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LEONARD PITTS JR.
It should’ve been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn’t hear it.
BILL HALL
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.
EUGENE ROBINSON
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.
MICHAEL GERSON
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.
DAVID BROOKS
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.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON – For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:
EUGENE ROBINSON
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.
MICHAEL GERSON
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.
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON
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.”
RICHARD S. DAVIS
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.
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