DAVID BROOKS
The Talent Magnet
President Obama’s State of the Union address should paint a vision of America being the crossroads nation of the 21st century. 
Comment
In Philadelphia, trying to generate new jobs on urban vacant land. Comment
Steve Powers
BOB HERBERT
Raising False Alarms
Attacking Social Security is cruel and unnecessary, and it has to stop. Comment
Editorial
What Comes After No?
Now that House Republicans have muscled through a symbolic repeal of the health care reform law, they will have to deliver their own alternative plan. Comment
Room For Debate
Does College Make You Smarter?
Students make little progress in intellectual growth in the first two years of college. Why is that?
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Maureen DowdW, Su
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Thomas L. FriedmanW, Su
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Paul KrugmanM, F
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ROGER COHEN
Facebook and Arab Dignity
How a spat over pears in the middle of nowhere morphed into a Tunisian revolution. Comment
Opinionator | Fixes
Training Youths in the Ways of the Workplace
By DAVID BORNSTEIN
The non-profit program Year Up is getting low-income young people into jobs by training them in the culture of work.
Opinionator | Disunion
The North of the South
By LOIS LEVEEN
Richmond, soon to be the capital of the Confederacy, was a city full of contradictions.
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Bloggingheads: Repeal and Don't Replace?
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Bill Scher, left, of the Campaign for America's Future and Kristen Soltis of The Winston Group debate health care reform and "repeal and replace."
Op-Ed Contributor
A Fighting Spirit Won’t Save Your Life
By RICHARD P. SLOAN
The idea that an individual has power over his health has a long history in American popular culture, but there is no link between optimism and health.
Editorial
Tactical Secrets
The Supreme Court should honor the gravity of real state secrets by assuring that other kinds of information can’t be hidden behind the state-secrets privilege.
Editorial
He Never Left
Duane Clarridge, who was indicted for lying to Congress about his role in the Iran-Contra scandal, doesn’t seem to have learned any lessons.
Editorial
A Night of Food and Song
Celebrating poetry, as is done to honor the Scottish poet Robert Burns, is great. But how about an event that comes more naturally to the American palate?
Room For Debate
Can Wal-Mart Make Us Healthier?
How the company’s plan to cut salt, sugar and fat from its food might affect our diets.
Op-Ed Contributors
Build a Bigger House
By DALTON CONLEY and JACQUELINE STEVENS
Why we need more members in the lower chamber of Congress.
Op-Ed Contributors
The President’s Speech
What should President Obama say in his State of the Union address?
Opinionator | Specimens
Heroic Naturalists or Imperialist Dogs?
By RICHARD CONNIFF
The image of early naturalists as exploitative hunters ignores their contributions to science and humanity.
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