47 results for "Eugene Robinson"
Eugene Robinson: U.S. foray into Syrian conflict will not end well
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 12:00 AMIn Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: An old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA arms-running operation, the traditional plan to prop up ostensible "moderates" whose prospects...
Eugene Robinson: Verizon story shows government’s prying power has gone way too far
Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 12:00 AMSomeday, a young girl will look up into her father's eyes and ask, "Daddy, what was privacy?" The father probably won't recall. I fear we've already forgotten that there was a time when a U.S. citizen's telephone calls ...
Eugene Robinson: Government should seek a plea deal with Army 'Wikileaker'
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe treatment of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been excessively harsh, as far as I can tell. If he is found guilty of leaking more than 700,000 classified documents, he deserves some punishment – probably – but should not be at risk of...
Eugene Robinson: Obama can't wait for Congress to see reality of climate change
Friday, May 24, 2013 at 12:00 AMPresident Barack Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem.
Eugene Robinson: President needs to understand that it's news, not espionage
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists' phone records, perusing their emails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news.
Eugene Robinson: Benghazi hearings by Issa look more like a witch hunt
Friday, May 10, 2013 at 12:00 AMThose who are trying to make the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal for the Obama administration really ought to decide what story line they want to sell.
Eugene Robinson: Before intervening in Syria, a fistful of questions to answer
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 12:00 AMFor all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:
Eugene Robinson: Margaret Thatcher shunned feminist doctrine, but lived it
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 12:00 AMWhen I met Margaret Thatcher, she was out of office, watching with more than a touch of amusement as her successor, John Major, meandered from crisis to disappointment to sticky wicket.
Eugene Robinson: Are these candidates the best the GOP can come up with?
Friday, April 5, 2013 at 12:00 AMI think I've figured it out. Republicans must be staging some kind of fiendishly clever plot to lure Democrats into a false sense of security.
Eugene Robinson: Rand Paul's filibuster rightly called out U.S. policy on drones
Friday, March 8, 2013 at 12:00 AMRand Paul was right. There, I said it.
