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Doyle McManus / Second terms often plagued with scandal

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. The longer an administration is in office, the more errors it makes, and the harder they are to conceal.

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Wednesday 05/22/2013
Richard Cohen / IRS 'scandal' is more Kafka than Watergate

It was only when they put the cuffs on her and led her out of the Cincinnati Federal Office Building that she finally realized how much trouble she was in. Her husband, in one of his rare sober moments, had urged her to get a lawyer, and her neighbor, the know-it-all with the snow blower, urged her to leave the country. But she had a touching faith in America, and she felt that sooner or later everyone would understand how a big federal office works - or, actually, doesn't. Instead, there she was doing the perp walk, cameras clicking, reporters shouting questions: "Mitzie, Mitzie," they implored. This is how Mitziegate was born.

Frida Ghitis / Amid crisis, Europe resists lure of extremism

BARCELONA - It hardly qualifies as breaking news that Europe is in the middle of a deep and protracted economic contraction. When a story, no matter how shocking, goes on for years, the natural inclination is to let it fade to the background of our awareness. But a visit to Spain - even to one of the cities where the economic tragedy does a good job of hiding behind hordes of tourists and beautiful architecture - is a reminder of the extent of the disaster that has befallen Europe, until recently one of the world's most prosperous regions.

Tuesday 05/21/2013
Leonard Pitts Jr. / Misguided push for faster executions is timely injustice

At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.

Joel Achenbach / Watergate? Now there was a scandal

I was 12 years old during Sam Ervin's Watergate hearings, and watched them over the course of a long, hot summer, a time when I seemed to register the startling fact that my parents weren't infallible and grownups did not necessarily know more about the world than I did. Watergate was empowering in a sense: It told you that the authority figures were flawed, perhaps deeply so, that you should not blindly trust the powerful. Bad men do bad things and lie about them, and it is our challenge to scrape away that deceit and find the truth beneath.

Max Stier / Public employees deserve our respect

Revelations about misdeeds by Internal Revenue Service employees have provoked widespread and understandable outrage and provided ammunition for those who like to tear down government and its employees.

Susan Reimer / Angelina Jolie starts important conversation

"Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren't you ever tested?"

Monday 05/20/2013
George Will / Obama eroding trust in government

Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the answer to the question "Will Barack Obama's scandals derail his second-term agenda?" was a question: What agenda?

Alison Block / Reproductive care must remain part of family medicine

Jennifer was one of my first patients as a new doctor, and she came to see me about an unintended pregnancy. A single mom to a rambunctious 5-year-old girl, Jennifer was struggling economically and battling depression. We talked about the options available to her: continuing the pregnancy and preparing to parent another child, offering the baby for adoption or having an abortion. She chose to continue with the pregnancy, and I worked with her over the following months as she struggled with the discomforts of pregnancy, excessive weight gain and the anxiety of having to raise two small children on her own.

Thomas F. Schaller / Gun advocates ought to pick better battles

Last month, I received emails from two people I know but who don't know each other: one a close friend and Second Amendment supporter, and the other a regular reader who sends me news items she believes the "liberal media" are willfully suppressing.

Sunday 05/19/2013
Charles Krauthammer / Obama gives us redacted truth and subjunctive outrage

Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing on the political effects simply plays into the hands of Democrats desperately claiming that this is nothing but partisan politics.

Barbara Garson / Do your patriotic duty to help the country: Ask for a raise

The most recent recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier.

Ryan Gallagher / Unfortunately, it is nothing new for government to spy on media

On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that some of its reporters were recently spied on by the Justice Department in what it called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion." The feds secretly obtained AP journalists' phone records as part of what is believed to be an ongoing investigation into leaks of classified information. But it's not the first time U.S. authorities have adopted draconian surveillance tactics to uncover journalists' confidential sources.

Saturday 05/18/2013
Carla R. Monroe / Christie should use weight battle to inspire others

Somewhere Connie Mariano is grinning. If she's not, she should be.

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