While partisanship is red hot on Capitol Hill, four animal protection measures have the potential to elicit bipartisan consensus.

How the mighty Washington Post, the newspaper that brought down a U.S. president by its Watergate investigations in the early 1970s, has changed. Now, the foremost newspaper in the most powerful city in the world, the go-to guardian of free speech and the public’s right to know in the nation’s capital, has taken the point to bury the significance of the biggest leak of U.S. military operations in history.