Five Best Friday Columns

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Stephen Carter on the 'faculty lounge,' Joshua Green on private equity, Michael Kinsley on China, Charles Krauthammer on the Nationals, and Tom Manion on Memorial Day.

By Eric Randall

May 24, 2012

Five Best Thursday Columns

Steve Coll on quitting Facebook, Ezra Klein on Romney's governorship, Thomas Hart Jr. on the high-speed rail, Jonathan Alter on negative campaigns, and Laurence Bherer and Pascale Dufour on Quebec's draconian law

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By Eric Randall

May 23, 2012

Five Best Wednesday Columns

Steve Rattner on Bain and jobs, Richard Grenell on gay Republicans, Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz on Iran talks, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on Facebook's IPO, and Dana Milbank on banking regulations

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By Eric Randall

May 22, 2012

Five Best Tuesday Columns

Charles Lane on gas prices, Jeffrey Goldberg on the TSA, David Brooks on private equity, Harry J. Enten on the Hillary-Biden switch, and Frank Bruni on political spouses.

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By Eric Randall

May 21, 2012

Five Best Monday Columns

James Surowiecki on Facebook's IPO, Michael Medved on the popular vote, Garry Kasparov on the Russian alliance, Noah Feldman on Mormon assimilation, and Roderick MacFarquhar on Bo Xilai 

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By Eric Randall

May 18, 2012

Five Best Friday Columns

Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein on partisanship solutions, George W. Bush on the Arab Spring, Charles Krauthammer on Obama's gay marriage arguments, Paul Krugman on the euro's collapse, and Joshua Green on the filibuster.

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By Eric Randall

May 17, 2012

Five Best Thursday Columns

Gustin Reichbach on medical marijuana, George Will on subsidized college loans, Ezra Klein on American decline, Michael Tomasky on Romney and the Tea Party, and E.J. Dionne on Romney's praise for Clinton

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By Eric Randall

May 16, 2012

Five Best Wednesday Columns

Margaret Carlson on Rob Portman, Tom Frost on big banks, Ruth Marcus on John Edwards, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on Facebook's IPO, and George Packer on Biden and LBJ

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By Eric Randall

May 15, 2012

Five Best Tuesday Columns

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on economics of gay marriage, Jonathan Macey on J.P Morgan, Frank Bruni on Republicans and marriage, Michael Gerson on Romney's Liberty University speech, and Atossa Abrahamian on dual citizenship.

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By Eric Randall

May 14, 2012

Five Best Monday Columns

Adam Sorenson on Jamie Dimon, Jackson Diehl on Obama and Putin, Juliette Kayyem on Mississippi and immigration, Albert Hunt on Joseph Kennedy III, and Mustafa Aykol on Islamists and liberalism 

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By Eric Randall

May 11, 2012

Five Best Friday Columns

John Dickerson on Romney's bullying story, Michael Gerson on millenial attitudes, Kimberley Strassel on trolling Romney's donors, Gerald Rafshoon on Jimmy Carter's courage, and Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong on baby formula and hospitals.

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By Eric Randall

May 10, 2012

Five Best Thursday Columns

Ben Adler on Obama's next gay rights issue, Mark Kantrowitz and Lynn O'Shaughnessy on the college loan debate, Joan Vennochi on Elizabeth Warren, Noah Feldman on Israel's new coalition, and Nicholas Kristof on poverty on Indian reservations.

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By Eric Randall

May 9, 2012

Five Best Wednesday Columns

Amy Davidson on North Carolina's ban, Jonathan Chait on Dick Lugar's defeat, Derrick Jackson on the obesity crisis, David Ignatius on threats to airplanes, and Adam Kirsch on Obama's literary criticism.

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By Eric Randall

May 8, 2012

Five Best Tuesday Columns

Frank Bruni on Obama's gay marriage stance, Noah Feldman on the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial, William McGurn on Chen Guangcheng's timing, Joanna Weiss on the 'Life of Julia,' and Sally Satel on Facebook's organ donation program.

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By Eric Randall

May 7, 2012

Five Best Monday Columns

Rosecrans Baldwin on Nicolas Sarkozy's exit, Jerome Cohen on Chen Guangcheng's luck, Mark Halperin on the Obama campaign's confidence, James Surowiecki on Wal-Mart and bribery, and William Cohan on arrogance at Lehman Brothers

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By Eric Randall

May 4, 2012

Five Best Friday Columns

John Pomfret on China's view of the U.S., Peggy Noonan on Dick Lugar's primary, Ruth Marcus on Ric Grenell, David Brooks on online education, and Joan Wickersham on reality TV.

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By Eric Randall

May 3, 2012

Five Best Thursday Columns

Dana Milbank on Newt's exit, George Will on his son's Down syndrome, Juliette Kayyem on Al Qaeda, Ezra Klein on Europe's crisis, and Meghan Daum on the Ugly Meter app

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By Eric Randall

May 2, 2012

Five Best Wednesday Columns

Ronald Kessler on Secret Service scandals, Jeff Jacoby on Warren's and Brown's tax returns, Dorothy Rabinowitz on the Romney campaign, Joe Klein on insurance exchanges, and Pamela Samuelson on digitizing books

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By Eric Randall

May 1, 2012

Five Best Tuesday Columns

Michelle Cottle on the Bin Laden ad, Homero Aridjis on Wal-Mart in Mexico, Jack Shafer on Watergate and Woodward, David Brooks on campaign metaphors, and Bret Stephens on Condoleezza Rice for VP.

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By John Hudson

Apr 30, 2012

Five Best Monday Columns

Juan Williams on Condoleezza Rice, Bill Keller on North Korea, Shikha Dalmia on big government conservatives, Paul Krugman on youth unemployment, George Will on LBJ. 

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