 By the Editorial Board | By the Editorial Board A meeting on April 15 and 16 of the Missouri State Board of Education will likely end with the elected school board's restoration of power following 12 years of rule by the Special Administrative Board. Skeptics abound, but the reality is that the SAB has completed its mission of restoring the system to full accreditation and financial health. It'll be up to the elected board to prove it's up to the challenge. Read more |
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By the Editorial Board Defenders of Julian Assange are outraged at his arrest, asserting that this is a blatant affront to First Amendment rights. They’ve even gone so far as to call Assange a “journalist.” He is a computer hacker who accepted stolen classified government documents then performed a massive data dump on the internet. Call Assange what you like, but please don’t equate his business with journalism. Read more |
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 | By the Editorial Board Ahead of the April 2 election, candidates tried to score with voters by pledging to close down the Medium Security Institution, or Workhouse, and allow most of its inmates to leave. The assumption was that they were almost all low-level offenders who didn’t pose a threat. In reality, city jail inmates are overwhelmingly accused of serious felonies. Which suggests simplistic solutions are no solution at all. Read more |
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Our picks from editorial cartoons around the country | Our pick of editorial cartoons from around the country Read more |
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Post-Dispatch columnists | Kevin McDermott There is every indication that average, law-abiding gun owners are, as a whole, more open to rational gun control than the organization that claims to represent them. Read more |
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Your views: Letters from our readers | These are the most-read letters so far this week. Read more |
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National and guest columnistsDana Milbank • dana.milbank@washpost.com Is President Trump losing his marbles? Read more |
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 | By Megan McArdle
My earliest memory is of the time I put a key into an electrical socket. Fine, cue the jokes, I electrocuted myself. And such a vivid memory that makes. Read more |
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 | Kathleen Parker • kathleenparker@washpost.com The recent fiasco at The New York Times, which last weekend published the latest uncorroborated sexual-assault accusation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, was a monument to hearsay and a travesty of journalistic ethics. Read more |
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