleets of black helicopters over American cities, but only in the course of conducting extensive goodwill tours.

Yemen finds a civilized way to reform its government

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published May 14th, 2013 - 12:05AM

SANAA, YEMEN — If you want to know how bad things can go in Syria, study Iraq. If you want to know how much better things could have gone, study Yemen. Say what? Yemen?

It’s not Benghazi; the fumbling afterward

KATHLEEN PARKER

Published May 14th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Mistakes were made.

Mary Frink on growing up Polish and poor in Buckley

MELISSA FRINK

Published May 13th, 2013 - 12:05AM

“You’re not gonna put my name in there, are you?”

A political fog puts a shroud over the facts on Benghazi

MICHAEL GERSON

Published May 12th, 2013 - 12:05AM

In some cases, the fog of war is initially thick, then dissipates. Following the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, the facts were initially clear. The fog was a later addition.

Ignoring the real problems while fighting the imaginary ones