Opinion Columns
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A reporter's remembrance: Straight shooter Netsch will be missedMar 06, 2013 8:00 am - I had the pleasure of covering Democrat Dawn Clark Netsch of Chicago when she was a state senator, a comptroller and the state's first woman major-party nominee for gove...
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Water cooler springs innovationMar 06, 2013 4:00 am - We can assume that the data-driven Marissa Mayer studied the data and algorithmed everything in sight — before deciding that Yahoo employees would henceforth cease telec...
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Obama’s adrift on a red-ink seaMar 05, 2013 4:00 am - One revealing stress test of a political viewpoint is the way it deals with facts that are large, consequential and ideologically inconvenient. For conservatives, the ch...
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A grieving father’s pleaMar 05, 2013 4:00 am - Most of our top elected officials probably didn’t notice — they were too busy making fools of themselves over an idiotic budget “crisis” of their own manufacture — but s...
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In a rut on Voting Rights ActMar 04, 2013 4:00 am - Progressives are remarkably uninterested in progress. Social Security is 78 years old and myriad social improvements have added 17 years to life expectancy since 1935, y...
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How to live long is everybody’s guessMar 04, 2013 4:00 am - The latest dispatch from the food wars: For those at high risk of heart disease, following the Mediterranean diet results in 30 percent fewer heart attacks and strokes. ...
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Michelle Obama’s wingsMar 03, 2013 4:00 am - If second-term presidents feel liberated by re-election to pursue bolder agendas, first ladies often become more comfortable to be their own person. Witness Laura Bush,...
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Hail ArmageddonMar 01, 2013 9:44 am - “The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Washington Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.” Think about that...
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A power to act on warmingMar 01, 2013 4:00 am - The test of President Obama’s seriousness about addressing climate change is not his pending decision on the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline. It’s whether he effective...
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The Olympics of joyMar 01, 2013 4:00 am - On a rainy Saturday morning, in the packed gym at the Blessed Sacrament School in Northwest Washington, a parade of middle and high school basketball players, many with ...