Taking Note: Removing Cuba From the List of Terror Sponsors, Finally

Photo A vendor in Havana.Credit Alejandro Ernesto/European Pressphoto Agency There were a couple of questions American officials struggled to answer substantively when they announced on Tuesday that the White House has decided to remove Cuba from...

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Editorial: Total Failure on Speedy Trials in New York

Photo View from a cell at Rikers Island. Credit Seth Wenig/Associated Press The outrageous delays in New York City's criminal justice system were given a human face last year, when Jennifer Gonnerman, writing in The New Yorker, introduced readers...

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Taking Note: The Retro Futurism of Marco Rubio

Photo Senator Marco Rubio with his wife, Jeanette, and their four children.Credit Wilfredo Lee/Associated Press Marco Rubio announced his presidential campaign on Monday evening in Miami, in a speech that was supposed to be all about the future,...

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Taking Note: Harry Reid Jabs His Adversary

Photo Senator Harry Reid.Credit Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic minority leader, was an amateur boxer in his youth, so he should know about haymakers. He directed one at Senator Mitch McConnell Wednesday when,...

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Op-Ed Columnist: What’s Up With You?

While U.S.-Iran relations are taking up all the oxygen in the room these days, and they're vitally important for the future of the Middle East, U.S.-China relations are vitally important for the world — and there's more going on there than meets the...

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Opinionator | Disunion: What Lincoln Left Behind

Photo Abraham Lincoln's gloves, stained with his blood.Credit Annie Leibovitz/Contact Press Images from "Pilgrimage" Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater, in Washington,...

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Editorial: Justice for Blackwater Victims

Photo Mohammed Hafiz with a photo of his son, who was killed in the Blackwater shooting. Credit Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press For years, it seemed inconceivable to Iraqis that the American justice system would ever punish the private security...

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Contributing Op-Ed Writer: Günter Grass’s Germany, and Mine

FOR years I was frustrated, and a bit embarrassed, to admit that I didn't much like the work of Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author who died Monday. He was, after all, Germany's most acclaimed writer of the postwar era — not just our national...

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Taking Note: What Equal Pay Day Says About Working Men

Photo  Credit Jim Young/Reuters An editorial published today in the Times points out that women are typically paid much less than men, no matter their occupation, career attainment or level of education. The occasion for the editorial is Equal...

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Editorial: A Reckless Act in the Senate on Iran

Photo Senators Bob Corker, left, and Ben Cardin, the leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Credit Win McNamee/Getty Images Congress has formally muscled its way into President Obama's negotiations with Iran, creating new and potentially...

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