Author: Max Fisher

What's Next for Tunisia?

Signs of democracy, but it won't be easy

By Max Fisher

Sep 21, 2009

Good Question!

Do Twitter and Facebook Inflame Obama Hatred?

Steve Chapman wonders if technology intensifies the over-the-top criticism

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By Max Fisher

Sep 21, 2009

Who Will John Edwards Tarnish Next?

Critics implicate his former aide, the New York Times, and his wife Elizabeth

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By Max Fisher

Sep 21, 2009

U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Calls for Surge, Warns of 'Mission Failure'

An explosive memo lays out the stakes, and hints at a rift between the White House and the military

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By Max Fisher

Sep 18, 2009

Charles Krauthammer: Is Obama Trustworthy?

Krauthammer questions Obama's trustworthiness and honesty, which others defend

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By Max Fisher

Sep 18, 2009

Obama's Controversial Rosh Hashanah Statement?

For some, even a Hallmark-style YouTube is cause for criticism

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By Max Fisher

Sep 18, 2009

Who Won the Day?

David Brooks's Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians

America's current divisions are deeper, and less partisan, than you might think

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By Max Fisher

Sep 18, 2009

Strange Bedfellows

Bill O'Reilly Loves the Public Option?!

He may just want exchanges, but either way he joins progressive Dems, briefly

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By Max Fisher

Sep 18, 2009

Spatwatch

CIA Bargaining Between Law and Security

Matthew Yglesias and David Ignatious debate the CIA's role

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By Max Fisher

Sep 18, 2009

Screed

Sarah Palin is Like Paris Hilton and Napster

Greg Beato favorably equates Palin to Hilton

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By Max Fisher

Sep 18, 2009

What Got Red and Blue America Reignited?

Explorations into our political divide go deeper than race or party, according to four interesting takes

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By Max Fisher

Sep 18, 2009

Evaluating Obama's Afghanistan-Pakistan Metrics

The White House has 46 ways to determine success in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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By Max Fisher

Sep 17, 2009

Lightning Rod

Race Rules All in Obama's America

Rush Limbaugh's race-baiting ignites the left and right

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By Max Fisher

Sep 17, 2009

Good Question!

Did the Financial Crisis Make Things Better?

Tyler Cowen wonders if we're actually better off

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By Max Fisher

Sep 17, 2009

The 5 Best Parts of Health Care Bill From Baucus

Finding the good news in Baucus's proposed health care reform

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By Max Fisher

Sep 17, 2009

The 5 Worst Parts of Health Care Bill From Baucus

About 24 hours later, experts and columnists have digested the 220 page document

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By Max Fisher

Sep 16, 2009

Good Question!

What Happened to Free-Trade Democrats?

Michael C. Moynihan wonders why the party of NAFTA became so protectionist

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By Max Fisher

Sep 16, 2009

Screed

Closing the "Hormone-Filled Gap"

Michael Gerson decries pre-marital sex and cohabitation

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By Heather Horn and Max Fisher

Sep 16, 2009

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Health Care Bill

Max Baucus's 200 pages, dropped this morning, draws criticism, praise and shock

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By Max Fisher

Sep 16, 2009

Lightning Rod

Hurry Up and Wait on Health Care

Max Baucus contradicts his own calls for patience and bipartisanship

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By Max Fisher

Sep 16, 2009

Can Health Care Reform Survive Without GOP?

Sen. Olympia Snowe backs out, leaving zero Republican support, but Democrats continue to hope

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By Benjamin F. Carlson and Max Fisher

Sep 16, 2009

Rethinking Bush After His Swipe Against Palin

A tell-all book revealing his feelings on the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and her running mate, Sen. John McCain, alters his support dramatically

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By Max Fisher

Sep 15, 2009

Screed

All White People Secretly Fear 'Black Male Violence'

Rod Dreher feels frightened of and humiliated by anti-white racism

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By Max Fisher

Sep 15, 2009

Ayn Rand in Modern American Politics

The ideological leader of libertarian thought may be a driving force of today's conservatism

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By Max Fisher

Sep 15, 2009

Strange Bedfellows

Is Barack Obama Becoming Herbert Hoover?

