The Art of Staying on Message
Rick Lazio may not know the price of a subway card, but he does know how to drill a soundbite
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Rick Lazio may not know the price of a subway card, but he does know how to drill a soundbite
Are they against fertility clinics, too?
Is Obama a Muslim? Pew and other polling groups have created a world where everything is an opinion and nothing is a fact.
You can search high and low and not find a Republican politician who will publicly support it
Is there any reason to oppose the mosque that isn't bigoted, or demagogic, or unconstitutional?
Can an institutional approval rating go below zero? Because Congress is almost there.
Wouldn’t you be curious to know whether your surgeon is facing Alzheimer's?
Art Laffer, inventor of the world's most destructive geometric shape, is still performing old party tricks
A little proof that, pace Krugman, I'm not obviously wrong
The dangers of failing to distinguish everyday politics from illegal coercion
No one should feel guilty or ashamed about not having served in Vietnam
I would be delighted to have a national identity card--on one condition
Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post beat me to the punch
Has anyone in history ever been as busy as Jon Meacham?
The New Republic's Jonathan Chait, admirably trying to make trouble
It's an economic problem, perhaps with an economic solution.
The debate about finance reform has become almost entirely a debate about government bailouts...
Michael Kinsley agrees we need to learn the "right lessons," but not the ones Zakaria suggests
Michael Kinsley on the folly of not knowing a Supreme Court nominee's views
Michael Kinsley says if the GOP wants to filibuster, they ought to do it "the old fashioned way"
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