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Updated: Jun 17, 2013 12:11am

A recent Supreme Court decision on law enforcement performing DNA tests on criminal suspects was quickly overshadowed by news of the federal government’s compiling the personal data of virtually...

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Updated: Jun 17, 2013 12:11am

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Brooks: Heroes of uncertainty

Updated: May 29, 2013 12:06am

By DAVID BROOKS

New York Times News Service

We’re living in an empirical age. The most impressive intellectual feats have been achieved by physicists and biologists, and these fields...

Brooks: Heroes of uncertainty

Updated: May 29, 2013 12:07am

By DAVID BROOKS

New York Times News Service

We’re living in an empirical age. The most impressive intellectual feats have been achieved by physicists and biologists, and these fields...

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Updated: May 29, 2013 12:06am

The world as seen by cartoonist Chris Britt, The State Journal-Register

Veterans Affairs backlog

Updated: May 27, 2013 12:05am

By JULIETTE KAYYEM

New York Times News Service

This week, we honor those who have died in America’s wars. And those who survive. Veterans and active-duty officers own the moment, as...

Milbank: Performances worthy of an audit

Updated: May 27, 2013 12:05am

By DANA MILBANK

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — They were the speak-no-evil and see-no-evil duo of the Internal Revenue Service.

Lois Lerner, who runs the IRS office that...

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Updated: May 27, 2013 12:05am

The world as seen by cartoonist Marshall Ramsey, The Clarion-Ledger

Obama’s artful anguish

Updated: May 26, 2013 12:06am

By ROSS DOUTHAT

New York Times News Service

President Barack Obama’s speech on national security last week was a dense thicket of self-justifying argument, but its central message was...

In Congress, power follows money

Updated: May 26, 2013 12:06am

WASHINGTON — Call it the revenge of the 1 percent. President Obama bested Mitt Romney by portraying his Republican opponent as a rich businessman who used offshore tax havens and ran enterprises...

Your Views for May 26

Updated: May 26, 2013 12:06am

How to fix UH

What is the University of Hawaii administration? It is a titanic, multi-stationed bureaucracy with characteristics of a welfare state.

What is the University of Hawaii...

Cartoon for May 26

Updated: May 26, 2013 12:06am

The Big Island as seen by Hawaii Tribune-Herald cartoonist Gary Hoff