Featured Columns

Is the GOP giving up tea?

Republicans make a slow retreat on immigration.

Putin’s lost game

The Olympics aren’t helping Russia’s image.

Inequality misunderstood

The poor aren’t poor because the rich are rich.

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The two-term limit should be repealed.

West Bank bitterness

A real end to the conflict may be impossible.

A failure to deter

GPS monitoring couldn’t stop a crime spree.

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.

An illegitimate ‘veto’

(Steve Helber / AP)

  • An illegitimate ‘veto’

    An illegitimate ‘veto’

    AGs can’t pick which laws to defend.

    John W. Suthers

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  • Make voting easier

    Make voting easier

    Sensible fixes could boost turnout.

    Editorial Board

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  • Textbook politics

    Textbook politics

    Legislators should not be writing history.

    Editorial Board

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  • Clinton joins Paul on Iran

    Clinton joins Paul on Iran

    Her anti-sanctions stance could backfire.

    Jennifer Rubin

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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

Morning Plum: GOP may kill immigration reform...

Greg Sargent

Jennifer Rubin

Right Turn

Rand Paul leaves them cold.

Jennifer Rubin

Radley Balko

Radley Balko

Morning Links
Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple

Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly aces Obama...

Erik Wemple

Alexandra Petri

ComPost

FAA bats drone beer delivery out of the sky

Alexandra Petri

Tom Toles

Tom Toles

Summer in Winter Festival
Edward Goldstein

Edward Goldstein

5 myths: Winter Olympics
Joel Achenbach

Achenblog

What would you ask an alien scientist?

Joel Achenbach

PostPartisan

Obama fumbles one answer to O’Reilly

Jonathan Capehart

The president doesn’t know football.

Pelosi fizzles on ‘The Daily Show’

Ed Rogers

All eyes are on Janet Yellen

Ed Rogers

George Zimmerman’s death wish

Jonathan Capehart

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Editorials

Textbook politics

Make voting easier

Hold strong

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