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Joel Achenbach
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What the Zimmerman trial tells us about America
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Jonathan Capehart
One suffered an injustice and decided to take on the federal government. The other decided to help her right that wrong -- and they won.
To have a president who looks like me and has lived the same experience I have and to say so before the nation was as overwhelming as it was historic.
The attorney general is smart to shift focus from the Zimmerman trial to the absurd laws behind it.
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Jackson Diehl
Egypt’s young liberals, disenchanted with the result of their revolution, turn to their former oppressors for help.
Other options were far better.
Schools sacrifice values in authoritarian states.
Petula Dvorak
Women make hearty lunches to help stifle hunger among the region’s children.
Gray should veto the living wage bill becase D.C. needs Wal-Mart more than Wal-Mart needs D.C.
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If Trayvon Martin hadn’t been black, he might still be alive today.
Fred Hiatt
U.S. ignores Putin’s human rights crackdown.
Officials want to do better, but that’s not enough.
Progressives need to tame entitlements.
Robert Kagan
Obama must act — and act quickly.
Immigration reform can prove U.S. strength.
Robert Kagan and Michele Dunne
The U.S. can start by refusing to coddle President Morsi.
Anne Applebaum
A chronicler and victim of Stalinism, he called the epoch the “vilest and bloodiest kind of evildoing.”
It’s okay to be disgusted with your politicians — but better if you’re willing to become one yourself.
Edward Snowden deepens U.S.-Russia chill.
Richard Cohen
Recognizing urban crime isn’t racism.
America’s insistence that others mimic our democracy is patronizing.
Name recognition, apparently, is better than a stellar reputation and the proclivity to be photographed with your clothes on.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
President Obama and Cory Booker both responded to the Zimmerman verdict with a similar goal in mind.
The Senate’s agreement to end filibusters of presidential nominees is a very big deal.
Clinton could have some female rivals in 2016.
Michael Gerson
His defense of an aide with Neo-Confederate views shows his ideology’s limits.
U.S. passivity concerns many leaders.
Most Israelis and Palestinians want a two-state solution, but the devil remains in the details.
David Ignatius
When a good idea gets trapped in Washington.
In talking about Trayvon Martin, the president embodied the kind of grace that is well-restrained passion.
Once again, Washington leads on a foreign opposition.
Colbert I. King
Questions surround two D.C. council members’ payments to businesses.
Foot soldiers in the war on clean elections.
Accused public officials in the D.C. area and elsewhere transcend racial and party boundaries.
Charles Krauthammer
Obama’s wise words after the George Zimmerman verdict.
Reform the tax code, secure the border and demand clarity on Afghanistan.
Declaring war on climate change amounts to economic suicide.
Ruth Marcus
Unlike others who broke the law on principle, he lacked the courage to suffer the consequences.
But George Zimmerman remains morally culpable.
The evidence mounts against Virginia’s Bob McDonnell.
Harold Meyerson
By voting for a $12.50 per hour minimum wage, the D.C. Council took a stand that others should emulate.
The economy is hurting the stability of full-time work.
As social equality increases, income equality continues to decline.
Matt Miller
Is this all you get for ‘going nuclear’?
Republicans need to get serious about health care.
The U.S. could use some foreign talent.
Kathleen Parker
The double standard on gender and sex scandals.
Some enablers — like MSNBC’s Al Sharpton — are exploiting reactions to the Zimmerman verdict.
What Republicans are selling appeals to an ever-diminishing market.
ComPost
Alexandra Petri
It's a boy!
All your questions answered!
We've had enough of those. How do you move forward?
Right Turn
Jennifer Rubin
Rand Paul cuts loose the Southern Avenger and lets loose a string of untruths in a speech to veterans.
President Obama has one response to economic stagnation and political failure -- campaign.
Iran has learned to manipulate the West while we have failed to act decisively against the mullahs.
The Plum Line
Greg Sargent
Still more signs of optimism that a bloc of Senate Republicans is breaking with the GOP leadership's hostility to basic governing.
The President's upcoming series of speeches on the economy is all about setting the stage for the coming "austerity" battles over the debt ceiling and the budget.
How will GOP lawmakers respond when their own constituents ask their help in navigating the new health law?
Marc A. Thiessen
The Virginia governor should have used it.
Kids can handle feeding tubes.So can terrorists.
Obama stays on the wrong side of the struggle.
George F. Will
Why we need the American Community Survey.
Military despotism may prove less dangerous than was the Islamist government of Mohamed Morsi.
Delay of health-care employer mandate suggests a similar fate for immigration reform.
Charles Lane
The NSA’s program, far from creating a ‘surveillance state,’ is a reasonable trade-off between liberty and security.
Bad governance has made a difficult situation even worse.
Use the money saved to beef up the rest of the social safety net.
Robert McCartney
COLUMN | Virginia’s Democratic candidate shows gravitas overall in debate, but misstatements mar effort.
Red signal violations, disabled intercoms prompt call for pink slips at transit agency.
COLUMN | Virginia governor’s acceptance of gifts, loans is unprecedented betrayal of public trust.
Dana Milbank
Liz Cheney’s candidacy gives me hope.
Republicans try yet again to roll back Obamacare.
In trying to appeal to conservatives, Republicans are alienating the electorate.
Courtland Milloy
The acquittal of George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin’s death conjures memories of the Rodney King case.
At 10 D.C. schools, new ninth-graders will be segregated from those forced to repeat the grade.
By bureaucratic fiat, the Obama administration has disproportionately denied loans to black families.
Steven Pearlstein
In “Hedge Hogs,” Barbara T. Dreyfuss recounts the collapse of the biggest hedge fund, Amaranth Advisors.
Dylan Collins makes more money in a day than some have in their 401(k), but can he make a career of it?
The free market vs. the welfare state.
Eugene Robinson
Speaking his mind would be counterproductive.
Live chat with Eugene Robinson about his latest columns and political news.
Eugene Robinson discussed his latest columns and political news.
Robert J. Samuelson
For most, America’s economy is doing fine. But getting the confidence back won’t be so easy.
Is the age of automation killing jobs?
Companies might choose technology over workers.
Stephen Stromberg
President Obama led on student loans. Maybe he should do that sort of thing more often.
It is not a disaster, despite what you've heard from Washington.
There is a limit to how much "no net economic cost" policies can achieve.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
House Republicans are in need of common sense.
We can fight back, but do we have the will?
It’s time to end a policy that isolates the U.S.
Fareed Zakaria
Can the country fix its slowing economy?
Mohamed Morsi was a victim of both history and his own incompetence.
Syria is the latest example of Washington responding fitfully to a crisis.
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