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Mammograms before 50: Not effective, or not cost-effective?

Published: 11/19/09

The first news blurbs Monday seemed like the sort of rushed reporting that would be followed by a journalist's red-face…

Online bonus column / Miriam Aroni Krinsky / The lethal flaws of legal execution

Published: 11/18/09

It has been a year and a half since the Supreme Court ended the nationwide moratorium on lethal injections, finding tha…

Online bonus column / Susan Reimer / Skipped on Skype, forgone on Facebook

Published: 11/18/09

A friend posted a message on Facebook asking if anyone knew what Skype was, if anyone had Skype and if anyone wanted to…

Harold Meyerson / U.S. Senate is now the place where good bills go to die

Published: 11/18/09

The House has delivered. It has done what in American politics today is all but impossible: It has passed a major bill.

Ann McFeatters / Don't expect much from jobs 'summit'

Published: 11/18/09

There is something about that familiar phrase "White House summit" that induces mental fatigue and makes you realize we…

Richard Cohen / Palin phenomenon is worth studying

Published: 11/18/09

I saw the other day that George W. Bush is raising money for his proposed policy institute at Southern Methodist Univer…

Online bonus column / James E. McWilliams / Bellying up to environmentalism

Published: 11/17/09

I gave a talk in South Texas recently on the environmental virtues of a vegetarian diet. As you might imagine, the rece…

Online bonus column / Susan Campbell / No God doesn't mean no beliefs

Published: 11/17/09

For some people, the violent acts of Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole suspect in the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings, is a mark …

Bonnie Erbe / Women's rights are set back in House bill on health care

Published: 11/17/09

Hello, American women. Welcome to the back of the bus.

Kathleen Parker / More civility is appealing, but do we really want to be civil?

Published: 11/17/09

Growing concern about incivility is one of America's more appealing trends. Increasingly, individuals and institutions …

Leonard Pitts Jr. / Grappling with inconsistency on messy issues of life, death

Published: 11/17/09

They killed a killer last week.

Online bonus column / Doyle McManus / Obama must rethink rethinking Afghanistan

Published: 11/16/09

Barack Obama is in danger of giving deliberation a bad name.

Online bonus column / Jackson Diehl / Obama's reluctant choice

Published: 11/16/09

Three autumns ago, Washington was paralyzed with indecision about what to do about a losing war — in Iraq. A congress…

Ezra Klein / Flawed health reform beats no reform

Published: 11/16/09

Marcia Angell, a single-payer supporter and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, says she doesn't beli…

Jim Landers / We’re borrowing less and buying less

Published: 11/16/09

While stocks climb and retailers dream of a green Christmas, the U.S. economy that is slowly emerging from recession lo…

Clifford D. May / Why do so many ignore link to Islam in Fort Hood killings?

Published: 11/16/09

Imagine if, in 1942, the son of German immigrants from the Sudetenland had yelled "Heil Hitler!" and then gunned down s…

George Will / Pictures lie - and falsehoods matter

Published: 11/16/09

The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, …

Jay Ambrose / On health care, insurance is less a problem than spending

Published: 11/15/09

Give U.S. Mark Warner a star for enunciating some insightful thoughts. No, give him five stars, for he got it absolutel…

Online bonus column / Charles Krauthammer / Medicalizing mass murder

Published: 11/13/09

 

Richard Cohen / U.S. is learning Britain’s lesson from Afghanistan

Published: 11/13/09

Between World War I and World War II, Britain fought all across the Islamic world, battling insurgencies in Iraq and Af…

Fred Hiatt / Reform is needed, but if cost is too high, poor will suffer

Published: 11/13/09

The House passage of health-care reform should be a moment of celebration. In a country as wealthy as America, no one s…

John M. Crisp / In defense of the humanities / Colleges must be more than vocational schools

Published: 11/13/09

Here's a question that all thoughtful college professors must ask themselves occasionally: Beyond the football and frat…

Online bonus column / Raeed N. Tayeh / We Muslims are looking inward after Fort Hood shooting

Published: 11/12/09

 

Online bonus column / Reg Henry / Who spawned all these nuts? Ayn Rand

Published: 11/12/09

Here is my secret: While the absurdities of life are always the fundamental subject of this column, I wish politics, th…

George Will / America's mounting debt is dangerous to recovery

Published: 11/12/09

One of the many television commercials exhorting viewers to buy gold says solemnly that it is an asset whose value "has…

Kathleen Parker / U.S. can't be blind to Chinese atrocity of forced abortions

Published: 11/12/09

One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.

