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Can U.S. trust Pakistan to control the Taliban?

Editorial: It doesn’t take a Zbigniew Brzezinski or a Henry Kissinger to know that Pakistani President Asif Ali


Gun advocates gagged in colleges

Opinion: Media snicker of the day: those crazy gun nuts, worried the government is out to snatch their


Break the big banks up

The Seattle Times: America now has a handful of trillion-dollar banks that have been declared, in


Latin America faces tough times

Opinion: WASHINGTON — The conventional wisdom in most developing countries is that the world will be less


Tide turning on gay marriage rights

Opinion: As a kindergarten student, McKinley BarbouRoske mentioned that she had two moms. A classmate said he


Article aimed at wrong target

Opinion: Article aimed at wrong target EDITOR: If one only read the headline or the subheadline of


NORWAY

NORWAY Bergens Tidende, Bergen, April 21: Many wanted Norway to boycott the U.N. conference on


A welder didn’t start the fire, it was already burning, ’cause the world was turning

Editorial: A welder didn’t start the fire, it was already burning, ’cause the world was turning Twenty-five


“I’m worried about the overreaction — people selling every bank short and pulling

Opinion: “I’m worried about the overreaction — people selling every bank short and pulling out all their


Time to wake up to the truths about torture

Opinion: When the Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote his epic, “The Gulag Archipelago,” some


Hear this: Obama’s puppy has been fixed

Opinion: If only Americans could vote for “first dog.” Anyone who has been lucky enough, as I have, to share


Racial spoils system’s a wreck

Opinion: WASHINGTON — Wednesday morning, a lawyer defending in the Supreme Court what the city of New Haven,


Agriculture dodges a bullet

Agriculture dodges a bullet San Antonio Express-News, on Congress and farm cuts: With government


Don’t blame the storekeeper

Opinion: Don’t blame the storekeeper EDITOR: I’ve lived in the Youngstown area for almost all of my life.


The politics of neighbors and your kids selling stuff

Opinion: There are tags for condemned homes. There are tags for housing code violations. What is the tag