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Senator McConnell doesn't have a constitutional leg on which to stand when he argues against the right of citizens to know the identity of secret donors funding campaign expenditures to influence their votes.
Growing up in the District of Columbia can be like growing up in a war zone. Every day, battles rage between adults within homes and on city streets, and far too often children bear witness to this violence.
On Tuesday, the federal government released information about which career training programs and for-profit colleges are passing -- and which are flunking -- its new "gainful employment" rule.
Did you know that Nixon knew four months after Watergate that Associate FBI Director Mark Felt was leaking information to a Washington Post reporter? Or, that Felt was named as Deep Throat in the press two months before Nixon resigned?
Not once in the past twelve months has President Obama logged a seven-day stretch where his positive press coverage outweighed the negative.
Edwards needs to get Prichard's biography. It's a good starting point on redemption and channeling great talents in a productive manner.
By no means is the three-year option for everyone. But if we can offer families the same quality undergraduate degree at a significantly reduced total price -- and I think we can -- why not do it?
Last week, the Washington Post produced a front-page story with the news of Mitt Romney leading fellow preppies in cutting the bleach-blond hair of a student at their school. Okay. Let's say it's relevant. Here are some of the stories the Post did not think relevant.
Our Ability is neutral politically. I try to be neutral politically. Disability does NOT discriminate. However, it sounds like one of our political leaders in the United States does, or did.
Why does the State Department consistently make poor decisions? Everyone makes mistakes, but what we have here is a long, long litany of obvious bad decisions, so obviously bad one cannot help but wonder how smart people made them.
The Patagonian Hare is full of Lanzmann's cloying self-regard, but we accept it for the single reason that he created Shoah, his 1985 documentary about the Nazi war against the Jews, one of the masterworks of cinema.
Are you surprised to learn that these subprime schools joined the now-discredited ALEC, the secretive group that connects corporate special interests with campaign contribution-hungry state legislators?
I was the editor in charge of the Watergate investigation for the Post; that was my assignment from the day of the break-in and for the following 15 months. I never knew Deep Throat's identity until it was released in 2005. But there are some things I know first-hand.
Watergate was a towering moment of heroism, an episode of legendary stature in which journalism's foundational purposes were triumphantly validated and a drift toward despotism was stopped, all thanks to a single-minded dedication to the craft of determined reporting.
Recent news stories have announced as part of your ability to gain employment with some companies, perspective employers are demanding your Facebook password -- and now everyone thinks it's a big deal.
Let us remember that when we do not act to end a system that results in injustice, we are culpable ourselves.
