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Hollis: Standards can – and must – be applied to everyone

Dr. Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard University. A tepid nonresponse to congressional questioning about opposing antisemitism and calls for genocide of Jewish people on college campuses was enough to doom Liz Magill, former president of the University of Pennsylvania. But Dr. ...

Garvey: I’m on the bridge to nowhere, and loving it

I've been playing a lot of bridge lately — the card game, that is — on my tablet in bed at night. It's a good way to wind down, and it's also less depressing than Twitter, which is basically the pit of Sarlacc at this point: You get thrown into it and you're digested alive for 1,000 ...

Barone: Our inevitably negative politics

To explain the latest young generation's pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February to lament "the fact that we're living in a late stage capitalist hellscape during an ongoing deadly pandemic w record wealth inequality, 0 social ...

Napolitano: Nikki Haley, American history and intellectual honesty

When Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley answered a question last week in which she stated that the American Civil War was fought over "government," "rights" and "freedoms," she was correct. Yet, like most politicians, when she realized that the popular answer should have been ...

Williams: What ordinary Americans want

The leisurely pace of the new year gives birth to reflection. We celebrate the new year, but from time immemorial each new year proves the prescience of Ecclesiastes, that there is nothing new under the sun. Then why do the celebrations endure? Because hope springs eternal. Happiness is ...

Harrop: Gutsy Democrats start turning on the far left

A revolution brews in the Democratic Party, and it's not the usual left-wing threats to sabotage moderate Democratic candidates. It's the Democratic mainstream telling the fringe to go pound sand. The causes change. It used to be defunding police. Now it is the war in Gaza. Irritation among ...