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A lifetime of difference

It's graduation week at George Washington University, where Steve has taught for the last 23 years. After the final exam ..


The booming Benghazi biz

Search the word "Benghazi," and up pops a paid link to a website that advertises: "Benghazi -- T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Mugs ..


Make the bully sweat

Secretary of State John Kerry recently urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to dial down the confrontation in Ukraine. "If Russia ..


The fiddler is still on the roof

The New York Times ran this dispatch from the Ukrainian city of Donetsk: "Worshippers at the Bet Menakhem-Mendl synagogue ... ..


The guys don’t get it

The guys still don't get it. The latest example of men behaving badly is Michael Hayden, the former CIA director. He ..


Senior officers protective association

"The Army has disgraced us all with the Sinclair sentence." That's what our friend, a retired general, wrote about the case ..


The election is not quite over

By Steve and Cokie Roberts, NEA Columnists Democrats are reeling. They're playing defense, not offense. Their loss in a Florida election ..


One card, two dads, two kids

It's just one of countless holiday cards, stacked in a basket on our hall table. Our friends Kevin and Grant ..


The rise of Liberal self-delusion

The civil war ripping through the Republican Party is familiar by now. But a similar battle inside the Democratic Party ..


How we got here

This is not the most acrimonious period in American political history. In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr killed his longtime ..


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