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It costs taxpayers between $31,000 and $37,000 each year to house and provide services for a prisoner.Â (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Crime

Criminal justice needs a new investment strategy

alison-holcomb -

October 21, 2015 8:22 am

Republican presidential hopeful DonaldÂ Trump is no dummy; he's running a campaign geared towards voters that many Republican candidates, with their emphases on tax cuts, free trade, and immigration reform, have perennially ignored. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Beltway Confidential

Will conservative attacks on Trump miss mark?

Byron York -

October 21, 2015 1:24 am

WhileÂ Russia's President Vladimir PutinÂ was in New York publicly scolding the United States in front of the U.N., the terrorist group Hezbollah, Iranian troops and Shiite fighters from Iraq were quietly preparing theÂ ground game in Syria.Â (Sergey Guneyev/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

The U.S. must step up and lead

Rep. Ted Poe -

October 20, 2015 4:01 am

Hillary re-proved herself as an able debater (as she was in 2008, when she lost to Obama), but her skills in much else remain poor.Â (AP file photo/Karel Navarro)

Columnists

Highly debatable

Noemie Emery -

October 20, 2015 4:01 am

Due to its distributed nature and extensive network, the North American electrical grid is phenomenally resilient, with the ability to shift power distribution at any time of day and seal off potential areas of concern or damage.Â (AP file photo/Mel Evans)

Energy and Environment

Preparation, not panic, is best way to meet threat of potential EMP attack

Mark Weatherford -

October 20, 2015 4:01 am

Disagreement over legalization has politically held up efforts to reform the rest of the immigration system. (AP Photo)Â

Columnists

Immigration can be wonderful, when it’s legal

Dan Hannan -

October 19, 2015 5:00 am

Debbie Ziegler, mother of Brittany Maynard, speaks to the media after the passage of legislation, which would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives, at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.Â Brittany Maynard became the long-awaited face of the right-to-die movement.Â (AP Photo/Carl Costas, File)

Healthcare

Doctor-prescribed suicide is never the answer

anne-sommers, lindsay-baran -

October 19, 2015 4:01 am

At the first Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders called for

Opinion

Democrats’ debate: No solution for economic inequality, no interest in economic growth

Michael Barone -

October 19, 2015 4:01 am

Opinion

Byron & Barone: The Democratic debate

Steve Doty -

October 16, 2015 10:45 am

King acknowledged the power that the Women's March sent but signaled that healing should be the ultimate aim. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Op-Eds

The Million Man March, then and now

Alveda King -

October 16, 2015 4:02 am

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Criminal justice needs a new investment strategy

Will conservative attacks on Trump miss mark?

The U.S. must step up and lead

Highly debatable

Preparation, not panic, is best way to meet threat of potential EMP attack

Immigration can be wonderful, when it’s legal

Doctor-prescribed suicide is never the answer

Democrats’ debate: No solution for economic inequality, no interest in economic growth

Byron & Barone: The Democratic debate

The Million Man March, then and now

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