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PublishedJuly 17, 2013
GEORGE SMITH: Catastrophic danger lurks nearby, but don’t take nail clippers on planes
Just how secure are we? And are we focusing our protection in the right places?
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PublishedJuly 16, 2013
ELLEN GOODMAN: With world on Mandela Watch, our families should know our wishes
BOSTON — Is this what they mean by a death watch? The father of his country, a moral icon to the world, lies in a hospital bed as cameras wait outside and newspaper headlines offer a daily prognosis: “Mandela on Life Support.” “South Africans Asked to Pray for Mandela.” “Mandela Remains Critical, Responds to Treatment.” “It’s Time to Let Him Go.”
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PublishedJuly 15, 2013
KATHLEEN PARKER: Congressional Republicans keep picking wrong battles
Republicans seem to be adopting the self-immolation tactics of principled martyrs.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2013
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Modest GOP agenda for 2013 should start with tax reform
The conventional wisdom evolves. Yesterday, Washington was merely broken, gridlocked, dysfunctional. The passive voice spread the blame evenly. Today, it’s agreed that Republican obstructionism is the root of all evil — GOP resistance having now escalated to nihilism and indeed sabotage.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2013
COMMENTARY: Force-feeding at Guantanamo a form of abuse that must end
At least 106 of the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detention center are reported to be on hunger strike, with 45 currently being force-fed.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2013
LIZ SOARES: Pick a cause, any cause, then use e-media to storm the Bastille
Today is Bastille Day, one of my favorite holidays. The Fete Nationale of France, the holiday commemorates the storming of the prison by dissidents, a landmark event of the French Revolution. The Bastille was regarded as a symbol of King Louis XVI’s absolute power, and a few weeks later, a document establishing the rights of French citizens was issued.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
M.D. HARMON: True Luddites are those who oppose pipelines just because
A recent letter to the editor described me as a Luddite, and of all the things I get called by liberals (fondly, I’m certain), that one left me bemused.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
COMMENTARY: Young women killing themselves by tanning
Despite the hoopla over dysfunction in Washington, the government still can do useful things. To prove it, the Food and Drug Administration should move aggressively to implement and then strengthen its proposed cancer warnings about tanning beds.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2013
COMMENTARY: GOP voters ready for reform
Immigration reform has more traction with Republican voters than you'd imagine from listening to some talk show hosts and bloggers. A poll out Wednesday shows the gap between the noisemakers and voters on the right.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2013
JOSEPH REISERT: Supreme Court condemns DOMA more harshly than segregation
If, as many activists maintain, the struggle for gay rights is just the latest phase of the civil rights movement, then the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor, striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, may be this generation's Brown v. Board of Education.
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