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Opinion 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.
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5 standards for presidential leadership
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How Maria Sibylla Merian opened our eyes to nature
Google celebrates the 366th birthday of German artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, whose observations of insects and their habitats stood at the dawn of the scientific revolution.
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Opinion 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.
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Opinion 5 standards for presidential leadership
When it comes to presidential leadership, how should voters in 2012 judge the Republican candidates and President Obama? The sheer number of books on leadership hint that not even the consultants and gurus can agree on a set of standards. Why not ask a historian, who spends a significant portion of life in the mental company of people who really did turn out to possess the Midas touch of leadership? Here, Prof. Allen C. Guelzo, an authority on Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg College, suggests five leadership standards, personified in such figures as Lincoln, Churchill, and Admiral Nelson.
12/22/2011 01:56 pm -
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.
12/19/2011 01:00 pm -
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?
12/14/2011 02:51 pm -
Decoder Wire 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.
10/17/2011 02:54 pm -
Opinion 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.
01/10/2011 10:06 am -
Opinion Election 2010 surprise: rise of black Republicans
The Republican Party has fielded more than 30 African-American candidates this year, renewing a historic alliance.
09/03/2010 02:00 pm -
Opinion 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.
05/31/2010 07:05 am -
Opinion 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.
04/09/2010 05:46 pm -
Opinion 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.
01/26/2010 11:02 am -
Opinion Should blacks get reparations?
The US senate's apology for slavery revives the debate. Compensation seems fair, but complications abound.
07/16/2009 01:00 am -
Opinion 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.
02/12/2009 12:00 am -
Classic review: Lincoln
A biography as tall as Lincoln himself.
01/11/2009 12:00 am -
Opinion Lincoln's lesson for today's culture wars
Democracy must be more than two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch.
09/26/2008 01:00 am -
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.
01/02/2008 12:00 am
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