Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson argues that Army Pfc. Bradley Manning deserves to be punished — but not too severely. The 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…

The Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson says that a war against identifiable foes can be won — and, for the most part, has been. President Obama wisely avoided the phrase “mission accomplished” in his major speech last week about the “war on terror,” but columnists aren’t obliged to be so circumspect: It is time to declare…

The Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson gives perspective on the Associated Press scandal. The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their e-mails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn’t chilling, it’s just plain cold. It also may well be unconstitutional. In…

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says that Thatcher lived by her own definition of what it meant to be a woman, and that has to be called feminism — whether or not she would have liked it. Thatcher was a towering but polarizing figure. Many aspects of her legacy — the transformation of Britain into…

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says that creating a situation in which teachers are more likely than children to cheat cannot be the right path to improving American education. It is time to acknowledge that the fashionable theory of school reform — requiring that pay and job security for teachers, principals and administrators depend on…

In his column for the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson writes of his hopes that the U.S. Supreme Court will not halt the country’s rapid movement toward acceptance of same-sex marriage. The two big cases being argued before the court this week could turn out to be landmarks that confirm the nation’s progress toward marriage equality…

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson explains why the point the Republican was making about drones was worth supporting — even for those who rarely agree with him. The Republican senator from Kentucky, whom I’ve ridiculed as an archconservative kook — because that’s basically what he is — was right to call attention to the growing…

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says it’s “simply amazing” that we’re talking about President Obama’s legacy, not his race. President Barack Hussein Obama’s second inauguration was every bit as historic as his first — not because it said so much about the nation’s long, bitter, unfinished struggle with issues of race, as was the case…

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says that congressional Republicans are focused on brinkmanship that is at best pointless and at worst destructive. President Obama is set to begin his second term at a moment when the question is not what great things our nation can achieve but whether our government, in Obama’s words, can “stop…

The Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson says the environmental issue has already put itself on the agenda — even if no one else has. All right, now can we talk about climate change? After a year when the lower 48 states suffered the warmest temperatures, and the second-craziest weather, since record-keeping began? Apparently not. The climate-change denialists —…