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Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post The Washington Post Opinions section features opinion articles,newspaper editorials and letters to the editor on the issues of the day. Offerings include the Post Partisan blog by Washington Post opinion writers, as well as political cartoons and political cartoon animations by editorial cartoonists Tom Toles and Ann Telnaes.

Editorial Board: Obama and Romney's dishonest foreign policy promise Oct 27th 2012, 23:17 BARACK OBAMA and Mitt Romney have their differences on foreign and defense policies, but the broader vision they have offered voters is essentially the same. They claim that the United States can remain the world's "indispensable nation" even while retreating from global commitments, avoiding involvement in regional conflicts and nation building only at home. It's a dishonest promise. Read full article >> Editorial Board: Boy Scouts must prove children's welfare comes first Oct 27th 2012, 23:17 SCOUT LAW demands that scouts be "trustworthy" and "loyal." Newly released Boy Scouts of America files indicate that, over many decades, some leaders failed to respect the trust that boys and their parents placed in them, choosing loyalty to accused pedophiles or the institution's reputation over the welfare of the scouts. Read full article >> Editorial Board: Where is the D.C. Council's e-mail transparency? Oct 27th 2012, 23:17 ACTIONS SPEAK louder than words, so it's pretty telling that the D.C. Council, which professes to want transparency in government, has to be dragged into court over a specious policy that allows public business conducted on personal e-mail accounts to be shielded from disclosure. When will the council realize that only by opening up government can it show it has nothing to hide? Read full article >> Hurricane Sandy's path to sanity: Local stations go low-drama Oct 27th 2012, 21:45 As this blog has pointed out, the aspirational standard for Hurricane Sandy hype hit Fox News's air on Thursday, via Janice Dean, who spoke freely and repeatedly of the storm as a meteorological "worst-case scenario" and of its "catastrophic" likely consequences. Read full article >> Henry Fonda, a parched and private American icon Oct 27th 2012, 17:27 Henry Fonda became an icon in an age of icons: Cagney, Bogart, Gable, Stewart, Cooper and Grant, to name a few. All of them created memorable characters, of which the most memorable was their own, an image that embodied some virtue to be emulated or trait to be admired. As Devin McKinney puts it in "The Man Who Saw a Ghost," Fonda was "an American artist caught up in representing his country's history" by creating "an image of the national man that is kaleidoscopic, frightening, and wildly improbable." Read full article >> Greg Sargent: State polling averages support Obama camp's view of the race Oct 27th 2012, 16:08 This presidential race remains a national dead heat, and Mitt Romney could still very well become our next president. But right at this moment, it needs to be reiterated that the state polling averages support the Obama campaign's view of the state of the race — that Obama is currently on track to victory — and don't support the Romney campaign's view of the state of the race. Read full article >>

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