No longer reminding public officials that they are being watched, judged and held to a high standard, the Washington Post has taken a different approach, writes Jeff Jacoby in the Jewish World Review. Unlike the New York Times, the Post has decided to openly proclaim its preferred presidential horse and to work hard to pull him around the electoral racetrack.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


