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?
A response to Charles Krauthammer.
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
Congratulations to...
Can you top this?
A larger question
How to do it fairly
American justice at work
On inflation and the debt
On a subject of no interest to almost everybody
Is there some sort of law?
‘And I was right, of course.'
A couple of new graphs give ammo to people who think so
She was right the first time, and wrong now
His prediction has turned out to be somewhat true
The hosts of CNN's new show should watch a few tapes
Don't we prefer the truth, even if it pops out by accident?
Another patronizing column
Nobody asked, but here's what I've been reading lately
How to console a teenager who didn't get into his top school
A little proof that, pace Krugman, I'm not obviously wrong
What they have in common
On the threat of "Canadian-style 'star chambers'"
You can't insure against everything
Those hedge funders are right--it is unfair
New York Times editors could be a bit more skeptical.
The dangers of failing to distinguish everyday politics from illegal coercion
It's not "just politics." It's politics.
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
Why is the right comparing our immigration laws to Mexico's?
Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post beat me to the punch
Has anyone in history ever been as busy as Jon Meacham?
A book suggestion
The New Republic's Jonathan Chait, admirably trying to make trouble
On the unusual lifestyle of Antonin Scalia
Products do disappear, and so do the companies that make them
It's an economic problem, perhaps with an economic solution.
People now agree with me
1929 and now
The debate about finance reform has become almost entirely a debate about government bailouts...
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