Opinion Today: Have Democrats Pulled Too Far Left?

Op-Ed | Peter Wehner
Have Democrats Pulled Too Far Left?
Matt Chase

Liberals think that only the Republicans have become more extreme. They're wrong.

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MURONG XUECUN
Corrupting the Chinese Language

The Chinese vernacular has become brutalized, and the Communist Party is largely to blame.

Room for Debate
To Shun or Cooperate With Chinese Censorships

Should foreign authors accept Chinese government censorship, negotiate changes or decline to have their work published in China?

Opinionator | Disunion
Sherman's March on Washington
By THOM BASSETT

What drove a wedge between the lauded general and the political leadership in the capital?

Room for Debate
How Should Americans Remember the Post-Civil War Period?

Finding ways to create a public memory of Reconstruction.

Opinionator | The Stone
Peter Singer: On Racism, Animal Rights and Human Rights
By GEORGE YANCY and PETER SINGER

Can our degradation and abuse of other species be compared with racism, sexism and other crimes against fellow humans?

Editorial
Afghan Minerals, Another Failure

In the war-ravaged country, development is lagging and American aid is being squandered.

Jason Rezaian and his wife, Yeganeh Salehi.
Editorial
Iran's Secret Trial of a Journalist

Iran's refusal to try a Washington Post reporter in public is the latest travesty in a shameful case.

The State Senate chamber in Albany last week.
Editorial
Out of Albany's Chaos

Important issues deserve attention from New York's Legislature before the session ends.

Ben Wiseman
Opinionator | The End
Surviving an Alcoholic

How did I become a widow? It began in our basement, where Robert holed up with his Dewar's bottles.

MARK BITTMAN
Can We Finally Treat Food Workers Fairly?

If you run a business that's dependent on labor at the poverty level, it isn't a viable business, from either a moral or practical point of view.

FRANK BRUNI
On Same-Sex Marriage, Catholics Are Leading the Way

Ireland confirms it: Traditionally Roman Catholic countries are among the friendliest to gays.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Contain and Amplify

We need a new motto for battling extremism in the Middle East. "Fighting terrorism" hasn't worked so well.

Letters
Using Science to Fight Climate Change

Readers react to a column by Joe Nocera about geoengineering.

Paul Krugman Blog
Preliminary Notes on Inequality and Urbanism
By PAUL KRUGMAN

Not a one-sided story.

Ross Douthat
Decline and Schism in Religion
By ROSS DOUTHAT

Why a declining Catholic Church might be more likely to divide.

Destruction left by a record-high flash flood along the Blanco River, west of Austin, Tex. on Memorial Day weekend.
Dot Earth Blog
A Scientist who Modeled Texas's Blanco River in 2007 Probes for Lessons After the Deadly Flash Flood
By ANDREW C. REVKIN

A hydrologist explores the scientific and societal issues surrounding deadly flooding in the fast-growing exurbs around Austin. Tex.

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