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An unbecoming cameo

With the world in turmoil, Obama has some fun.

Obama’s true scandal

Feinstein is owed much more than an apology.

Our troubled culture

What the Duke adult-film-star student tells us.

Bad money

The ‘next Citizens United’ may fuel an uprising.

Does Ukraine lean right?

Some could be scared into embracing Putin.

A self-inflicted filibuster

Democrats’ strange fight for climate change.

Rand Paul’s retreat

Reagan’s foreign policy is back in vogue.

Putin learns from history

But we have not, the Ukraine crisis shows.

Obama’s spring break

He’s sending the wrong message to Putin.

The right’s new clothes

The GOP’s ‘ideas’ sound like mere packaging.

Defunding defense

Obama gambles with Pentagon cuts.

What we learn at CPAC

Anarchy reigns in the GOP.

A check on Russian aggression

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  • A check on Russian aggression

    A check on Russian aggression

    Putin has misjudged foreign nations.

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  • Subverting D.C. democracy

    Subverting D.C. democracy

    What Jeffrey Thompson’s guilty plea tells us.

    Editorial Board

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  • Stay the course

    Stay the course

    Obama — continue tough steps again Russia.

    Editorial Board

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  • Hollywood’s treatment of women

    Hollywood’s treatment of women

    Things need to change.

    Alyssa Rosenberg

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The Plum Line

Happy Hour Roundup

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Right Turn

GOP wins in Florida

Jennifer Rubin

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The Watch

New bill aims to rein in police militarization

Radley Balko

Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple

Obamacare enrollment numbers: How to spin?

Erik Wemple

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“Marry Smart“: Susan Patton gives...

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Tom Toles

Tom Toles

Eight Glasses of Rain
Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman

All Opinions Are Local

McAuliffe’s defining moment

Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman

Joel Achenbach

Achenblog

Anyone ready for Porch Season?

Joel Achenbach

PostPartisan

The GOP’s Florida victory matters

E.J. Dionne Jr.

This was a rare toss-up seat that Democrats should have been able to win.

Dangerous (grading) curves ahead

Catherine Rampell

Obama and Galifianakis kill it ‘Between Two Ferns’

Jonathan Capehart

College men really hate studying, love partying

Catherine Rampell

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Editorials

Subverting D.C. democracy

Don’t count those chickens yet

Stay the course

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Tom Toles Cartoon

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Ann Telnaes Animation

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Outlook & Opinions

A year after ‘Lean In’

A year after ‘Lean In’

Lisa Bonos

Sheryl Sandberg’s truest believers.

Good riddance; we’ll miss you

Good riddance; we’ll miss you

Eric Hoover

A Virginia fan bids his Maryland rivals farewell.

Talking with Chile’s new leader

Talking with Chile’s new leader

Lally Weymouth

Michelle Bachelet on the challenges of education and inequality.

A tale of two cities hits home

A tale of two cities hits home

Nathaniel P. Morris

A plea from a homeless man in New York is greeted with silence.

5 myths about the SAT

5 myths about the SAT

Anthony P. Carnevale

It doesn’t predict much of anything.

Putin’s divide-and-conquer strategy

Putin’s divide-and-conquer strategy

Andrey Kurkov

A Ukrainian novelist says vodka shots may not settle things this time.

Our role to play

Our role to play

David Catania

The District’s elected leaders have a role to play in education.

Delay upon delay

Delay upon delay

Editorial Board

It’s time to fully implement the Affordable Care Act.

PostOpinions Writers

Letters to the Editor

More Letters

Challenging everything you think you know.

Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘Pure Grit,’ by Mary Cronk Farrell

For all the baseball dreamers who never made it . . .

The revolutionary transformation of Stokely Carmichael

A history of the allied air war of WWII

An American dream, deferred

Pushing women’s rights far ahead of its time

Muslim American women on college campuses

‘The Greatest Movies You’ll Never See’

Book World: ‘Carl Van Vechten,’ by Edward White

Finalists for the NBCC prize for criticism

‘The Adventures of Henry Thoreau,’ by Michael Sims

The movie that predicted profit-driven infotainment

The life and reflections of A. Lincoln

The deceived tracking and exposing his deceiver

Journey of a New York City Ballet performer

How the sexual revolution changed American art