By 30 minutes and several days, Barack Obama is running late. He is supposed to be at his grandmother’s in Hawaii — his wife and daughters already are there — but the Senate is still voting on some fairly significant legislation. So here he is, stuck in Washington nine days before Christmas. Illinois’ junior senator […]
Jodi Enda
Jodi Enda covers politics and government from Washington. She previously reported on the White House, presidential elections, and Congress for Knight Ridder newspapers.
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Great Expectations
By 30 minutes and several days, Barack Obama is running late. He is supposed to be at his grandmother’s in Hawaii — his wife and daughters already are there — but the Senate is still voting on some fairly significant legislation. So here he is, stuck in Washington nine days before Christmas. Illinois’ junior senator […]
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Howard’s Beginning
There is little room left to stand in the Atlanta nightclub Eleven50, a cavernous former opera house that sports an outsized mirror ball and the thumping electronic dance music favored by the hip, scantily clad, under-35 set. But on this humid weeknight in early June, the crowd is decidedly unhip, mostly well past its fourth […]
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The Opinion Mystique
Poor Anne Applebaum. She just discovered, after a couple of decades in journalism, that she might be viewed as “a token.” She’s the only woman columnist gracing The Washington Post‘s op-ed page, and she says, with some degree of sarcasm, that she’s lonely. But, apparently, she thinks her loneliness is born of merit. Women shouldn’t […]
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The Women’s View
Kimberly was at home with her two sleeping children when her estranged husband, high on methamphetamines and angry about their impending divorce, showed up at her door last September. “He came in and said he wanted to talk about child-support payments. We were fighting about everything. The divorce was not final,” Kimberly said. “He raped […]
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Mall Walkers
The daylong protest that filed past his back door Sunday is unlikely to spur President Bush to back abortion rights. And the rally on their front steps is unlikely to prompt the Republicans who control the House and Senate to halt their war on reproductive rights. Still, the hundreds of thousands — perhaps 1 million […]