Opinion: Today’s Opinion: McGovern Lectures Labor, Red Line Wants to Be Free, and a Selection From the Weekend

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Niall Ferguson: World Markets’ Wild Ride
Economic volatility is back with a vengeance.

George S. McGovern: The End of ‘More’
A Democratic stalwart warns that labor’s old strategy can’t win against a new competitive reality.

Gershom Gorenberg: Paying for Israel’s Makeover
U.S. funds for a controversial settlement pullback could help advance a peace agreement.

Editorials

Gitmo, Get Gone
Running out of excuses for not removing a national blight.

If we build it, they will ride
The Red Line could be expanded to Fairfax without local money, but only if county leaders show guts.

End Ethanol Subsidies Now
There’s no reason to artificially prop up energy prices.

Selected Weekend Commentary:

Tom Blanton: The Lie Behind the Secrets
The government’s secrets claim crushes the rights of whistle-blowers and mistaken detainees.

Michael Skube: Get out, But Leave the Quesadilla
Why Americans get clingy about carne asada but are ready to give Spanish-speaking immigrants the boot.

Peter Dreier: The Condo That Ate My Rental
Converting apartment buildings into condominiums is killing affordable housing.

Jonathan Chait: The Right Discovers Bush’s ‘Honesty’
Conservatives are finally getting a taste of his misleading rhetoric.

Selected Weekend Editorials:

No on Proposition 82
Universal preschool is too expensive, too bureuacratic, and could harm K-12.

No Más in the Senate
‘National language’ amendment illustrates how immigration debate brings out the worst in Washington.

Act Before Midnight Nov. 7!
Desperate senators peddle the Constitution to the lowest common denominator.