Opinion Columns
-
2 very different stories of teen drinking collideMay 13, 2012 5:00 am - The irony wasn't lost on one of our editors. One day after a drunken driving victim was a special guest at Metea Valley High School's prom, he noticed, something less i...
-
Echoes of ’67: Israel unitesMay 13, 2012 5:00 am - In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eila...
-
Education should have 2nd and 3rd actsMay 11, 2012 11:34 am - On the HBO series “Girls,” Hannah asks her boss at a publishing house for a salary. The 24-year-old has been working as an unpaid intern for over a year, and her parents...
-
A generational shift in cultural attitudesMay 11, 2012 10:37 am - Principled or calculating or a bit of both, President Obama’s choice on gay marriage is a bet on the political future — a wager on the views and values of the millennial...
-
Marriage and political expedienceMay 11, 2012 5:00 am - Former NPR and current Fox News political analyst Juan Williams made an excellent point Monday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” Williams said the major reason President O...
-
Austerity as a bridge to nowhereMay 10, 2012 5:00 am - Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that’s what it was, given Sunday’s election results in Europe. Perhaps I should ...
-
Our responsibility against obesityMay 10, 2012 5:00 am - Close your eyes and picture 110 million obese people waddling around America’s sidewalks. You’ll probably want to keep your eyes closed. Such is the scenario suggested ...
-
It’s not we who do the comforting and the afflictingMay 10, 2012 5:00 am - It may be true, as some suggest, that one function of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but it’s probably more true that our job is to...
-
Obama could learn from LBJMay 09, 2012 5:00 am - Barack Obama has read and been influenced by Robert A. Caro’s classic biography of Robert Moses, “The Power Broker.” From the evidence, it is far from clear, though, tha...
-
Taking a scythe to the Bill of RightsMay 08, 2012 11:49 am - Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the B...