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What do a high school student from LA, a scientist who studies the DNA of whales, the president of a Central American Nation, a former Coast Guard Commandant and a Washington Post reporter have in common?
What do a high school student from LA, a scientist who studies the DNA of whales, the president of a Central American Nation, a former Coast Guard Commandant and a Washington Post reporter have in common?
Data-driven "reform" seems very rational, and not inhumane, from 30,000 feet above our schools and families.
If Indiana succeeds in its draconian withdrawal of women's health services, it is not hard to imagine that other states will follow, and women nationwide will be left high and dry for basic services.
We now have no less than four reputable national public opinion surveys in three months showing a slim majority of Americans now support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry.
Public housing is a multibillion dollar asset that is home to 2.2 million working families, seniors and people with disabilities. Not only is money not being wasted, it is producing an excellent return on investment.
The ability of local progressive groups to effectively organize will not only determine the outcome of one local budget, but become a symbol of what's needed to get even Democratic cities and states to serve people in need, not just corporations.
After all is said and done, what kind of damage will Trump's "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week" have on his future?
Donald Trump and George Will don't have much in common save the fact that both are selling peculiarly dangerous forms of snake oil and are doing so with the imprimatur of The Washington Post.
While some have turned the photo into a meme, others have reflected on its significance, particularly Obama's and Hillary Clinton's expressions.
It is perversely ironic that the same week we finally got our man in Pakistan, we learned that 90% of those on the Terror Watch List since 2005 have successfully purchased guns.
This is going to be a somewhat surprising column introduction, for I am about to talk about something I've been absolutely ridiculing all week long -- the royal wedding. And how the American media missed a joke (not to mention a kiss).
Are we oil-rich or oil-poor? A recent speech by Obama on America's need to become "less dependent on foreign oil" has rekindled the debate between "-clean-energy" types and the folks beating the "drill, baby, drill" oil drum.
If Republicans critical of the war rise in the primary, that could move the debate in Washington and end the war sooner.
Police continue to investigate how a 6-year-old armed himself, but here's something that's already clear. Guns are so easy to get, they can end up in the hands of a 6-year-old, turning the confines of an elementary school into a zone of discord.
After New York Times columnist Gail Collins wrote a blistering yet candid column in the Times mocking Donald Trump's presidential aspirations and debu...
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Knowing just how broke the city is, the layman might think this plan is sound -- if not ingenious. But to those of us who know a thing or two about state sponsored gambling, this is going to be hell for DC residents.
The president's fiscal message this week was on point, and will have to be repeated over and over again in the months ahead against all the pressures to compromise.
I never actually met anyone in person from Bank of America. I was not too big to fail; I was too small to notice.
Leonard Barkan's ingenious, lavishly illustrated study focuses on the artist's "life on paper," the hundreds of sheets that have survived containing drawings, poems, doodles, and "notes to self."