Historic reforms in health care will help women

By DR. DOUG LAUBE | 11/23

America is now poised for the first dramatic public health achievement of the 21st century. What makes this moment truly life-changing is that, for the first time, more women and their families will have coverage than ever before.

Hating your cake and eating it, too

By KATHLEEN PARKER | 11/22

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Are the media treating Sarah Palin unfairly? Are they “bashing” her, as her supporters describe any criticism? Was the Newsweek cover sexist? Call me a guy, but give me a break. Sarah Palin is the luckiest woman on the planet.

Budget-buster in the making

By DAVID BRODER | 11/22

WASHINGTON -- Most voters in a new poll believe President Obama will not be able to keep his promise that any health reform bill he signs will not add to the federal deficit.

Why gay-marriage friends, foes need one another

By CHARLES C. HAYNES | 11/21

Two church-state encounters this month, in two very different parts of the country, are instructive reminders that in a deeply divided society winners are very unlikely to take all.

Pro: U.S. should reject tainted coming election in Honduras

By MARK WEISBROT | 11/21

WASHINGTON -- Human Rights Watch, the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and human rights groups worldwide have also condemned the violence and repression perpetrated by the Honduran dictatorship. Why is it that Latin American governments can recognize this threat to democracy but Washington cannot?

Con: Obama dug a deep hole in Honduras by trying to save a Chavez wannabe

By RAY WALSER | 11/21

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department has been busily digging a diplomatic crater since June 28. That’s when the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court ousted then-President Manuel Zelaya from office due to his unconstitutional bid to eliminate term limits. Rather than side with the democratic institutions of the land, our State Department surprisingly backed Zelaya’s demand for a return to power.

Picking a fight is GOP tradition

By DAVID BRODER | 11/20

WASHINGTON -- Many Republicans worry that the populist anti-establishment “rogues” such as Sarah Palin will kill GOP prospects for a comeback in 2010 by backing ideologues in many other primaries and scaring off independents and moderate Republicans.

Travesty in New York

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 11/20

WASHINGTON -- The self-proclaimed architect of 9/11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just as the memory fades, 9/11 has been granted a second life—and KSM, a second act: “9/11, The Director’s Cut,” narration by KSM.

There’s news, and then there’s Palin news

By RICK HOROWITZ | 11/19

“Even though we’re a serious news show, deep down inside you needed to talk about her, and that book of hers.”

Lipstick on a rogue

By ELLEN GOODMAN | 11/19

BOSTON -- Remember back in the 1990s when Hillary Clinton described herself as the Rorschach test for how people felt about the women’s movement? Sarah Palin has become the latest test for shifting common ground and fault lines between sisterhood and sibling rivalry.