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- Abortion Makes a Comeback - November 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Is it possible to hear the sound of hands wringing? Or of souls agonizing? Or of ironies clanging? I think you can. I think that if you listen carefully...
- Why We Celebrate - November 8, 2009
- We thought it meant the end of international contention. We thought it meant the nuclear menace was no more. We thought it meant Russia and America, the two powers of...
- Agonizing Over Afghanistan - October 31, 2009
- It may be that a swift resolution to the Afghanistan debate is essential. It may be that political pressures make delay unappealing or even impossible. It may be that...
- Miss Waterman - October 25, 2009
- SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. -- Let me tell you about my fifth-grade classroom. It was upstairs in the 80-year-old wing of the Stanley School, right under a classic New England...
- The President's Frank Capra Moment - October 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Maybe it happened on an afternoon when no one was looking. Maybe it occurred when everyone was focused on something else, or preoccupied with other...
- The Morphing Metaphor of Vietnam - October 11, 2009
- Washington has turned into one big book club, and everybody seems to be reading the same two books. They are not Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' wonderful "The...
- The Hardest Job There Is - October 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The president sits at ease in a blue suit, blue shirt and blue patterned tie. Over one shoulder is a bronze bust of Martin Luther King, the civil rights...
- They've Taken the Moon Away - September 27, 2009
- PITTSBURGH -- Party's over. The visiting police and protesters are gone; the fences and barbed wire are coming down. Someone's making a fortune moving concrete barriers...
- High Stakes in Pittsburgh - September 20, 2009
- PITTSBURGH -- In less than a week 20 world leaders will convene here for a global summit to take the measure of the international economy and examine what they can do to...
- History, Again - September 13, 2009
- Most of the world goes to war about geography. Europe goes to war about history. And while the war that broke out late last week in Europe wasn't a shooting war, it was...
- The Battle of 70 Summers - September 6, 2009
- Across oceans and continents it raged, drawing 100 million people into combat, leaving tens of millions dead, transforming millions more into refugees, costing hundreds...
- No Ignoring Protests - August 23, 2009
- President Obama will return from his island idyll to a political landscape completely remade. He still will be greeted by swooning crowds and enthusiastic cheers. But...
- Of Promise and Promises - August 16, 2009
- In about a week the president will go to Martha's Vineyard for his summer vacation. There he'll have time to stroll the beach, maybe take a nap, almost surely look back...
- The (Blue) Dog Days of Summer - August 9, 2009
- The last time we looked -- wasn't it just about five minutes ago? -- the Democrats were in as commanding a position as they have been in a generation. A popular...
- Political Calculus - August 2, 2009
- Here are some numbers that you need to remember as you watch President Barack Obama and Congress wrangle over a blizzard of figures at the heart of a proposed dramatic...
- Things Not Done, Roads Not Taken - July 26, 2009
- FRANCONIA, N.H. -- We were going to climb Mount Pemigewasset, which juts out from the cliffs that form Indian Head and has a remarkable panorama of White Mountain...
- Swimming Upward Toward a Dream - July 19, 2009
- Archibald MacLeish called the mission "a wonder to us, unattainable, a longing past the reach of longing," saying that "(t)hree days and three nights we journeyed,...
- Fishing, Hiking, Running for President - July 12, 2009
- NORTH CONWAY, N.H. -- There isn't a presidential yard sign in sight up here. Nobody at the gas station that sells maybe the best doughnuts in the world is talking about...
- All Men and Women - July 5, 2009
- SENECA FALLS, N.Y. -- We mark this weekend the signing in Philadelphia of the Declaration of Independence, which was conceived in 1776 as a list of particulars but...
- Taxing Inheritance - June 28, 2009
- Iraq and the economy are hard problems. President Barack Obama seems to be handling them gracefully. Iran and health care are hard problems. The president is having more...
- 50 Years Later - June 21, 2009
- PITTSBURGH -- This September the leaders of the 19 most influential nations and a representative of the European Union will gather on the banks of the Allegheny River to...
- Assigned Reading - June 14, 2009
- The auto industry is on life support, banks are almost nationalized, investment houses are gasping for breath, retailers are struggling. So it may not surprise you to...
- Roosevelt and the Jews - June 7, 2009
- Seventy years ago there raged in Washington one of the most portentous, and least known, debates in Western history. World War II had not yet begun. The full extent of...
- Is It Too Soon to Be Naming Schools After Obama? - May 31, 2009
- The Webster School on Holly Avenue in St. Paul, Minn., has a tradition going back almost 130 years. It has a rousing song ("Webster School is great as can be / Teachers,...
- Getting the Small Things Right - May 24, 2009
- The call came late at night and the tone of the voice was ominous. We had to meet. Immediately. It could not wait. It had to be the next day. So I flew to Boston and met...
- After the Wall - May 17, 2009
- It was built in darkness -- and destroyed in sunlight. It separated Berlin -- and united much of Europe. It provided the backdrop for perhaps the most stirring speech...
- Jack Kemp: Ideas Into Action - May 10, 2009
- He was always in motion. As a quarterback wearing No. 15 for the Buffalo Bills, as a young congressman afire with passion about supply-side economics, as a presidential...
- Presidents Don't Prosecute Their Predecessors - May 3, 2009
- When Thomas Jefferson succeeded John Adams, a contest that put America on such a different footing that it is remembered today as the Revolution of 1800, he did not seek...
- The Truman Show - April 28, 2009
- There are scores of ways to evaluate the beginning of a presidency. One of the most facile is to look at a president's first 100 days, which in the case of President...
- Still a Lion, With a Gentle Roar - April 19, 2009
- ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH, Fla. -- There's no pretense here at the Beachcomber restaurant -- heck, there are hardly any windows here at the Beachcomber -- and that befits a...
- The Recovery Cometh - April 12, 2009
- It may take years for the cost of this recession to be paid back -- and if you are young, the scars from this recession will be with you always. You'll be leery of the...
- Big Change - April 5, 2009
- "What has transpired in the last six months in the U.S. and elsewhere is that the forces of the universe overwhelmed everybody in ways that have forced change, and at a...
- Three Mile Island - March 29, 2009
- "I can't stand the sight of the things anymore," Machita said to me that afternoon. I called her up the other day and together we relived the frightening time we shared...
- The Tragic Story of Monte Cassino - March 22, 2009
- At the center of the battle was a great hulking monastery, which, founded by St. Benedict in A.D. 529 and used as the model for abbeys throughout Western Europe, was one...
- The First-Hundred Daze - March 15, 2009
- But from the start that was an unfair comparison or, if you are one of the many readers who think the press is rooting too hard for President Obama, you may prefer...
- Is Obama Trying to Do Too Much? - March 8, 2009
- Now that the Dow has given up half its value, the government has thrown trillions of dollars into banks and investment houses, and unemployment is doing a high step...
- Obama's America - March 1, 2009
- The president is a luminous figure, a symbol of American possibility, the personification of decades of dreams, particularly for black Americans. (So was John F. Kennedy...
- Washington's Legacy - February 22, 2009
- It is true, too, that America doesn't really need the Lincoln Memorial. Lincoln's memory lives in the nation's splendid diversity, in its ennobling spirit and in its...
- Lincoln's Legacy - February 16, 2009
- So what are we to make of Thursday's 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, coming as it does in the first month of the administration of Barack Obama, the...
- Pride of the Yankees - February 8, 2009
- But he is, or soon will be, the secretary of commerce. President Barack Obama selected him last week -- the third Republican in his Cabinet -- and in choosing the senior...