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Winning hearts and minds

Opinion: We’re back at that old game of winning the hearts and minds of people who want to kill us. Except


Crony capitalism alive, well

Opinion: WASHINGTON To understand the pertinence to America of events in Greece, notice General Motors’


‘Duty to die’ not just an idea

Opinion: One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old


Let summer of grilling

Editorial: Let summer of grilling begin for Elena Kagan By all accounts, U.S. Solicitor General and U.S.


U.S., Azerbaijan are at odds

Opinion: By Shahin Rzaev and Idrak Abassaov The Institute for War & Peace Reporting BAKU, Azerbaijan


Fat finger or manipulation?

Opinion: By Bart Chilton McClatchy-Tribune When markets tumbled last week — the Dow falling nearly 1,000


Hiding the money trail

Opinion: Kansas City Star: Every few years Congress reauthorizes the nation’s lavish farm-subsidy programs.


Carriers still project power

Opinion: Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked a simple question last week. Do we really need 11 aircraft


Voters want safety, not change

Opinion: Last week’s British election was important as much for what didn’t happen as for what did. The


Don’t feel sorry for Congress for again forgoing a pay hike

Editorial: Before sympathizing with mem- bers of the U.S. Congress who will not receive an increase in their


There’s new pressure on Pakistan

Opinion: Last month, I traveled to Peshawar, the gateway to Pakistan’s rough tribal areas along the border


Time travel is a possibility

Opinion: By Dave Goldberg Los Angeles Times Imagine that you’re a science-fiction writer on a tight


The business of broadband

Opinion: Los Angeles Times: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal Thursday


Kosovo not right model for Palestinians

Opinion: PRISTINA, Kosovo Not many people would look toward this Balkan city as the stuff of dreams.


A catastrophe that’s not a surprise

Opinion: Where are all the anti-environmentalists now — those who refer to many of us as “tree-huggers” and