By Barack Obama, Page A17
It's time to confront the weaknesses that have plagued our economy for decades.
By Andrew Alexander, Page A09
The Washington Post's ill-fated plan to sell sponsorships of off-the-record "salons" was an ethical lapse of monumental proportions.
By Kathleen Parker, Page A17
The sad tale of Michael Jackson will be retold a few thousand times more as autopsy reports and estate details emerge.
By David Ignatius, Page A17
MOSCOW -- The un-modern face of Russia's economic "modernization" was evident in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's response to the nation's credit crunch. Last month he ordered state-controlled banks to lend $13 billion -- and said that the banks' CEOs couldn't take their summer vacations until they...
By David S. Broder, Page A17
President Obama's welcome home from his latest successful overseas trip is clouded by the growing doubts about his most important domestic initiative, the overhaul of the dysfunctional U.S. health-care system.
By Jim Hoagland, Page A17
Surprised to see the news the other day that the Obama administration is sending an ambassador back to Syria? So were officials in Hillary Clinton's State Department. They were still hoping to win more movement from Damascus on Middle East issues when President Obama's decision was leaked.
By Edward Schumacher-Matos, Page A11
Obama and Clinton have helped spur a genuine movement toward a peaceful resolution.
By George F. Will, Page A15
Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of the second stimulus is stirring talk about the need for a . . . second stimulus. Elsewhere, it requires centuries to bleach mankind's memory; in...
That would be a bad way to deal with binge drinking on campuses.
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SOME THINGS only seem like a good idea at 3 a.m. Increasingly, the Amethyst Letter, which more than 100 college presidents and chancellors signed last year to advocate rethinking the drinking age, looks like one of them. A study just published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and...
There's a reason news of unrest in China's Xinjiang province reads a lot like last year's trouble in Tibet.
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IF THE reports of deadly riots and repression in a far-off region of China sounded familiar last week, it's because you have heard them -- or something much like them -- before. The uprising by ethnic Uighurs in the city of Urumqi in Xinjiang province was the third such popular protest by Uighurs in...
Maryland Gov. O'Malley should endorse light rail without delay.
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THE JOKE in suburban Maryland is that everyone has an opinion about the Purple Line. In the next few weeks, at least, only one person's matters. Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) is expected to decide on the specifics of the long-planned transit project, including its route and whether it should be bus rapid...
