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Trapped in a hole that just keeps getting deeper

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published May 23rd, 2013 - 12:05AM
SANLIURFA, Turkey — I’ve been traveling to Yemen, Syria and Turkey to film a documentary on how environmental stresses contributed to the Arab awakening. As I looked back on the trip, it occurred to me that three of our main characters — the leaders of the two Yemeni villages that have been fighting over a single water well and the leader of the Free Syrian Army in Raqqa province, whose cotton farm was wiped out by drought — have 36 children among them: 10, 10 and 16.
Efforts boost college success for low-income and minority students

KATIE BAIRD

Published May 22nd, 2013 - 12:05AM
Critics of the United States like to single out our large disparities in life outcomes as evidence of our country’s moral failures. As disturbing as differences in income and wealth are, we Americans remain wedded to our foundational story: With hard work and a large dose of determination, even the poorest among us can climb the social ladder.
Why the killing of Mark Carson matters

LEONARD PITTS JR.

Published May 22nd, 2013 - 12:05AM
Mark Carson was shot in the face because he’s gay.
Words we use reflect tectonic shifts in our culture

DAVID BROOKS

Published May 22nd, 2013 - 12:05AM
About two years ago, the folks at Google released a database of 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008. You can type a search word into the database and find out how frequently different words were used at different epochs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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