Opinion Columns
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Obama must fix 'broken glass' of his Mideast policySep 10, 2014 1:01 am - "All politics is local," the late Speaker of the House Tip O' Neill famously said. How right he was. The world today is suffering from the failure of President Obama to ...
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Looking for a work ethic in new economySep 09, 2014 1:01 am - I've spent the last few days looking around and wondering: "When did the American worker get so whiny?" A lot of people seem to resent having to work for a living and fe...
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Voting just with wallets not enough for consumersSep 09, 2014 1:01 am - Customers can be so demanding. First they criticized fast-food joints over nutritional content. Now they're getting picky about tax and labor practices. In recent weeks...
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Inertia on Ebola is having dire consequencesSep 07, 2014 1:01 am - Sometimes the artifice of writing - metaphors, historical comparisons, the just-so quote - fails. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa demands directness: We are about to w...
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Always hope in the next political momentSep 05, 2014 1:01 am - Despite these last few months of hot and lazy days, it's been hard not to notice a cold political wind blowing through the country. The magazine Foreign Affairs captured...
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Slusher: In memoriam, again, for brave journalistsSep 04, 2014 1:01 am - When we took the unusual step two weeks ago of publishing an editorial with no words, only the headline "A moment of silence for a brave journalist" and a picture of sla...
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Another government shutdown? Not gonna happenSep 04, 2014 1:01 am - A few weeks ago Washington was buzzing with predictions that Republicans will impeach President Obama. More recently, Washington has been buzzing with predictions that R...
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Look at democracy in Mideast with vigilant cynicismSep 03, 2014 1:01 am - America rarely does time capsules anymore, but the ones it does should include videos from February 2011 of American TV reporters exulting in the triumph of the Arab Spr...
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Chilling statistics belie short-term economic optimismSep 03, 2014 1:01 am - I'm just back from vacation in Europe, where, to judge from the political headlines coming out of the United States, this country had no greater care than which of its l...
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The troubling new slant on story of IsraelSep 02, 2014 1:01 am - The monumental tapestry triptych by Marc Chagall, hanging in the State Hall of the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, hints at some of the artist's own memories, including fr...