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  • The triage commander: Gen. John Allen hastily transforming U.S. mission in Afghanistan

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    Rajiv Chandrasekaran
    12 May 2012 | 3:29 pm
    Standing in a plywood-walled command post before Gen. John R. Allen, the supreme allied commander in Afghanistan, the nervous-but-earnest young lieutenant cast his platoon’s task for the day in the grand terms of counterinsurgency strategy — the American military’s wartime playbook for the past several years. The goal of the platoon’s walk through a bazaar and meetings with village leaders, the lieutenant said, was for the Afghan government to be “seen as an effective governing body that gains legitimacy with the local population.” Read full article >>

  • Deb Fischer, and what (political) money can’t buy

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    Aaron Blake
    16 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Only about one-tenth of the money spent in Tuesday’s Nebraska GOP Senate primary was spent on Deb Fischer’s behalf. Yet the little-known state senator emerged victorious over both the establishment-favored candidate and a favorite of the tea party — both of whom, we should note, are statewide elected officials. Read full article >>

  • TV and radio listings: May 17

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    15 May 2012 | 11:47 pm
    MLB 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Washington » MASN, WJFK (106.7 FM), WFED (820 AM, 1500 AM), WHFS (1580 AM) 7 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay » ESPN 8 p.m. Baltimore at Kansas City » MASN2, WWXT (92.7 FM), WWXX (94.3 FM), WTEM (980 AM) Read full article >>

  • Gay judicial candidate rejected in Va.; George Huguely police interview made public; D.C.’s Kenyan McDuffie wins Ward 5 seat (A.M. Buzz)

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    Maggie Fazeli Fard
    16 May 2012 | 6:02 am
    Here are our picks for the top local stories to start your day: Openly gay judicial candidate rejected by Virginia legislature. Conservative lawmakers insist Tracy Thorne-Begland’s advocacy for gay rights disqualifies him from being an impartial judge. Read full article >>

  • Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC

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    Valerie Strauss
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    This was written by Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He writes the Sociological Eye on Education blog — where this post first appeared — for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, non-partisan education-news outlet affiliated with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. Read full article >>
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  • Deb Fischer, and what (political) money can’t buy

    Aaron Blake
    16 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Only about one-tenth of the money spent in Tuesday’s Nebraska GOP Senate primary was spent on Deb Fischer’s behalf. Yet the little-known state senator emerged victorious over both the establishment-favored candidate and a favorite of the tea party — both of whom, we should note, are statewide elected officials. Read full article >>

  • Moscow police clear occupied park

    Will Englund
    16 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    MOSCOW — Police cleared a campsite occupied by political protesters in the Russian capital early Wednesday morning, despite assurances that they would wait until noon. Within hours, another gathering had begun in a small park near the Barrikadnaya metro station, named for the barricades of Russia’s 1905 revolution. Read full article >>

  • Senate panel to vote on extending benefits to same-sex partners of LGBT federal workers

    Lisa Rein
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    A Senate committee plans to vote Wednesday on legislation that would give same-sex partners of federal workers some key benefits, a week after President Obama endorsed marriage for same-sex couples. The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (S. 1910) is scheduled to go before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for a vote. Read full article >>

  • Obama executive order will give Treasury authority to freeze U.S.-based assets in Yemen

    Karen DeYoung
    15 May 2012 | 8:55 pm
    President Obama plans to issue an executive order Wednesday giving the Treasury Department authority to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone who “obstructs” implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen. Read full article >>

  • Syrian rebels get influx of arms with gulf neighbors’ money, U.S. coordination

    Karen DeYoung, Liz Sly
    15 May 2012 | 8:53 pm
    Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials. Read full article >>
 
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  • TV and radio listings: May 17

    15 May 2012 | 11:47 pm
    MLB 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Washington » MASN, WJFK (106.7 FM), WFED (820 AM, 1500 AM), WHFS (1580 AM) 7 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay » ESPN 8 p.m. Baltimore at Kansas City » MASN2, WWXT (92.7 FM), WWXX (94.3 FM), WTEM (980 AM) Read full article >>

  • Oakton, Chantilly baseball teams in limbo after Virginia AAA Concorde District quarterfinal is cut short by lightning

    Preston Williams
    15 May 2012 | 10:45 pm
    The Virginia AAA Concorde District baseball quarterfinal between Oakton and Chantilly was cut short after 41 2 innings on Tuesday night, and officials were deciding whether the elimination game would be ruled an official result or resumed Wednesday. Read full article >>

  • Shot in July, man dies in March

    Martin Weil
    15 May 2012 | 10:42 pm
    The death of a man who died months after being shot last July has been ruled a homicide, the D.C. police said. They said Pernell Lonnie Dawkins, 43, of Southeast Washington was shot in the 300 block of Ridge Road SE on July 17. The shooting left him paralyzed and he was taken to a rehabilitation cetner in Maryland, where he died March 14. Read full article >>

  • Chan Sung Jung stops Dustin Poirier at UFC event at Patriot Center

    Gene Wang
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    Chan Sung Jung pummeled Dustin Poirier in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Tuesday night at Patriot Center before an announced crowd of 4,592 that included Washington Nationals rookie sensation Bryce Harper. Read full article >>

  • Video shows Huguely interrogation in Love death

    Mary Pat Flaherty
    15 May 2012 | 7:51 pm
    CHARLOTTESVILLE — In May of his senior year, with his lacrosse season behind him and his graduation from the University of Virginia just weeks away, George Huguely V sat in an interrogation room, his black “Police World Tour 2008” band shirt stark against the white-painted cinder-block wall, his beefy hands resting on the wood-laminate table. Read full article >>
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  • Gay judicial candidate rejected in Va.; George Huguely police interview made public; D.C.’s Kenyan McDuffie wins Ward 5 seat (A.M. Buzz)

    Maggie Fazeli Fard
    16 May 2012 | 6:02 am
    Here are our picks for the top local stories to start your day: Openly gay judicial candidate rejected by Virginia legislature. Conservative lawmakers insist Tracy Thorne-Begland’s advocacy for gay rights disqualifies him from being an impartial judge. Read full article >>

  • Shot in July, man dies in March

    Martin Weil
    15 May 2012 | 10:42 pm
    The death of a man who died months after being shot last July has been ruled a homicide, the D.C. police said. They said Pernell Lonnie Dawkins, 43, of Southeast Washington was shot in the 300 block of Ridge Road SE on July 17. The shooting left him paralyzed and he was taken to a rehabilitation cetner in Maryland, where he died March 14. Read full article >>

  • Video shows Huguely interrogation in Love death

    Mary Pat Flaherty
    15 May 2012 | 7:51 pm
    CHARLOTTESVILLE — In May of his senior year, with his lacrosse season behind him and his graduation from the University of Virginia just weeks away, George Huguely V sat in an interrogation room, his black “Police World Tour 2008” band shirt stark against the white-painted cinder-block wall, his beefy hands resting on the wood-laminate table. Read full article >>

  • Strength coach McNamee says he helped Clemens use drugs

    Del Quentin Wilber, Ann E. Marimow
    15 May 2012 | 5:58 pm
    A former Major League Baseball strength coach testified Tuesday that he only reluctantly told federal authorities about Roger Clemens’s alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs and did not initially intend to hand over evidence that prosecutors say tests have linked to the baseball legend. Read full article >>

  • George Huguely’s police interview in Yeardley Love investigation

    Mary Pat Flaherty, Jenna Johnson
    15 May 2012 | 1:21 pm
    In the dark of May 3, 2010, a roommate of Yeardley Love returned to their off-campus apartment and found Love, 22, dead, facedown in blood on her bedroom pillow. By about 2:30 a.m., Charlottesville police were investigating and before 8 a.m., Love’s ex-boyfriend, George Huguely V, of Chevy Chase, was being questioned by two detectives. Read full article >>
 
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  • Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC

    Valerie Strauss
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    This was written by Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He writes the Sociological Eye on Education blog — where this post first appeared — for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, non-partisan education-news outlet affiliated with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. Read full article >>

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  • Why education inequality persists — and how to fix it

    Valerie Strauss
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    This was written by John Jackson, president of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, and Pedro Noguera, the Peter L. Agnew professor of education at New York University. By John H. Jackson and Pedro Noguera Read full article >>

  • Readers’ views on ‘Back to Sleep’ advice for infants and on palliative-care article

    15 May 2012 | 6:43 pm
    SIDS is every parent’s worst nightmare [“Some parents don’t give a nod to ‘Back to Sleep,’ ” May 8]. When my kids were that little, I remember waking up to a noise from the nursery early in the morning and thinking, “Thank God, he’s alive.” Read full article >>

  • Why Hollywood is doomed

    Rob ‘Cmdrtaco’ Malda
    15 May 2012 | 12:14 pm
    The only way the film industry can survive, according to entertainment lobbyists, is for Congress to pass a series of escalating, alphabet soup laws. I’m referring to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 and the recent attempts by the entertainment industry to push sister anti-piracy bills — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the Senate and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in the House — into law. These pieces of legislation assume guilt on the part of content consumers while simultaneously erasing their rights to privacy. But, before you cast aspersions,…
 
 
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  • Pentagon to expand cybersecurity program for defense contractors

    Ellen Nakashima
    11 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    The Pentagon is expanding and making permanent a trial program that teams the government with Internet service providers to protect defense firms’ computer networks against data theft by foreign adversaries. Read full article >>

  • Obama plan would ease weapons export rules

    Sari Horwitz
    2 May 2012 | 8:22 pm
    The Obama administration is crafting a proposal that could make it easier to export firearms and other weapons to certain countries in an effort to boost sales for U.S. companies, increase trade and improve national security, according to senior government officials. Read full article >>

  • The good, bad and ugly of the Homeland Security Department

    Joe Davidson
    2 May 2012 | 7:15 pm
    The Department of Homeland Security is a tale of the good, the bad and the ugly. It has 230,000 employees, about the population of Birmingham, Ala. Almost all of them are good, hardworking public servants, providing valuable service to the country. Read full article >>

  • DHS again extends temporary protected status for Somali immigrants, cites ongoing conflict

    Associated Press
    2 May 2012 | 1:45 pm
    WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is once again renewing the temporary protected status for some Somali immigrants living in the United States. The protected status, first issued in 2001, will now expire in March 2014, meaning that Somali immigrants can stay in the U.S. until then. Homeland Security says their status is being extended because of an ongoing armed conflict and severe drought in Somalia. Read full article >>

  • The word that must not be spoken

    Al Kamen
    4 Apr 2012 | 6:20 pm
    Washington’s newest dirty word is “conference.” Thanks to the clowning and magic tricks by the General Services Administration at a posh Las Vegas resort (the one that led to the resignation this week of the agency’s chief and two of her top deputies and the ouster — “administrative leave” — of four officials involved in planning the ritzy event) the word may now be verboten among the agencies. Read full article >>
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  • The triage commander: Gen. John Allen hastily transforming U.S. mission in Afghanistan

    Rajiv Chandrasekaran
    12 May 2012 | 3:29 pm
    Standing in a plywood-walled command post before Gen. John R. Allen, the supreme allied commander in Afghanistan, the nervous-but-earnest young lieutenant cast his platoon’s task for the day in the grand terms of counterinsurgency strategy — the American military’s wartime playbook for the past several years. The goal of the platoon’s walk through a bazaar and meetings with village leaders, the lieutenant said, was for the Afghan government to be “seen as an effective governing body that gains legitimacy with the local population.” Read full article >>

  • Why we need more accountability in Afghanistan

    Andrew J. Bacevich
    20 Apr 2012 | 4:20 pm
    For too long now, command accountability for our troops’ misconduct in wartime has been more theoretical than real. The latest scandal to erupt in Afghanistan — photographs of American soldiers amusing themselves with dismembered Taliban corpses — suggests that it’s past time to confront this problem. Read full article >>

  • Pentagon condemns photos of U.S. troops posing with dead Afghan insurgents

    Craig Whitlock
    18 Apr 2012 | 7:00 pm
    The U.S. military on Wednesday once again condemned the actions of some of its troops in Afghanistan after photographs surfaced of smiling soldiers posing with dead insurgents in the latest battlefield scandal. Read full article >>

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  • U.S., Australia to broaden military ties amid Pentagon pivot to SE Asia

    Craig Whitlock
    26 Mar 2012 | 5:13 pm
    The United States and Australia are planning a major expansion of military ties, including possible drone flights from a coral atoll in the Indian Ocean and increased U.S. naval access to Australian ports, as the Pentagon looks to shift its forces closer to Southeast Asia, officials from both countries said. Read full article >>
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  • Moscow police clear occupied park

    Will Englund
    16 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    MOSCOW — Police cleared a campsite occupied by political protesters in the Russian capital early Wednesday morning, despite assurances that they would wait until noon. Within hours, another gathering had begun in a small park near the Barrikadnaya metro station, named for the barricades of Russia’s 1905 revolution. Read full article >>

  • Obama executive order will give Treasury authority to freeze U.S.-based assets in Yemen

    Karen DeYoung
    15 May 2012 | 8:55 pm
    President Obama plans to issue an executive order Wednesday giving the Treasury Department authority to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone who “obstructs” implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen. Read full article >>

  • Syrian rebels get influx of arms with gulf neighbors’ money, U.S. coordination

    Karen DeYoung, Liz Sly
    15 May 2012 | 8:53 pm
    Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials. Read full article >>

  • Group of Eight set to meet; France’s Francois Hollande to first visit Obama

    David Nakamura, Howard Schneider
    15 May 2012 | 7:06 pm
    Leaders of the world’s eight richest economies are set to gather at Camp David this weekend amid questions about Europe’s spiraling debt crisis. But before they do, one key player, French President Francois Hollande, will stop by the White House to introduce himself to President Obama. Read full article >>

  • Rebekah Brooks, former Murdoch editor, charged in phone-hacking scandal

    Michael Holden, Kate Holton, Reuters
    15 May 2012 | 5:57 pm
    LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, a confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the media tycoon’s empire and sent shock waves through the British political establishment. Read full article >>
 
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  • Home HIV test should be approved, FDA panel rules

    Lena H. Sun
    15 May 2012 | 7:55 pm
    An expert panel recommended Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration approve the first over-the-counter HIV test, a kit that could quickly return results for consumers in the privacy of their homes. Read full article >>

  • Potomac River threatened by pollution, Congress, new report says

    Darryl Fears
    14 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    A new report named the Potomac the nation’s most endangered river, saying it is threatened by nutrient and sediment pollution that lowers the quality of drinking water and kills marine life and will only get worse if Congress rolls back regulations in the Clean Water Act. Read full article >>

  • Allergies are less common in people from environments rich in biodiversity

    Rachel Nuwer
    14 May 2012 | 4:54 pm
    Now there’s another reason to get back to nature. A new study reveals that people who grow up in more-rural environments are less likely to develop allergies. The reason may be that environments rich with species harbor more friendly microbes, which colonize our bodies and protect against inflammatory disorders. Read full article >>

  • Dogs yawn when they hear people yawn, suggesting they empathize with humans

    Zuberoa Marcos
    14 May 2012 | 4:52 pm
    Yawn next to your dog, and she may do the same. This is quite remarkable: Only a few animals exhibit such contagious behavior, and only dogs cross the species barrier. Now a study finds that dogs yawn even when they merely hear the sound of humans yawning; this constitutes the strongest evidence yet that canines may be able to empathize with us. Read full article >>

  • Soup has many benefits, but it can be a problem if it has too much salt

    Consumer Reports
    14 May 2012 | 4:50 pm
    Sipping a bowl of soup is an easy way to give yourself a healthful boost — as long as you keep an eye on the nutrition label. Nearly 99 percent of us consume more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium a day, the upper limit recommended for African Americans, people older than 50 and those with high blood pressure or chronic kidney disease, according to a recent analysis from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. (The 1,500 figure covers about half of the U.S. population; the limit for most other people is 2,300 milligrams.) Read full article >>
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  • Moscow police clear occupied park

    Will Englund
    16 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    MOSCOW — Police cleared a campsite occupied by political protesters in the Russian capital early Wednesday morning, despite assurances that they would wait until noon. Within hours, another gathering had begun in a small park near the Barrikadnaya metro station, named for the barricades of Russia’s 1905 revolution. Read full article >>

  • Obama executive order will give Treasury authority to freeze U.S.-based assets in Yemen

