If Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee wanted moral support after a dispiriting day of being berated by the D.C. Council, here are some people to call: Franklin Smith. Arlene Ackerman. Julius Becton. Each was a serious educator named to lead the D.C. public schools and each had a severe falling-out...

Three columns last month about gang violence in D.C. public schools might leave the impression that I believe youth gangs are a recent development in the nation's capital [" Trouble Waits After Class Is Dismissed ," Oct 3; " Talk Won't Stop a Predatory Gang ," Oct. 10; and " Prayers Over Priorities...

Will the GOP follow his lead, or be drawn to the seductions of Sarah Palin?

The Post asked military experts and others for insights into the shootings at Fort Hood.

My mind was on the debt we owe our veterans even before the tragic shootings at Fort Hood. A couple of weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the National World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her home...

The Post needs to explain why anonymous sources should be believed.

AMID POMP and ceremony, receptions and balls, a church service and a parade, Robert F. McDonnell's inauguration as Virginia's 71st chief executive will take place next Jan. 16 in Richmond, whereupon he will become . . . a lame duck.

FOR TWO YEARS, the Danish capital of Copenhagen has been a beacon for environmentalists seeking a breakthrough international treaty on climate change. But with the long-awaited Copenhagen conference now just weeks away, it has become clear that the talks will not produce a grand, new accord...

AT LAST, THERE'S some cheerful news out of Detroit. General Motors, feeling confident after an improvement in sales during October, announced that it had enough financial strength to hang on to Opel , its European subsidiary, rather than sell it to a Russian-Canadian consortium. Chrysler rolled out...

Barack Obama's extended hand was whacked across the knuckles by the leaders of Iran, Syria and assorted other thuggeries last week. But the Obama administration did manage a good demonstration in Burma of how its brand of engagement can and should work.

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent. Britain's intelligent prime minister, Gordon Brown, gives scary precision to the word "immediate."...

T he Iranians have a word they use to describe a political impasse. They speak of it as a bombast , which means a dead-end street, or a knot that can't be untied.

The so-called "newsroom brawl" between an editor and a writer at The Post recently has been a fine distraction for the health-care weary.