GAIL COLLINS
Department of Good News
Between the royal wedding and the release of the president’s birth certificate, what more could you possibly want to be happy? 
Comment
To address the damage from the Bush administration’s interrogation and detention policies, the Obama administration should recognize the public servants who rejected torture.
Matt Dorfman
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Great Leap Backward
While a dramatic economic rise takes place in China, the country is also host to an equally dramatic yet much less impressive rise in human rights violations. Comment
Editorial
A Certificate of Embarrassment
President Obama is finally forced to react to a preposterous political claim about his birth. Comment
Room For Debate
Did Bernanke Come Clean?
Did the Fed chairman offer real answers about jobs and inflation in his first press conference?
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Pain at the Pump? We Need More
By DANIEL C. ESTY and MICHAEL E. PORTER
An emission charge would help tackle the trade imbalance, the deficit and climate change, while enhancing national security and competitiveness.
Opinionator | Townies
Just Don’t Connect
By MELISSA FEBOS
Over time, I stopped worrying about missed connections, and then I stopped missing them.
Editorial
The Limits of Fed Policy
Ben Bernanke can help, but Congress and the White House must do more to fix the economy.
Editorial
Recidivism’s High Cost and a Way to Cut It
States must rethink parole and probation policies that drive hundreds of thousands of people back to prison every year, not for new crimes, but for technical violations.
Editorial
The Duty of Counsel
We strongly oppose the Defense of Marriage Act, but the decision of a law firm to stop representing members of Congress who wish to defend the law is deplorable.
Opinionator
Why Is Enough Never Enough?
By WILLIAM D. COHAN
The Raj Rajaratnam trial and other recent cases raise questions about money, motivation and risk.
Opinionator | Disunion
Ms. Dix Comes to Washington
By JUDITH GIESBERG
Dorothea Dix made a place for women nurses in the Union army — and then quickly fell from grace.
VIDEO
Bloggingheads: Obama Saved the Economy?
Mark Schmitt of the Roosevelt Institute and James Pinkerton of Fox News debate whether Obama saved capitalism.
Opinionator | The Conversation
Royal Wedding? What Royal Wedding?
By DAVID BROOKS and GAIL COLLINS
Are people really all that excited about Prince William and Kate Middleton's pending nuptials?
Op-Art | A Month of...
Wednesday Patterns
Interactive Feature
The fourth chapter in this illustrated series by Leanne Shapton catalogs designs and textiles observed in passing.
Opinionator
Who Protects the Animals?
By MARK BITTMAN
With a lack of federal and state laws providing protection, we need independent investigators as watchdogs.
