Opinion Columns
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Beach Boys: They get aroundJun 22, 2012 5:00 am - COLUMBIA, Md. -- Three hours before showtime, Brian Wilson says: “There is no Rhonda.” Sitting backstage, gathering strength for the evening’s 48-song, 150-minute concer...
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The other war on womenJun 22, 2012 5:00 am - By now most sentient Americans have heard about the war on women. That is, the so-called Republican war on women, which has been framed as a battle waged by stodgy old w...
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The president America never hadJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - My mother could have been president of the United States. She could have been chairman of General Motors, CEO of Apple in the morning and Google in the afternoon — and h...
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The GOP’s loosening grip on suburbiaJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - Decades ago when I was in graduate school, the famous University of Chicago professor Richard Wade uttered one of the most important truths about our political system: “...
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The endless culture warJun 20, 2012 5:00 am - President Obama’s decision to lead with social issues in his re-election campaign — immigration, gay marriage and contraception — makes some political sense. His ideolog...
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Short-term memoryJun 19, 2012 5:00 am - In football, a team with the lead late in the game tends to go conservative, using the “prevent defense.” But as any fan knows, the only thing it prevents is victory. Pr...
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Road rage lesson for the ages: Be like GandhiJun 18, 2012 11:00 am - It was more than 20 years ago, but I remember the discussion well. We were gathered in the boss' office planning the stories of the day. High on the agenda was a local c...
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A perfect world — it’s elementaryJun 18, 2012 5:00 am - Montgomery County, Md., on the District of Columbia’s northern border, is a dormitory for the nation’s government, where federal workers’ sleep is disturbed only by drea...
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A modern economy has universal health careJun 17, 2012 5:00 am - For now, let’s drop the talk about wanting a liberal America or a conservative America. What we truly need is a modern America. No country can be modern spending twice w...
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The Ordinary American, RIPJun 17, 2012 5:00 am - Among the lessons of this presidential election season, perhaps most salient is that the so-called Ordinary American is dead. Or, should I say, the ordinary-American tr...