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Opinion - Cynthia Tucker

HARD-WON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ARE UNDER SIEGE AGAIN

Sat Nov 21, 7:58 PM ET

Success in any long-running campaign breeds complacency; first euphoria, then relief, later forgetfulness. Whether the campaign for universal suffrage or the crusade to curb childhood disease through immunizations, success leads to historical amnesia.

  • SARAH PALIN: RICHARD NIXON UPDATED FOR THE CELEBRITY AGE Wed Nov 18, 11:42 AM ET

    Poor, put-upon Sarah Palin.

  • HOUSE VERSION OF HEALTH BILL PUNISHES KIDS Sat Nov 14, 7:58 PM ET

    "We are eating our seed corn." -- Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund

  • FORT HOOD BACKLASH UNFAIRLY TARGETS MUSLIM SERVICE MEMBERS Wed Nov 11, 6:41 PM ET

    During last year's presidential campaign, it was Colin Powell who spoke most eloquently of the brave service of Muslim soldiers and sailors, not Barack Obama. Cowed by a widespread belief that he was Muslim, Obama was virtually silent on the subject, craven in the face of the demands of electoral politics.

  • CREATING JOBS IS TOP JOB FOR WASHINGTON Sat Nov 7, 7:58 PM ET

    It's the economy, stupid.

  • TIME TO END THIS MODERN PROHIBITION Sat Oct 31, 7:58 PM ET

    Forty years ago, President Nixon used the unfortunate phrase "War on Drugs," launching a misguided crusade that has encouraged street violence, eaten away at state budgets and packed our prisons with nonviolent offenders. The nation's punitive approach to drugs has turned us into a penal colony. We lock up more of our citizens per capita than brutal dictators like Robert Mugabe and Fidel Castro.

  • THE NEW ROBBER BARONS COULD DEEPEN THIS ECONOMIC HOLE Wed Oct 28, 6:29 PM ET

    Wall Street's masters of the universe are a shameless bunch, their egos swelled with a sense of entitlement that would make the old railroad robber barons blush. Their predations are largely responsible for the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, but they don't get it.

  • RECENT HISTORY HAS SHOWN THE COST OF 'HANDS-OFF' GOVERNMENT Sat Oct 24, 7:58 PM ET

    Even after years of a laissez-faire ideology that allowed businesses to pillage the economy, the idea of government intervention makes a lot of Americans nervous. In a recent Gallup Poll, a majority of respondents agreed with the statement that the government currently is "trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses."