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- Letters to the editor
I am a teacher, and I have something to say. Sacramento slashes the funding that pays for the operation of my school district. Ridiculous rules regarding categorical funds allow for the Fern Street Circus to continue to teach juggling while Jackson Elementary had stood to lose most of its teaching staff.
- DAVID S. BRODER THE WASHINGTON POST
Republicans bracing for hard times
One way of measuring the current miserable state of the Republican Party is to note that in the past 10 weeks, 55 years of Republican seniority in the House of Representatives were wiped out in three special elections.
- JIM HOAGLAND THE WASHINGTON POST
To intervene or accept mass death?
TOKYO – Quiet Asian diplomacy is proving as ineffective as Western bluster and U.N. moralizing in getting comprehensive aid to the victims of Myanmar's cyclone. They are being left to die in the tens of thousands by a world that promised but failed to develop the tools of humanitarian intervention.
- Linking human and animal health
This election season voters must decide which candidate will improve the nation's security and well-being. It is troubling, then, that a clear and present public health and security issue has been all but ignored by the campaigns – protecting citizens against pandemic disease threats and bioterrorism.
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