    Karen DeYoung
    15 May 2012 | 8:55 pm
    President Obama plans to issue an executive order Wednesday giving the Treasury Department authority to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone who “obstructs” implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen. Read full article >>

  • Syrian rebels get influx of arms with gulf neighbors’ money, U.S. coordination

    Karen DeYoung, Liz Sly
    15 May 2012 | 8:53 pm
    Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials. Read full article >>

  • Group of Eight set to meet; France’s Francois Hollande to first visit Obama

    David Nakamura, Howard Schneider
    15 May 2012 | 7:06 pm
    Leaders of the world’s eight richest economies are set to gather at Camp David this weekend amid questions about Europe’s spiraling debt crisis. But before they do, one key player, French President Francois Hollande, will stop by the White House to introduce himself to President Obama. Read full article >>

  • Rebekah Brooks, former Murdoch editor, charged in phone-hacking scandal

    Michael Holden, Kate Holton, Reuters
    15 May 2012 | 5:57 pm
    LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, a confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the media tycoon’s empire and sent shock waves through the British political establishment. Read full article >>
 
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  • Moscow police clear occupied park

    Will Englund
    16 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    MOSCOW — Police cleared a campsite occupied by political protesters in the Russian capital early Wednesday morning, despite assurances that they would wait until noon. Within hours, another gathering had begun in a small park near the Barrikadnaya metro station, named for the barricades of Russia’s 1905 revolution. Read full article >>

  • Greece fails to form new government, calls new elections

    Anthony Faiola
    15 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
    ATHENS — The threat of a full economic collapse in Greece escalated Tuesday after warring political factions here failed to forge a new government, triggering fresh elections and heightening chances that this rudderless Mediterranean nation could be forced to abandon the euro. Read full article >>

  • Hollande proposes ‘new pact’ for Europe in inaugural address

    Michael Birnbaum, Edward Cody
    15 May 2012 | 12:47 pm
    BERLIN — Newly installed French President Francois Hollande declared Tuesday that he wanted to “renegotiate” Europe’s response to its economic crisis to focus on stimulating growth, as he opened a new chapter in Europe’s push-pull dispute about whether countries should fix themselves through spending or saving. Read full article >>

  • Hollande, new French president, forced to backtrack on Afghanistan pullout vow

    Edward Cody
    15 May 2012 | 9:23 am
    PARIS — Sworn in Tuesday as president of France, Francois Hollande has already been forced by the unforgiving calculus of military logistics to backtrack on his campaign promise to pull all French forces out of Afghanistan by the end of this year. Read full article >>

  • Germany remains opposed to calls for economic stimulus in Europe

    Michael Birnbaum
    10 May 2012 | 5:22 pm
    BERLIN — French President-elect Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have each been prescribing the same salve — growth — to ease Europe’s economic ills. But the medicines vary sharply on either side of the Rhine. Read full article >>
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  • Syria’s sectarian splits creep into Lebanon

    Alice Fordham
    15 May 2012 | 8:15 pm
    TRIPOLI, Lebanon — A small but increasingly vocal number of Lebanon’s Sunni Muslims are backing Islamist leaders’ calls for regime change in neighboring Syria and voicing their fierce discontent with their own government, a sign that the sectarianism splitting Syria may be deepening Lebanon’s longstanding divides. Read full article >>

  • Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike following agreement with Israel

    Karin Brulliard
    14 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    JERUSALEM – Israeli and Palestinian officials announced Monday that more than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners had agreed to end a nearly month-long hunger strike in exchange for concessions by Israel, including a modification to its practice of detention without charge or trial. Read full article >>

  • Culture war looms as Israel pledges to end ultra-Orthodox military exemptions

    Karin Brulliard
    11 May 2012 | 1:49 pm
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically bolstered his ruling coalition this week with a unity deal meant to help him thwart challenges from fringe factions. But Yoel Krois, a man with sidelocks past his shoulders and a record of confronting authorities, says he remains ready for a fight. Read full article >>

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  • Bomb strikes U.N. convoy escort in Syria

    Liz Sly
    9 May 2012 | 1:57 pm
    BEIRUT — A bomb struck a Syrian military convoy escorting the head of a U.N. observer mission Wednesday, injuring several Syrian soldiers and illustrating the vulnerability of the unarmed and unprotected mission as it struggles to monitor a badly fraying cease-fire. Read full article >>
 
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  • Moscow police clear occupied park

    Will Englund
    16 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    MOSCOW — Police cleared a campsite occupied by political protesters in the Russian capital early Wednesday morning, despite assurances that they would wait until noon. Within hours, another gathering had begun in a small park near the Barrikadnaya metro station, named for the barricades of Russia’s 1905 revolution. Read full article >>

  • Obama executive order will give Treasury authority to freeze U.S.-based assets in Yemen

    Karen DeYoung
    15 May 2012 | 8:55 pm
    President Obama plans to issue an executive order Wednesday giving the Treasury Department authority to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone who “obstructs” implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen. Read full article >>

  • Syrian rebels get influx of arms with gulf neighbors’ money, U.S. coordination

    Karen DeYoung, Liz Sly
    15 May 2012 | 8:53 pm
    Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials. Read full article >>

  • Group of Eight set to meet; France’s Francois Hollande to first visit Obama

    David Nakamura, Howard Schneider
    15 May 2012 | 7:06 pm
    Leaders of the world’s eight richest economies are set to gather at Camp David this weekend amid questions about Europe’s spiraling debt crisis. But before they do, one key player, French President Francois Hollande, will stop by the White House to introduce himself to President Obama. Read full article >>

  • Rebekah Brooks, former Murdoch editor, charged in phone-hacking scandal

    Michael Holden, Kate Holton, Reuters
    15 May 2012 | 5:57 pm
    LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, a confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the media tycoon’s empire and sent shock waves through the British political establishment. Read full article >>
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  • Moscow police clear occupied park

    Will Englund
    16 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    MOSCOW — Police cleared a campsite occupied by political protesters in the Russian capital early Wednesday morning, despite assurances that they would wait until noon. Within hours, another gathering had begun in a small park near the Barrikadnaya metro station, named for the barricades of Russia’s 1905 revolution. Read full article >>

  • Obama executive order will give Treasury authority to freeze U.S.-based assets in Yemen

    Karen DeYoung
    15 May 2012 | 8:55 pm
    President Obama plans to issue an executive order Wednesday giving the Treasury Department authority to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone who “obstructs” implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen. Read full article >>

  • Syrian rebels get influx of arms with gulf neighbors’ money, U.S. coordination

    Karen DeYoung, Liz Sly
    15 May 2012 | 8:53 pm
    Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials. Read full article >>

  • Group of Eight set to meet; France’s Francois Hollande to first visit Obama

    David Nakamura, Howard Schneider
    15 May 2012 | 7:06 pm
    Leaders of the world’s eight richest economies are set to gather at Camp David this weekend amid questions about Europe’s spiraling debt crisis. But before they do, one key player, French President Francois Hollande, will stop by the White House to introduce himself to President Obama. Read full article >>

  • Rebekah Brooks, former Murdoch editor, charged in phone-hacking scandal

    Michael Holden, Kate Holton, Reuters
    15 May 2012 | 5:57 pm
    LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, a confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the media tycoon’s empire and sent shock waves through the British political establishment. Read full article >>
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  • Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC

    Valerie Strauss
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    This was written by Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He writes the Sociological Eye on Education blog — where this post first appeared — for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, non-partisan education-news outlet affiliated with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. Read full article >>

  • Why education inequality persists — and how to fix it

    Valerie Strauss
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    This was written by John Jackson, president of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, and Pedro Noguera, the Peter L. Agnew professor of education at New York University. By John H. Jackson and Pedro Noguera Read full article >>

  • Teaching for all levels — in one class

    Michael Alison Chandler
    15 May 2012 | 7:20 pm
    In Elise Carter’s second-grade class, some students still write their numbers backward or look at their fingers to add. Others race through multiplication tables or search the Web to teach themselves about negative numbers. Read full article >>

  • How is DCPS paying for ‘What’s Possible’?

    Bill Turque
    15 May 2012 | 10:18 am
    DCPS has a reputation among its stakeholders for a lack of transparency in budget and financial matters. Here’s a little window onto why. On April 11, Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced “Proving What’s Possible,” a new $10 million grant program designed to spur innovative ways of boosting student achievement. Officials are especially interested in funding schools that want to extend the academic day, leverage technology to improve learning, or upgrade staff. Read full article >>

  • State grant aid goes increasingly to the wealthy

    Daniel de Vise
    15 May 2012 | 9:49 am
    State grant and scholarship programs for college students increasingly favor students who aren’t needy, according to a new report. The report, “Beyond Need and Merit,” comes from the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. Ostensibly, it recommends that states eliminate the distinction between need-based aid and merit aid and instead award all grant aid by a simple formula that considers both. Read full article >>
 
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  • Gray, Graham order to give depositions in lottery lawsuit

    Mike DeBonis
    15 May 2012 | 8:58 pm
    A federal judge has ruled that Mayor Vincent C. Gray and D.C. Council member Jim Graham must answer questions about the city’s controversial lottery contract. U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts said Gray (D) and Graham (D-Ward 1) are required to give depositions in the case, but he strictly narrowed the scope of questioning. The ruling was issued Monday in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former city contracting official. Read full article >>

  • Kenyan McDuffie wins Ward 5 seat on D.C. Council in race to replace Thomas

    Tim Craig, Mike DeBonis
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Democrat Kenyan McDuffie easily defeated 10 other candidates Tuesday in a race to replace disgraced former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., picking up support in all precincts by pledging to restore integrity to the office and unite a ward divided over gentrification. Read full article >>

  • DeEvening Links: Hearing deficiency

    Mike DeBonis
    15 May 2012 | 6:32 pm
    On Thursday, a House subcommittee will hold a hearing on a Republican-supported bill to prevent women who are more than 20 weeks pregnant from undergoing abortions in the District. D.C.’s nonvoting congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), recently asked bill author and subcommittee chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) to testify at the hearing on the bill’s impacts on city residents. Her request, according to a statement released by her office, has been denied. Read full article >>

  • D.C. Council revises Gray budget, restores human services funds

    Nikita Stewart
    15 May 2012 | 4:22 pm
    The D.C. Council heavily revised Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s proposed $9.4 billion budget for the next fiscal year Tuesday, deciding to restore millions of dollars to human services programs, among other changes. Read full article >>

  • Vincent Gray, Jim Graham ordered to give depositions in lottery lawsuit

    Mike DeBonis
    15 May 2012 | 8:34 am
    A federal judge ruled Monday that Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) and D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) must answer questions about the city’s controversial lottery procurement. U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts, ruling in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former city contracting official, said Gray and Graham are required to give depositions in the case but strictly narrowed the scope of questioning. Read full article >>
 
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  • Senate panel to vote on extending benefits to same-sex partners of LGBT federal workers

    Lisa Rein
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    A Senate committee plans to vote Wednesday on legislation that would give same-sex partners of federal workers some key benefits, a week after President Obama endorsed marriage for same-sex couples. The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (S. 1910) is scheduled to go before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for a vote. Read full article >>

  • State Sen. Deb Fischer pulls big upset in Nebraska GOP Senate primary

    Rachel Weiner
    15 May 2012 | 10:41 pm
    State Sen. Deb Fischer has won the Nebraska Republican Senate primary, setting up a matchup with former senator Bob Kerrey (D) for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Ben Nelson (D). The result is a major upset; until last week, state Attorney General Jon Bruning was the overwhelming favorite in this primary. Throughout the race, he had the most money and establishment support. Read full article >>

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  • George W. Bush endorses Mitt Romney

    Karen Tumulty
    15 May 2012 | 7:37 pm
    As presidential endorsements go, this one could hardly have been more low-key. ABC News caught up with former president George W. Bush in an elevator in downtown Washington on Tuesday and asked the question that elicited the sound bite. Read full article >>

  • Export-Import Bank reauthorized by Senate

    Rosalind S. Helderman
    15 May 2012 | 4:26 pm
    On Tuesday, Congress accomplished something relatively rare: It passed a piece of legislation and sent it to the president for his signature. On a broad bipartisan vote of 78 to 20, the Senate voted Tuesday to extend the life of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and expand its authority to make loans to U.S. exporters. Read full article >>
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  • Deb Fischer, and what (political) money can’t buy

    Aaron Blake
    16 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Only about one-tenth of the money spent in Tuesday’s Nebraska GOP Senate primary was spent on Deb Fischer’s behalf. Yet the little-known state senator emerged victorious over both the establishment-favored candidate and a favorite of the tea party — both of whom, we should note, are statewide elected officials. Read full article >>

  • State Sen. Deb Fischer pulls big upset in Nebraska GOP Senate primary

    Rachel Weiner
    15 May 2012 | 10:41 pm
    State Sen. Deb Fischer has won the Nebraska Republican Senate primary, setting up a matchup with former senator Bob Kerrey (D) for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Ben Nelson (D). The result is a major upset; until last week, state Attorney General Jon Bruning was the overwhelming favorite in this primary. Throughout the race, he had the most money and establishment support. Read full article >>

  • National Democrats increase investment in Wisconsin recall

    Rachel Weiner
    15 May 2012 | 4:41 pm
    Democrats up their Wisconsin investment, Mitt Romney sees an Obama-Clinton feud, George W. Bush endorses and polls shed some light on gay marriage in swing states. Make sure to sign up to get “Afternoon Fix” in your e-mail inbox every day by 5 (ish) p.m! Read full article >>

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  • GOP freshmen = weak tea

    Aaron Blake
    15 May 2012 | 2:58 pm
    Surprise, surprise: The Republican freshman class isn’t as tea party-friendly as you might think. We’ve written before on this blog about how the tea party label has been misappropriated to cover all kinds of Republicans who won in 2010. While many latched onto the label or simply let others define them as such, the label wasn’t a great fit for many of them. Read full article >>
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  • Obama, Japan’s Noda hail security alliance after bilateral meeting

    David Nakamura
    30 Apr 2012 | 5:10 pm
    President Obama on Monday reaffirmed the United States’ defense commitment to Japan, calling the relationship the “linchpin” of security in the Far East. Appearing with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda after their bilateral meeting, Obama hailed the recent agreement to relocate 9,000 U.S. Marines off Okinawa to other bases in the Western Pacific, saying the move will help allay concerns of Japanese residents of the island. Read full article >>

  • White House Correspondents’ Dinners in years past

    Sara Carothers
    28 Apr 2012 | 1:58 pm
    This evening, Jimmy Kimmel will take a shot at skewering President Obama, media and celebs in the audience and, very likely, the Secret Service and GSA at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. But taking a look back at years past gives a quick reminder of what the hot issues and big targets of the moment were. Read full article >>

  • Obama signs executive order to protect troops from for-profit college deceptive practices

    Rosalind S. Helderman
    27 Apr 2012 | 1:00 pm
    FORT STEWART, Ga.— Surrounded by thousands of uniformed members of the Army’s Third Infantry Division, President Obama Friday signed an executive order cracking down on for-profit colleges that prey on service members and veterans to collect tuition dollars without providing meaningful education in return. Read full article >>

  • Obama to Jimmy Fallon: A couple ‘knuckleheads’ shouldn’t detract from whole Secret Service

    David Nakamura
    24 Apr 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Is it too soon to joke about the U.S. Secret Service sex scandal? Not if you’re late-night host Jimmy Fallon and President Obama is your guest. In an interview with Obama at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, Fallon joked with the president that he had been “having the best time hanging out with the Secret Service” over the past two days. Read full article >>

  • Obama endorsed by major environmental groups

    Juliet Eilperin
    18 Apr 2012 | 10:30 am
    In one of the least-shocking political developments of 2012, four major environmental groups simultaneously endorsed President Obama’s reelection bid Wednesday. The leaders of the Clean Water Action Fund, Environment America, League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club announced in a conference call with reporters that they would turn their members out in force to support Obama this fall. Read full article >>
 
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  • Ahead of IPO, Facebook loses GM ads

    Hayley Tsukayama
    15 May 2012 | 7:26 pm
    General Motors threw cold water on the buildup to Facebook’s red-hot initial public offering Tuesday, saying it will stop paid advertising on the social network, just days before Facebook’s market debut. Read full article >>

  • Boehner threatens another debt-ceiling fight

    Lori Montgomery
    15 May 2012 | 6:17 pm
    Washington braced Tuesday for a replay of last summer’s tense battle over the burgeoning national debt as House Speaker John A. Boehner threatened again to block an increase in the federal debt ceiling without significant new cuts in spending. Read full article >>

