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Opinion columnists

  • Froma Harrop:  Tea Party rage: Nothing fails like excess  May. 21

  • Eugene Robinson:  Reporting news is not espionage  May. 21

  • Larry Simoneaux:  Looking for leadership in all the wrong places  May. 20


  • Carol MacPherson:  Hollywood dreaming on Hewitt  May. 19


  • David Sirota:  Texas blast exposes the new normal  May. 19


  • Dana Milbank:  GOP overplays its hand  May. 19


  • Marci Larsen:  Help students develop financial literacy   May. 18

  • Charles Krauthammer:  White House could always try the truth  May. 17


  • Debra J. Saunders:  Too much information  May. 16

  • Dana Milbank:  Eric Holder's abdication  May. 16

  • Froma Harrop:  Consumers not the best drivers in health care  May. 16

  • Jamie R. Stockton:  Alternative high school sets the standard  May. 16

  • David Ignatius:  Moments in government's chain of error   May. 16

  • Richard S. Davis:  State business rankings aren't bunk  May. 15

  • Dana Milbank:  Asleep at the wheel  May. 15

  • Kathleen Parker:  Not such strange bedfellows  May. 15

  • Debra Saunders:  The Benghazi cover-up matters  May. 14

  • Dana Milbank:  Obama's second-term blues  May. 14

  • Froma Harrop:  Baucus has plenty time for mischief  May. 14

  • Larry Simoneaux:  You can take the man out of the sea ...  May. 13




  • Kathleen Parker:  Benghazi, the redacted State Dept. version  May. 12

  • David Sirota:  All-volunteer military must be rethought  May. 12

  • Eugene Robinson:  Looks like a witch hunt  May. 12

  • Anne-Marie Slaughter Special To Washington Post:  'Working mother': a term that has outlived its usefulness  May. 12

  • Lisa Hager:  Help for immigrant health-care workers  May. 11

  • Mike Sells and Hans Dunshee:  Closing loopholes is not increasing taxes  May. 11

  • Charles Krauthammer:  A red line that's quickly fading to pink  May. 10



  • David Ignatius:  For Syria talks, a beginning  May. 9

  • Froma Harrop:  Lessons to be learned from three girls lost  May. 9

  • John Burbank:  It's critical to pay for early learning  May. 8

  • Kathleen Parker:  Humans can be authentic, if unpopular  May. 8

  • Dana Milbank:  No poor and huddled need apply  May. 8

  • Froma Harrop:  Buying from Bangladesh will be of help  May. 7

  • Eugene Robinson:  Syrian intervention: Some questions  May. 7

  • Larry Simoneaux:  The sooner Scherf gone, the better  May. 6

  • Chris Strow:  Coal fight may cost us jobs, investment  May. 5

  • Tom Murdoch:  No challenge was too big  May. 5



  • Kathleen Parker:  Plan B is for women, not young girls  May. 5

  • David Ignatius:  The limits to surveillance  May. 5

  • David Sirota:  Animal products and climate change  May. 5

  • Eugene Robinson:  Obama goes wobbly  May. 5

  • Dana Milbank:  Red-card this term  May. 5

  • Dan Kristiansen and Elizabeth Scott:  Job-killing tax increases are not needed   May. 4

  • Robert W. Champion:  Seize potential of beautiful waterfront  May. 4

  • Charles Krauthammer:  Obama falls so far, in record time  May. 3

  • Susan Johnson and Calvin W. Goings:  Affordable insurance for small businesses   May. 3

  • Debra J. Saunders:  Make sure it's not a Bay Bridge of cards  May. 2

  • Dana Milbank:  Mark Sanford's comedy of errors  May. 2

  • Froma Harrop:  How to get fit without really trying  May. 2

  • David Ignatius:  Frustrated by Obama's caution  May. 2

  • Dana Milbank:  A presidential bystander  May. 2

  • Richard S. Davis:  In overtime, budget should be only goal  May. 1

  • Billye Brooks-Sebastiani:  Voters have the right to select new executive  May. 1

  • Eugene Robinson:  Scary and sad but Syria still not our fight  Apr. 30

  • Debra J. Saunders:  Can Washington replicate FAA fix?  Apr. 30

  • Froma Harrop:  Feds still cling to their reefer madness  Apr. 30

  • Larry Simoneaux:  Waiting for the other 12 shoes to drop  Apr. 29

  • Debra J. Saunders:  Will Boston probe falter like Benghazi?  Apr. 29

  • Adam Cornell:  When the Boston Marathon comes home  Apr. 29

  • Jean Hernandez:  What we must do to increase success in higher ed  Apr. 28

  • Dave Somers:  Puget Sound can't heal itself  Apr. 28

  • Carol MacPherson:  The ups, downs of airport dating  Apr. 28

  • Kathleen Parker:  Bush is a kind man with a good heart   Apr. 28

  • Sid Schwab:  The U.S. did torture, and it did not work  Apr. 28

  • David Sirota:  A Cronkite moment for the blowback era  Apr. 28

  • Eugene Robinson:  Stains on a legacy  Apr. 28

  • Dana Milbank:  Washington at its best -- and worst  Apr. 28

  • David Ignatius:  For Israel, tranquil days  Apr. 28


  • Dell Deierling:  Help for kids who only get fed at school  Apr. 27

  • Michelle Valentine:  Reardon shouldn't deny voting rights  Apr. 27

  • Charles Krauthammer:  Bush's legacy of anti-terror infrastructure  Apr. 26

  • Froma Harrop:  'Work beasts' sorely tired of scammers  Apr. 25

  • Debra J. Saunders:  Extortion in the skies  Apr. 25

  • Dana Milbank:  Fight Club on the Hill  Apr. 25

  • David Ignatius:  In the footsteps of Keynes  Apr. 25

  • John Burbank:  Boeing going, so woo new plane makers  Apr. 24


  • Kathleen Parker:  The terror of not knowing  Apr. 24


  • Froma Harrop:  When fragile egos turn to terrorism  Apr. 23

  • Dana Milbank:  A lack of appetite for this conservative  Apr. 23

  • Brendan Williams:  The false promise of 'education reform'  Apr. 23

  • Eugene Robinson:  Resolute, but with an asterisk  Apr. 23

  • Larry Simoneaux:  Reassured by the good folks among us once again  Apr. 22

  • Thomas J. Wynne:  Cuts will hurt legal program for children  Apr. 22


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