Commentary

Published
March 14, 2013

Dana Milbank: Paul Ryan peddles old ideas, borrows new ones in magical budget

WASHINGTON – Paul Ryan’s budget is an amazing and wondrous document. Not only does it balance the budget in 10 years while reducing tax rates, it also does so without any pain or suffering — or even breaking a sweat. It achieves not just the longtime goals of policymakers — “a safety net strengthened retirement […]
Published
March 7, 2013

Ruth Marcus: Powerful feminist exec shows you can be successful and female

Sheryl Sandberg has burst into tears in the office, more than once. She has failed at such crucial Mommy Tasks as remembering to dress her son in a green shirt for St. Patrick’s Day — inwardly seething at the officious super-mommy who chided her sartorial shortcomings and worrying, I’m a bad mom. Sandberg spent her […]
Published
March 7, 2013

Alan Caron: Grateful for Maine and those who toil to make it better

We have a tradition in our small family that spills over into my work each day. At dinner time, the three of us hold hands and take turns sharing something we’re grateful for that day. This isn’t an appeal for something we want and grumbling isn’t allowed. I’m immensely grateful for all we have in […]
Published
March 1, 2013

Charles Krauthammer: For Obama administration, Armageddon is the goal

“The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Washington Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.” Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2 percent — and the country survives. That a government now borrowing 35 cents of every dollar it […]
Published
November 7, 2012

Alan Caron: Mainers send several messages by electing Angus King

While New York and New Jersey are still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, another area of the country is also in deep trouble. People here and across the country are sending money and food and warm blankets to our neighbors to the south, but Mainers are also sending some much-needed assistance to Washington, […]

Published
July 26, 2012

George Will: Candidates exhibit many more similarities than differences

The men are so near to each other in all their convictions and theories of life that nothing is left to them but personal competition for the doing of the thing that is to be done. It is the same in religion. The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of […]
Published
July 26, 2012

Ruth Marcus: Israel faces a demographic threat as refugees flow in

TEL AVIV — Walk through Levinsky Park near the central bus station here and you might think you were in another country. African men, and some women, occupy every inch of a low stone bench in the brutal sun. Blankets are stashed in the branches of a eucalyptus tree, to be retrieved at nightfall. For […]
Published
July 12, 2012

David Ignatius: In dealing with Iran, now is when the real bargaining begins

U.S. officials think Tehran hasn't yet faced the fact that its negotiating position is weak.
Published
July 10, 2012

Kathleen Parker: Infighting over ethics probe pits words against deeds

A Republican governor accuses a GOP activist of bias only after he questions her lobbying activities.
Published
July 10, 2012

Dana Milbank: Congressman’s ‘Ashleigh’ moments put GOP in poor light

Rep. Joe Walsh's bizarre defense of attacks on his rival should raise eyebrows far beyond his district.