  • Reconciliation

    Brad Plumer
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    — Four scenarios for an end game in Greece. — A five-year investigation concludes that a man was wrongfully executed in Texas. — Study: 29 percent of Americans will sleepwalk in their lifetime. (Seriously?) Read full article >>

  • Rebekah Brooks, former Murdoch editor, charged in phone-hacking scandal

    Michael Holden, Kate Holton, Reuters
    15 May 2012 | 5:57 pm
    LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, a confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the media tycoon’s empire and sent shock waves through the British political establishment. Read full article >>

  • READ: Mitt Romney’s remarks on the debt

    Ezra Klein
    15 May 2012 | 5:14 pm
    Today, in Des Moines, Iowa, Mitt Romney delivered a speech his campaign billed as a significant address on the national debt. His prepared remarks — minus some introductory material about the greatness of Iowa — follow: Read full article >>
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  • Reconciliation

    Brad Plumer
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    — Four scenarios for an end game in Greece. — A five-year investigation concludes that a man was wrongfully executed in Texas. — Study: 29 percent of Americans will sleepwalk in their lifetime. (Seriously?) Read full article >>

  • READ: Mitt Romney’s remarks on the debt

    Ezra Klein
    15 May 2012 | 5:14 pm
    Today, in Des Moines, Iowa, Mitt Romney delivered a speech his campaign billed as a significant address on the national debt. His prepared remarks — minus some introductory material about the greatness of Iowa — follow: Read full article >>

  • The history of the filibuster, in one graph

    Ezra Klein
    15 May 2012 | 4:11 pm
    I want to spend another moment on this great graph Todd Lindeman worked up for my column on the constitutionality of the filibuster. What you’re seeing here are the number of “cloture” motions in every congressional session since 1919. Cloture is the procedure used to break a filibuster. Between 1919 and 1975, a successful cloture motion required two-thirds of the Senate. Today, it requires three-fifths, or, in cases where all 100 senators are present and voting, 60 votes. As you can see, the majority is having to try and break many, many, many more filibusters than ever before. Read…

  • The Circuit: LightSquared vows to push ahead; software piracy; medical devices

    Hayley Tsukayama
    15 May 2012 | 3:41 pm
    LightSquared: LightSquared said that it will continue to win approval for its satellite network even after filing for bankruptcy Monday, The Washington Post reported. But analysts have said that it will be a difficult road for the company to move ahead as long as concerns persist about the network’s interference with global-positioning satellites. Read full article >>

  • LightSquared pledges to push forward after bankruptcy filing

    Cecilia Kang
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 am
    LightSquared said in its bankruptcy filing Monday, it will continue to try to win over the Federal Communications Commission to get its satellite venture up and running — a process that can take up to two years. Read full article >>
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    DC Politics: Breaking Washington, DC Political News & Headlines

  • Gray, Graham order to give depositions in lottery lawsuit

    Mike DeBonis
    15 May 2012 | 8:58 pm
    A federal judge has ruled that Mayor Vincent C. Gray and D.C. Council member Jim Graham must answer questions about the city’s controversial lottery contract. U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts said Gray (D) and Graham (D-Ward 1) are required to give depositions in the case, but he strictly narrowed the scope of questioning. The ruling was issued Monday in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former city contracting official. Read full article >>

  • Kenyan McDuffie wins Ward 5 seat on D.C. Council in race to replace Thomas

    Tim Craig, Mike DeBonis
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Democrat Kenyan McDuffie easily defeated 10 other candidates Tuesday in a race to replace disgraced former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., picking up support in all precincts by pledging to restore integrity to the office and unite a ward divided over gentrification. Read full article >>

  • DeEvening Links: Hearing deficiency

    Mike DeBonis
    15 May 2012 | 6:32 pm
    On Thursday, a House subcommittee will hold a hearing on a Republican-supported bill to prevent women who are more than 20 weeks pregnant from undergoing abortions in the District. D.C.’s nonvoting congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), recently asked bill author and subcommittee chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) to testify at the hearing on the bill’s impacts on city residents. Her request, according to a statement released by her office, has been denied. Read full article >>

  • D.C. Council revises Gray budget, restores human services funds

    Nikita Stewart
    15 May 2012 | 4:22 pm
    The D.C. Council heavily revised Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s proposed $9.4 billion budget for the next fiscal year Tuesday, deciding to restore millions of dollars to human services programs, among other changes. Read full article >>

  • Vincent Gray, Jim Graham ordered to give depositions in lottery lawsuit

    Mike DeBonis
    15 May 2012 | 8:34 am
    A federal judge ruled Monday that Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) and D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) must answer questions about the city’s controversial lottery procurement. U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts, ruling in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former city contracting official, said Gray and Graham are required to give depositions in the case but strictly narrowed the scope of questioning. Read full article >>
 
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    On Wheels by Warren Brown: Latest On Wheels Column and Archive

  • 2013 Acura RDX: “Look how this is done. Everything is right!”

    Warren Brown
    11 May 2012 | 10:43 am
    A modest proposal for people in the home remodeling business: Consider Acura, the luxury division of Honda Motor Co. Therein is your best example of product quality, pride in execution and genius in the matter of customer satisfaction. Read full article >>

  • 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV: Plugging in to common sense

    Warren Brown
    4 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    Electric vehicles are likely to remain a minority of the cars and trucks sold in America for most of the 21st century. That’s okay. They are here to stay. It’s simple. Electric vehicles make sense, especially in the limited applications for which most current models are designed. Read full article >>

  • 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan: It isn’t practical, but it’s a fun drive

    Warren Brown
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:05 pm
    Had I actually paid for it, I would’ve been kicking myself while loading up the 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan SE, or trying to load it up, for a trip to the Fairfax County Recycling Center. It was a thing of marginal utility, perhaps one of the most impractical of compact crossover utility wagons sold in the United States. Read full article >>

  • 2012 Volvo XC60: A wagon loaded with appeal

    Warren Brown
    20 Apr 2012 | 2:18 pm
    There are good urban wagons costing much less than this week’s test vehicle. But few of those available for less than its manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $43,700 are better. The all-wheel-drive 2012 Volvo XC60 is worth the price. It beats most things its class. In the top-of-the-line XC60 T6 R-Design version driven for this column, it’s a bargain. Read full article >>

  • 2012 Nissan Leaf SL needs to turn over a better new Leaf

    Warren Brown
    13 Apr 2012 | 11:32 am
    Dear Carlos Ghosn, CEO Nissan/Renault You are a patient man, putting up with all of those questions about why your Nissan Leaf car “isn’t selling.” It seems everywhere you go, some blogger or content provider is pushing a variation of the theme: “Is the Nissan Leaf, a mass-market all-electric car launched a year ago, a flop?” Read full article >>
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  • 2013 Acura RDX: “Look how this is done. Everything is right!”

    Warren Brown
    11 May 2012 | 10:43 am
    A modest proposal for people in the home remodeling business: Consider Acura, the luxury division of Honda Motor Co. Therein is your best example of product quality, pride in execution and genius in the matter of customer satisfaction. Read full article >>

  • 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV: Plugging in to common sense

    Warren Brown
    4 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    Electric vehicles are likely to remain a minority of the cars and trucks sold in America for most of the 21st century. That’s okay. They are here to stay. It’s simple. Electric vehicles make sense, especially in the limited applications for which most current models are designed. Read full article >>

  • 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan: It isn’t practical, but it’s a fun drive

    Warren Brown
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:05 pm
    Had I actually paid for it, I would’ve been kicking myself while loading up the 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan SE, or trying to load it up, for a trip to the Fairfax County Recycling Center. It was a thing of marginal utility, perhaps one of the most impractical of compact crossover utility wagons sold in the United States. Read full article >>

  • 2012 Volvo XC60: A wagon loaded with appeal

    Warren Brown
    20 Apr 2012 | 2:18 pm
    There are good urban wagons costing much less than this week’s test vehicle. But few of those available for less than its manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $43,700 are better. The all-wheel-drive 2012 Volvo XC60 is worth the price. It beats most things its class. In the top-of-the-line XC60 T6 R-Design version driven for this column, it’s a bargain. Read full article >>

  • 2012 Nissan Leaf SL needs to turn over a better new Leaf

    Warren Brown
    13 Apr 2012 | 11:32 am
    Dear Carlos Ghosn, CEO Nissan/Renault You are a patient man, putting up with all of those questions about why your Nissan Leaf car “isn’t selling.” It seems everywhere you go, some blogger or content provider is pushing a variation of the theme: “Is the Nissan Leaf, a mass-market all-electric car launched a year ago, a flop?” Read full article >>
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  • Ahead of IPO, Facebook loses GM ads

    Hayley Tsukayama
    15 May 2012 | 7:26 pm
    General Motors threw cold water on the buildup to Facebook’s red-hot initial public offering Tuesday, saying it will stop paid advertising on the social network, just days before Facebook’s market debut. Read full article >>

  • Boehner threatens another debt-ceiling fight

    Lori Montgomery
    15 May 2012 | 6:17 pm
    Washington braced Tuesday for a replay of last summer’s tense battle over the burgeoning national debt as House Speaker John A. Boehner threatened again to block an increase in the federal debt ceiling without significant new cuts in spending. Read full article >>

  • Reconciliation

    Brad Plumer
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    — Four scenarios for an end game in Greece. — A five-year investigation concludes that a man was wrongfully executed in Texas. — Study: 29 percent of Americans will sleepwalk in their lifetime. (Seriously?) Read full article >>

  • Rebekah Brooks, former Murdoch editor, charged in phone-hacking scandal

    Michael Holden, Kate Holton, Reuters
    15 May 2012 | 5:57 pm
    LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, a confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the media tycoon’s empire and sent shock waves through the British political establishment. Read full article >>

  • READ: Mitt Romney’s remarks on the debt

    Ezra Klein
    15 May 2012 | 5:14 pm
    Today, in Des Moines, Iowa, Mitt Romney delivered a speech his campaign billed as a significant address on the national debt. His prepared remarks — minus some introductory material about the greatness of Iowa — follow: Read full article >>
 
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  • Group of Eight set to meet; France’s Francois Hollande to first visit Obama

    David Nakamura, Howard Schneider
    15 May 2012 | 7:06 pm
    Leaders of the world’s eight richest economies are set to gather at Camp David this weekend amid questions about Europe’s spiraling debt crisis. But before they do, one key player, French President Francois Hollande, will stop by the White House to introduce himself to President Obama. Read full article >>

  • Reconciliation

    Brad Plumer
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    — Four scenarios for an end game in Greece. — A five-year investigation concludes that a man was wrongfully executed in Texas. — Study: 29 percent of Americans will sleepwalk in their lifetime. (Seriously?) Read full article >>

  • READ: Mitt Romney’s remarks on the debt

    Ezra Klein
    15 May 2012 | 5:14 pm
    Today, in Des Moines, Iowa, Mitt Romney delivered a speech his campaign billed as a significant address on the national debt. His prepared remarks — minus some introductory material about the greatness of Iowa — follow: Read full article >>

  • The history of the filibuster, in one graph

    Ezra Klein
    15 May 2012 | 4:11 pm
    I want to spend another moment on this great graph Todd Lindeman worked up for my column on the constitutionality of the filibuster. What you’re seeing here are the number of “cloture” motions in every congressional session since 1919. Cloture is the procedure used to break a filibuster. Between 1919 and 1975, a successful cloture motion required two-thirds of the Senate. Today, it requires three-fifths, or, in cases where all 100 senators are present and voting, 60 votes. As you can see, the majority is having to try and break many, many, many more filibusters than ever before. Read…

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  • Ahead of IPO, Facebook loses GM ads

    Hayley Tsukayama
    15 May 2012 | 7:26 pm
    General Motors threw cold water on the buildup to Facebook’s red-hot initial public offering Tuesday, saying it will stop paid advertising on the social network, just days before Facebook’s market debut. Read full article >>

  • Boehner threatens another debt-ceiling fight

    Lori Montgomery
    15 May 2012 | 6:17 pm
    Washington braced Tuesday for a replay of last summer’s tense battle over the burgeoning national debt as House Speaker John A. Boehner threatened again to block an increase in the federal debt ceiling without significant new cuts in spending. Read full article >>

  • Reconciliation

    Brad Plumer
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    — Four scenarios for an end game in Greece. — A five-year investigation concludes that a man was wrongfully executed in Texas. — Study: 29 percent of Americans will sleepwalk in their lifetime. (Seriously?) Read full article >>

  • Rebekah Brooks, former Murdoch editor, charged in phone-hacking scandal

    Michael Holden, Kate Holton, Reuters
    15 May 2012 | 5:57 pm
    LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, a confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the media tycoon’s empire and sent shock waves through the British political establishment. Read full article >>

  • READ: Mitt Romney’s remarks on the debt

    Ezra Klein
    15 May 2012 | 5:14 pm
    Today, in Des Moines, Iowa, Mitt Romney delivered a speech his campaign billed as a significant address on the national debt. His prepared remarks — minus some introductory material about the greatness of Iowa — follow: Read full article >>
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    Steven Pearlstein: Most Recent Articles and Archives

  • Hostage-taking on the Silver Line

    Steven Pearlstein
    5 May 2012 | 1:35 pm
    If you want a perfect example of why government has become dysfunctional, look no further than the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County, Va. A majority of the newly elected, all-Republican board has threatened to derail the extension of Metrorail out to Dulles Airport and beyond because of a requirement that the general contractor for the project negotiate a “project labor agreement” with local construction unions. Read full article >>

  • Two can play the airline bankruptcy game

    Steven Pearlstein
    28 Apr 2012 | 5:13 pm
    Over the past decade, major airlines have figured out how to use the bankruptcy code to accomplish what they have never been able to at the bargaining table: reduce wages and benefits to “market” levels. Read full article >>

  • Steven Pearlstein: How could SAIC miss this?

    Steven Pearlstein
    21 Apr 2012 | 7:19 pm
    Last week in these pages, The Post ran a profile of John Jumper, the straight arrow former Air Force general who was brought in as chief executive of local contracting giant SAIC in the wake of an embarrassing overbilling scandal involving bribery, kickbacks, foreign shell corporations and a safe deposit box stuffed with $850,000 in cash. Read full article >>

  • Turned off from politics? That’s exactly what the politicians want.

