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Editor's Letter: The information consumer
feature May the new year bring us all more wisdom, and not quite so many zettabytes.
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Editor's Letter: Political swordsmanship
feature National politics, always a rough game, has devolved into something meaner, more personal—a blood feud. The primary agenda now is to score points, and to damage the other party whenever possible.
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Editor's Letter: Taking care of their own
feature People have an instinct to take care of their own, but depending on the circumstances, this bit of human nature can be problematic and even scandalous.
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Editor's Letter: Say again, who is accountable?
feature Democrats have been reminding us that President Bush didn’t fire a single official in the wake of 9/11. When Democrats are citing Bush as a role model, something certainly must be amiss.
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Editor's Letter: A new era of “duck and cover”
feature Decades of living under nuclear threat during the Cold War fostered a fatalism that tempered the jitters and allowed us to laugh in the face of existential peril. Will we someday muster a similarly cheeky response to the era of color-coded alarms
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Editor's Letter: Claiming George Washington
feature Today's Tea Partyers pay homage to George Washington, but they should also remember that Washington didn't fully support the original tea party, and that he was decidedly hostile to an anti-tax rebellion during his presidency.
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Editor's Letter: Still clueless about how to educate our kids
feature Diane Ravitch, one of the nation’s most influential education policy advocates admits she was wrong, wrong, wrong about the policies she long championed.
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Editor's Letter: Beyond Arizona
feature It’s not just Arizona. When it comes to illegal immigration, the nation is in a foul mood.
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Editor's Letter: A marriage that lasts
feature What, you have to wonder, did Chelsea learn about marriage from her parents’ notorious union? While countless other marriages have fallen apart, something kept the Clintons together.
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Editor's Letter: "Sealing the borders"
feature In 1986, the House of Representatives demanded that the Pentagon “seal the borders” within 45 days against illegal drugs.
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Editor's Letter: Older and happier
feature A new study found that people in the turbulent rapids of life, in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, are actually quite unhappy most of the time—stressed, confused, full of self-doubt.
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Editor's Letter: Advocates for truth
feature I found it striking that veteran journalist Daniel Schorr passed away last week just as tens of thousands of classified U.S. documents relating to the Afghanistan war were published by WikiLeaks.
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Editor's Letter: A mosque near the World Trade Center
feature As arguments raged over the location of mosques in New York and around the country, I thought of Jack Morgan and his predetermined ideas about who was responsible for the 1920 Wall Street blast that killed 38 and injured hundreds.
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Editor's Letter: Dear friends
feature While some in Washington use weasel words to shirk responsibility, I’ve always made a habit of honest talk—which is how I’ll address your question about federal spending. If by "spending" you mean...
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