Articles filed under Opinion
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Women’s health: the overlooked storyMar 06, 2011 11:00 pm - If you happened to come across any media coverage of the White House’s report “Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being,” the headline that probabl...
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When law confronts politicsMar 06, 2011 11:00 pm - My guess is that there was not a single member of the United States Supreme Court who was not personally appalled that the Westboro Baptist Church would target the funer...
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A blow to religious freedom in PakistanMar 06, 2011 11:00 pm - Last week, Rep. Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, was awakened by a 2:20 a.m. call. His first response was to fear bad news about his children or grandchildren. But whe...
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Patiently not obsessing over 2012Mar 06, 2011 11:00 pm - This is doubtless heretical, but I’ll say it anyway: I can wait to find out who the Republican presidential candidates will be. To be clear, I said “can,” not “can’t.” ...
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From Baghdad to BenghaziMar 06, 2011 11:00 pm - Voices around the world, from Europe to America to Libya, are calling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar Gaddafi. Yet for bringing down Saddam Hussein, the...
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Obama has little to fear about 2012Mar 05, 2011 11:00 pm - For all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, Republicans are assembling what looks like a remarkably weak field of candidates for the 2012 elect...
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The GOP's weirdness factionMar 05, 2011 11:00 pm - If pessimism is not creeping on little cat's feet into Republicans' thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism. This is becau...
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Staying bilingual key to Latino prosperityMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Not a day goes by that I don’t thank my lucky stars that I can think, read, write and converse in two different languages. It may not seem like much to some but it has o...
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In praise of leaders with backboneMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Who put the hot sauce in the Republican governors' oatmeal? And where do we get more of it? In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker is winning fans and making waves — as good le...
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The three other people boosting Mideast democracyMar 01, 2011 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — It is the conservative critique of the freedom agenda that democratic transformations are hopeless or dangerous in societies lacking democratic cultures...