List/Grid Author Archives: Ruth Marcus / Syndicated Columnist
The Time To Negotiate Is Now
WASHINGTON — I used a harsh adjective the other day to describe the GOP's opening offer ...
What’s the Real Issue With Rice?
WASHINGTON — Does gender — or does the super-charged combination of gender and race R ...
Fiscal Cliff Efforts Moving Too Slowly
WASHINGTON — Before the fiscal cliff comes the political roller coaster. Agreement will seem u ...
A Few Things Learned From ‘Lincoln’
WASHINGTON — President Obama hosted a screening of Steven Spielberg's "LincolnR ...
Don’t Run With ‘Mandate’ Just Yet
WASHINGTON - The biggest mistake President Obama could make now is to arrogantly overinterpret ...
Voting on Election Day Has Merits
WASHINGTON - The neighbors gathered in Sandy's drizzly aftermath, surveying the damage: t ...
Shift in Nation’s Thinking Turns Gay Marriage Tide
WASHINGTON - Sometimes in politics, you have to listen for what's not being said to under ...
It’s Still the Economy, Stupid
WASHINGTON - What we learned - and didn't - from the debates: Etch A Sketch, ...
Political Life Subsists on Twinkies, or Is It Ding-Dongs?
WASHINGTON - Behold the Snookization of American politics. The Middle East is in turmoil. The ...
The Mommy Wars Go Trans-Atlantic
LONDON - Summer is the season of reruns, and the retro discussion this summer has featured a tr ...
Political Thought Reduced to Gaffes
WASHINGTON - The 2012 presidential campaign has become a festival of gaffe-hopping. The candida ...
Even Congress Gets It Right by Turning Tragedy Into Hope
WASHINGTON - This is the saddest story you will ever read about how a bill becomes law. It shou ...
