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June 19, 2013

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The end of the right to privacy?
Sunday, June 9, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Eugene Robinson
Someday, a young girl will look up into her father’s eyes and ask, “Daddy, what was privacy?”
The bomb we don't need
Sunday, June 9, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Steve Andreasen
“The Soviets put guns before butter, but we put almost everything before guns.” — Margaret Thatcher, January 1976
No facts? Keep focus on scandal
Sunday, June 9, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Scot Lehigh
It’s a tale of two political realities — and this past week, President Barack Obama signaled that he won’t be cowed by the picture of scandal and cover-up painted by hyperpartisan House Republicans and their enablers in the right-wing media.
Power to the preschoolers
Saturday, June 8, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Gail Collins
“Spread the word about President Obama’s plan to provide high-quality preschool for every kid in America,” twittered the White House on Wednesday.
Pope Francis offers a new opening in Rome
Saturday, June 8, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
James Carroll
Especially among Catholics who bristled under the traditionalism of Benedict XVI, Pope Francis was widely welcomed as the new leader of the church.
Why Nevada needs gun background checks
Friday, June 7, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Bill Badger, Dave Hoover, Elvin Daniel and Paul Kemp
Gov. Brian Sandoval has an opportunity to save lives with a stroke of his pen.
Israel lives the Joseph Story
Friday, June 7, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Thomas Friedman
How would you like to be an Israeli strategist today? Now even Turkey is in turmoil as its people push back on their increasingly autocratic leader. I mean, there goes the neighborhood.
Obama's season of challenge
Friday, June 7, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
E.J. Dionne
What is President Barack Obama fighting for? What is the point of his second term?
An ominous turn in Syria
Thursday, June 6, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Nicholas Burns
Syria’s savage civil war may have just entered a new and darker phase. During the past few weeks, momentum has shifted sharply away from the rebels in favor of the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
Why do we love summer so much?
Thursday, June 6, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Frank Bruni
If my body is a buffet, summer is the server who rips the metal covers off the roast beef and the scalloped potatoes so that the hordes can start feeding. And feed they do — mosquitoes and ants and for all I know spiders. (I’m never sure which tiny glutton has made off with the most of me.)
Cut the strings to George III
Thursday, June 6, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Maureen Dowd
You see glistening mermaid sightings on Animal Planet more than you catch glimpses of vintage John McCain on Capitol Hill.
Congress should address looming physician shortage
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Harold Jackson
That the Affordable Care Act will open the doors to consistent health care for more people is a good thing, but it will also make a predicted nationwide shortage of doctors even worse unless steps are taken to increase the number of physicians.
Pomp and dissonance: At commencement speeches, the cliches pile up
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Renee Loth
“Wear sunscreen.” This advice to MIT graduates, attributed to Kurt Vonnegut in an apocryphal speech he never gave, is what passes for great commencement oratory today.
The way to produce a person
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
David Brooks
Dylan Matthews had a fascinating piece about a young man named Jason Trigg in the Washington Post on Sunday. Trigg is a 25-year-old computer science graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has hit upon what he thinks is the way he can do maximum good for the world. He goes to work each day at a high-frequency trading hedge fund.
Remembering Nevada's wizard of higher ed
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
WHERE I STAND:
Dr. Kevin Marie Laxalt
I just returned from a “celebration of life” event in Elko that honored one of my most cherished mentors — Dorothy Gallagher.

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