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No bill is better than one that is rushed and partisan.
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Colombia's political class follows the rule of law.
Income tax rates go up, rich taxpayers vanish.
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The president knows better than his demagoguery suggests.
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It's time for the world to make one last, best offer on resettlement.
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By Jim Inhofe
Let's freeze the budget at 2008 levels.
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Hollywood screenwriter Roger Simon on the 2010 Academy Awards.
By Benjamin Balint
The Hurva, a famous synagogue with a fateful history stretching back 300 years, stands again in Jerusalem. The synagogue, once Jerusalem's grandest, had remained in ruins for six decades.
By Melanie Wells
Companies try to convince us that men should not be using the women's cleansers they find in the shower now.
By Emily Esfahani Smith
A 'Great Books' college where liberty is a dirty word? Not to the school's president. But it depends on whom you ask.
By Eric Felten
Where's Quasimodo when you need him?
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By Kimberley A. Strassel
Contrary to all the theories, Democrats will not benefit from ObamaCare.
By James Taranto
"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
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JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL
GOP Illinois State Senator Kirk Dillard loses the gubernatorial primary because of his ties to President Obama.
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Indonesia's reformers get a raw deal.
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After a successful run Off Broadway, the cliché-infested and cloyingly sentimental "Next Fall" arrives on Broadway—proving you can fool some of the people most of the time, says Terry Teachout.
By Brian M. Riedl
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Characters, plot and more: Rebecca Goldstein, the author of "36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction," on thought-provoking novels of ideas.
By Benjamin Balint
The Hurva, a famous synagogue with a fateful history stretching back 300 years, stands again in Jerusalem. The synagogue, once Jerusalem's grandest, had remained in ruins for six decades.
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HBO's miniseries "The Pacific" sears the senses with intense combat scenes while illuminating the men who fought and died there.
A Jason Bourne thriller in spirit and sometimes in form, this is closer to what the Iraq War must have looked like than anything previously captured in a fiction film. But it's the dazzling Korean drama "Mother" that delivers the real shock and awe, says Joe Morgenstern.
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After a successful run Off Broadway, the cliché-infested and cloyingly sentimental "Next Fall" arrives on Broadway—proving you can fool some of the people most of the time, says Terry Teachout.
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The final event of the Guggenheim Museum's year-long 50th-anniversary celebration invites artists to reimagine the rotunda at the center of Frank Lloyd Wright's famous spiral.
The Morgan Library opens its new exhibition, "Letters by J.D. Salinger," on March 16. Less than two months after his death, the dam of silence Salinger spent half a century building has finally sprung its first leak.
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Win or lose, Fighter of the Decade Manny Pacquiao will go on to campaign for Congress in the Philippines after Saturday's bout. Boxing's savior may never come back.
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Chinese film director Jia Zhangke, the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, talks about the relationship between political freedom and art in China.
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Celebrating the neglected waterway's flora, fauna and cultural identity as seen through the eyes of 25 or so local artists.
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Broken Bells, the pop duo featuring Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, and James Mercer of The Shins, releases its self-titled debut—the kind of textured pop album that reveals new joys with repeated exposure.
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With Hollywood shying away from Islamist villains, it's up to Indian films to give them a showing.
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The Metropolitan Opera's production of Shostakovich's "The Nose," designed by William Kentridge, stunningly captures and communicates the work's anarchic spirit.
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World-renowned concert pianist Byron Janis on his musical journey to understand the "bittersweet melancholy" behind Chopin's sublime music.
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