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8 ways to find common ground

Gridlock plagues Washington. Polarizing soundbytes get constant play in the 24/7 news cycle. The culture wars rage on. But these Monitor op-ed writers suggest there’s more common ground than meets the eye. Here are eight powerful perspectives on the possibilities for meeting in the middle.
5 standards for presidential leadership

When it comes to presidential leadership, how should voters in 2012 judge the Republican candidates and President Obama? Prof. Allen C. Guelzo, an authority on Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg College, suggests five leadership standards, personified in such figures as Lincoln and Churchill.

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8 ways to find common ground

Gridlock plagues Washington. Polarizing soundbytes get constant play in the 24/7 news cycle. The culture wars rage on. But these Monitor op-ed writers suggest there’s more common ground than meets the eye. Here are eight powerful perspectives on the possibilities for meeting in the middle.
5 standards for presidential leadership

When it comes to presidential leadership, how should voters in 2012 judge the Republican candidates and President Obama? Prof. Allen C. Guelzo, an authority on Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg College, suggests five leadership standards, personified in such figures as Lincoln and Churchill.
New Hampshire primary: why the 2012 campaign is different

A host of nationally televised presidential debates has left some New Hampshire voters hungering for closer – and more substantive – contact with the candidates.
Ron Paul closes on Newt Gingrich: In time to win Iowa?

Ron Paul is one percentage point behind Newt Gingrich, says one poll. Could Ron Paul be surging in time to win Iowa?
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Might New Hampshire relent on its 'first primary' status? Not a chance.

New Hampshire residents are so determined that they once chose someone who insisted he wasn't even running for president. No way they'll let some other state horn in on their first-in-the-nation turf.
The war that made us 'we'

150 years later, the Civil War's nature and impact may finally be seen with clear eyes.
Giffords shooting: What the Civil War can teach us about political restraint

The past year in US politics has been full of more alienation and polarization than at any time since 1861, all of it now capped off in the Arizona shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. As in 1861, today's divide has opened up over a single deep question. But this fundamental collision of values doesn't mean violence is inevitable.
Election 2010 surprise: rise of black Republicans

The Republican Party has fielded more than 30 African-American candidates this year, renewing a historic alliance.
Memorial Day 2010: Don't let the USS Olympia sink from memory

Failing to repair and keep afloat the USS Olympia, a heroic ship of the Spanish-American War, would say a lot about America’s priorities.
McDonnell Confederate history storm: slavery, treason, and true Southern courage

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s controversial proclamation of Confederate History Month should help us remember the South’s rebellion for what it really was.
Is America still the 'last best hope of earth'?

Our way of doing democracy is full of risk and failure, but Lincoln saw it as the safeguard of free people.
Should blacks get reparations?

The US senate's apology for slavery revives the debate. Compensation seems fair, but complications abound.
Lincoln at 200: still a light for democracy's moral purpose

Critics saw in America a 'pigpen of freedom.' He saw a cause worth dying for.
Classic review: Lincoln

A biography as tall as Lincoln himself.
Lincoln's lesson for today's culture wars

Democracy must be more than two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch.
Ron Paul: an absolute faith in free markets and less government

The 10-term congressman from Texas has been a strict constitutionalist since he came into public life some 30 years ago.