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What caused me to pay attention to President Obama’s commencement speech at Morehouse University last weekend was the opportunity it provided him to step away from the in-your-face day-to-day

It is always a positive when a work of great literature gets made into a blockbuster movie, and so we have it with the release of the latest of numerous film incarnations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

Lest people be deluded and confused, the dividing line in American politics and policy making today is not Democrat versus Republican. Instead, it is investment versus austerity, and seldom in the

Don’t be fooled. Even in this day and age, the ordeal of “coming out” for a gay person can be, and more often than not is, traumatic. In his Sports Illustrated interview out this week, NBA

Buried on the bottom of the graph- and chart-thick “Markets” page of yesterday’s Washington Post was Michael A. Fletcher’s article on the Pew Research Group’s latest report on the growing

“No more hurting people. Peace.” This was what a hand-drawn sign read, held by a wide-eyed little Martin Richard, age 8, in a photograph taken prior to his being killed by the Boston Marathon

There could be no better illustration for the totally abject dysfunction of U.S. politics today than the tortured process that’s been occurring on Capitol Hill over doing something that 90

A dramatic performance of the composer Richard Strauss’ symphonic tone poem, “Death and Transfiguration,” by the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center last weekend revealed the

Facebook is awash with bright red this week. A movement launched by the Human Rights Campaign kicked off and has gone truly viral. With two key cases speaking to the issue of gay marriage coming

On the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq this week, I perused my columns from the months leading up to the invasion in March 2003. I decided the best way to summarize that era would be to