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Lisa McLeod: One horrible thing wrong with schools
Do you remember career counseling when you were in school?
Susan Estrich: Word games
The brilliant actor Benedict Cumberbatch is in hot water for getting his words wrong
Froma Harrop: Free tuition at community college should just be the start
It's good that many Republicans have joined Democrats in declaring the growth of economic inequality a problem.
Tim Kalich: Open government is good government
Sen. Lydia Chassaniol considers legislative proposals a good way to get the conversation started on matters of public interest.
Leonard Pitts: Why serious people discount Fox News
Tucker Carlson said on Fox that more children die of bathtub drownings than of accidental shootings. They don't. Steve Doocy said on Fox that NASA scientists faked data to make the case for global warming.
Rheta Johnson: This ole house
When I was little, Stuart Hamblen's song "This Ole House" always made me unutterably sad. Despite the lively melody and cheerful beat, the homeowner was giving up, leaving his faithful hound dog to fend for itself.
Dana Milbank: The GOP's bait-and-switch on abortion
As President Obama prepared on Tuesday to lay out his economic agenda in his State of the Union address, House Republicans were moving ahead with an agenda of their own.
Susan Estrich: Forty-two years later
It has been 42 years since the United States Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that the right to decide whether to go forward with a pregnancy, prior to viability, belongs to a woman, in consultation with her doctors.
Kathleen Parker: When the pope talks ...
Forget E.F. Hutton. It's P.F. (Pope Francis) these days who, when he talks, people listen.
Leonard Pitts: Something obscene about civil asset forfeitures
Imagine this: You get pulled over by police. Maybe they claim you were seven miles over the speed limit, maybe they say you made an improper lane change. Doesn't matter, because the traffic stop is only a pretext.
Dana Milbank: The CofC's short memory
Tom Donohue, the longtime president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sounded ebullient as he gave his annual report on the health of American business Wednesday.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson: Sad days for satire
I met Herbert Block, the late, great editorial cartoonist Herblock, in Washington in the early 1980s. Maybe I should say I saw him. "Met" is too strong a word. I never even shook his hand.
Leonard Pitts: Pontiff wrong on limiting freedom of expression
A few words on the limits to freedom of expression: For what it's worth, there are a few that are acceptable. You don't threaten or incite violence. You don't defame. You don't produce child pornography. And you don't falsely shout "Fire!" in the proverbial crowded theater.
Kathleen Parker: Why Obama was probably right not to go the Paris rally
If we can be serious for a moment: The president made an error in judgment by not sending someone with a higher profile than our ambassador to join world leaders Sunday at a solidarity rally in Paris. The White House has admitted the error.
Dana Milbank: Conservatives find their inner Francophiles
There is a certain je ne sais quoi in conservatives' criticism of the Obama administration over last week's terrorist attack in France.
Froma Harrop: License plates are not bumper stickers
A group called the Sons of Confederate Veterans has asked Texas to issue a license plate featuring the Confederate battle flag.
Dana Milbank: Episode shows how far we've come
I like a feeding frenzy as much as the next shark. But I can't get a taste for Rep. Steve Scalise's blood. The Louisiana Republican, newly elected No. 3 in the House leadership, was recently discovered to have spoken to a group of white supremacists. Democrats see his offense as a scandal to be exploited.
Kathleen Parker: Al Sharpton's ace card
Recent events from Ferguson, Mo., to Staten Island might prompt an observer to infer that American cops are racist and that a bigoted white populace tolerates unnecessary lethal force against minorities. One might also conclude that the United States has a hearty appetite for the carnival barker, the jester, the rabble-rouser, the race-baiter and, lest we leave anyone out, the performance-activist who pretends to be a newsman while fomenting unrest that only he can quell.
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