Harper's and the Wall Street Journal compare presidents

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By Max Fisher

Sep 15, 2009

Should Jews Be Liberals?

Why are they? Divining the ideology of a culture.

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By Max Fisher

Sep 14, 2009

Conservative Takeaways From the 9/12 Protest

Republicans highlight the best parts and anticipate the criticisms

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By Max Fisher

Sep 10, 2009

Lightning Rod

Obama's Heckler Draws Mockery, Loathing

Liberals make Joe Wilson an Internet meme

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By Max Fisher

Sep 10, 2009

Obama's Heckler: Hero or Idiot?

Conservatives warily endorse or condemn Joe Wilson

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By Max Fisher

Sep 9, 2009

Health Reform Without G.O.P.: Is It Worth It?

Max Baucus, a crucial Democratic senator, urges his party to sacrifice Republican support as well as the public option

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By Max Fisher

Sep 9, 2009

Good Question!

Did We Trap Ourselves in Afghanistan?

Michael Crowley cites our Afghan Envoy's doubts

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By Max Fisher

Sep 9, 2009

Who Won the Day?

Steve Coll on the Hidden Reform

Obama may have already secured health care's biggest change for the better

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By Max Fisher

Sep 9, 2009

Good Question!

How Much is Karl Rove Worth?

The ex-Bush adviser auctions off lunch. So far, no bids.

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By Max Fisher

Sep 9, 2009

Lightning Rod

The Fringe-Fighting Pundit Who Fears Nothing

Republican strategist John Henke takes on extremists in both parties

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By Max Fisher

Sep 9, 2009

Conservative Hero in White House Faces Off With Beck

Beck is targetting a White House appointee beloved by conservatives and loathed by the far left

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By Max Fisher

Sep 8, 2009

Who Won the Day?

Ezra Klein Dissects BaucusCare

He finds the good and fixes the bad from this liberal bogeyman

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By Max Fisher

Sep 8, 2009

Spatwatch

Health Care Bill: Progress or Disaster?

Marcy Wheeler and Ezra Klein throw down on Sen. Baucus's new health care bill

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By Max Fisher

Sep 8, 2009

Good Question!

Must Conservatives Be Religious?

AllahPundit asks why he's excluded for lack of religion

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By Max Fisher

Sep 8, 2009

Obama's Appeal to Students Wins Some Kudos on Right

Some conservatives defend it as good or just banal, but others say the medium is the message

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By Max Fisher

Sep 8, 2009

How Van Jones Changes Everything

Three brilliant arguments on the long-term ramifications of Jones' dismissal

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By Max Fisher

Sep 8, 2009

Should White House Have Fought for Van Jones?

Liberals split over whether Obama should have gone to war

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By Max Fisher

Sep 4, 2009

On Health Care Debate, Stepping Back to Laugh

Ze Frank, usually a jokester, takes a semi-serious look at health care in this video

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By Max Fisher

Sep 4, 2009

The Health Care Reform Conservatives Love

David Goldhill's proposed reform has got conservatives and economists rallying for change, but liberals protest

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By Max Fisher

Sep 4, 2009

How Obama's School Speech Became "Propaganda"

All the evidence says it's just a speech, but that hasn't stopped the screaming on both sides

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By Max Fisher

Sep 3, 2009

Are Rich Kids Really More Successful?

Economists look at adopted children, SAT scores, income rates, and more

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By Max Fisher

Sep 2, 2009

Why Levi Did It

What it means for Palin, and the echoes of a certain 2008 conspiracy theory

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By Max Fisher

Sep 2, 2009

Understanding the Gmail Shut-Down

With even the White House sometimes relying on Google, the blackout raises real issues

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By Max Fisher

Sep 2, 2009

Mike Huckabee's Health Care Reform

HuckabeeCare is so crazy it might just work, says one liberal. Another calls him too socialist.

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By Max Fisher

Sep 1, 2009

President Dick Cheney?

Conservative boosters can't be serious. ...right?

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By Max Fisher

Sep 1, 2009

Starting Over on Health Care Reform

Conservatives are calling for Obama to finally lay out a specific plan

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By Max Fisher

Sep 1, 2009

Will Investigations Deter CIA?

Eric Holder's attention could affect the behavior of CIA interrogators in different ways

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