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Sliming Michelle Obama

Sophia A. Nelson

| Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked.

Michelle, Meritocracy and Me

Theola Labbé-DeBose

| Thoughts on the intersection of race, education and meritocracy.

What We're Made Of

Frances Stead Sellers

| What you find in your DNA isn't the whole picture.

Looking Into Your Genes

Rick Weiss

| Can genetic testing save your life?

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A Priest Walks Into Qatar and . . .

Ryan J. Maher

| My experience with a class of mostly Arab Muslim students in Doha, Qatar revealed more than I ever imagined.

Perfect Villains, Flawed Tribunal

Dejan Anastasijevic

| Human justice is imperfect, but no justice is much worse.

A Mighty Wind (and Sun)

James Tisch

| Why wind and the sun will become much bigger contributors to our electricity mix.

Autism: Where's the Support?

Ann Bauer

| We need to carve out a place in society for adults with autism.

Snubbed by Obama

Christoph von Marschall

| So far Obama has almost completely refused to answer questions from foreign journalists.

Home Values Are Down, and Not Just at the Bank

Alexander von Hoffman

| We have strayed from the time when owning a home was an unassailable American value.

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Why the United States doesn't have much of a ground military option for dealing with Iran.

Editorials

Solitary disgrace (Editorial, Nov. 28, 2009)

Honduras's democratic solution (Editorial, Nov. 28, 2009)

Cold out there (Editorial, Nov. 28, 2009)

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Letters to the Editor

Grief made unflattering (Nov. 28, 2009)

In defense of cowboys (Nov. 28, 2009)

Class privilege in an unequal society (Nov. 28, 2009)

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Outlook: Afghanistan as another Vietnam? Let's hope so. (Joshua Kurlantzick, Oct. 26, 2010 11:00 a.m.)

Opinion focus with Eugene Robinson (Eugene Robinson, Dec. 1, 2009 1:00 p.m.)

Outlook: Fighting a smarter war on cancer (John Marshall, Nov. 30, 2009 12:00 p.m.)

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