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Can this election settle anything?

By E.J. DIONNE JR., Scripps Howard News Service September 24, 2012, 06:16 PM

Can one election turn the country around and make Washington work again?

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Really? Don't limit freedom to marry?

By Katherine Kersten, Scripps Howard News Service September 23, 2012, 06:07 PM

We already do -- for a reason -- so those orange lawn signs are misleading.

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Marriage is a matter of public health

By EDWARD P. EHLINGER, Scripps Howard News Service September 23, 2012, 06:03 PM

These benefits hold true for same-sex couples

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Foreign policy makes 2012 campaign debut

By ERIC P. SCHWARTZ and LAWRENCE R. JACOBS, Scripps Howard News Service September 22, 2012, 05:24 PM

Obama has a record to suggest what he'd do. Romney is more of a mystery.

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Media credibility aside, the GOP message is bereft

By MICHAEL GERSON, Scripps Howard News Service September 22, 2012, 05:55 AM

It's an ideology without promise. Human worth is reduced to economic production. Social problems are reduced to personal vices. Politics is reduced to class warfare on behalf of the upper class.

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Editorial: Romney's '47 percent'

By EDITORIAL BOARD, Scripps Howard News Service September 21, 2012, 08:31 PM

Off-the-cuff mistakes tell us something about the candidates.

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Mitt Romney's America

By E.J. DIONNE JR. , Scripps Howard News Service September 21, 2012, 08:31 PM

The more you think about Romney's words, the more you wonder how he really feels about the country he wants to lead.

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Obama on Letterman

By DEAN SPIROS, Scripps Howard News Service September 20, 2012, 08:45 PM

Appearance doesn't reinforce respect for women.

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The media's lousy election track record

By Jennifer Rubin, Scripps Howard News Service September 20, 2012, 11:03 AM

First, Rick Perry was the "it" candidate. Then Mitt Romney's doom was predicted many times over.

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How would Bain fix the Romney campaign?

By William Oremus, Scripps Howard News Service September 19, 2012, 08:47 PM

Imaging a Bain Capital takeover.

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Why the media should go easy on Romney

By DANA MILBANK, Scripps Howard News Service September 19, 2012, 01:46 PM

I'm from the mainstream media, and approve of this tongue-in-cheek message.

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Romney's distressed enterprise

By DAVID BROOKS, Scripps Howard News Service September 19, 2012, 01:45 PM

Dependency humbug shows he's still pretending to be what he's not.

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Making more votes count

By EDITORIAL, Scripps Howard News Service September 19, 2012, 07:17 AM

California tries making voting easier with online voter registration. Will it make a difference?

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The worst foreign-policy president since Reagan?

By STEVE CHAPMAN, Scripps Howard News Service September 18, 2012, 10:37 AM

Mitt Romney falls back on an obsolete charge.

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Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?

By CATHY YOUNG, Scripps Howard News Service September 17, 2012, 08:36 PM

Liberal bias or not, it's always a slippery slope from fact-checking to fact interpretation and labeling dissenting analysis a lie. What should pundits do?

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You don't have to like it. Just respect it.

By KEVIN REUTHER, Scripps Howard News Service September 17, 2012, 01:07 PM

Before pastors, friends and family, my fiancé and I will have the wedding I always dreamed of.

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Presidential debates: I've got all day

By Ruth Marcus, Scripps Howard News Service September 17, 2012, 09:04 AM

Or at least 90 minutes, and I'd be willing to wait for real answers.

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Romney and foreign policy

By EDITORIAL, Scripps Howard News Service September 15, 2012, 05:52 PM

He needs to offer more substance and fewer slogans in foreign affairs.

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Why President Obama doesn't need to be Bill Clinton

By Norman J. Ornstein, Scripps Howard News Service September 14, 2012, 06:44 PM

The stylistic differences between Obama and Clinton are stark. But the comparison ignores larger realities about both presidencies.

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Will teachers union turn on Democrats?

By DAN K. THOMASSON, Scripps Howard News Service September 13, 2012, 08:40 PM

Democratic officials for years catered to the whims of unions.

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