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Does Ukraine lean right?

Some could be scared into embracing Putin.

A self-inflicted filibuster

Democrats’ strange fight for climate change.

Rand Paul’s retreat

Reagan’s foreign policy is back in vogue.

Putin learns from history

But we have not, the Ukraine crisis shows.

Obama’s spring break

He’s sending the wrong message to Putin.

The right’s new clothes

The GOP’s ‘ideas’ sound like mere packaging.

Defunding defense

Obama gambles with Pentagon cuts.

What we learn at CPAC

Anarchy reigns in the GOP.

The IRS taxes credulity

The most intrusive agency has been politicized.

The easy way out

Rigorous testing is more crucial than ever.

A travesty in the Senate

Blocking Debo Adegbile for doing his job.

Day of reckoning

The District should clean up the 2010 mess.

A high price for perfection

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    A high price for perfection

    Why women should embrace their grades.

    Catherine Rampell

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    ‘It’s all lies’

    Mayor Gray will have to do better than that.

    Colbert I. King

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  • New pressure on Mayor Gray

    New pressure on Mayor Gray

    Will the mayor come clean?

    Editorial Board

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  • Republicans’ road to extinction

    Republicans’ road to extinction

    Why immigration reform must be embraced.

    Greg Sargent

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Governors, get ready!

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San Diego police raid strip club, photograph strippers

Radley Balko

Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple

John Cook bolts Gawker for the Intercept

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Tom Toles

Tom Toles

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Anyone ready for Porch Season?

Joel Achenbach

PostPartisan

Millennials lack of trust part of global trend

Jonathan Capehart

Still, American millennials are the most upbeat about the future.

Will Vince Gray’s assertion of ‘lies’ be the final word?

Colbert I. King

What CPAC does and does not teach us

Ed Rogers

George Zimmerman’s bloody autograph

Jonathan Capehart

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Editorials

New pressure on Mayor Gray

Syria’s forgotten war

New York’s charter clash

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Tom Toles Cartoon

GOP voter fraught

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Ann Telnaes Animation

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Outlook & Opinions

Putin’s divide-and-conquer strategy

Putin’s divide-and-conquer strategy

Andrey Kurkov

A Ukrainian novelist says vodka shots may not settle things this time.

Talking with Chile’s new leader

Talking with Chile’s new leader

Lally Weymouth

Michelle Bachelet on the challenges of education and inequality.

A tale of two cities hits home

A tale of two cities hits home

Nathaniel P. Morris

A plea from a homeless man in New York is greeted with silence.

Good riddance; we’ll miss you

Good riddance; we’ll miss you

Eric Hoover

A Virginia fan bids his Maryland rivals farewell.

5 myths about the SAT

5 myths about the SAT

Anthony P. Carnevale

It doesn’t predict much of anything.

Our role to play

Our role to play

David Catania

The District’s elected leaders have a role to play in education.

Debo Adegbile’s worst week

Debo Adegbile’s worst week

Chris Cillizza

Seven Democrats defected over Obama’s Justice Department pick.

Delay upon delay

Delay upon delay

Editorial Board

It’s time to fully implement the Affordable Care Act.

PostOpinions Writers

Local Blog Network

A surprising hurdle for Dwight Jones

Peter Galuszka

Some Va. Democrats want stance on gay marriage to be a litmus test for party leadership.

The candidates for D.C. mayor on school reform

Natalie Wexler

A bipartisan solution to Va.’s Medicaid standoff

Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman

Cracks in the Va. Democrats’ foundation

Norman Leahy

More LBN

Letters to the Editor

More Letters

Challenging everything you think you know.

Book Reviews

For all the baseball dreamers who never made it . . .

The revolutionary transformation of Stokely Carmichael

A history of the allied air war of WWII

An American dream, deferred

Pushing women’s rights far ahead of its time

Muslim American women on college campuses

‘The Greatest Movies You’ll Never See’

Book World: ‘Carl Van Vechten,’ by Edward White

Finalists for the NBCC prize for criticism

‘The Adventures of Henry Thoreau,’ by Michael Sims

The movie that predicted profit-driven infotainment

The life and reflections of A. Lincoln

The deceived tracking and exposing his deceiver

Journey of a New York City Ballet performer

How the sexual revolution changed American art

A book asks: ‘What Should We Be Worried About?’