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Rather than facilitate suicides, the government’s role should be to prevent them.

  • Jason Chaffetz, Jim DeMint
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Virginia would be right to follow Texas’s lead on criminal-justice reform.

  • Ken Cuccinelli II
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Community engagement and creative problem-solving will help build stronger schools.

  • Ben Persett
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Its investments should match the values of its residents.

  • Mike Tidwell
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A teaching method obsesses over our differences.

  • Mike Gonzalez
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When the president acts, candidates must respond -- quickly.

  • Norman Leahy
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The left trivializes the debate as a patently obvious matter of civil rights — as if disagreement exists only because of a Republican obsession with genitals and restroom usage.

  • Thomas Wheatley
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Boycott the inauguration is downright shameful.

  • Thomas Wheatley
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  • Jan 19
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What would political newcomer Laura Ingraham bring to the commonwealth's gubernatorial race?

  • Norman Leahy
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  • Jan 18
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Foreign companies create high-paying jobs and invest in our communities.

  • Gerald L. Gordon
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  • Jan 17
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Isiah Leggett acted rationally and bravely in vetoing a bill to precipitously raise the county’s minimum wage.

The region held its breath for two days, and its transit system coped.

The District should not shelter criminal undocumented immigrants.

It’s time for the hypocrisy to end.

The District adopted aid-in-dying legislation after thoughtful debate and study, but Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) appears not to care about that.

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Regarding Colbert I. King’s Jan. 28 op-ed, “Do unto Congress as Rubio wants to do to D.C.”: We are products of nature and experiences, and thus Mr. King’s view on gun rights is defensible. But at so...

President Trump’s effort to force law enforcement agencies in “sanctuary” cities to become adjuncts of federal immigration authorities has a clear precedent [“D.C. plan to assist immigrants questioned...

I saw three arrays of photographs in the A section on Jan. 15; one was captioned “counterclockwise,” and two were captioned “clockwise.” I have previously seen arrays in The Post with multiple shots...

It took a former Montgomery County Public Schools reading teacher from Bethesda’s Burning Tree Elementary School to commit $20 million of her own money to help finance the $50 million Planet Word,...

A new report by Common Cause Maryland detailed how the bail bond industry has thrived in Maryland on the backs of the poor and people of color. As the Jan. 26 Metro article “Report: Bail groups g...

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I enjoyed reading Peter Marks’s account of life backstage at “The Front Page” [“Places, please!,” Arts & Style, Jan. 15]. I worked on props for plays and musicals while in college and later voluntee...

In his otherwise-excellent Jan. 16 op-ed, “The essence of narcissism,” Michael Gerson trivialized the Civil War as being about “regional differences.” The Civil War was fought between one side that...

In her Jan. 16 Style review, “A breath of fresh air in form bound by tradition,” Anne Midgette wrote, “Book lovers, as a rule, do not shy away from a new novel because it is not likely to be as grea...

Thank you for Timothy R. Smith’s review of Gregor Hens’s book “Nicotine” [“The emotional up and down of lighting up,” Jan. 18, Book World]. It was shocking to read Smith declaring that he was l...

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The Jan. 14 Free for All letter “A fossil marvel from Bears Ears” featured a picture of Comb Ridge, a marvelous geologic feature that forms the eastern boundary of Bears Ears. The land to the east of...

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