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» Michael Barone: How the GOP got this way

Today’s Republicans are largely united in opposition to the policies of the Obama administration, but they disagree on tactics.

» Back to bad schools

The world children are being prepared for in school is fundamentally different from the one that awaits them after graduation.

» Dianne Feinstein denounced treachery, torture and spying on Congress

The oldest serving senator in one of the upper chamber’s most-demanding jobs, she can afford to be independent and doesn’t have to worry about re-election if she decides to run again.

» ‘Though we’re better prepared, enemy far stronger than on 9/11’

U.S. troops are back in the fight in Iraq, and the debate in Washington has shifted from how to end the current wars to whether to start a new one against a more deadly version of the same enemy.

» Three Dodd-Frank rules the finance industry wants most to change

Four years after the Dodd-Frank financial reform law passed Congress, most of its big regulatory provisions have been written. But that doesn’t mean that the lobbying and politicking over the legislation is over.

» With elections looming, Congress hopes to run out the clock on Syria

The growing threat from ISIS has forced both President Obama and Congress into a pre-election quandary of deciding whether to move forward with expanded military action.

» U.S. should use ISIS’ enemies against it

Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wants to address the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria “on both sides of what is essentially at this point a nonexistent border” between Iraq and Syria.

» Koch name ID rises in states where it counts for Democrats

Thanks largely to Harry Reid and the Senate Majority PAC with ties to him, many more voters know of the Koch brothers now — at least in key battleground states.

» Changes to EPA gasoline rules may shake U.S. ethanol industry

The cuts may drive even more Brazilian sugarcane to American shores.

» Regulators struggle with Obamacare’s narrow networks problem

President Obama’s healthcare law has provided an economic case study on the tradeoffs between cost and access.

» Democrats spend big in Michigan, to Republicans’ delight

Terri Lynn Land was not supposed to be a formidable candidate.

» Obama lacks eyes and ears in hot spots around the world

Vice President Joe Biden didn’t get the customary airport tarmac welcome by the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala when he arrived in the Central American nation June 20.

» President Obama can’t win right now, and the future doesn’t look any better

Push Congress to vote, Republicans won’t go along. Take action on his own, they’ll charge him with overreach. Hold back, and he’ll bleed support from Dems.

» Michael Barone: Obama’s delusions dispelled? Well, we can hope for change

This is not what President Obama expected for his presidency. The world was not supposed to fall apart.

» GOP governors’ cave-in on Medicaid is shortsighted

A growing number of Republican governors are caving in to Medicaid expansion through President Obama’s healthcare law.

» Editorial: You can’t trust Obamacare to keep your details safe

In July, hackers breached the computer system of the federal healthcare.gov insurance exchange. Officials only discovered the breach in late August.