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THIS YEAR’S Super Bowl saw some historic firsts for women in the National Football League. On the field were a record-breaking three women — two...
THOUGH PRESIDENT BIDEN and many of his top aides served under President Barack Obama, the new administration has adopted some distinctly different...
AFTER THE Supreme Court gutted a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in 2013, states with a history of racial discrimination let loose, passing a...
THE STORMING of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was shocking — but not, for those following the mounting story of misinformation and disinformation...
TO HEAR Republicans tell it, a bill that the House passed late Wednesday night would spell the end of the republic. It is “unconstitutional,...
WHERE IT concerns the safety of the Washington area’s Metrorail system, there have been so many red flashing lights in recent years — mishaps...
BRAZIL IS reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, and its agony ought to be a warning to the world. When the virus is spreading out of control and...
ONE PHRASE was repeated over and over at Wednesday’s Senate hearing on the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol: Three hours and 19 minutes. Three...
AS PRESIDENT BIDEN and the Democratic-majority Senate move toward final passage of a covid relief package, a key question has been how far they would...
ETHIOPIA IS emerging as a major test of the Biden administration’s commitment to a foreign policy grounded in human rights. Since the federal...
THE GOVERNOR of Texas, Greg Abbott, is gambling with the health of his state and beyond. He announced plans on Tuesday to completely open...
The Russian opposition leader’s imprisonment won’t fix the jaundiced view of Putin.
Misunderstanding of government leads to distrust and disengagement.
AFTER 9/11, the nation adjusted. We didn’t like it, but we got used to taking off our shoes and belts at the airport, because everyone’s safety...
IMAGINE THIS scenario. The chief executive officer of a company is alone in the office with a much younger woman who works for him. He asks about her...
THE MILITARY junta that seized power in Myanmar last month demonstrated on Sunday that it is prepared to massacre the country’s citizens in order to...
BOWING TO a ruling from the Senate parliamentarian, the Democratic majority in that chamber has abandoned efforts to mandate a $15 minimum wage as...
REFUGEE ADMISSION to the United States has represented the biggest single legal immigration program for this country for decades, and an...
VANITA GUPTA is among the nation’s most esteemed civil rights lawyers, revered by liberals for her decades of effective, levelheaded advocacy, and...
A POET in Latvia who suffered persecution in the Soviet Union wrote of the experience of being arrested by the secret police. “You feel overcome by...
FOR MORE than 15 years, the former Soviet republic of Georgia has moved steadily, if haltingly, toward democracy and integration with the West,...
WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN asked what critics would have him cut from his covid relief bill, he got plenty of answers about reducing the $510 billion in aid...
If the crown prince's criminal apparatus is not dismantled, there will be more victims like Jamal Khashoggi.
When they get to court, many poverty-stricken litigants are facing life-shattering outcomes alone — without the benefit of counsel.
EIGHT YEARS after a money-in-politics scandal mired a previously popular governor, Virginia lawmakers still cannot manage to enact ethical reforms...
PRESIDENT BIDEN signed an executive order Wednesday directing federal agencies to make an intensive study of potential vulnerabilities in the...
CAMBODIA HAS descended into dictatorship in much the same manner that Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt: gradually, and then suddenly. Now, a...
REPUBLICANS’ WAR on democracy is gaining steam. Unable to persuade a majority of voters to vote for their presidential standard-bearer or Senate...
VACCINE MAKERS reassured Congress on Tuesday they will boost production and provide an additional 140 million doses in the next five weeks, overcoming...
ANY GOVERNMENT that would charge a 22-year-old climate and animal rights activist with sedition on the basis of a Google Doc cannot be readily...
“Who’s in charge? Who was ultimately responsible for the safety of the Capitol?” Those were the questions asked by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.)...
FOR AT least the past 10 years, Angela Hill lived in Southeast Washington under a bridge that carries D.C. Route 295 over Pennsylvania Avenue. She had...
PRESIDENT BIDEN made clear last week that his push to revive U.S. relations with traditional allies in Europe is not simply a matter of restoring a...
NEERA TANDEN, President Biden’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget, is in hot water. Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) announced last week...
AS THE House of Representatives moves toward passage of its version of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid relief package, concerns about the...
THE UNITED STATES possesses classified intelligence information about illnesses in the autumn of 2019, before the global pandemic, at the Wuhan...
The governor who received perhaps the most prominence and praise early in the coronavirus pandemic now rightly is facing serious questions about his...
2020 WAS a banner year for LGBTQ rights, with the Supreme Court declaring last June that federal law prohibits workplace discrimination based on...
AS OF last week, you can’t share a link to this editorial on Facebook in Australia. That’s thanks to legislation expected to pass the country’s...
The Biden administration is engaged in a high-wire act at the U.S.-Mexico border, trying to dismantle what it rightly regards as former president...
THEIR NAMES are not as familiar as that of Brian D. Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda in recognition of his...
TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES aren’t going to regulate themselves, and Congress so far has done next to nothing to regulate them either. Who’s left to fill...
THOSE OMINOUS charts showing ever-higher mountains of coronavirus infections are now plunging downward in the United States. Thankfully, the number of...
GIVEN AMERICA’S lurid history of gun violence, it is confounding that buyers can purchase firearms in some places without background checks. It’s...
“NO MORE blank checks for Trump’s ‘favorite dictator,’ ” tweeted then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in July. He was referring to...
School governance must not be disproportionately influenced by teachers unions.
TEXAS’S WEATHER and power crisis continued to leave millions shivering across the state Wednesday even as the state’s Republican leaders seemingly...
THE UNITED STATES needs more federal funding to cope with the ongoing damage done by the covid-19 pandemic, and Congress and President Biden should...