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May 22, 2013

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Scandalmania and the false god of 'narrative'
Thursday, May 16, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
E.J. Dionne
“What if the government starts enforcing the espionage statute whenever there’s a leak?” Steve Roberts, a former New York Times journalist who teaches at George Washington University, observed to the Baltimore Sun. “It’s going to have a tremendously chilling effect on this interplay between sources and reporters.”
What was the IRS thinking?
Thursday, May 16, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Leonard Pitts Jr.
Well, this is a fine mess.
It's almost like Nixon is back in the White House
Thursday, May 16, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Derrick Z. Jackson
It is Nixon Week at the White House.
The next Benghazi scapegoat
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
David Brooks
Twenty years ago, when she was a young Foreign Service officer in Moscow, Victoria Nuland gave me a dazzling briefing on the diverse factions inside the Russian parliament.
Politicizing terrorism in America
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Joan Vennochi
Ed Davis isn’t a political partisan. He’s Boston’s police commissioner.
Yemen succeeding where others failed
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Thomas Friedman
If you want to know how bad things can go in Syria, study Iraq. If you want to know how much better things could have gone, study Yemen. Say what? Yemen?
When myths collide in the capital
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Maureen Dowd
The capital is in the throes of deja vu and preview as it plunges back into Clinton Rules, defined by a presidential aide on the hit ABC show “Scandal” as damage control that goes like this: “It’s not true, it’s not true, it’s not true. It’s old news.”
Ignoring the real, fighting the imaginary
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Leonard Pitts Jr.
t should’ve been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn’t hear it.
‘Slow-motion mass murders’
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
E.J. Dionne
Public officials are very selective about when violence and death matter.
Tragedy’s cold calculations
Monday, May 13, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Juliette Kayyem
Yes or no? If a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing loses a limb, and his wife also loses a limb, should they be compensated under some notion of cumulative impact that is greater than double the sum of their individual claims? And if yes, what is that new number?
Questions about intervening in Syria
Monday, May 13, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Eugene Robinson
For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:
On immigration, ghosts from the past
Monday, May 13, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
George Will
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with “twenty thousand times the force” of a political tract. It concerned a 19th-century debate that is pertinent to today’s argument about immigration.
Recalling Wounded Knee occupation 40 years later
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Letter to the editor:
Mark Anthony Rolo
It’s been 40 years since American Indian activists ended their occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., but thanks to them, life has improved in Indian country.
A teacher’s use of stomping fails again
Sunday, May 12, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Frank Cerabino
We don’t have a monopoly in South Florida when it comes to academic lessons on symbolism that involve stomping.
How the unassimilated are transformed into terrorists
Sunday, May 12, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
John Kass
If you’re the child of an immigrant, like me, or perhaps an immigrant yourself brought here as a child, you know what it’s like to have one foot planted in the old world and the other planted in the new, in this amazing, sometimes frighteningly free American culture.

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