Featured Columns

Football’s hard knocks

Weighing the dangers against its rewards.

Progressive battle

A New York race could be the 2014 highlight.

No more lame duck

The two-term limit should be repealed.

A failure to deter

GPS monitoring couldn’t stop a crime spree.

West Bank bitterness

A real end to the conflict may be impossible.

No to ‘war on women’

The GOP should not focus on female sexuality.

The 1% as victims

How does that make any sense?

The Iran obstacle

Domestic audiences are standing in the way.

Obama’s thin agenda

The State of the Union lacked a theme.

New GOP strategy

The party is ignoring the right-wing base.

The four-word trap

A short phrase in the law could undo Obamacare.

In the interim

Kerry makes attempts in the Middle East.

I still believe in Congress

(Melina Mara / The Washington Post)

  • I still believe in Congress

    I still believe in Congress

    Waxman says it can be a force for good.

    Rep. Henry A. Waxman

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  • 5 myths: Winter Olympics

    5 myths: Winter Olympics

    When was the Miracle on Ice?

    Edward Goldstein

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  • Super Bowl of sex trafficking

    Super Bowl of sex trafficking

    How we can make a real difference.

    Amy Klobuchar and Cindy McCain

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  • Are sports our new religion?

    Are sports our new religion?

    Church attendance is down, but fandom isn’t.

    Chris Beneke and Arthur Remillard

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Outlook & Opinions

A black man who loves skating

A black man who loves skating

Robert Samuels

Figure skating, that is.

Elephants and terrorists

Elephants and terrorists

Johan Bergenas and Monica Medina

Protecting one can help stop the other.

Will Russia’s Olympics be Putin’s triumph?

Will Russia’s Olympics be Putin’s triumph?

Leon Aron

At Sochi, the Russian president is hoping to defy the risks to the Games.

Executive order Ping-Pong

Executive order Ping-Pong

Phillip J. Cooper

In force today, gone tomorrow.

Rep. Grimm’s worst week

Rep. Grimm’s worst week

Chris Cillizza

Not a good idea to threaten a reporter — while the camera is still rolling.

America’s gay hypocrisy

America’s gay hypocrisy

Ian Ayres and William Eskridge

While critical of Russia’s anti-gay laws, the U.S. is ignoring its own.

Zimmerman: Defining al-Qaeda

Zimmerman: Defining al-Qaeda

Katherine Zimmerman

As groups carry on the name, new dangers emerge.

Russia adrift

Russia adrift

David Greene

The once-proud nation is searching for meaning in a post-Soviet world.

Ready for Sochi?

Ready for Sochi?

Illustrator Steve Brodner previews the Winter Games.

Why Sochi is safe

Why Sochi is safe

Aki Peritz and Mieke Eoyang

The greatest terrorism threats are beyond the “ring of steel.”

Opinions Blogs

Greg Sargent

The Plum Line

Sunday Open Thread

Greg Sargent

Jennifer Rubin

Right Turn

Distinguished pol

Jennifer Rubin

Radley Balko

Radley Balko

Utah’s Police Reform Movement Confronts...
Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple

Omidyar news venture: Where’s the leadership?...

Erik Wemple

Alexandra Petri

ComPost

FAA bats drone beer delivery out of the sky

Alexandra Petri

Tom Toles

Tom Toles

Sunday’s outtake
Edward Goldstein

Edward Goldstein

5 myths: Winter Olympics
Joel Achenbach

Achenblog

What would you ask an alien scientist?

Joel Achenbach

PostPartisan

Pelosi fizzles on ‘The Daily Show’

Ed Rogers

Jon Stewart pulled the rug out from under House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on “The Daily Show.“

All eyes are on Janet Yellen

Ed Rogers

George Zimmerman’s death wish

Jonathan Capehart

Florida GOP hangs Joshua Black out to dry

Jonathan Capehart

More PostPartisan

Editorials

Movement on immigration

A poisonous slow walk

Montgomery’s perverse politics

More Editorials

Tom Toles Cartoon

More Toles Cartoons and Blog Posts

Ann Telnaes Animation

More Telnaes Animations

PostOpinions Writers

Local Blog Network

Suddenly, the shoe is on the other foot in Richmond

Peter Galuszka

Democrats and Republicans have suddenly switched places.

Mark Herring’s gay-marriage calculation

Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman

Is M St. Dining in Trouble?

Topher Mathews

More green infrastructure, smaller sewer overflow tunnel

Topher Mathews

More LBN

Letters to the Editor

More Letters

Challenging everything you think you know.

Book Reviews

Looking for someone more stressed than you? Right here

A complicated, combative warrior for the state of Israel

When the age of liberty was also the age of slavery

The AIDS epidemic, as told by a survivor

The partnership between Eisenhower and Nixon

The Africans involved in the slave trade

Book World: ‘Moments That Made the Movies’

Biography: ‘Call Me Burroughs,’ by Barry Miles

Ping pong in the service of world peace

The marriage of Pat and Richard Nixon

Unexpected ways creatures populate corners of the earth

The tortured story of the worst musical ever

Finding one’s way through the landscape and through life

‘The Parthenon Enigma,’ by Joan Breton Connelly

Who is David Stuart MacLean?

How the FBI’s surveillance empire collapsed