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Petula Dvorak

    October 31, 2014
    DVORAK: A terrible theft of trust
    All these photo scandals we’re talking about? They aren’t really about the nudie pics. These aren’t just dirty old men who want to see bare breasts and thighs. The Georgetown rabbi arrested for allegedly hiding a camera in the mikvah pool area where Jewish women take...
    opinion / columnsOctober 31, 2014 - 2:29pm
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    August 26, 2014
    OPINION: Free Range Kids: Why I let my children walk to the corner store
    Of all the adventures my lucky children had this summer — swimming in two oceans, hanging out on their bearded uncle’s commercial salmon fishing boat, endless popsicles — the biggest one, they told me, was just 495 feet away in their own Washington, D.C., neighborhood. ...
    opinion / columnsAugust 26, 2014 - 12:26pm
    May 28, 2014
    DVORAK: Yes, all women
    Elliot Rodger’s misogynistic ravings inspire a powerful response on Twitter.
    opinion / columnsMay 28, 2014 - 7:51am
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    September 13, 2013
    PETULA DVORAK: On-demand turns 'Weeds' into crack
    This was the summer of irresponsible three-day benders. A few times, it was 4 a.m. and we said yes to just one more episode, even though the kids would be up in a couple of hours and we knew we'd be zombies at work the next day. But we couldn't stop. We just had to know whether "Downton...
    opinion / columnsSeptember 13, 2013 - 6:47am
    July 31, 2013
    DVORAK: 'How I Spent My Furlough' Facebook page becomes as divisive as the sequester
    There's a picture of painted toenails against the background of a cool, blue pool. A proud dad with a newborn son. A garage project. A thick, smoked brisket. These are all responses by federal workers explaining how they spent their furlough day. Nice, right?
    opinion / columnsJuly 31, 2013 - 10:12pm
    April 24, 2013
    DVORAK: Easier to shoot off guns than mouths
    WASHINGTON -- It turns out, none of the deaths mattered to much of the U.S. Senate.
    opinion / columns / politicsApril 24, 2013 - 7:57am
    November 23, 2012
    DVORAK: Rape: Scary stranger is not the worst part
    Aaron Thomas was scary. He jumped out from behind bushes and lurked in dark corners. Women were objects, not people, to this serial rapist, who was recently scheduled to plead guilty to rape and abduction charges in Prince William County, Virginia. He said so himself, when he...
    opinion / columns / crimeNovember 23, 2012 - 5:46am
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    October 5, 2012
    DVORAK: Don't look at zoos or humans for perfection
    Let's just put aside the cute little bloody-eyed wallaby for a second. I know. You can't, right? You keep imagining its little paws fighting for survival, flailing about as the pretty blonde who was supposed to take care of it at the Reston (Va.) Zoo, shoved it underwater...
    opinion / columnsOctober 5, 2012 - 7:13am
    September 14, 2012
    DVORAK: Professor has poor reaction to criticism
    WASHINGTON -- The American University professor who breast-fed her baby while teaching a class was inappropriate, judgmental and flat-out absurd. But it wasn't feeding a sick 1-yearold that made her look like a boob. Adrienne Pine went ballistic because the very natural...
    opinion / columnsSeptember 14, 2012 - 7:54am
    August 10, 2012
    DVORAK: Time to stop ignoring the lacking child care system
    We're still waiting. Why can we talk about roof dogs, the kisscam and dressage horses during election season, but not about something that affects more than 6 million American toddlers and infants every day? I'm still waiting for someone to talk about child care. It's a...
    opinion / politics / columnsAugust 10, 2012 - 9:17am
    July 12, 2012
    DVORAK: Kids' mischief and odd injuries put the 'er' in summer
    WASHINGTON -- "Two brothers were here just before you. They were playing Frisbee.
    opinion / columnsJuly 12, 2012 - 5:32pm
    August 19, 2011
    OPINION: Stay single, Bert and Ernie
    WASHINGTON -- Absolutely not. Bert and Ernie should not get married. Fueled by the sea change in states across the nation legalizing same-sex marriage and boosted by a census report that gay households are increasingly going on the record, there is a cheeky but earnest movement...
    opinion / columnsAugust 19, 2011 - 12:20am
    April 7, 2011
    Opinion: Price right with dyes for kids
    WASHINGTON -- We get it.
    opinion / columnsApril 7, 2011 - 8:08am
    March 28, 2011
    Opinion: Exoneration erases only part of accused's debt
    The state of Virginia gave Thomas Haynesworth one heck of a birthday gift last week. After 27 years in prison, the commonwealth set him free. On his 46th birthday. How sweet. The problem is, that's only the beginning of what the government owes this man, even though Haynesworth may...
    opinion / columnsMarch 28, 2011 - 5:31pm
    February 11, 2011
    Opinion: Achievement race is going down the toilet
    WASHINGTON -- Every year, Maria Zimmitti fields the panicked calls as summer winds down and the school year looms. Parents leave frantic messages on her cellphone. They bombard the D.C. child psychologist with e-mails. They need her -- NOW! What's the Bat Signal for? Pee....
    opinion / columnsFebruary 11, 2011 - 8:27am
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