Latest from Charles Lane
- Post Reports
Inside the newsroom on 9/11
Watching the chaotic end of America’s longest war, we’ve been thinking a lot about the terrorist attack that set it in motion. We interviewed colleagues who covered 9/11 to try to make sense of how that day changed the country and the world.
- Sep 10, 2021
- Opinion
Don’t forget Nicaragua’s political prisoners
Seven potential candidates to challenge dictator Daniel Ortega in a Nov. 7 election have been jailed, and another is under house arrest.
- Aug 31, 2021
- Opinion
The U.S. dare not betray the students at the American University of Afghanistan
The women — and men — of the American University of Afghanistan must be rescued.
- Aug 24, 2021
- Global Opinions
- Opinion
Biden’s presidency — and U.S. foreign policy — now hinge on pulling off one of the greatest airlifts in history
Past evacuations by air suggest that the United States faces unique, and uniquely unfavorable, conditions.
- Aug 17, 2021
- Opinion
Fix this graduate-student loan fiasco
It didn’t take long for universities to figure out that a federal loan system imposes little or no pricing discipline on them — and to shape their graduate programs accordingly.
- Aug 10, 2021
- Opinion
Fifty years later, Nixon’s ‘August surprise’ still reverberates
A president obsessed with political self-interest, contemptuous of conventional academic and foreign policy wisdom and annoyed at allies for taking advantage of the United States announces stunning new economic policies. Sound familiar?
- Aug 3, 2021
- Global Opinions
- Opinion
A Black uprising is shaking Cuba’s Communist regime
Except for insults and force, the government seems out of ideas for countering Black Cubans and the hip-hop artists who voice their feelings.
- Jul 27, 2021
- Opinion
Unvaccinated people should be offered cash to take the vaccine
Before we start coercing the unvaccinated, try a little bribery.
- Jul 20, 2021
- Opinion
Angela Merkel’s political career has been more complicated than American fans may appreciate
Steering a zigzag course through various crises, she has brought Germany to a position consonant with what voters want but more distant from the United States.
- Jul 13, 2021
- Opinion
The Supreme Court inches closer to a press freedom showdown
Now there are two justices in favor of reconsidering the foundational precedent New York Times v. Sullivan.
- Jul 6, 2021