    Steven Pearlstein
    20 Apr 2012 | 4:16 pm
    If you asked Americans to identify the most noticeable change in U.S. politics over the past two decades, they’d probably answer that politics has become more polarized and that this has made it harder for the government to address the problems the country faces. Read full article >>

  • Think True Value — but for banks

    Steven Pearlstein
    14 Apr 2012 | 10:07 pm
    In a city where special-interest pleading and finger-pointing has been developed to a high art form, there are no bigger whiners than the community banks. When they’re not complaining about excessive regulation, misguided monetary policy and inflated deposit insurance premiums, they’re railing against unfair competition from big banks, savings and loans, credit unions, credit card companies, finance companies and other unregulated lenders. Read full article >>
 
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    The Color of Money: Personal Finance Advice Column from Michelle Singletary

  • One word of advice for new college grads — CASH

    Michelle Singletary
    15 May 2012 | 8:52 pm
    Every year I like to provide advice to college graduates. By the time I graduated, I had in place some pretty good money habits thanks to my grandmother Big Mama. Because of her, I’ve made it my mission to pass on the financial wisdom she taught me. Read full article >>

  • Speak up on mortgage points and fees

    Michelle Singletary
    12 May 2012 | 8:43 pm
    If you’re as busy as I am, asking you to weigh in on yet another request for comment from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is likely to be greeted with a well-understood “humph.” Since the bureau’s inception, it’s been asking consumers for feedback on issues such as student loans, credit cards and how you’re affected by mandatory arbitration clauses. Read full article >>

  • Financial lessons from Big Mama

    Michelle Singletary
    8 May 2012 | 5:17 pm
    On my first day as a full-time journalist, I called my grandmother Big Mama to tell her what it was like. My grand­-mother, who was determined to raise me to be a good money manager, didn’t want to hear about the fire I was sent to cover — not yet anyway. Instead, she cut me off, asking if I had gone to the benefits office to arrange for some of my pay to be automatically sent to a savings account, preferably to a credit union. I hadn’t. Read full article >>

  • ‘How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents’ is book club selection

    Michelle Singletary
    5 May 2012 | 4:44 pm
    I vividly recall the 1978 television documentary “Scared Straight!” about inmates serving anywhere from 25 years to life who were trying to scare juvenile delinquents from ending up in prison themselves. The intervention was raw. It was scary. Read full article >>

  • The terrible cost of not having a will

    Michelle Singletary
    1 May 2012 | 7:18 pm
    My brother Ross recently died of complications from lung cancer. He was 40. Ross left a wonderful personal legacy. He was a good father, friend and coach. He was a dedicated educator who devoted his career to working with children with emotional, developmental and physical disabilities. Read full article >>
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    Wellness: Health, Fitness, Nutrition & More - The Washington Post

  • Montgomery County wellness calendar, May 17 to 24, 2012

    16 May 2012 | 6:29 am
    “Emotional Freedom Techniques” For anyone affected by cancer, a presentation on managing pain. Thursday at 11 a.m. Hope Connections for Cancer Support, 5430 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda. 301-493-5002. www.hopeconnectionsforcancer.org. Free. Read full article >>

  • President’s Council on Fitness backs Wii, Kinect and other video games

    Lenny Bernstein
    15 May 2012 | 8:31 am
    We called it “the devil’s machine” in my house, and the Faustian bargain we struck over that first Nintendo 64 would have impressed Lucifer himself. We bought it for my son when he was perhaps 7; it provided countless hours of contentment for him and an equal measure of downtime for Mom and Dad. Read full article >>

  • Fairfax County wellness calendar, May 10-17

    9 May 2012 | 3:22 pm
    Al-Anon/Alateen groups For relatives and friends of alcoholics. Visit www.alanonva.com for meeting times and locations. 703-534-4357. Free. “Fit on the Green” Wellness activities for the whole family. Sponsored by the Vienna Parks and Recreation Department. Saturday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Vienna Town Green, 144 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. 703-255-6352. www.viennava.gov. Free. Read full article >>

  • Southern Maryland wellness calendar, May 10-17

    9 May 2012 | 2:57 pm
    Leonardtown blood drive Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. St. Mary’s Hospital (Health Connections classroom), 25500 Point Lookout Rd., Leonardtown. 301-475-6019. 301-475-8981. Bone-density screening A 45-second ultrasound of a bare heel. Friday 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Calvert Memorial Hospital, 100 Hospital Rd., Prince Frederick. 410-535-8233. 410-535-4000. Free. Registration required. Read full article >>

  • Loudoun County wellness calendar, May 10-17

    9 May 2012 | 1:21 pm
    “Laugh yoga” Improve flexibility and balance. Thursdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Leesburg Senior Center, 102 North St. 703-737-8039. Free. Diabetes support Thursday at 11 a.m. Leesburg Senior Center, 102 North St. 703-737-8039. Read full article >>
 
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  • Bedroom design ideas: Creating a sunny retreat

    Megan Buerger
    9 May 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Terry and Steve Long think their Bethesda bedroom looks fussy. They want the space to be sunny and less formal. They’re okay with mounting the TV on the wall, and the pink paint has to go. Editing is key in designer Sharon Kleinman’s approach. By consolidating furniture and emphasizing texture over patterns, she makes the room feel cozy and less cluttered. Read full article >>

  • Growing peppers, hot and hotter

    Barbara Damrosch
    9 May 2012 | 9:46 am
    Peppers are hot these days, both in the kitchen and the garden. Cooks stir up fiery Thai and Indian curries, or spicy Jamaican stews, and seed companies stand ready to light the match for those who grow their own heat. Tomato and pepper plants that have been hardened off can be planted out. Wait two weeks before sowing cucumber and squash seeds. The soil is still too cold for rapid germination and growth. Read full article >>

  • How To: Troubleshoot hot-water problems

    Jeanne Huber
    9 May 2012 | 9:31 am
    Q. I live in a 1958 rambler. My problem is getting hot water in both the master shower and the hall bathroom shower. When the hot water is turned all the way on in either bathroom, only lukewarm water comes out of the shower. In the master bathroom, if you flush the toilet, the shower water becomes hot. In the hall bathroom, if you turn on the hot water in the sink, the water in that shower turns hot, while the sink water remains cold, though without the shower on, the sink hot water works just fine. All other hot water faucets work. Both a handyman and a plumber have been puzzled by my…

  • Green designer Topher Paterno gives advice on eco-friendly living

    Terri Sapienza
    9 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    Topher Paterno moved to Northwest Washington last May after living in California for nearly 18 years. Despite having a thriving West Coast career as a designer, builder and teacher, being the founder of the LA Box Collective (a group of furniture makers committed to environmentally conscious design and production) and living just two blocks from the beach, he says it was an easy choice. Read full article >>

  • Mount Sharon, a classical garden in Virginia

    Adrian Higgins
    9 May 2012 | 7:51 am
    Orange, Va. — Those who think making gardens in the classical tradition is a lost art should meet the landscape architect Charles Stick. Better yet, they should take in his work at Mount Sharon, a private estate that this weekend will offer a rare glimpse into the rarified world of high design in the Colonial Revival style. Read full article >>
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    The Nation's Housing by Kenneth R. Harney: Latest Column & Archive

  • Energy audit can alert home buyer to problems that could be costly in the long run

    Kenneth R. Harney
    4 May 2012 | 11:40 am
    It may be the best-kept secret in home real estate: For a couple of hundred dollars, a prospective buyer can add a formal energy audit to the standard inspection. That audit might save the buyer thousands of dollars in future operating costs by pinpointing features of the house that need correction to improve efficiency. It might also be a tip-off to a sobering reality: This house is an energy guzzler. And that might prompt the buyer to say: Either the asking price comes down, the seller fixes the problems, or I walk. Read full article >>

  • Short sellers seeking to avoid foreclosure will get faster replies from banks

    Kenneth R. Harney
    27 Apr 2012 | 9:14 pm
    For the estimated 11 million homeowners burdened with an underwater mortgage, a federal policy change could be good news. Starting in June, if you decide to do a short sale to shed your mortgage debt load and avoid foreclosure, you may not have to wait for months to hear back from your bank after submitting an offer from a potential purchaser. Read full article >>

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  • Low-ball bidders in many markets learn they can no longer get a steal on a house

    Kenneth R. Harney
    19 Apr 2012 | 11:02 pm
    It’s not something that economists routinely track, but it provides a rough sense of what’s happening in local real estate markets. Call it the low-ball index. A year ago, according to researchers at the National Association of Realtors, one out of 10 members surveyed in a monthly poll complained about low-ball offers on houses listed for sale. In the latest survey — conducted in March among 4,500 agents and brokers across the country but not yet released — there were hardly any. Instead, the focus of volunteered comments has shifted to declining inventory levels — fewer houses…

  • New mortgage rule on disputed debts might hamper homebuyers seeking FHA loans

    Kenneth R. Harney
    6 Apr 2012 | 1:48 pm
    A little-noticed mortgage rule change that took effect April 1 could create hassles for significant numbers of homebuyers who plan to use low-down-payment FHA financing this spring. The change affects anyone with one or more “collection” accounts buried away in national credit bureau files. These include medical, student loan, retail and other debts reported — correctly or incorrectly — as unpaid by creditors and subsequently sent to collection agencies. Read full article >>
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  • Bedroom design ideas: Creating a sunny retreat

    Megan Buerger
    9 May 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Terry and Steve Long think their Bethesda bedroom looks fussy. They want the space to be sunny and less formal. They’re okay with mounting the TV on the wall, and the pink paint has to go. Editing is key in designer Sharon Kleinman’s approach. By consolidating furniture and emphasizing texture over patterns, she makes the room feel cozy and less cluttered. Read full article >>

  • Growing peppers, hot and hotter

    Barbara Damrosch
    9 May 2012 | 9:46 am
    Peppers are hot these days, both in the kitchen and the garden. Cooks stir up fiery Thai and Indian curries, or spicy Jamaican stews, and seed companies stand ready to light the match for those who grow their own heat. Tomato and pepper plants that have been hardened off can be planted out. Wait two weeks before sowing cucumber and squash seeds. The soil is still too cold for rapid germination and growth. Read full article >>

  • How To: Troubleshoot hot-water problems

    Jeanne Huber
    9 May 2012 | 9:31 am
    Q. I live in a 1958 rambler. My problem is getting hot water in both the master shower and the hall bathroom shower. When the hot water is turned all the way on in either bathroom, only lukewarm water comes out of the shower. In the master bathroom, if you flush the toilet, the shower water becomes hot. In the hall bathroom, if you turn on the hot water in the sink, the water in that shower turns hot, while the sink water remains cold, though without the shower on, the sink hot water works just fine. All other hot water faucets work. Both a handyman and a plumber have been puzzled by my…

  • Green designer Topher Paterno gives advice on eco-friendly living

    Terri Sapienza
    9 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    Topher Paterno moved to Northwest Washington last May after living in California for nearly 18 years. Despite having a thriving West Coast career as a designer, builder and teacher, being the founder of the LA Box Collective (a group of furniture makers committed to environmentally conscious design and production) and living just two blocks from the beach, he says it was an easy choice. Read full article >>

  • Mount Sharon, a classical garden in Virginia

    Adrian Higgins
    9 May 2012 | 7:51 am
    Orange, Va. — Those who think making gardens in the classical tradition is a lost art should meet the landscape architect Charles Stick. Better yet, they should take in his work at Mount Sharon, a private estate that this weekend will offer a rare glimpse into the rarified world of high design in the Colonial Revival style. Read full article >>
 
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  • Bedroom design ideas: Creating a sunny retreat

    Megan Buerger
    9 May 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Terry and Steve Long think their Bethesda bedroom looks fussy. They want the space to be sunny and less formal. They’re okay with mounting the TV on the wall, and the pink paint has to go. Editing is key in designer Sharon Kleinman’s approach. By consolidating furniture and emphasizing texture over patterns, she makes the room feel cozy and less cluttered. Read full article >>

  • Growing peppers, hot and hotter

    Barbara Damrosch
    9 May 2012 | 9:46 am
    Peppers are hot these days, both in the kitchen and the garden. Cooks stir up fiery Thai and Indian curries, or spicy Jamaican stews, and seed companies stand ready to light the match for those who grow their own heat. Tomato and pepper plants that have been hardened off can be planted out. Wait two weeks before sowing cucumber and squash seeds. The soil is still too cold for rapid germination and growth. Read full article >>

  • How To: Troubleshoot hot-water problems

    Jeanne Huber
    9 May 2012 | 9:31 am
    Q. I live in a 1958 rambler. My problem is getting hot water in both the master shower and the hall bathroom shower. When the hot water is turned all the way on in either bathroom, only lukewarm water comes out of the shower. In the master bathroom, if you flush the toilet, the shower water becomes hot. In the hall bathroom, if you turn on the hot water in the sink, the water in that shower turns hot, while the sink water remains cold, though without the shower on, the sink hot water works just fine. All other hot water faucets work. Both a handyman and a plumber have been puzzled by my…

  • Green designer Topher Paterno gives advice on eco-friendly living

    Terri Sapienza
    9 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    Topher Paterno moved to Northwest Washington last May after living in California for nearly 18 years. Despite having a thriving West Coast career as a designer, builder and teacher, being the founder of the LA Box Collective (a group of furniture makers committed to environmentally conscious design and production) and living just two blocks from the beach, he says it was an easy choice. Read full article >>

  • Mount Sharon, a classical garden in Virginia

    Adrian Higgins
    9 May 2012 | 7:51 am
    Orange, Va. — Those who think making gardens in the classical tradition is a lost art should meet the landscape architect Charles Stick. Better yet, they should take in his work at Mount Sharon, a private estate that this weekend will offer a rare glimpse into the rarified world of high design in the Colonial Revival style. Read full article >>
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    Washington Post Editorials: Latest Editorial and Editorial Archive

  • Editorial Board: Bigotry blocks a gay Virginian from the bench

    Editorial Board
    15 May 2012 | 6:59 pm
    IF ANYTHING, Tracy Thorne-Begland, a top state prosecutor in Richmond with a decade of courtroom experience, is overqualified for a judgeship on the General District Court. Mr. Thorne-Begland, who has prosecuted dozens of homicides and other major felonies, runs one of the biggest commonwealth’s attorney’s offices in Virginia. The caseload of the court to which he was nominated consists mainly of traffic violations, minor crimes and run-of-the-mill civil disputes over contracts and late rent payments. Read full article >>

  • Editorial Board: The American Community Survey is a count worth keeping

    Editorial Board
    15 May 2012 | 6:58 pm
    ACCORDING TO Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), it is “intrusive,” “an inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars,” “unconstitutional,” and “the very picture of what’s wrong in D.C.” What manner of predatory government prompted Mr. Webster — supported by nearly all House Republicans — to issue such categorical condemnation? That intolerable federal boondoggle known as . . . the American Community Survey (ACS). Read full article >>

  • Editorial Board: Europe needs Germany to lighten up

    Editorial Board
    15 May 2012 | 6:58 pm
    IT MAY ALREADY be too late to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debts and leaving the euro, Europe’s common currency. But there still may be time to prevent Greece’s woes from dragging down the rest of Europe, and the world. For that to happen, though, Europe’s leaders must think clearly about the issues before them, especially the great “austerity vs. growth” debate. Read full article >>

  • Editorial Board: Ukraine’s windfall offers freedom from Russia

    Editorial Board
    14 May 2012 | 6:39 pm
    VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH deserves no reward for his heavy-handed rule as president of Ukraine. His term has brought increasing corruption, a concentration of power in the presidency and show trials of political opponents. The most worrying has been the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who now languishes in prison on a seven-year sentence. Read full article >>

  • Editorial Board: The Post’s choice: Tim Day for Ward 5

    Editorial Board
    14 May 2012 | 6:37 pm
    IT IS ELECTION DAY in Ward 5 of the District of Columbia, and voters there have a chance to make a big impact on the city. With their former council member heading to prison, and top city leaders under investigation, the right choice from Ward 5 could go a long way toward putting the city back on the right track. Read full article >>
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    Today's Opinion Columns

  • Is John Edwards a criminal?

    Ruth Marcus
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    The prosecution has rested in a case that should never have been brought: the ghastly soap opera better known as the criminal trial of John Edwards. The testimony has been salacious, mesmerizing and revolting. Edwards has been proved to be what everyone already knew beyond a reasonable doubt: an egocentric cad. How big a cad? His daughter is set to testify about his love for her late mother. Read full article >>

  • Obama’s popularity contest

    Kathleen Parker
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Apresidential race recently focused on high school has come to resemble a popularity contest of the same vintage. Hence, we read that women like Barack best (except when they don’t). This week, a New York Times/CBS News poll shows women tilting toward Mitt and voters overall favoring him by 46 percent to 43 percent. But you know how girls are. A month ago, according to a CNN/ORC poll, women loved Obama 55 percent to 39 percent. Next week, check your Magic 8-Ball. Read full article >>

  • Where have all the candidates gone?

