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Ignoring the real problems while fighting the imaginary ones

LEONARD PITTS JR.

Published May 12th, 2013 - 12:05AM

It should’ve been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn’t hear it.

Preserving a piece of the past for future generations

BILL HALL

Published May 11th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Like so many of you, I never got to meet all four of my grandparents. But Alexander Graham Bell has reminded me how the grandchildren of today can have a better idea of their grandparents, even if they have never met them in the flesh.

Issa’s cheap political stunt on Benghazi could have a silver lining

EUGENE ROBINSON

Published May 10th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Those who are trying to make the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal for the Obama administration really ought to decide what story line they want to sell.

Are you (fill in the blank for whatever applies) enough?

KATHLEEN PARKER

Published May 9th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Enough with this “enough” business.

We would all do well to work for the common good

MICHAEL GERSON

Published May 9th, 2013 - 12:05AM

The Rev. Jim Wallis is a man of the left — perhaps the defining figure of the evangelical left. So it is not surprising that I should find some of the policy views expressed in his new book, “On God’s Side,” badly mistaken. But this does not prevent Wallis from being resoundingly right in his central premise: that American politics would be elevated by a renewed commitment to the common good.

There, but for a bit of self-restraint and sense of duty, go I

LEONARD PITTS JR.

Published May 8th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Brenda Heist wanted to run away from life. Naturally, she went to Key West, Fla.

Immigration reform actually favors conservatives

DAVID BROOKS

Published May 8th, 2013 - 12:05AM

The opponents of immigration reform have many small complaints, but they really have one core concern. It’s about control. America doesn’t control its borders. Past reform efforts have not established control. Current proposals wouldn’t establish effective control.

Are views on government and Plan B, prude or prudent?

KATHLEEN PARKER

Published May 7th, 2013 - 2:08PM

WASHINGTON – They lost me at the word “women.”

Syrian intervention: some questions to ponder

EUGENE ROBINSON

Published May 7th, 2013 - 12:05AM

WASHINGTON – For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:

In Texas justice system, being black means you’re a future danger

LEONARD PITTS JR.

Published May 5th, 2013 - 12:05AM

If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it’ll be because he is black.

Obama blew his chance to show some resolve

EUGENE ROBINSON

Published May 3rd, 2013 - 12:05AM

President Barack Obama had the opportunity this week to make an irresponsible Congress face the consequences of its own dumb actions. For reasons I cannot fathom, he took a pass.

In Syria, the U.S. is facing the stakes of being too late

MICHAEL GERSON

Published May 3rd, 2013 - 12:05AM

On Syria, President Barack Obama has sometimes seemed isolated within his own administration. As the atrocities have escalated — from the shelling of neighborhoods, to airstrikes on bread lines, to the use of Scud missiles against civilians, to the likely incremental introduction of chemical weapons — the Assad regime’s strategy has become alarmingly clear.

When expectations (entitlements) collide with reality

ROBERT J. SAMUELSON

Published May 2nd, 2013 - 12:05AM

We are passing through something more than a period of disappointing economic growth and increasing political polarization. What’s happening is more powerful: the collapse of “entitlement.”

Overtime session should focus on one issue: The budget

RICHARD S. DAVIS

Published May 1st, 2013 - 12:05AM

After 105 days, the Legislature goes into overtime, with a two-week timeout for “cooling off.” Gov. Jay Inslee set the special session to begin May 13. Key budget writers will doubtless continue negotiations during intermission.

It takes courage to be the first to stand up