The recent Metro tragedy demonstrates that the front and rear cars of trains serve as energy-absorbing protection for passengers in the middle cars. Shouldn't Metro install energy-absorbing bumpers at the front and rear of trains, so passengers in the front and rear cars are protected as well?
By Ruben Navarrette Jr., Page A15
How the calendar and the issue of guest workers could kill legislation.
By CHARLES LANE, Page A17
Order a car straight from the factory? Not if Congress has its way.
By Andrew Alexander, Page A17
Small mistakes take a huge toll on credibility.
Congress's cowardly move to tie the president's hands on detainee transfers
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FOR YEARS, Democrats clamored for the closing of the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using the prison to pummel President George W. Bush for abusing his authority, violating domestic and international law, and tarnishing the reputation of the United States. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)...
No time to ignite a trade war
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PRESIDENT OBAMA has been about as enthusiastic as one can be supporting the leviathan Waxman-Markey energy bill, which the House just passed, despite the bill's web of mandates, subsidies and regulations. But following the squeaker of a House vote, there was one provision that even Mr. Obama...
What will the next governor do to get more of them established?
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IT MAY BE true, as some pundits have suggested, that Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert F. McDonnell's full-throated support of charter schools is an attempt to usurp Democrats' traditional claim on education as an issue. Whatever the reason, Mr. McDonnell is unquestionably on the...
By David Ignatius, Page A19
MOSCOW -- The Obama administration has talked about a "reset" in Russian-American relations. But a Russian analyst shrugs when he's asked about the term. "What happens when you press the reset button on a computer?" he muses. "It goes dark, and then after a while the same screen comes back again."
By Katharine Weymouth, Page A19
I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track.
By David S. Broder, Page A19
Now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ended the long count on the 2008 Senate race by awarding the seat to Al Franken, Democrats -- at least on paper -- have the power to pass whatever bills they want, without a single Republican vote.
By Ruth Marcus, Page A19
Note to soon-to-be-former Gov. Sarah Palin: Big girls don't quit.
By George F. Will, Page A19
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- California's campaigns introduce candidates not only to the state's voters but also to its immensity. In Bakersfield, Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO of eBay who is campaigning for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination, learned about carrots.
By Jim Hoagland, Page A19
VENICE -- Europe will be wrangled for the next six months by a lanky, no-nonsense Swede named Carl Bildt. His country chairs this semester's cascade of European Union summits, procedural debates and other gabfests. As Sweden's foreign minister, it is Bildt's job to make sense of it all -- a task...