    Dana Milbank
    15 May 2012 | 6:59 pm
    The nascent third-party movement called Americans Elect assembled a dream team of prospective presidential nominees: Mike Bloomberg! Colin Powell! Chris Christie! Mitch Daniels! Read full article >>

  • It’s time to break up the big banks

    Katrina vanden Heuvel
    15 May 2012 | 6:38 am
    Consider $2 billion lost on a bad bet, plus billions more as investors dumped the stock, a providential warning. When Jamie Dimon, the imperious head of JPMorgan Chase, revealed that the bank had lost so muchon a derivatives trade gone bad, it was clear warning that, four years after blowing up the economy, the big banks are still playing with bombs. Read full article >>

  • A marriage battle that states can’t win

    Ruth Marcus
    15 May 2012 | 6:15 am
    President Obama is walking a tightrope on same-sex marriage, teetering between his stated view that marriage is the province of the states and his legal position that refusal to recognize same-sex marriage can violate the Constitution. Read full article >>
 
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    Local Letters

  • Putting stress on ice during a Caps game

    15 May 2012 | 5:07 pm
    George Solomon put the puck between the pipes in his May 12 op-ed, “A Caps game high in stakes — and stress.” My friend Chuck and I had to resort to coping mechanisms to get through the Washington Capitals playoff games. For Game 5 in the series with Boston, Chuck moved his chair into a bedroom away from the TV; he couldn’t see the screen and could only faintly hear the announcers. Read full article >>

  • A Dream worth supporting

    15 May 2012 | 5:07 pm
    In his May 11 letter about the Maryland Dream Act, Clifford E. Snyder Jr. complained that “Maryland’s elected government plays me for a sucker.” He wrote that he is being asked to subsidize the lives of undocumented students. Many of these students were brought to the United States by their parents as young children; they had no say in the decision to immigrate. Read full article >>

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    15 May 2012 | 5:07 pm
    I applaud the Eisenhower Memorial Commission’s decision to stand behind the Frank Gehry design, which, like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, initially met with outrage. Mr. Gehry’s design will no doubt come to be viewed similarly to the way the Vietnam memorial is: as beautiful, timeless, ahead of its time and appropriate. Read full article >>

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    15 May 2012 | 5:07 pm
    State-level civil unions, as advocated for by Judd Kessler in his May 12 letter, do nothing to address the inequities inherent in federal law with respect to gay marriage. Even if their union is state-sanctioned, gay spouses will never enjoy true equality until they can file a joint federal tax return or receive Social Security benefits accrued by a deceased spouse. Read full article >>

  • A shift away from texting while driving

    15 May 2012 | 5:07 pm
    Regarding the May 14 Metro article “Survey connects texting by teen drivers to parental example”: Parents worry about their teens being distracted by smartphones and other mobile devices but admit to using these devices themselves. How about buying a car with a manual transmission? Using a stick shift deters texting, phone use, smoking, eating, applying makeup — all sorts of distractions. The driver has to pay attention to the car and approach the task of driving seriously. Read full article >>
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    Today's Opinion Columns

  • Is John Edwards a criminal?

    Ruth Marcus
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    The prosecution has rested in a case that should never have been brought: the ghastly soap opera better known as the criminal trial of John Edwards. The testimony has been salacious, mesmerizing and revolting. Edwards has been proved to be what everyone already knew beyond a reasonable doubt: an egocentric cad. How big a cad? His daughter is set to testify about his love for her late mother. Read full article >>

  • Obama’s popularity contest

    Kathleen Parker
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Apresidential race recently focused on high school has come to resemble a popularity contest of the same vintage. Hence, we read that women like Barack best (except when they don’t). This week, a New York Times/CBS News poll shows women tilting toward Mitt and voters overall favoring him by 46 percent to 43 percent. But you know how girls are. A month ago, according to a CNN/ORC poll, women loved Obama 55 percent to 39 percent. Next week, check your Magic 8-Ball. Read full article >>

  • Where have all the candidates gone?

    Dana Milbank
    15 May 2012 | 6:59 pm
    The nascent third-party movement called Americans Elect assembled a dream team of prospective presidential nominees: Mike Bloomberg! Colin Powell! Chris Christie! Mitch Daniels! Read full article >>

  • It’s time to break up the big banks

    Katrina vanden Heuvel
    15 May 2012 | 6:38 am
    Consider $2 billion lost on a bad bet, plus billions more as investors dumped the stock, a providential warning. When Jamie Dimon, the imperious head of JPMorgan Chase, revealed that the bank had lost so muchon a derivatives trade gone bad, it was clear warning that, four years after blowing up the economy, the big banks are still playing with bombs. Read full article >>

  • A marriage battle that states can’t win

    Ruth Marcus
    15 May 2012 | 6:15 am
    President Obama is walking a tightrope on same-sex marriage, teetering between his stated view that marriage is the province of the states and his legal position that refusal to recognize same-sex marriage can violate the Constitution. Read full article >>
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    Achenblog

  • Joel Achenbach: Potomac most endangered river?

    Joel Achenbach
    15 May 2012 | 9:44 am
    This morning I read with some concern and personal discomfiture if that’s a word my colleague Darryl Fears’ story about the Potomac being named America’s most endangered river. The story notes that the river is full of sewage and agricultural runoff and there are all these pharmaceuticals that get in the water and cause fish to change sexes, to the point where there are male fish swimming around with eggs inside them. Whoa: I swim in the Potomac! I got swimmin’ holes up and down this river. I have immersed myself countless times in the hormonally discombobulating waters of the…

  • Joel Achenbach: Gay marriage and Jim Crow

    Joel Achenbach
    14 May 2012 | 7:44 am
    [Garden update: Got the tomatoes in! This year I’m going to have a bumper crop. There will be no tomato blossom wilt. There will be no mysterious fungus crawling out of the dirt to yellowfy my plants. The fruit will not split or get cat-faced. Also there will be corn, melons, cukes, and perhaps some animal husbandry (chickens, goats, whatnot) as I teach the children how to find spiritual nourishment from milking the cow before dawn rather than all this shopping at the mall stuff. This year will be different.] Read full article >>

  • Joel Achenbach: Gay marriage and the teenage menace

    Joel Achenbach
    10 May 2012 | 3:48 pm
    I see this morning that Obama’s statement on gay marriage, and the Obama-Biden relationship, is still the big story on Memeorandum, even though this news broke all the way back on yesterday afternoon. I should write about this since I’m trying to get a little more blog traffic and more Twitter followers and, just generally, more digital vim in my analog life. I used to want to be a writer, but now I tweet, and am learning how to turn a praise. [By the way, it’s May 10, which is historically tomato-planting day in the DC area. Though with this climate change that seems to be going on,…

  • Joel Achenbach: Facebook IPO show: Why I’m not buying

    Joel Achenbach
    8 May 2012 | 7:34 am
    With the Facebook IPO show hitting the road, a lot of people are asking: Will Warren Buffett invest? And how about Achenbach? Of course not. I don’t run in that crowd (successful people). And I’ve developed a rule of personal finance that is incontrovertible: It would be stupid for me to make any financial move that I perceived to be intelligent. Read full article >>

  • Joel Achenbach: Bryce Harper steals home, and hearts

    Joel Achenbach
    7 May 2012 | 2:52 pm
    Yet another baseball item. Yes, it’s lunacy, but last night I went to Nats Park to see the Nationals vs. Phillies, and had a boffo time and at one point heroically trash-talked a guy from Philadelphia using my secret weapon of historical trivia. That dramatic tale in a moment, but first let’s talk about the game, and teen phenom Bryce Harper. Read full article >>
 
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    Anne Applebaum: Most Recent Articles and Archives

  • In Europe, the extremists go mainstream

    Anne Applebaum
    7 May 2012 | 8:18 am
    Congratulations are due to the new president of France: Francois Hollande finished off Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday with a few percentage points to spare. Congratulations of another sort are due to Syriza, also known as the Coalition of the Radical Left, a party that made major gains in Sunday’s Greek parliamentary elections, as well as Golden Dawn, a party whose symbol looks like a swastika and whose candidates earned enough votes to enter the Greek Parliament for the first time. Further congratulations perhaps ought to be sent to the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, whose decision to withdraw…

  • Behind Putin’s victory

    Anne Applebaum
    6 Mar 2012 | 2:13 pm
    During a democratic election, we journalists usually cover certain bases. We analyze the candidates and their views. We print polls reflecting the public’s views. Afterward we discuss the vote — who won, who lost and why. Read full article >>

  • How to advance Syria’s transition

    Anne Applebaum
    29 Feb 2012 | 2:52 pm
    “We are not pretending that the human rights situation in Syria is perfect. We are aware that there is a regression in the quality of services usually provided by the government to the population by the regions facing violence.” Read full article >>

  • Russia’s Potemkin democracy

    Anne Applebaum
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:24 pm
    Icouldn’t decide whether to laugh or to cry when I heard that the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, had found a solution to the Syrian crisis. Speaking in Damascus on Tuesday, Lavrov declared that everything was fine: President Bashar al-Assad was “completely committed to the task of stopping violence regardless of where it may come from.” Russia’s foreign ministry backed up this statement by calling for “the swiftest stabilization of the situation in Syria on the basis of the swiftest implementation of democratic reforms whose time has come.” Read full article >>

  • Vaclav Havel, the dissident who came out of the shadows

    Anne Applebaum
    19 Dec 2011 | 10:02 am
    Back in the early 1980s, when Poland was frozen under martial law and Czechoslovakia, as it was then still called, suffered under one of the stupidest of all of communist regimes, the Polish dissidents and the Czech dissidents resolved to have a meeting. By separate routes, they made their way to their mutual border, high in the Tatra Mountains. I once saw the photographs that were taken to mark this improbable occasion: a dozen blue-jeaned activists, veterans of Solidarity and Charter 77, grinning widely, toasting the camera, celebrating the fact that they had eluded their respective secret…
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    Richard Cohen: Most Recent Articles and Archives

  • The invasive police strategy that pacified New York City

    Richard Cohen
    14 May 2012 | 6:22 pm
    New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a new kind of crime statistic. It is not the astoundingly low number of murders committed in his fair city — 471 in 2009 vs. about 2,000 per year in the 1980s — but murders not committed in the last decade: 5,600. Those people are alive today by the grace of God and the policing policies of the Bloomberg administration, particularly what is known as stop-and-frisk. New York City is heaven on earth possibly because it is a certain kind of hell for young black and Hispanic men. Read full article >>

  • What Obama doesn’t know about being president

    Richard Cohen
    7 May 2012 | 6:04 pm
    Barack Obama has read and been influenced by Robert A. Caro’s classic biography of Robert Moses, “The Power Broker.” From the evidence, it is far from clear, though, that the president has read Caro’s other books, the latest being the fourth installment of his massive Lyndon B. Johnson biography — “The Passage of Power.” He should immediately read it. It will teach him how to be president. Read full article >>

  • How long must Syrians wait?

    Richard Cohen
    30 Apr 2012 | 6:57 pm
    The United States seems to have two plans to deal with what is fast becoming a civil war in Syria. Plan A calls for the full implementation of the U.N. cease-fire and the complete cooperation of Bashar al-Assad, a dictator who would, at the risk of his very life, give up some power to the opposition. Plan B, on the other hand, envisions a military response through air power. For that to be implemented, Plan A must fail and more Syrians must die. Read full article >>

  • The luxury we don’t have in Syria

    Richard Cohen
    23 Apr 2012 | 6:26 pm
    About a month ago the European Union, showing it will not be trifled with, barred Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma, and other women in his immediate family from shopping for luxury goods in Europe. For some reason, going cold turkey on Dior, Armani and Prada failed to bring down the Assad regime or to end its vicious attacks on the civilian population. Now the Europeans, presumably with the staunch support of the Obama administration, have imposed an across-the-board ban on the sale of luxury goods to Syria — and yet, somehow, the killing continues. Read full article >>

  • Mitt Romney, a man of falsehoods

    Richard Cohen
    16 Apr 2012 | 7:26 pm
    Among the attributes I most envy in a public man (or woman) is the ability to lie. If that ability is coupled with no sense of humor, you have the sort of man who can be a successful football coach, a CEO or, when you come right down to it, a presidential candidate. Such a man is Mitt Romney. Read full article >>
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    Jackson Diehl: Most Recent Articles and Archives

  • Obama’s misguided wooing of an uninterested Putin

    Jackson Diehl
    13 May 2012 | 7:06 pm
    It’s becoming clear that President Obama regards Vladi­mir Putin as a prime partner for a second-term foreign policy. The problem is that Putin is refusing to play his part. The White House’s bland announcementWednesday that the Kremlin chief would not attend a Group of 8 summit at Camp David this week covered a rude rebuff. Obama had tailored the conclave to Putin, moving it from Chicago so that it would be clearly separate from a NATO summit. Earlier this month, Obama dispatched national security adviser Tom Donilon to Moscow to hand Putin what a Russian official described as “a…

  • Indispensable but invisible in the Syrian crisis

    Jackson Diehl
    29 Apr 2012 | 7:54 pm
    For a year, a chorus of pundits has been proclaiming that the Arab Spring has ushered in a new era in the Middle East in which the United States no longer is the “indispensable nation” Bill Clinton once described. Syria has proved them wrong. Read full article >>

  • Events do not wait as Obama plays a delay defense

    Jackson Diehl
    15 Apr 2012 | 7:09 pm
    Barack Obama’s foreign policy strategy in this election year might be best summed up by William F. Buckley’s famous promise: to “stand athwart history, yelling stop.” Wherever war rages, crisis looms, or a truculent strongman glowers, the message from the White House has been the same: “Give me space.” Read full article >>

  • Maikel Nabil Sanad draws back the curtain on Egypt’s military

    Jackson Diehl
    1 Apr 2012 | 7:03 pm
    Democrats as well as Republicans in Congress protested when the Obama administration announced that it was handing the Egyptian military the full $1.3 billion of its annual U.S. aid despite its blatant violations of human rights. Organizations such as Freedom House argued that the United States was breaking faith with the Americans and Egyptians facing criminal trial in Cairo this month for promoting democracy. Read full article >>

  • Why the U.S. should intervene in Syria

    Jackson Diehl
    18 Mar 2012 | 6:58 pm
    They are three distinguished senators, but their staffers call them the “three amigos” — because they travel abroad together a lot, because they often speak up together and because they not infrequently find themselves standing alone. This month, John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham are talking about Syria. They are making the case for why the United States should lead an intervention to stop the slaughter being perpetrated by dictator Bashar al-Assad. Read full article >>
 
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  • I’m not quitting the church

    E.J. Dionne Jr.
    13 May 2012 | 7:04 pm
    Recently, a group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) ran a full-page ad in The Washington Post cast as an “open letter to ‘liberal’ and ‘nominal’ Catholics.” Its headline commanded: “It’s Time to Quit the Catholic Church.” Read full article >>

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  • E.J. Dionne Jr.: Obama’s marriage statement shows much has changed since 2004

    E.J. Dionne Jr.
    11 May 2012 | 8:22 am
    The most striking aspect of the reaction to President Obama’s announcement that he supports same-sex marriage is the ambivalent response from Republicans. Yes, Mitt Romney reaffirmed his opposition, and House Republicans messed around with the defense bill to make gay marriage an issue. But in their public comments, both Romney and House Speaker John Boehner were relatively restrained, as if they know that, politically, this is not in any way a slam dunk for the GOP. Read full article >>

  • Mourdock Republicans, embracing dangerous austerity

    E.J. Dionne Jr.
    9 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Can a Republican primary in Indiana have even the remotest connection to a presidential election in France? Richard Mourdock, the tea party giant-killer who defeated Sen. Richard Lugar on Tuesday, clearly thinks so. Read full article >>

  • E.J. Dionne Jr.: And then there’s Democracy...

    E.J. Dionne Jr.
    7 May 2012 | 12:41 pm
    I have been heartened by the response to my column this morning about The American Prospect and its efforts to get out of its financial crisis. It turns out that there are many lovers of opinion journals out there. Read full article >>
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    Michael Gerson: Most Recent Articles and Archives

  • Romney at Liberty: The case for conservatism

    Michael Gerson
    14 May 2012 | 1:14 pm
    Mitt Romney did not rise on the power of his rhetoric. At the Detroit Economic Club in February, his speech was swallowed by its stadium venue, overshadowed by a gaffe (his wife’s “couple of Cadillacs”) and weighed down by leaden language. Early in the primaries, Romney’s attempts to wax poetic on the virtues of America — often by quoting patriotic hymns — were waxen. Read full article >>

  • A generational shift in cultural attitudes

    Michael Gerson
    10 May 2012 | 6:05 pm
    Principled or calculating or a bit of both, President Obama’s choice on gay marriage is a bet on the political future — a wager on the views and values of the millennial generation making its long march through American institutions. Read full article >>

  • Obama’s lost cause

    Michael Gerson
    7 May 2012 | 3:14 pm
    “We’re not going back. We’re going forward,” President Obama said during his formal campaign kickoff in Ohio. This rallying cry was pedestrian, and appropriately so. Obama is no longer a leader on horseback. His campaign — on the evidence of its first day — will be a long, unimaginative, partisan march to the sea. Read full article >>

  • America’s remote-controlled war on terror

    Michael Gerson
    3 May 2012 | 7:03 pm
    Scrolling through the headlines in the Long War Journal — a Web site dedicated to terrorism-related news — is an education in the global drone war. Mohammed Saeed al-Umda, one of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguards, confirmed killed by a drone strike in Yemen. German jihadist Samir H. killed in South Waziristan. Egyptian militant Abu Musab al-Masri killed in the Shabwa province of Yemen. The list goes on. Read full article >>

  • Why Reform Conservatism deserves a chance

    Michael Gerson
    30 Apr 2012 | 6:57 pm
    In a recent column, I described two forms of conservatism that coalesced in opposition to President Obama’s polarizing expansion in the size and role of government. Rejectionist Conservatism, which comes in tea party and libertarian variants, would use current political controversies to fundamentally reorder the role of the federal government. At least in theory, it would repeal not just Obamaism but also the Great Society, the New Deal and much else in pursuit of a minimal state. Read full article >>
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    Fred Hiatt: Most Recent Articles and Archives

  • Democracy can still rise to a challenge

    Fred Hiatt
    6 May 2012 | 7:09 pm
    Around the world, people are asking whether democracy is still up to the job. Doubts are stoked by the Great Recession that slammed prosperous democracies while barely scraping communist China; the crisis of the euro; anxieties about the Arab Spring; and the inability of Japan, Europe and the United States to make tough fiscal choices as their populations age. Read full article >>

  • Can Japan make the tough decisions?

