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China cracks down

Its repression may not be working as it hoped.

Degrees of opportunity

College should become a standard aspiration for all.

Who stopped inflation?

The Reagan-Volcker economic triumph.

The Scalise uproar

The episode shows how far we’ve come.

Bowser’s budget test

The D.C. deficit will challenge the new mayor.

Questions for a nominee

Make good use of Loretta Lynch’s hearing.

Military sexual assault

A lawyer’s experience advocating for victims.

NYPD’s ‘blue flu’

The city’s officers should just strike.

Homicidal politics

Islamists exploit religion for worldly goals.

The law of fanatics

The word ‘blasphemy’ is not in the Koran.

The U.S.-Iranian double game

Both sides are vulnerable in nuclear talks.

Journalists, stand firm

The Paris attack shouldn’t deter the media.

Raise the gas tax. A lot.

And how to return that revenue to consumers.

A push for higher pay

AFL-CIO is turning to cities, not states.

Off to a bitter start

Mitch McConnell’s angry, ungracious speech.

Move over, New Hampshire

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    Move over, New Hampshire

    Vermont deserves a piece of the primary fun.

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  • Higher priorities on education

    Higher priorities on education

    There are better ways to improve access.

    Editorial Board

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  • A Keystone XL reality check

    A Keystone XL reality check

    Stop wasting time and inflaming tensions.

    Editorial Board

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  • Romney, Huckabee or Walker?

    Romney, Huckabee or Walker?

    The most compelling is the least well known.

    Jennifer Rubin

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Opinions Blogs

Greg Sargent

The Plum Line

Morning Plum: Some welcome GOP candor on Obamacare

Greg Sargent

Jennifer Rubin

Right Turn

Europe needs Israel

Jennifer Rubin

Radley Balko

The Watch

Morning links: Legalization hurts cartels. Crackdowns...

Radley Balko

Alyssa Rosenberg

Act Four

The Golden Globes’ best decisions

Alyssa Rosenberg

Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple

New York Times breaking-news feature helps readers...

Erik Wemple

Catherine Rampell

Rampage

Want to marry a doctor? You’re probably...

Catherine Rampell

Alexandra Petri

ComPost

Mitt Romney is back to the future. So is all of...

Alexandra Petri

Ann Telnaes

Ann Telnaes

Charlie Hebdo retaliates against the terrorists...

Ann Telnaes

Tom Toles

Tom Toles

Is ‘Worse’ a Neutral Word Now?

Tom Toles

Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman

All Opinions Are Local

Maybe McDonnell’s prayers were answered

Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman

PostPartisan

The George Zimmerman circus returns

Jonathan Capehart

This latter-day O.J. Simpson is one misguided action away from getting the justice he successfully evaded.

Is the 2016 GOP field already winnowing?

Ed Rogers

Tamir Rice video shows how hard it is for police and public to ‘see’ each other

Jonathan Capehart

What if the Supreme Court dismantles Obamacare?

Stephen Stromberg

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Editorials

Higher priorities on education

A Keystone XL reality check

The governor’s favor

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Letters to the Editor

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Who had the worst
year in Washington?

Chris Cillizza

President Obama wins, again. Also check out the runners-up.

Outlook & Opinions

A library for every president?

A library for every president?

Jonathan Zimmerman

Having institutions all over the country is wasteful and undemocratic.

5 myths about freshmen

5 myths about freshmen

Ed O’Keefe

Will the new members of Congress have any influence?

Don’t want your kids tested?

Don’t want your kids tested?

Anya Kamenetz

The law is on your side.

France’s free speech threat

France’s free speech threat

Jonathan Turley

It’s not terrorists. It’s the government.

A Main Street investment

A Main Street investment

Jacob J. Lew

Let’s leave Wall Street’s risky practices in the past.

Filling the Cuban airwaves

Filling the Cuban airwaves

A. Ross Johnson and S. Enders Wimbush

As the nation enters a new era, Radio and TV Martí have roles to play.

Inside the mind of the Pentagon’s ‘Yoda’

Inside the mind of the Pentagon’s ‘Yoda’

Carlos Lozada

Review of “The Last Warrior,” on futurist Andrew Marshall

An unlikely death penalty

An unlikely death penalty

Karen J. Greenberg

Several factors will influence the jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial.

Challenging everything you think you know.

PostOpinions Writers

Book Reviews

A World War II manhunt

Review: ‘David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012’

A whole new look at the National Cathedral

The little-known story of basketball pioneer Perry Wallace

Book review: ‘The Pebble Chance,’ by Marius Kociejowski

‘Essays After Eighty,’ by Donald Hall

A general’s contrary take on U.S. wars

Taking the measure of civil rights

Wrestling with the Internet’s impact

‘Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe’ by Philip Gefter

Review: ‘Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life,’ by Hermione Lee

‘Why Homer Matters,’ by Adam Nicholson

Bridging the military-civilian divide

Gearing up for cyber war

Sly feminism of the 1950s

Review: ‘Jerry Lee Lewis’ by Rick Bragg