Best Columns - US
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Laughing off the horrors of prison rape
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The irrelevance of the United Nations
feature Once again, the United Nations has been “rendered impotent by a small group of thugs.”
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Viewpoint: David Brooks
feature From The New York Times: “There are now two conservatives in this country for every liberal....
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He’s not the liberal Reagan yet
feature Will President Obama realize his goal of becoming the liberal Ronald Reagan?
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Why infidelity is on the rise
feature Among young marrieds, there’s a lot of cheatin’ going on, said Naomi Schaefer Riley in The Washington Post, and the reason can be traced to habits in past relationships and maintaining opposite-sex frien
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What we can learn from slums
feature A growing number of urban planners see in slums some features that should be emulated, not condemned, said Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow in The Boston Globe.
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Viewpoint: Scott Adams
feature From Dilbert.com: “You are what you learn. If all you know is how to be a gang member, that’s what you’ll be, at least until you...
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America is sick of war
feature “Republicans who think America is being endangered by ‘appeasement’ and military parsimony have worked that pedal on their organ quite enough," said George Will at The Washington Post.
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Snowden’s silence on Putin
feature If Edward Snowden truly is a moral paragon, then he should announce that he can no longer stomach Vladimir Putin’s oppressive behavior.
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Buying local is bad for the planet
feature The “first-world food fetishes” of the Whole Foods crowd aren’t always good for the environment, and they hurt the world’s poor, said Charles Kenny at Foreign Policy.
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Che was a murderer, not a hero
feature The real Ernesto “Che” Guevara was far from the “youthful idealist” celebrated in film and transformed into a global icon, said Nick Gillespie in Reason.com.
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The truth about race and IQ
feature Are blacks, on average, inherently less intelligent than whites? said psychology professor Richard E. Nisbett. That once-discredited notion is again gaining credibility, due to statements by Nobel Prize winner James Watson and a recent series of columns b
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Um, uh, what I mean is…
feature What Obama suffers from is the classic “intellectual stammer”—a hesitancy that “signals a brain that is moving so fast the mouth can’t keep up," said Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times.
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How morality became obsolete
feature “I guess what makes something right is how I feel about it,” is a typical refrain, said David Brooks at The New York Times.
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