    Fred Hiatt
    19 Apr 2012 | 7:02 am
    TOKYO The question here is no different than in Europe or the United States: Can democracies still rouse themselves to do hard things? Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, the sixth Japanese leader in as many years and by many accounts the most sensible, is trying to provide a novel answer. Read full article >>

  • Obama’s lack of passion in supporting freedom

    Fred Hiatt
    8 Apr 2012 | 7:12 pm
    More than three years into his term, it’s possible to assess where the promotion of democracy and freedom ranks in President Obama’s foreign policy: not high. It’s also possible to venture a theory as to why that’s so. Read full article >>

  • North Korea’s dehumanizing treatment of its citizens is hiding in plain sight

    Fred Hiatt
    25 Mar 2012 | 7:06 pm
    With President Obama in Korea this week, we will hear a lot about the dangers of North Korea’s nuclear aspirations. We’re unlikely to be hear about a young man named Shin Dong-hyuk, who was bred, like a farm animal, inside a North Korean prison camp after guards ordered his prisoner-parents to mate. But Shin arguably has as much to teach about Korea’s past and future as about the cycle of negotiation, bluster and broken promises over the nuclear issue. Read full article >>

  • A year after the disaster of 3/11, Japan looks inward

    Fred Hiatt
    8 Mar 2012 | 6:26 pm
    After their triple-whammy disaster one year ago, many Japanese cycled through emotions familiar to Americans after Hurricane Katrina: disbelief at the failure to anticipate such a crisis, anger at official obfuscation as it unfolded, frustration at the slow pace of reconstruction ever since. The scale of the catastrophe provoked another sentiment Americans will recall: the sense that, after this, nothing will ever be the same. Read full article >>
 
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  • A compelling plan for Iranian talks

    David Ignatius
    11 May 2012 | 6:26 pm
    Let’s assume the signals from the White House and Tehran are reliable, and that Iran is serious about an agreement to remove its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium from the country and stop producing more. What happens then? Read full article >>

  • Obama’s foreign policy: Dealing from a position of strength

    David Ignatius
    10 May 2012 | 1:17 pm
    President Obama begins his reelection campaign with something almost nobody would have predicted four years ago: a sense of success and political advantage in the ­foreign-policy areas that have often spelled trouble for Democrats. Read full article >>

  • Libyan missiles on the loose

    David Ignatius
    8 May 2012 | 6:18 pm
    Whenever the CIA uncovers a new plot overseas, like al-Qaeda’s latest scheme to blow up civilian aircraft using advanced, hard-to-detect explosives, people breathe a sigh of relief. But this is a multifront war, and almost by definition, the attack that gets you is the one you didn’t see coming. Read full article >>

  • An economic boom ahead?

    David Ignatius
    4 May 2012 | 7:23 pm
    With so much talk these days of America’s decline, it may sound strange to ponder the prospects for an American economic boom a decade or so from now. But that’s the thrust of two new studies, which have me thinking like Dr. Pangloss, Voltaire’s caricature of optimism. Read full article >>

  • Politicizing the drone debate

    David Ignatius
    2 May 2012 | 6:12 pm
    During this week of retrospectives on the killing of Osama bin Laden, one of the most interesting public comments was White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan’s speech formally affirming that “the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qaeda terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones.” Read full article >>
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  • Equality is bigger than the president

    Colbert I. King
    11 May 2012 | 12:41 pm
    The debate over gay marriage is at a stage it should never have reached: Somehow now it’s all about Barack Obama. “Obama: Out of the Closet on Gay Marriage!” the Traditional Values Coalition shouted in a news release slamming the president’s announcement that he supports same-sex couples being allowed to marry. Read full article >>

  • The ‘fake pot’ threat

    Colbert I. King
    4 May 2012 | 7:28 pm
    Just what parents don’t need: another way for their kids to get high, or worse. And getting that buzz, that glow, that trip to an altered state is so easy. There’s no need to bother with street dealers or big drug traffickers. Read full article >>

  • Still the same Marion Barry

    Colbert I. King
    27 Apr 2012 | 7:07 pm
    The day will come when Marion Barry will be spoken of in the past tense. That reality, of course, applies to all of us. But Barry’s vincibility is especially useful to note because of his penchant for bringing shame on himself and the city. Read full article >>

  • The Bourbon Democrats rise again?

    Colbert I. King
    20 Apr 2012 | 6:15 pm
    The parallels between today’s conservative-dominated Republican Party and southern “Bourbon” Democrats in the post-Civil War era are striking and ominous. The Bourbons — as conservative Democrats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were known — were prosperous property owners in the South who set out to end Reconstruction and bring back the good old days of domination by upper-class whites. The Post’s Charles Lane alluded to them in his April 17 column, “A ‘white man’s party’?” Read full article >>

  • Devaluing boys’ lives

    Colbert I. King
    13 Apr 2012 | 6:15 pm
    What is a boy’s life worth? The answer may depend on who is asking. It also may matter where the question is being raised. Officials in Sanford, Fla., initially decided not to arrest neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman after he fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26. This week, Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder. Did Florida special prosecutor Angela B. Corey place a different value on the life of that young black victim than Sanford authorities did? Corey has said that “the search for justice has brought us to this moment” when she announced…
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  • Echoes of ‘67: Israel unites

    Charles Krauthammer
    10 May 2012 | 6:04 pm
    In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the final destruction of Israel. Read full article >>

  • Divider in chief

    Charles Krauthammer
    3 May 2012 | 7:04 pm
    “The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states.” — Barack Obama, rising star, 2004 Democratic convention Poor Solicitor General Donald Verrilli.Once again he’s been pilloried for fumbling a historic Supreme Court case. First shredded for his “train wreck” defense of Obamacare’s individual mandate, he is now blamed for the defenestration in oral argument of Obama’s challenge to the Arizona immigration law. Read full article >>

  • While Syria burns

    Charles Krauthammer
    26 Apr 2012 | 6:38 pm
    Last year President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” Moammar Gaddafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing “would have been a betrayal of who we are,” explained the president. Read full article >>

  • Farewell, the New Frontier

    Charles Krauthammer
    19 Apr 2012 | 6:27 pm
    As the space shuttle Discovery flew three times around Washington, a final salute before landing at Dulles airport for retirement in a museum, thousands on the ground gazed upward with marvel and pride. Yet what they were witnessing, for all its elegance, was a funeral march. Read full article >>

  • Free-lunch egalitarianism

    Charles Krauthammer
    12 Apr 2012 | 7:24 pm
    Here we go again. At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama argued that the country’s spiraling debt was largely the result of exploding health-care costs. That was true. He then said the cure for these exploding costs would be his health-care reform. That was not true. Read full article >>
 
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  • Is John Edwards a criminal?

    Ruth Marcus
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    The prosecution has rested in a case that should never have been brought: the ghastly soap opera better known as the criminal trial of John Edwards. The testimony has been salacious, mesmerizing and revolting. Edwards has been proved to be what everyone already knew beyond a reasonable doubt: an egocentric cad. How big a cad? His daughter is set to testify about his love for her late mother. Read full article >>

  • A marriage battle that states can’t win

    Ruth Marcus
    15 May 2012 | 6:15 am
    President Obama is walking a tightrope on same-sex marriage, teetering between his stated view that marriage is the province of the states and his legal position that refusal to recognize same-sex marriage can violate the Constitution. Read full article >>

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  • Time for Obama to come out on gay marriage

    Ruth Marcus
    8 May 2012 | 6:17 pm
    Same-sex marriage is turning into a test of character and leadership for President Obama. Does he favor it, or doesn’t he? In the wake of Vice President Biden’s remarks supportive of marriage equality, the continued presidential equivocation makes Obama look weak and evasive. Read full article >>

  • Mitt Romney wimps out on Grenell

    Ruth Marcus
    3 May 2012 | 11:43 am
    Bill Clinton created his Sister Souljah moment. Mitt Romney keeps ducking his. This says something disturbing about the current political environment. It says something even more disturbing about the soon-to-be Republican nominee. Read full article >>
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  • Europe finds austerity a tight fit

    Harold Meyerson
    3 May 2012 | 7:02 pm
    Europe has seen austerity, and it doesn’t work. With governments across the continent slashing their budgets, unemployment in the 17-nation euro zone hit 10.9 percent in March, its highest level since the euro was first minted in 1999. Eleven European countries — including a couple that are not in the euro zone but have nonetheless inflicted austerity on themselves, such as Britain — are officially in recession. Read full article >>

  • Shaky economic prospects threaten both parties

    Harold Meyerson
    24 Apr 2012 | 6:44 pm
    In the short term, the recovery looks shaky. In the long term, the economy looks shaky — so shaky that it may be many years before a president of either party or any ideology can count on winning a second term. Read full article >>

  • How to grow the middle class

    Harold Meyerson
    18 Apr 2012 | 6:41 pm
    So how do we re-create the American middle class? Making our loopy tax code more equitable appears to be off the agenda, what with Senate Republicans’ refusal Monday to allow a vote on a tax hike for millionaires. And even if the “Buffett Rule” were enacted, it would do nothing to alter the rocketing inequality in Americans’ pre-tax income. With the Southern wage for manufacturing — roughly $14 an hour — becoming the national norm, and with hiring more prevalent for low-wage restaurant and retail jobs than for positions in higher-paid industries, the incomes of most Americans will…

  • An economic recovery that leaves workers further behind

    Harold Meyerson
    10 Apr 2012 | 6:36 pm
    Why is this recovery different from all other recoveries? Many of the reasons are widely known: Rebounding from a financial crisis takes an excruciatingly long time; the huge decline in housing values has reduced Americans’ purchasing power; large corporations are making do with fewer employees — at least, in this country. Read full article >>

  • Wall St. attacks Obama for tactic it uses

    Harold Meyerson
    4 Apr 2012 | 5:30 pm
    In 2008, Wall Street backed Barack Obama. Hedge fund operators, private equity investors and mega-bank executives gave his campaign twice the amount they contributed to John McCain. Many of the financial masters of the universe saw in Obama a guy much like themselves — self-made, very bright, assertive and validated by all the right academic credentials. Read full article >>
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    Eugene Robinson Columns and Blog Posts

  • Romney is no economic savior

    Eugene Robinson
    14 May 2012 | 6:21 pm
    Republicans say they’re eager for the presidential campaign to turn away from “distractions” and focus instead on the economy. Someone should warn them that if they’re not careful, they might get their wish. Read full article >>

  • In Obama’s stance on gay marriage, a return to hope

    Eugene Robinson
    10 May 2012 | 6:11 pm
    President Obama’s evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation’s long march toward equality and justice. It is also a bold political gambit that sacrifices some votes in exchange for potentially renewing his image as a leader of vision and hope. Read full article >>

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  • Austerity as a bridge to nowhere

    Eugene Robinson
    7 May 2012 | 6:03 pm
    Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that’s what it was, given Sunday’s election results in Europe. Perhaps I should also say good riddance. Voters in France, Greece and even Germany — a hotbed of the austerity cult — told their political leaders, in no uncertain terms, that boosting economic growth is more important than cutting government spending. Here in the United States, I hope that Democrats, at least, were paying attention; I fear that the addled ideologues who control the Republican Party will never get the message. Read…

  • Why are we in Afghanistan for the long haul?

    Eugene Robinson
    3 May 2012 | 7:14 pm
    Show of hands: Does anybody really understand the U.S. policy in Afghanistan? Can anyone figure out how we’re supposed to stay the course and bring home the troops at the same time? I’m at a loss, even after President Obama’s surprise trip to the war zone. The president’s televised address from Bagram air base raised more questions than it answered. Let’s start with the big one: Why? Read full article >>
 
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    Robert Samuelson: Most Recent Articles and Archives

  • The boom on the farm

    Robert J. Samuelson
    13 May 2012 | 7:01 pm
    MARION, Iowa Sitting in the cab of a $350,000 John Deere tractor pulling a $150,000 Deere corn planter, Greg Carson embodies modern American agriculture. It’s capital-intensive, high-tech, efficient — and now immensely profitable. Looking for a bright spot in the U.S. economy? The farm belt is it. Read full article >>

  • ‘Battle of the beards’: Paul Krugman vs. Ben Bernanke

    Robert J. Samuelson
    6 May 2012 | 6:40 pm
    It’s being called the “battle of the beards” — Paul Krugman vs. Ben Bernanke. Both are eminent (and bearded) economists: Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board; Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and a prominent New York Times columnist. Krugman accuses Bernanke of being too timid in fighting high unemployment and slow economic growth. Bernanke calls Krugman’s policy proposals “reckless.” What’s going on? Read full article >>

  • The fallacy of blaming oil ‘speculators’

    Robert J. Samuelson
    2 May 2012 | 11:35 am
    “We still need to work extra hard to protect consumers from factors that should not affect the price of a barrel of oil. We can’t afford a situation where speculators artificially manipulate markets.” Read full article >>

  • Here’s what Washington really does

    Robert J. Samuelson
    29 Apr 2012 | 7:54 pm
    The Washington of conventional wisdom and the real Washington are two entirely different places. The Washington of conventional wisdom is overrun by well-paid insiders — lobbyists, lawyers, publicists — who systematically manipulate government policies to benefit corporations and the rich, defying the “will of the people.” The real Washington has government paid for by the rich and well-to-do. Benefits go mainly to the poor and middle class, while politicians of both parties live in fear that they might offend the “will of the people” — voters. Read full article >>

  • The Swedish model for economic recovery

    Robert J. Samuelson
    25 Apr 2012 | 10:32 am
    Amid all the grim economic news from Europe, it’s worth noting that there are also some success stories. Well, of course, you say: Germany. Okay. But there’s another conspicuous candidate, and it might seem surprising: Sweden. To many Americans, Sweden is a bloated, inefficient welfare state. But the reality and the stereotype don’t match. Read full article >>
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  • The American dream in an automobile

    George F. Will
    11 May 2012 | 6:25 pm
    “You have a Prius. You probably compost, sort all your recycling, and have a reusable shopping bag for your short drive to Whole Foods. You are the best! So, do we really need the Obama sticker?” Read full article >>

  • Some Caps fans will avert their eyes

    George Solomon
    11 May 2012 | 6:23 pm
    Stanley, my friend from the gym, won’t watch Saturday’s Game 7 of the NHL’s Eastern Conference semifinal series between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers. He’ll be in front of his television, but he’ll be reading a newspaper or magazine, avoiding the screen with the sound off, except to look up every seven minutes. “I just get too nervous,” he said. “My heart won’t take it.” Read full article >>

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  • Taxing jobs out of existence

    George F. Will
    9 May 2012 | 6:10 pm
    BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that became Apple’s birthplace. Bill Cook had no garage, so he launched Cook Medical in a spare bedroom in an apartment in this university town. Half a century ago, in flight from Chicago’s winters, he settled here and began making cardiovascular catheters and other medical instruments. One thing led to another, as things have a way of doing when the government stays out of the way, and although Cook died…

  • Taking a scythe to the Bill of Rights

    George F. Will
    4 May 2012 | 7:28 pm
    Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Ethics that “after-birth abortions” — killing newborn babies — are matters of moral indifference because newborns, like fetuses, “do not have the same moral status as actual persons” and “the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant.” So killing them “should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.” This…
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  • Ryan Zimmerman’s power coming slowly this season

    Adam Kilgore
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    In their 6-1 loss yesterday, the Nationals had one chance to charge back into the game, down 5-1 in the fifth inning. Reliever Tom Gorzelanny – really, he’s 2 for 2 this year – and Ian Desmond led off with singles, putting two men on base with no outs for the middle of the Nationals’ lineup. Roger Bernadina struck out swinging. Read full article >>

