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• Valid exit strategy from Afghanistan

  May 24, 8:26 AM

  The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Wednesday, May 23:

• Commentary: How politics cripple Latin American universities

  May 24, 5:26 AM

  The appointment of Venezuelan-born Rafael Reif as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) last week raises an interesting question: why are so many Latin Americans excelling in the world’s best universities, but not in Latin America?

• Commentary: Romney must be more than a Mr. Fix-It

  May 21, 11:15 AM

  I’d guess that about now it’s panic time at President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters. Last week, a poll showed Republican Mitt Romney edging ahead of Obama 46-43 percent, but what really stood out was Romney’s support among women. The former Massachusetts governor had surged ahead, 46-44.

• Commentary: Joe Ricketts' good move in backing away from anti-Obama hatefest

  May 23, 5:21 AM

  Joe Ricketts has decided not to spend $10 million on hate. Good call. Ricketts is a billionaire, having founded TD Ameritrade, a company that promotes online stock trading by ordinary folks. You’ve seen the commercials on television.

• Commentary: There are no traditional marriages

  May 23, 5:21 AM

  I’m a man married to a woman raising two young kids under the same roof.

  Our children weren’t conceived until a couple of years after we walked down the aisle.

• The agricultural version of Fannie Mae

  May 22, 9:41 AM

  The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Monday, May 21:

• Commentary: U.S. demographics are shifting but we're all Americans

  May 22, 6:41 AM

  The U.S. Census Bureau says I won't be a minority in California within three years, if not sooner. It also said last week that for the first time in American history, minority births have surpassed white births.

• Commentary: Mitt Romney and prep school bullying

  May 18, 10:17 AM

  If Mitt Romney had bullied a classmate in South Carolina today, he might be facing a rap for assault and battery by a mob, formerly known as lynching. Jail time might have sharpened his memory of the incident.

• Commentary: Time to fill Ninth Circuit vacancies

  May 21, 10:48 AM

  On May 7, the Senate finally confirmed U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Nguyen 91-3 for the Ninth Circuit five months after her unopposed Judiciary Committee vote. However, three of 29 judgeships remain vacant on the nation’s largest appellate court.

• Frida Ghitis: Netanyahu's move changes landscape

  May 21, 7:33 AM

  The new era of sudden, potentially transformative developments lives on in the Middle East, and it reached Israel in the middle of the night on May 8.

• Commentary: Quit texting and drive

  May 16, 10:43 AM

  Looking back, it was such a quaint little crusade, a futile gesture against the indomitable lure of technology that never got much beyond a bumper sticker slogan: “Shut up and drive.”

• Commentary: The Massachusetts senate race Indian War of 2012

  May 21, 5:18 AM

  The race for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts has taken a turn toward the absurd.

• Commentary: $40 billion in foreign aid may be wasted each year

  May 18, 2:53 PM

  About $40 billion in global foreign aid may be wasted each year – failing to reach the poor people of the world – due to inefficient, political and nationalistic obstacles set up by aid donors, top aid officials have admitted.

• Commentary: When enough is enough

  May 16, 11:52 AM

  I admit it. I winced when I saw the Time magazine cover of a defiant-looking young mother nursing her almost 4-year-old son, posed standing on a kiddie chair and appearing uncomfortable as he suckles her left breast.

  That poor child, I thought, is being used as a weapon in a manufactured war.

• Commentary: Courageous move or cynical political ploy?

  May 14, 11:48 AM

  There they are again, back at the corner table speaking at volumes that only those who are too caffeinated or too confident could be comfortable with.

• Commentary: Is society to blame for making us fat?

  May 16, 10:57 AM

  Over the weekend, on a family day trip to a Bay Area amusement park, it was stunning to see so many people in one place who've lost control of their weight. There were obese people of all races and ethnicities, but most poignant of all were the kids who virtually waddled as they walked.

• Linda P. Campbell: NYC summer internship will be a lesson for one teen and her parents

  May 18, 8:22 AM

  Finding temporary housing in London was easier, I swear it.

• Commentary: Obama's gay marriage stand detracts from his accomplishments

  May 14, 11:37 AM

  When President Obama takes the stage in Bank of America stadium in Charlotte late this summer to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, he’ll be standing roughly 20 miles south of Davidson College.

• Commentary: 'Life of Julia' is a life without ambition

  May 17, 6:52 AM

  The right-wing blogosphere has been having a fine time with the “The Life of Julia,” the Obama campaign’s attempt to show, through a series of USA Today-style illustrations, how the policies of President Obama come to the aid of women at every important moment in their lives.

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