Featured Columns

Huckabee’s crusade

His warped reading of the balance of powers.

An abuse of free speech

We don’t have to embrace Pamela Geller.

Beyond Baltimore

That city’s ills are D.C.’s too.

Poor sports

The Patriots should be punished.

Being ‘the other mom’

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  • Being ‘the other mom’

    Being ‘the other mom’

    Dealing with the “two moms paradox.”

    Adele Levine

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  • Dems embrace ‘Citizens United’

    Dems embrace ‘Citizens United’

    Ditching principles to defend the Clintons.

    Lawrence Lessig

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  • Five myths about breast cancer

    Five myths about breast cancer

    It’s not mostly family history.

    Paige Winfield Cunningham

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  • Grandparenting the boomer way

    Grandparenting the boomer way

    It takes awhile to get your bearings.

    K.C. Summers

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Editorials

Can David Cameron prevent disaster?

The FBI’s flawed justice

Fairfax’s stand against discrimination

More Editorials

Outlook & Opinions

Don’t trust those polls

Don’t trust those polls

Frank Luntz

Britain’s election provides three lessons to remember in 2016.

Flowers for Mom are bad for the earth

Flowers for Mom are bad for the earth

Jennifer Grayson

That bouquet probably needed chemicals and a big carbon footprint.

The case for conservative civil disobedience

The case for conservative civil disobedience

Carlos Lozada

A review of Charles Murray’s new book.

The end of the ‘dumb dad’ era

The end of the ‘dumb dad’ era

Chad Prevost

Advertisers and TV writers are just catching up to demographic trends.

Who had the worst week in Washington? John Wall.

Who had the worst week in Washington? John Wall.

Chris Cillizza

The Wizards star guard broke his hand — and fans’ hearts.

A safer home for Cambodia’s girls

A safer home for Cambodia’s girls

Holly Burkhalter

The country has turned the corner on sex trafficking.

Will the TPP really protect workers?

Will the TPP really protect workers?

Richard Trumka

Enforcement of terms in past trade agreements has been mediocre.

Why do we still shackle kids on trial?

Why do we still shackle kids on trial?

Robert May

Children who steal gum arrive in court in leg irons and belly chains.

Why cloth diapers might not be the greener choice, after all

Why cloth diapers might not be the greener choice, after all

Kendyl Salcito

If you’re trying to help the planet, disposables could be better than cotton.

Wasting the savanna

Wasting the savanna

Tim Searchinger and Lyndon Estes

The huge environmental cost of converting these lands into farmland.

Best state in America: California, for its many mom-friendly policies

Best state in America: California, for its many mom-friendly policies

Niraj Chokshi

The state’s laws recognize mothers’ roles as workers and caregivers.

‘Building back better’

‘Building back better’

Duncan Maru and Senendra Uprety

As Nepal recovers, it deals with the promise and pitfalls of outside aid.

PostPartisan

Poll: Who or what is more dangerous to our democracy?

Jonathan Capehart

A lot of people seem to be in a constant state of angst about our democracy. They worry that it is slipping away or being eroded by lawlessness.

Setting the record straight: What Balko gets wrong

Richard Cohen

David Cameron victory also a win for gay marriage

Jonathan Capehart

Why Armenia turned to Russia instead of the West

Fred Hiatt

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Opinions Blogs

Paul Waldman

The Plum Line

Happy Hour Roundup

Paul Waldman

Jennifer Rubin

Right Turn

Cruz can’t be bothered with the Senate

Jennifer Rubin

Radley Balko

The Watch

End the use of jailhouse informants

Radley Balko

Alyssa Rosenberg

Act Four

Why I Love: The priest and rabbi walking into...

Alyssa Rosenberg

Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple

Why media outlets aren’t publishing the...

Erik Wemple

Catherine Rampell

Rampage

Indefinitely postponing the American dream of...

Catherine Rampell

Alexandra Petri

ComPost

Is it now safe to be a young Republican?

Alexandra Petri

Ann Telnaes

Ann Telnaes

Hate speech vs. free speech

Ann Telnaes

Tom Toles

Tom Toles

Sunday’s cartoon: Courting disaster

Tom Toles

David Alpert

All Opinions Are Local

A D.C. Council member wants to change the definition...

David Alpert

Tom Toles Cartoon

Tom Toles Cartoon

More Toles Cartoons and Blog Posts

Ann Telnaes Animation

More Telnaes Animations

Letters to the Editor

More Letters

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Outlook’s 7th Annual Spring Cleaning

10 things the world would be better off without.

Challenging everything you think you know.

PostOpinions Writers

Book Reviews

My critics ‘were in some measure correct,’ Sally Mann admits in memoir

How two Ohio boys taught the world to fly

The women of Civil War Washington

Searching for happiness in our lives

‘Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel,’ by William Wellman Jr.

‘I wanted to be Murphy Brown’

Does free enterprise soar on wings of angels?

The young, tough guys behind the election of John F. Kennedy

Stoking a women’s sexual revolution in the Middle East

Three memoir picks for April

‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir

Listen up, if you’re heading down the aisle

The rivalry of Roosevelt women

Ian Fleming’s not-so glamorous life on his island escape of Jamaica

Eats, shoots and punctuates

‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman