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A painful purge in Va.

Eric Cantor fell to forces unleashed by the GOP.

A key lesson for Clinton

“Dead broke” comment reveals flawed logic.

Armed and dead

We need more scrutiny of gun owners.

A prisoner of groupthink

Obama is trapped in a self-constructed bubble.

The return of al-Qaeda

Was Obama too optimistic on extremism?

The frozen Cuba policy

The U.S. approach to the island nation is folly.

Obama’s Bergdahl mess

The White House’s disconnect on the military.

Clinton’s tightrope walk

How to pull off a pre-campaign campaign.

Striking out on their own

More elite MBA grads are unafraid of failure.

An act of surrender?

The Bergdahl swap raises a troublesome prospect.

Smoke screen

Much hype surrounds the president’s climate plan.

The left’s new victims

Excessive progressivism hurts colleges.

The Cantor ripple effect

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  • The Cantor ripple effect

    The Cantor ripple effect

    How will his defeat affect other Republicans?

    George F. Will

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  • The truth about sexual assault

    The truth about sexual assault

    What George Will fails to understand.

    Jackie Speier

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  • The jobs mystery

    The jobs mystery

    There’s no consensus on what’s happening.

    Robert J. Samuelson

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  • The return of al-Qaeda

    The return of al-Qaeda

    Was Obama too optimistic on extremism?

    David Ignatius

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Paul Waldman

The Plum Line

Happy Hour Roundup

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Jennifer Rubin

Right Turn

When is a tea party win a real victory?

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Gun violence and mass shootings -- myths, facts...

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Catherine Rampell

Rampage

Fear the politician with a funny name.

Catherine Rampell

Alyssa Rosenberg

Act Four

Wedding season reading

Alyssa Rosenberg

Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple

You mean Cantor lost? Change that headline!

Erik Wemple

Alexandra Petri

ComPost

Three simple steps to stop what happened to Cantor...

Alexandra Petri

Tom Toles

Tom Toles

Wednesday’s outtake

Tom Toles

Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman

All Opinions Are Local

Does Cantor’s defeat kill Virginia&rsquo...;

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Joel Achenbach

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Editorials

Misrule of law in Russia

A lesson on acceptance

End the Medicaid obstruction

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PostPartisan

Why Eric Cantor lost

Carter Eskew

He lost touch with his constituents back home.

Eric Cantor’s defeat is a disaster for the country

Stephen Stromberg

The McDaniel-Miller vise grip on the GOP

Jonathan Capehart

The Clinton legacy

Ann Telnaes

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Letters to the Editor

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Outlook & Opinions

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’

David Ignatius

She’s a cautious analyzer, not a deal-closer.

Parents, stop blaming Common Core

Parents, stop blaming Common Core

Austen Kassinger

Encourage students to confront challenges.

Role of the rich in American politics

Role of the rich in American politics

Bethany McLean

Kenneth Vogel’s “Big Money” explores how the ultra-wealthy can manipulate the political system.

The U.S. needs Afghanistan

The U.S. needs Afghanistan

Michael O’Hanlon

Its about partnership, not war.

May the best phone monkey win

May the best phone monkey win

David Boling

In politics, its all about fundraising power.

Quitting Spain’s game of thrones

Quitting Spain’s game of thrones

Jim Hoagland

King Juan Carlos did not take his own advice.

World Cup goals that changed history

World Cup goals that changed history

Ishaan Tharoor

Tthe world’s single greatest sporting event starts next week. These goals should get you in the mood.

Perils of protecting the president

Perils of protecting the president

Steven Levingston

A former Secret Service agent recounts tense moments during Clinton’s visit to the DMZ in 1993.

Challenging everything you think you know.

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Book Reviews

Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style

A scholar of the language sticks it to the sticklers

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’

Two perspectives on the beautiful game

Shy NASA pioneer who opened space and science to women

Pampered lives of the privileged in North Korea

A tale of two school systems

The evil genius of Baltimore goes for a ride

‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman

A biography of James Gandolfini by Dan Bischoff

Role of the rich in American politics

How solid is that individual right to possess guns?

That cramped little space where office work gets done

A gifted writer and sexual glutton

Disentangling the Confederate general from the myth

Was slavery headed for self-destruction?