  • Chan Sung Jung stops Dustin Poirier at UFC event at Patriot Center

    Gene Wang
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    Chan Sung Jung pummeled Dustin Poirier in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Tuesday night at Patriot Center before an announced crowd of 4,592 that included Washington Nationals rookie sensation Bryce Harper. Read full article >>

  • Orioles’ Chen beats Yankees

    Dan Connolly
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    BALTIMORE —Rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts for the Baltimore Orioles. Read full article >>

  • Chase Headley, Sandy Leon meet the day after their collision

    Adam Kilgore
    15 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Chase Headley walked down the hallway from the visitor’s clubhouse at Nationals Park toward the Padres’ idling team bus, dressed in a suit and ready to move on to a new city. First, he spotted someone he wanted to talk to outside the Nationals clubhouse. Read full article >>

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  • Ryan Zimmerman’s power coming slowly this season

    Adam Kilgore
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    In their 6-1 loss yesterday, the Nationals had one chance to charge back into the game, down 5-1 in the fifth inning. Reliever Tom Gorzelanny – really, he’s 2 for 2 this year – and Ian Desmond led off with singles, putting two men on base with no outs for the middle of the Nationals’ lineup. Roger Bernadina struck out swinging. Read full article >>

  • Chan Sung Jung stops Dustin Poirier at UFC event at Patriot Center

    Gene Wang
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    Chan Sung Jung pummeled Dustin Poirier in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Tuesday night at Patriot Center before an announced crowd of 4,592 that included Washington Nationals rookie sensation Bryce Harper. Read full article >>

  • Orioles’ Chen beats Yankees

    Dan Connolly
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    BALTIMORE —Rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts for the Baltimore Orioles. Read full article >>

  • Chase Headley, Sandy Leon meet the day after their collision

    Adam Kilgore
    15 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Chase Headley walked down the hallway from the visitor’s clubhouse at Nationals Park toward the Padres’ idling team bus, dressed in a suit and ready to move on to a new city. First, he spotted someone he wanted to talk to outside the Nationals clubhouse. Read full article >>

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  • Wizards’ John Wall says he was ‘kind of the same’ in his second season

    Michael Lee
    29 Apr 2012 | 7:57 pm
    Depending on whom you ask, John Wall regressed, made some non-statistical strides or remained stagnant in his second season with the Washington Wizards. Wall might have unrivaled end-to-end speed on the court, but for varying reasons, the career of the 2010 No. 1 overall pick is developing at a much slower pace. Read full article >>

  • Wizards vs. Cavaliers: John Wall’s 21 points, 13 assists power Washington to fifth straight win

    Michael Lee
    25 Apr 2012 | 8:52 pm
    CLEVELAND — The Washington Wizards woke up Wednesday knowing they would finish the season with the second-worst record in the NBA. But they were far from discouraged or disappointed because as the season is winding down, the fun is just starting to begin. Read full article >>

  • Ernie Grunfeld happy to continue the job

    Michael Lee
    24 Apr 2012 | 8:43 pm
    The Washington Wizards are set to conclude the worst four-year stretch in franchise history — a period that has seen Gilbert Arenas bring guns to locker room, the team mistakenly build around a core of Andray Blatche,JaVale McGee and Nick Young, and continuous turnover for players and coaches. The shortcomings led to speculation among fans, agents, executives and scouts that the one constant through all of it — Ernie Grunfeld — wouldn’t return after his contract expired after this season. Read full article >>

  • Ernie Grunfeld, Wizards need to stick together

    Mike Wise
    23 Apr 2012 | 9:18 pm
    If the mandate from the boss was to go young, collect draft picks like baseball cards, save money for a sunny day and not worry about competing for a playoff spot in the foreseeable future — be real bad before good, in essence — then Ernie Grunfeld has done his job and deserves to return as the team president of the Washington Wizards. Read full article >>

  • Wizards have bonds starting to form as winning continues

    Michael Lee
    22 Apr 2012 | 7:12 pm
    The night before he bailed out the Washington Wizards with a beautiful, twisting layup with a half-second remaining in an 86-84 victory over in Miami, Nene bought dinner for a few of his teammates at a Brazilian steakhouse. Read full article >>
 
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  • Ryan Zimmerman’s power coming slowly this season

    Adam Kilgore
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    In their 6-1 loss yesterday, the Nationals had one chance to charge back into the game, down 5-1 in the fifth inning. Reliever Tom Gorzelanny – really, he’s 2 for 2 this year – and Ian Desmond led off with singles, putting two men on base with no outs for the middle of the Nationals’ lineup. Roger Bernadina struck out swinging. Read full article >>

  • Chan Sung Jung stops Dustin Poirier at UFC event at Patriot Center

    Gene Wang
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    Chan Sung Jung pummeled Dustin Poirier in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Tuesday night at Patriot Center before an announced crowd of 4,592 that included Washington Nationals rookie sensation Bryce Harper. Read full article >>

  • Orioles’ Chen beats Yankees

    Dan Connolly
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    BALTIMORE —Rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts for the Baltimore Orioles. Read full article >>

  • Chase Headley, Sandy Leon meet the day after their collision

    Adam Kilgore
    15 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Chase Headley walked down the hallway from the visitor’s clubhouse at Nationals Park toward the Padres’ idling team bus, dressed in a suit and ready to move on to a new city. First, he spotted someone he wanted to talk to outside the Nationals clubhouse. Read full article >>

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  • Ryan Zimmerman’s power coming slowly this season

    Adam Kilgore
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    In their 6-1 loss yesterday, the Nationals had one chance to charge back into the game, down 5-1 in the fifth inning. Reliever Tom Gorzelanny – really, he’s 2 for 2 this year – and Ian Desmond led off with singles, putting two men on base with no outs for the middle of the Nationals’ lineup. Roger Bernadina struck out swinging. Read full article >>

  • Chan Sung Jung stops Dustin Poirier at UFC event at Patriot Center

    Gene Wang
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    Chan Sung Jung pummeled Dustin Poirier in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Tuesday night at Patriot Center before an announced crowd of 4,592 that included Washington Nationals rookie sensation Bryce Harper. Read full article >>

  • Orioles’ Chen beats Yankees

    Dan Connolly
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    BALTIMORE —Rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts for the Baltimore Orioles. Read full article >>

  • Chase Headley, Sandy Leon meet the day after their collision

    Adam Kilgore
    15 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Chase Headley walked down the hallway from the visitor’s clubhouse at Nationals Park toward the Padres’ idling team bus, dressed in a suit and ready to move on to a new city. First, he spotted someone he wanted to talk to outside the Nationals clubhouse. Read full article >>

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  • Orioles’ Chen beats Yankees

    Dan Connolly
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    BALTIMORE —Rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts for the Baltimore Orioles. Read full article >>

  • Strength coach McNamee says he helped Clemens use drugs

    Del Quentin Wilber, Ann E. Marimow
    15 May 2012 | 5:58 pm
    A former Major League Baseball strength coach testified Tuesday that he only reluctantly told federal authorities about Roger Clemens’s alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs and did not initially intend to hand over evidence that prosecutors say tests have linked to the baseball legend. Read full article >>

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  • Nationals vs. Padres: Bryce Harper’s first home run helps Washington overcome Sandy Leon’s injury

    Adam Kilgore
    14 May 2012 | 9:37 pm
    Bryce Harper stood in the Washington Nationals’ dugout as Nationals Park roared for him, with the unfamiliar and splendid feeling of being unsure of what he should do. Teammate Jayson Werth, 14 years his senior, slapped him on the back and let him know it was okay. Werth told Harper, “Get up there, kid.” Read full article >>

  • Nationals vs. Reds: Joey Votto homers three times as Washington falls, 9-6

    Adam Kilgore
    13 May 2012 | 8:09 pm
    CINCINNATI — Everything was a mess Sunday night for Henry Rodriguez. His nerves, the slop at his feet, the loaded bases behind him — all of it, in every way, an utter, complete mess, made worse by the man knocking the weighted donut off his bat in the on-deck circle. Walking to the plate with two outs in the ninth inning, already with two home runs and now carrying a chance to end the Washington Nationals’ long, wet and miserable day in the most gut-wrenching fashion, was Joey Votto. Read full article >>
 
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  • Ryan Zimmerman’s power coming slowly this season

    Adam Kilgore
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    In their 6-1 loss yesterday, the Nationals had one chance to charge back into the game, down 5-1 in the fifth inning. Reliever Tom Gorzelanny – really, he’s 2 for 2 this year – and Ian Desmond led off with singles, putting two men on base with no outs for the middle of the Nationals’ lineup. Roger Bernadina struck out swinging. Read full article >>

  • Chan Sung Jung stops Dustin Poirier at UFC event at Patriot Center

    Gene Wang
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    Chan Sung Jung pummeled Dustin Poirier in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Tuesday night at Patriot Center before an announced crowd of 4,592 that included Washington Nationals rookie sensation Bryce Harper. Read full article >>

  • Orioles’ Chen beats Yankees

    Dan Connolly
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    BALTIMORE —Rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts for the Baltimore Orioles. Read full article >>

  • Chase Headley, Sandy Leon meet the day after their collision

    Adam Kilgore
    15 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Chase Headley walked down the hallway from the visitor’s clubhouse at Nationals Park toward the Padres’ idling team bus, dressed in a suit and ready to move on to a new city. First, he spotted someone he wanted to talk to outside the Nationals clubhouse. Read full article >>

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  • Ryan Zimmerman’s power coming slowly this season

    Adam Kilgore
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    In their 6-1 loss yesterday, the Nationals had one chance to charge back into the game, down 5-1 in the fifth inning. Reliever Tom Gorzelanny – really, he’s 2 for 2 this year – and Ian Desmond led off with singles, putting two men on base with no outs for the middle of the Nationals’ lineup. Roger Bernadina struck out swinging. Read full article >>

  • Chan Sung Jung stops Dustin Poirier at UFC event at Patriot Center

    Gene Wang
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    Chan Sung Jung pummeled Dustin Poirier in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Tuesday night at Patriot Center before an announced crowd of 4,592 that included Washington Nationals rookie sensation Bryce Harper. Read full article >>

  • Orioles’ Chen beats Yankees

    Dan Connolly
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    BALTIMORE —Rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts for the Baltimore Orioles. Read full article >>

  • Chase Headley, Sandy Leon meet the day after their collision

    Adam Kilgore
    15 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Chase Headley walked down the hallway from the visitor’s clubhouse at Nationals Park toward the Padres’ idling team bus, dressed in a suit and ready to move on to a new city. First, he spotted someone he wanted to talk to outside the Nationals clubhouse. Read full article >>

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  • Ryan Zimmerman’s power coming slowly this season

    Adam Kilgore
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    In their 6-1 loss yesterday, the Nationals had one chance to charge back into the game, down 5-1 in the fifth inning. Reliever Tom Gorzelanny – really, he’s 2 for 2 this year – and Ian Desmond led off with singles, putting two men on base with no outs for the middle of the Nationals’ lineup. Roger Bernadina struck out swinging. Read full article >>

  • Chan Sung Jung stops Dustin Poirier at UFC event at Patriot Center

    Gene Wang
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    Chan Sung Jung pummeled Dustin Poirier in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Tuesday night at Patriot Center before an announced crowd of 4,592 that included Washington Nationals rookie sensation Bryce Harper. Read full article >>

  • Orioles’ Chen beats Yankees

    Dan Connolly
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    BALTIMORE —Rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts for the Baltimore Orioles. Read full article >>

  • Chase Headley, Sandy Leon meet the day after their collision

    Adam Kilgore
    15 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Chase Headley walked down the hallway from the visitor’s clubhouse at Nationals Park toward the Padres’ idling team bus, dressed in a suit and ready to move on to a new city. First, he spotted someone he wanted to talk to outside the Nationals clubhouse. Read full article >>

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  • Ryan Zimmerman’s power coming slowly this season

    Adam Kilgore
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    In their 6-1 loss yesterday, the Nationals had one chance to charge back into the game, down 5-1 in the fifth inning. Reliever Tom Gorzelanny – really, he’s 2 for 2 this year – and Ian Desmond led off with singles, putting two men on base with no outs for the middle of the Nationals’ lineup. Roger Bernadina struck out swinging. Read full article >>

  • Chan Sung Jung stops Dustin Poirier at UFC event at Patriot Center

    Gene Wang
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    Chan Sung Jung pummeled Dustin Poirier in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Tuesday night at Patriot Center before an announced crowd of 4,592 that included Washington Nationals rookie sensation Bryce Harper. Read full article >>

  • Orioles’ Chen beats Yankees

    Dan Connolly
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    BALTIMORE —Rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts for the Baltimore Orioles. Read full article >>

  • Chase Headley, Sandy Leon meet the day after their collision

    Adam Kilgore
    15 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Chase Headley walked down the hallway from the visitor’s clubhouse at Nationals Park toward the Padres’ idling team bus, dressed in a suit and ready to move on to a new city. First, he spotted someone he wanted to talk to outside the Nationals clubhouse. Read full article >>

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  • Washington Nationals injuries are becoming a comedy of casualties

    Thomas Boswell
    15 May 2012 | 7:54 pm
    The Washington Nationals’ blight of physical maladies finally reached total absurdity Tuesday afternoon when Stephen Strasburg, pitching in a downpour, was apparently attacked by the topical analgesic balm, Hot Stuff, that pitchers sometimes rub on their bodies to keep them loose, limber and ornery. Read full article >>

  • Stanley Cup playoffs: Capitals lose series but gain an identity

    Thomas Boswell
    12 May 2012 | 10:08 pm
    NEW YORK — The Washington Capitals didn’t just lose a second-round playoff series in seven tight, tough games with the top-seeded New York Rangers here in thunderous Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. This was a defeat with a victory of a different but enormously important kind, hidden inside it. Read full article >>

  • Bryce Harper makes an immediate impact in a variety of ways for Nationals

    Thomas Boswell
    10 May 2012 | 7:04 pm
    I’ve never seen a player enjoy his first 10 games in the big leagues as much as Washington Nationals rookie Bryce Harper, just revel in them, rise to them and gobble each day like he’s waited for it since he was born. And I’ve never seen a teenager have an impact on so many of those games in so many different ways, even as he has ignored the mistakes that reveal his age and skimpy pro experience. Read full article >>

  • Washington Capitals’ changed attitude under Dale Hunter gives them a shot in 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs

    Thomas Boswell
    5 May 2012 | 6:47 pm
    No one can know whether the Capitals’ season will be over in just two more games against the tough New York Rangers or whether this is the year Washington wins the Stanley Cup. In the past, only one of those possibilities was, with hindsight, a sane consideration. Now, both are actually feasible outcomes because the Capitals are a changed hockey club. Under Coach Dale Hunter, they are playing like a team — 20 men with the same idea. Read full article >>

  • Phillies fans can’t keep Nationals fans from taking back the park; can Phillies take back the NL East?

