The arena feud
Weve never questioned the proposed $75 million state investment in construction of a new sports... More
Opinion
Iraq's civil war
WASHINGTON -- Iraq has endured civil war for 30 years. It has not suited Western policymakers or... More
- By Jim Hoagland
Churchill's warning relevant today
WASHINGTON -- When late in the spring of 1940 people of southeastern England flocked across the... More
- By George F. Will
States tackling big issues
WASHINGTON -- The story that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was telling this week about the... More
- By David S. Broder
Two bad appointments
Because Gov. Ernie Fletcher has been cut on twice in the last two weeks, given oxygen and... More
Matters of faith
WASHINGTON -- When John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, he said some things about Catholic... More
- By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Frist, Hastert corporate rescuers
AUSTIN, Texas -- With the Bush administration, its important to have in mind the old carnival con... More
- By Molly Ivins
Cunningham's many enablers
WASHINGTON It is tempting, and certainly convenient for his former colleagues in Congress, to... More
- By Ruth Marcus
If not a vote-hauling ban, at least keep records
If the General Assembly will not ban outright the practice of vote hauling on election day and... More
Bush stands tall
There are times when George Bush sorely disappoints. Just when you might expect him to issue a... More
- By Richard Cohen
Globalization and democracy
DALLAS -- Forget for the moment the flap over doing business with Peninsula & Oriental Steam... More
- By Richard Reeves
Bush rhetoric comes back to bite
President Bush may not like the arguments that critics are raising against the Dubai company... More
- By Ronald Brownstein
Federal lab welcome
The Courier-Journal, Louisville Kentuckians should welcome the scientifically ambitious,... More
Iraq on the brink?
The Los Angeles Times It would be oddly reassuring if al-Qaida were behind Wednesdays hideous... More
Fighting the 'silent epidemic'
WASHINGTON -- They number in the millions -- 3.5 million in the most recent year for which... More
- By David S. Broder
Once again, staff let Bush down
WASHINGTON -- Laugh or cry? Hard to choose when it comes to the descent of the Bush White House... More
- By Jim Hoagland
A jail term for dissenting ideas
Last winter, on a cold and black night, I went to hear the Holocaust denier David Irving speak at... More
- By Richard Cohen
It's about free trade, stupid
AUSTIN, Texas -- So, aside from the fact that its politically idiotic and at least theoretically... More
- By Molly Ivins
Hay, buddy, wanna buy a port?
WASHINGTON Were selling our harbors to an Arab government. Our biggest Internet companies are... More
- By Harold Meyerson
Pay now or pay more later
The hundreds of retired state employees who rallied at the Capitol Tuesday were attempting only... More
Gauntlets are tossed
WASHINGTON -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has abandoned the fog of negotiation to confront the... More
- By Jim Hoagland
Those happy, happy conservatives
WASHINGTON -- To bemused conservatives, it looks like yet another example of analytic overkill by... More
- By George F. Will
Health care costs eating us alive
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday afternoon, Mike Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services,... More
- By David S. Broder
Video game for real
It sounds like something from a second-rate science fiction novel: The mad scientist hunched over... More
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