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- Lessons From a Past Protest - June 26, 2009
- BERLIN -- The righteous rage in the streets of Tehran is familiar to Berliners. They recall their own demonstrations that doomed the hated Berlin Wall two decades ago....
- Glass Ceilings Aren't Glass Slippers - June 19, 2009
- You don't have to be from Venus or Mars to notice that Sonia Sotomayor was appreciated more for her Hispanic roots than for female gifts. That's how President Obama...
- A Bad Week for Old Blighty - June 12, 2009
- LONDON -- This is not Britain's finest hour. The expense-account scandal has exposed rot at the core of the Parliament, where greedy members abused their perks to use...
- No Slouching Toward Confirmation - June 5, 2009
- Nothing so polarizes the nation as a nomination to the Supreme Court. Advise and consent is often more like divide and confront, rarely eliciting our best debates....
- An Appeal to Survival Ethics - May 29, 2009
- Washington is a company town, and what the company makes best is politics and policy. Sometimes the politics is "unprecedented," as certain historians called the duel...
- A Courtship for Bibi and Obama - May 22, 2009
- Diplomacy is like courtship, with its rituals to keep passions in check. Both diplomacy and courtship pose tests to see whether a meeting of the minds can turn into a...
- When Shame Yields to Resilience - May 15, 2009
- John Edwards wears the scarlet letter on his tailored Armani suits. The bold letter "A" is not embroidered with fine needlework such as Hester Prynne sewed for herself....
- Souter, Specter and a Soft Shoe - May 8, 2009
- Souter & Specter sounds like a vaudeville song and dance team, stuck in Cleveland and still dreaming of playing the Palace. You can almost hear their Peoria humor...
- The Banality of Preening From Liberals - May 1, 2009
- Hannah Arendt was wrong. Evil is never banal. Evil is fascinating, provocative and mind-focusing. Adolph Eichmann was probably a bore at a Nazi dinner party, a dull...
- Honor Thy Veterans - April 24, 2009
- A guest at a cocktail party in Cleveland Park, the fashionable Washington neighborhood of middle-class liberals ("progressives," they want to be called this year), tells...
- Calling Shots Requires Precision - April 17, 2009
- Language matters. President Barack Obama learned that in time to give the command to slay Somali pirates when they threatened imminent death for Capt. Richard Phillips,...
- Mom in Chief as Marie Antoinette - April 10, 2009
- When she and the president catch up on what they missed in Washington, they should read the latest performance evaluation of the Opportunity Scholarship...
- Cultivating Her Own Garden - April 3, 2009
- Michelle has planted vegetables on the south lawn of the White House, just like Eleanor Roosevelt's World War II victory garden -- and unlike Eleanor, she...
- Obama's Indelicate Exposure - March 27, 2009
- Obama goes out of his way to seek a celebrity's attention, and he's still in his first hundred days. When he makes an off-hand jest about his bowling score...
- Red Meat for Dinner - March 20, 2009
- This was not the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity crowd; there would be no knock 'em, sock 'em, beat 'em rhetoric. The audience expected something "thoughty," a...
- Women's Work Is Never Done - March 13, 2009
- In America, she represents the swiftly changing roles of women. Barbie's fun to tease, but she's as American as miniskirts and pantsuits in her flexible identities and...
- Slings and Arrows on the Way - March 6, 2009
- The new quarterback is calling the signals, and he'll have to face the consequences of the execution of the game plan -- if not now, soon. The tanking stock market is...
- Royalty Ain't What It Used to Be - February 27, 2009
- But choosing homecoming queens has never been an exercise in equity. Life is not always fair on campus, either. Many a queen was chosen because she was the...
- Obama Meets the Real Hamilton - February 20, 2009
- He's a founding father who might have been president even though he was foreign born -- "the bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar," in the derisive description of...
- Waking from the Dream - February 13, 2009
- His kind words for Republicans have become the scolding of an affronted president, the offered hand a partisan fist. He had picked Republicans for his...
- An 'Obama Effect' on Learning - February 6, 2009
- In a study of 472 Americans -- 84 black and 388 white, ranging in age from 18 to 63 -- who took a test of 20 questions before the presidential election, blacks got...
- A Forked Tongue Over Gaza - January 30, 2009
- After Israel announced a cease-fire, Ismail Haniya, the "prime minister of Gaza," came out of hiding and declared victory. Such chutzpah, observes der...
- The Pomp Passes, Circumstance Lingers - January 23, 2009
- He reminded us that in a country where only 50 years ago his father wouldn't have been served in many whites-only restaurants he now dines on duck and...
- We're All Ears - January 16, 2009
- "Ask not what your country can do for you," John F. Kennedy famously said in his inaugural address in 1961, "ask what you can do for your country." What...
- The Sleeping Children of Israel - January 9, 2009
- The Obama girls, like other girls in the West, are lucky. They could read the latest from Pakistan, where girls their age are forbidden to attend school....
- Out With the Old - January 2, 2009
- We're counting on the new president to save jobs, salvage homes, extend health care, win wars in two places, receive immigrants who seek a better life and...
- Politics and Poetry in Season - December 26, 2008
- The first Christmas summoned three kings, or wise men, to the manger in Bethlehem with gifts of royalty for the babe on whose tiny shoulders rested the hope...
- An Empty Stocking for Frau Merkel - December 19, 2008
- Other leaders in the European Union want her to package a bigger stimulus, but Frau Merkel is cautious. She offers only modest sums to trigger investment....
- Racism in the Public Schools - December 12, 2008
- Unfortunately, most Americans don't have that kind of opportunity or that kind of money, particularly in Washington, where the public schools are, to put it...
- Lessons from Lincoln - December 5, 2008
- Hubris or not, Obama seeks a hero worthy of imitation, but the obvious similarities tell us little about what to expect. Both are lanky lawyers from...
- Thanksgiving in Transition - November 28, 2008
- Since then, the history books have alternated interpretations that emphasized the virtues and then the vices of our forefathers. In the span of our own...
- From Victim to Victor in Black America - November 14, 2008
- "We've had an African American first family for many years in different forms," Karl Rove observed on election night. "When 'The Cosby Show' was on (the...
- The Triumph of Hope - November 7, 2008
- But Barack Obama was not a candidate to avenge black grievance; it was not color that produced his landslide in the oft-maligned Electoral College. The Rev....
- Bile, Rage and Sarah Palin - October 31, 2008
- The conversations can get candid and surprising, and nothing strikes sparks like the mere mention of the governor of Alaska. I expected the black women to...
- A Crowded Endorsement Game - October 24, 2008
- Eric Schmidt, the chief executive officer of Google, even got a mention in The Wall Street Journal for his "plans to endorse." Sometimes an endorser just...
- Irrational Excuberance of November - October 17, 2008
- A lot of the rhetoric of any campaign is designed to encourage foolishness, like expecting voters to believe everything they hear from the platform. Voters...
- There's Something About Sarah - October 11, 2008
- Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is something else. She's clearly relishing the assigned role of the candidate for vice president -- going out to rough up the...
- The Curtain on the Last Act - October 3, 2008
- Truman loved politics. Dewey didn't. "Lay it on," cried the men and women who crowded close to the railroad tracks on the Truman whistle-stop tour. The correspondent...
- The Pancake People - September 26, 2008
- Football coaches teach their athletes to adhere to the game plan, but they expect a good quarterback to know how to chuck it and call an audible at the line...
- A Face-Off for the Future - September 20, 2008
- "In the first stage, our aim was full participation, power and voice in the mainstream, but we were diverted from our dream," she would write. "And in our...