By George F. Will -
12:00 am
Last November, 13,402,566 California voters expressed themselves for or against Proposition 8, which said that their state's constitution should be amended to define marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. The voters, confident that they had a right to decide this question by referendum, endorsed Proposition 8 by a margin of 52.3 percent to 47.7 percent.
By David S. Broder -
Friday, January 9 2009 - 12:00 am
On the opening day of Congress, the elevator deposited me on the fifth floor of the Longworth House Office Building, where, as I expected, the parties celebrating the hard-fought November election victories had spilled out of the offices and filled the corridor with revelry worthy of New Year's Eve.
By Harold Meyerson -
Thursday, January 8 2009 - 12:00 am
As the nation navigates through the most perilous straits it has seen since the 1930s, policy-makers are looking back to the '30s to see which of the paths that Depression-era America embarked upon actually led toward recovery. Well, some of our policy-makers. Others, it seems, have seized upon the very policies that deepened the Depression and are repackaging them as solutions for our time.
By Neil Howe and Richard Jackson -
Wednesday, January 7 2009 - 12:00 am
The world is in crisis. But if you think that things couldn't get any worse, wait till the 2020s. The economic and geopolitical climate could become even more threatening by then and this time the reason will be demographics.
By James R. Lee -
Tuesday, January 6 2009 - 12:00 am
The Cold War shaped world politics for half a century. But global warming may shape the patterns of global conflict for much longer than that and help spark clashes that will be, in every sense of the word, hot wars.
By John Pike -
Tuesday, January 6 2009 - 12:00 am
Armed robotic aircraft soar in the skies above Pakistan, hurling death down on America's enemies in the war on terrorism. Soon years, not decades, from now American armed robots will patrol on the ground as well, fundamentally transforming the face of battle.
By Trudy Rubin -
Friday, January 2 2009 - 12:00 am
Christmas week is an appropriate time to write about a district in Iraq called Ameriyah.
By Ruben Navarrette Jr. -
Friday, January 2 2009 - 12:00 am
Here's a debate that strikes a familiar chord. When do song lyrics that are meant to be entertaining hit a sour note and become offensive?
By Eli Pariser -
Friday, January 2 2009 - 12:00 am
So, how's the Obama administration doing so far? It's a trick question: We're still three weeks away. But already, folks on the left and the right are furiously reading tea leaves, worrying about whether he's as progressive as promised or trying to turn lemons into lemonade.
By Eric Weiner -
Friday, January 2 2009 - 12:00 am
If the FDA regulated the media, it would require all stories about the economy to carry this warning: "Dizziness and pangs of existential angst may result. Do not read if you suffer from gloominess or are prone to bouts of anxiety. If you are near retirement age or work in the auto industry, consult with a physician before reading."
By Trudy Rubin -
Friday, January 2 2009 - 12:00 am
BAGHDAD Christmas week is an appropriate time to write about a district here called Ameriyah.
By Eli Pariser -
Friday, January 2 2009 - 12:00 am
So, how's the Obama administration doing so far? It's a trick question: We're still three weeks away. But already, folks on the left and the right are furiously reading tea leaves, worrying about whether he's as progressive as promised or trying to turn lemons into lemonade ("Hillary Clinton at State: a victory for conservative foreign policy values"). Through all this, there's been surprisingly little focus on what may be the most important question Obama faces.