    Thomas Boswell
    4 May 2012 | 11:38 pm
    Washington Nationals fans took back their ballpark from the invading fans of the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night. And they did it by a landslide, not by some piddling plurality. Then the Nats themselves, cheered on by a roaring crowd of 34,377, came from behind to beat Philadelphia, 4-3, in the bottom of the 11th inning, igniting an explosion of cheers and a throng of celebrating Nats surrounding pinch hitter Wilson Ramos near first base. As the last available healthy player on the Washington bench, Ramos knocked home the winning run with a bases-loaded single off Michael Schwimer to…
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  • Washington Capitals Coach Dale Hunter may not be going anywhere, after all

    Mike Wise
    11 May 2012 | 8:53 am
    The game and news conference were over when the coach walked into his office dressed in his usual black suit and red-sheen tie at 11:01 p.m. Wednesday following the Capitals’ 2-1 victory over the Rangers. At almost exactly 11:01:30, he was back out in the Verizon Center hallway. Amazingly, he was wearing a polo shirt and slacks — as if he were an actor with seconds to make a costume change. Read full article >>

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  • 2012 NHL playoffs: Capitals aren’t done because they don’t know what done is

    Mike Wise
    7 May 2012 | 11:20 pm
    NEW YORK — I know. Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory — or something like that. Painful? You lose a lead with less than seven seconds left in a seminal game of the Stanley Cup playoffs and it’s pretty much over, right? Read full article >>

  • Washington Capitals’ overtime playoff losses can’t crush Woody’s spirit

    Mike Wise
    3 May 2012 | 6:50 pm
    Nearing 1 a.m. Thursday, the home locker room at Verizon Center had finally emptied. Just one Washington Capitals employee remained, the same loyalist who remained after the Islanders’ Pat LaFontaine pierced the Caps’ heart in quadruple overtime in 1987 and the Penguins’ Petr Nedved punctured the soul the same way in 1996 in Landover, the same hopeful guy who grimaced when Martin St. Louis ended the Capitals’ 2002-03 season in the building on F Street with a triple-overtime goal way past midnight. Read full article >>

  • Alex Ovechkin’s ice time is an elephant in the room as Caps-Rangers series rolls on

    Mike Wise
    30 Apr 2012 | 10:35 pm
    NEW YORK — When he unleashed that game-winning wrist rocket from the point Monday night, Alex Ovechkin was battling a variety of forces. There were the rugged Rangers players who skated with him, the rabid Rangers fans, who counted down before each “Ovi (rhymes with Pucks!)” chant and, yes, his greatest neutralizer of all this postseason: Dale Hunter. Read full article >>
 
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  • Casablanca to screen for free on Facebook Wednesday

    Maura Judkis
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    “Casablanca” is widely considered one of the greatest movies of all time, and now a whole new audience will have the chance to “like” it — Warner Brothers will stream the film on Facebook on Wednesday in honor of its 70th anniversary. Read full article >>

  • ‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2012: Maria Menounos goes home; Katherine Jenkins, Donald Driver, William Levy advance to finals

    Emily Yahr
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Despite nabbing the highest judges scores on Monday night’s performance show, TV host Maria Menounos was elimianted from “Dancing With the Stars.” There was an audible gasp in the ballroom when Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet revealed that Maria and her partner, Derek Hough, wouldn’t make it to next week’s season finale. They were against NFL player Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd in the bottom two; Donald will join classical singer Katherine Jenkins/Mark Ballas and actor William Levy/Cheryl Burke in the final competition round. Read full article >>

  • Jimmy Kimmel jabs TV networks’ new schedules

    Lisa de Moraes
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    “How many times do I have to tell you, this is b---s---?” Jimmy Kimmel asked a Lincoln Center hall jammed with advertisers at ABC’s unveiling of its new schedule on Tuesday. “We don’t know what we are doing. We have no idea what people want to see. Why is this so hard for you to understand? Remember last year, that [cross-dressing guys] show ‘Work It’? You know we were kidding about that. That was a joke. The fact that [Brit ABC programming chief] Paul Lee greenlit that should tell you everything you need to know about what Brits think about us.” Read full article >>

  • In Mildred Holt, 105, Johnny Carson met his match

    Sarah Kaufman
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Exhaustive as it was, the American Master’s documentary “Johnny Carson: King of Late Night” on PBS Monday left out one of Carson’s favorite guests. She was my great-grandmother, Mildred Holt. I suppose it’s a forgivable oversight. The stooped, frail-looking woman in a powder-blue dress was neither a celebrity nor a newsmaker when she appeared on “The Tonight Show” in August 1987. She was just a little old lady from a tiny town in Kansas—and by old, I mean historic. She was 105 at the time. But she had all her marbles, as well as a fierce, straight-shooting wit, and that was…

  • Glenn Campbell, out front with Alzheimer's diagnosis and activism

    The Reliable Source
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    One way to announce you have Alzheimer’s is to issue a quiet statement and fade into history. That’s not Glenn Campbell’s route. Instead, the “Rhinestone Cowboy” legend publicly announced his diagnosis, sang at the Grammys in February and started a tour of farewell concerts around the world. Read full article >>
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  • ‘Glee’ by the musical numbers:

    Jen Chaney
    15 May 2012 | 10:25 pm
    Tuesday’s two-hour, penultimate season three episode of “Glee” brought us an homage to “Freaky Friday,” a Lindsay Lohan movie, during hour one and the actual appearance of Lindsay Lohan during hour two. It also delivered another trip to nationals (this time in Chicago, not New York), several musical numbers and, of course, a ton of important questions. Read full article >>

  • Lindsay Lohan on ‘Glee’: Did her so-called ‘image rebranding’ effort succeed?

    Jen Chaney
    15 May 2012 | 9:49 pm
    “Is there anything better than someone making a comeback?” Lindsay Lohan, playing the role of Lindsay Lohan, asked that question — wink, wink — during tonight’s second hour of “Glee.” She also reminded us that she’s a twelve-time Teen Choice Award nominee and is in full-on “image rebranding mode,” which, of course, is why she agreed to do a guest appearance on the Fox series in the first place. Read full article >>

  • Kids reenacting Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ video is best thing you’ll see all day

    Jen Chaney
    15 May 2012 | 3:50 pm
    Adam Yauch died a week and a half ago. But the tributes to the late MCA of the Beastie Boys, who died May 4 of cancer at the age of 47, continue. The latest, and arguably the cutest, salute to the late Yauch comes via a recreation of the Boys’ classic “Sabotage” video, as performed by a bunch of young children and directed by Portland filmmaker James Winters. Read full article >>

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  • Whitney Houston to posthumously receive Billboard Millennium Award

    Sarah Anne Hughes
    15 May 2012 | 3:45 pm
    Whitney Houston will be posthumously honored with the Billboard Millennium Award later this month, the magazine announced Tuesday. Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown and sister-in-law Pat Houston will accept the honor at the Billboard Music Awards on May 20, according to the publication. John Legend and Jordin Sparks, who plays Houston’s daughter in the upcoming film “Sparkle,” will perform a tribute to the late singer during the ceremony, which will air live from Las Vegas on ABC. Read full article >>
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  • Kojo Nnamdi chats with Fritz Hahn about the D.C. area’s best rooftop bars

    Alex Baldinger
    15 May 2012 | 5:23 pm
    Public service announcement: the Going Out Guide’s bars and clubs editor Fritz Hahn will be among the guests on the Kojo Nnamdi Show’s Food Wednesday program May 16 at noon to talk about the city’s best rooftop drink spots. And with temperatures pegged for the mid-70s through the weekend, this would be a good time to tune in if you’re interested in such affairs. Read full article >>

  • Robyn to perform DJ set at U Street Music Hall on July 7

    David Malitz
    15 May 2012 | 2:15 pm
    Swedish pop superstar Robyn is a dynamo on stage, but how about behind the turntables? You’ll get a chance to find out when she performs an intimate DJ set at U Street Music Hall on Saturday, July 7. She’ll be in D.C. the following two nights opening for Coldplay at Verizon Center, but this intimate DJ gig gives fans an opportunity for a much more up-close-and-personal experience. Robyn will be joined by DJ Rokk, whose London club night Body Talk served as inspiration for Robyn’s sensational 2010 album of the same name. Tickets for the 18-and-over event go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m.

  • Sound Bites at the 9:30 Club celebrates the D.C. food scene’s evolving appetite

    Megan Buerger
    15 May 2012 | 1:17 pm
    When Casey Patten, a Philadelphia native and co-founder of Taylor Gourmet, first moved to Washington 10 years ago, he said he shared what was a “pretty common” perspective on Washington’s food scene: there wasn’t one. “It was Ben’s Chili Bowl or Maryland crab cakes, really,” he said. “That was our food identity.” Read full article >>

  • Preakness, a new pool party at the Capitol Skyline Hotel and Lee “Scratch” Perry: Nightlife Agenda

    Fritz Hahn
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Every Tuesday, the Going Out Gurus highlight the week’s best DJs, bands, dance nights and parties. Here are our picks for upcoming can’t-miss events: Tuesday-Friday: Bars across the country are celebrating American Craft Beer Week with tapping parties and happy hours, including a good number in the Washington area. Smith Commons doesn’t have as many taps or rare brews as some other spots, but it’s hosting a series of parties that should be among the most fun in town. Every night will feature three or four special beers from a different brewer along with an appearance by top area DJs,…

  • Mother Trucker, “The Servant of Two Masters” — best events in D.C. this week

    David Malitz
    14 May 2012 | 4:08 pm
    Every week, the Going Out Guide publishes an e-mail newsletter with our recommended events for the days ahead. If you don’t subscribe, here’s a peek at what you’re missing. If you’d like to sign up, go to washingtonpost.com’s Newsletters page; the Going Out Guide is listed under the “Local & Sports” header. Read full article >>
 
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  • Noodlespine Mom must quit bailing out 40-something son

    Carolyn Hax
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Dear Carolyn: My 46-year-old, divorced son is working full time and lives within walking distance of me in his own apartment. To compare, his 50-year-old, divorced sister who works full-time also lives within walking distance in her own apartment. She is independent and lives responsibly. Read full article >>

  • Carolyn Hax: The preschoolers’ traveling father, redux

    Carolyn Hax
    14 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Adapted from a recent online discussion and continued from yesterday, about the father of preschoolers who travels two weeks per month. Re: Traveling Dad: Two weeks is a long time, but gone doesn’t always have to be gone. Can he Skype a couple of times a week? Pre-record favorite bedtime stories that can be played while he’s away? That would lessen the bedtime burden and make the kids feel more connected to Dad while he’s away. Read full article >>

  • Carolyn Hax: Wife needs to rally when husband’s away for work

    Carolyn Hax
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Adapted from a recent online discussion. Hi, Carolyn: When we first got married, my husband was really supportive of my career. When we had a baby with serious medical problems, he took paternity leave to stay home with her for the two days a week I work. Read full article >>

  • Carolyn Hax: Husband won’t wear wedding ring; bride stressed by parental strife

    Carolyn Hax
    12 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Hi, Carolyn: What is your opinion of married men who refuse to wear a wedding ring? My husband of many years took his off a few years ago, after we started having problems, and has steadfastly refused to put it back on even though I’ve stated plainly and repeatedly that it would mean a lot to me if he would wear it again. Read full article >>

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  • Tom Sietsema: Boqueria in Dupont Circle

    9 May 2012 | 7:21 pm
    Every server I’ve encountered at Boqueria talks in exclamation points when chatting about the food, none more so than the young woman who pampered a posse of grazers on a recent weeknight at the inviting new Spanish tapas restaurant in Dupont Circle. Read full article >>

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  • Rogue 24 in Northwest Washington excites with its avant-garde fare

    2 May 2012 | 12:53 pm
    Sometime between 6:35 and 9:45 on a recent weeknight, in a restaurant hidden off Blagden Alley in Northwest Washington, a smiling cook places no ordinary egg in front of me. “Here we have,” he begins, an Araucana chicken egg poached at 63 degrees Celsiustopped with crumbled barley cocoa, sun-dried tomatoes, hazelnuts and grated bottarga served in dashi made with tuna spine and finished with wildflowers and microgreens. Read full article >>

  • Tom Sietsema: Jewel of India in Silver Spring

    Tom Sietsema
    25 Apr 2012 | 3:32 pm
    My approach to Jewel of India in Silver Spring begins as it does at so many small suburban restaurants in the area, in the parking lot of a modest shopping center with a sign out front plugging its “grand opening” — never mind that the dining room in question has been serving palak chaat and tandoori chicken since July. Read full article >>

  • Tom Sietsema reviews Society Fair

    Tom Sietsema
    11 Apr 2012 | 1:23 pm
    There are almost as many approaches to Society Fair, the nearly $2 million epicurean adventure in Alexandria from chef Cathal Armstrong, as there are nearby restaurants of his that have helped solidify Old Town as a dining destination. Read full article >>
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    Jonathan Yardley: Most Recent Articles and Archives

  • ‘China Hand: An Autobiography’ by John Paton Davies Jr.

    Jonathan Yardley
    11 May 2012 | 5:49 pm
    In November 1954 John Paton Davies Jr., deputy chief of mission at the American Embassy in Lima, Peru, was fired by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. His dismissal had nothing to do with his service in Peru and everything to do with his standing as one of several “China Hands,” Foreign Service veterans “who were China specialists and had dealt with Chinese Communists.” Davies and the others — they included Edmund Clubb, John Emmerson, John S. Service and John Carter Vincent — were victims of a fierce campaign by the so-called China Lobby, a handmaiden of Joe McCarthy and his…

  • ‘A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman’ by Alice Kessler-Harris

    Jonathan Yardley
    4 May 2012 | 4:44 pm
    In this friendly if far from uncritical biography, Alice Kessler-Harris focuses on Lillian Hellman as a woman both of her time and ahead of her time. She was “a woman among men” who “became the economically successful playwright and celebrity she was by blurring gender boundaries.” Born in 1905 in New Orleans, she “reached beyond southern tradition and turned into a misfit, becoming in the eyes of all around her a difficult woman.” Her life tells us “how complicated it must have been for a woman in the deepest part of the twentieth century to stay true to her desires even as she…

  • “Derby Day” by D.J. Taylor

    Jonathan Yardley
    27 Apr 2012 | 4:42 pm
    D.J. Taylor, a British writer of formidable accomplishments — several well-received novels, as well as biographies of William Makepeace Thackeray and George Orwell — but little known in this country, has pulled off an impressive and wholly engaging feat in “Derby Day.” Set in London and environs during a few weeks in the reign of Queen Victoria, it is not merely a work of historical fiction but one written in a language appropriate to its time — i.e., it is a Victorian novel, the prose of which brings to mind Thackeray (of course) and Dickens, yet never smacks of cuteness or…

  • “The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food” by Josh Schonwald

    Jonathan Yardley
    20 Apr 2012 | 5:06 pm
    “This book,” Josh Schonwald writes, “is fundamentally a search for people who think they have the Next Big Thing in food. . . . I’ve devoted months to investigating salad, seafood, and meat, but nary a moment to cheese or dairy products. This unequal treatment is due to a couple of things: a gagging reflex that is provoked by cultured dairy products, and my obsession with finding the salad of the future. So full disclosure: this is a look at the food frontier, a search for the next big things in food, through the eyes of a human with some food preferences and prejudices.” Read…

  • “Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner” by John Maxtone-Graham

    Jonathan Yardley
    13 Apr 2012 | 4:46 pm
    This month, much of the world will observe the centennial of the sinking of the great White Star ocean liner, the Titanic. So much has been written about this dreadful event, most notably Walter Lord’s “A Night to Remember” (1955), that it is difficult to imagine there is much more to be said, yet John Maxtone-Graham says it. He is an octogenarian who has been sailing ocean liners for ages and writing about them for four decades in about two dozen books, the first of which, “The Only Way to Cross” (1972), remains his best known and is still in print, proof that nostalgia for these…
 
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    Obituaries

  • Peter David, Washington bureau chief of the Economist, dies

    Adam Bernstein
    15 May 2012 | 11:32 am
    In his prescient survey of the Arab world in 2009, journalist Peter David catalogued a “fever under the surface” that could spark into revolution at any moment. Erudite, supple and understated, his analysis was the reverse of hysterical pontificating, even as it noted combustible elements: “energy-hungry powers” such as the United States, China and India buzzing about the oil-rich Middle East and the political and social discontent seething under repressive Arab governments. Read full article >>

  • Obits: Stacy Robinson, Gunnar Soensteby; Carl Beane

    12 May 2012 | 6:08 pm
    Stacy Robinson, a wide receiver who was on two Super Bowl-winning teams with the New York Giants before working with the players union, died after a battle with cancer. He was 50. Giants co-owner John Mara announced the death May 8, but the Giants did not release the date, cause or place of death. Read full article >>

  • Robert J. Hoage, spokesman for National Zoo, dies at 66

    Bart Barnes
    12 May 2012 | 4:51 pm
    Robert J. Hoage, 66, the former chief spokesman of the National Zoo, who announced to the public such events as the births of giant pandas, elephants and giraffes and the deaths of lions, orangutans and gorillas, died April 7 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville. Read full article >>

  • Horst Faas, prizewinning war photographer, dies at 79

    T. Rees Shapiro
    11 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Horst Faas, a German-born combat photographer whose calm under fire helped him capture searing portraits of life and death in Vietnam and other war zones in Asia, earning him two Pulitzer Prizes, died May 10 at a hospital in Munich. He was 79. Read full article >>

  • Mort Lindsey dies at 89; bandleader helped revitalize Judy Garland’s career

    T. Rees Shapiro
    9 May 2012 | 5:56 pm
    Mort Lindsey, a conductor and bandleader who helped revitalize the sputtering career of singer Judy Garland through a series of popular concerts and later served as the musical director for “The Merv Griffin Show,” died May 4 at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 89. Read full article >>
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