Leonard Pitts Jr. / Saluting Muslims who stand up for U.S.

Published: 11/12/09

A sampling from the Web: "Why are these Muslim invaders allowed to carry on freely in this country ... protected by out…

Online bonus column / Rod Dreher / On gay marriage, empathy is a two-way street

Published: 11/11/09

Once again, state voters — this time in Maine, hardly a conservative stronghold — have voted down same-sex marriage…

Online bonus column / Susan Reimer / What the first couple can teach us

Published: 11/11/09

When Barack Obama was elected president, some credit was given to what pundits called the “Cosby Factor.”

Larry Kimport / The castle within: Yes, we’re living large in a tiny house

Published: 11/11/09

Years ago, my wife and I entertained a couple in our home. Their two children, with ours, ran amok in play. After a thi…

Aaron Glantz / Preventing veterans’ suicides: Community colleges can help

Published: 11/11/09

This Veterans Day, let's do more to prevent our troops from taking their own lives. Community colleges can play a pivot…

Arthur I. Cyr / Buffett bets big on those magic carpets made of steel

Published: 11/11/09

Last week, Warren Buffett closed the largest deal of his spectacular career with an agreement to purchase the Burlingto…

Online bonus column / Mikhail Gorbachev / Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, time for reflection

Published: 11/10/09

As we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's time to take stock.

Online bonus column / Gregory Rodriguez / West pines for Cold War clarity

Published: 11/10/09

The global celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall aren't entirely about commemorating…

Glenn Garvin / Obama's war on math: Stimulus numbers don't add up

Published: 11/10/09

We used to hear quite a bit about the Bush administration's supposed "war on science." What about the Obama administrat…

Leonard Pitts Jr. / 'Honor killing' was anything but

Published: 11/10/09

We don't know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid-'90s, and it's unlikely he'll be able to tell u…

Meghan Daum / Why the road rage against cyclists?

Published: 11/10/09

Dr. Christopher Thompson, a driver who abruptly stopped his car in front of two cyclists in Los Angeles last summer, wa…

Online bonus column / Kathleen Parker / The passion of Henry Allen

Published: 11/09/09

WASHINGTON - The so-called "newsroom brawl" between an editor and a writer at The Washington Post recently has been a f…

Online bonus column / Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry / States’ experience should guide health reform

Published: 11/09/09

Congress is on the verge of enacting the largest unfunded mandate in American history. At a time when most states are s…

Clifford D. May / How is it that Israel thrives?

Published: 11/09/09

People forget how small Israel is. Its entire population is a little more than

Kevin Horrigan / Mortgage-modification scammers find easy pickings

Published: 11/09/09

In Glendale, Calif., three men and two women were arrested and charged with beating, torturing and robbing two self-sty…

Grace-Marie Turner / Whom does AARP represent? Seniors realize it's no longer clear

Published: 11/09/09

Clearly something must be up with AARP.

George Will / Global-warming pact is critical? Good luck with that

Published: 11/09/09

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That i…

Bonnie Erbe / A wakeup call for Dems

Published: 11/08/09

The legacy of the 2009 off-presidential year elections is still to be determined as politicians, pundits and partisans …

Steve Adubato / Now we have what we need: A tough ‘Jersey guy’ as guv

Published: 11/08/09

The nation's eyes were on New Jersey on Tuesday night, and New Jersey didn't disappoint. In a shocking victory, Chris C…

Charles Krauthammer / Well, 2008 election wasn’t so transformative after all

Published: 11/08/09

Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it e…

Online bonus column / Carl Leubsdorf / Elections spell trouble for both parties

Published: 11/06/09

Republicans are celebrating two high-profile electoral successes Tuesday; Democrats are licking their wounds. But the r…

Online bonus column / Ann McFeatters / What flu vaccine shortage says about us

Published: 11/06/09

I remember it well. My husband had just had serious surgery, and I was asked to leave the hospital to write about congr…

Richard Cohen / Another Madoff lesson: Government needs more talented people

Published: 11/06/09

In his own telling, Bernard Madoff was a version of the serial killer who leaves notes saying, "Stop me before I kill a…

Gregory Rodriguez / Not counting illegals doesn’t add up

Published: 11/06/09

Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, has introduced legislation that, if passed, would instruct the U.S. Census B…