Opinion
Editorial
14 days ago

A summer job is supposed to teach youngsters useful life lessons — like the value of work, being prompt and taking responsibility for one’s efforts — but D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s disastrously mismanaged summer jobs programs wound up teaching them all the wrong things. For starters, somebody in City Hall should have figured out that there was no way to create enough 10-week jobs for 21,000-plus teens in a city that still struggles with adult unemployment. | All Editorials


14 days ago

Story on Iraq contractors was biasedRe: “Iraq contracts have cost at least $85 billion,” Aug. 13 | All Editorials


 
Commentary
14 days ago

I thought that a multidecade kickback scheme would be an issue ripe for the picking for the “most ethical Congress in history,” but Washington proved me wrong again.Neither judiciary committee in the House or Senate seems ready to investigate potentially widespread corruption in the class-action plaintiffs’ bar. Curious and determined, I played a simple game of “follow the money” in an effort to understand that explained why Congress is unwilling to investigate an industry that helps bankroll lawmakers’ campaigns. | All Commentary


14 days ago

W ould a major newspaper editorialize with surprise that “even Kraft Foods says we need to eat more macaroni and cheese”? Would guests on The McLaughlin Group get away with saying that “even Budweiser is lobbying for more beer consumption”?Then why do talking heads and journalists exclaim with surprise that “even T. Boone Pickens” is lobbying for greater U.S. reliance on wind power? Don’t they know he owns the largest wind farm in the world? | All Commentary