Five Best Wednesday Columns
Cass R. Sunstein on the conservative Constitution, Steven M. Davidoff on Dodd-Frank, Jeffrey A. Meyer on privacy and drug-sniffing dogs, Steve Kornacki on the debate impact, and Ruth Marcus on solitary confinement.
Ezra Klein on Romney and Bush, Nicholas Kristof on healthcare, Anne Applebaum on diplomatic security, Linda Greenhouse on the embarrassment of Fisher v. Texas, and K.C. Cole on male white CEOs.
Cass R. Sunstein on the conservative Constitution, Steven M. Davidoff on Dodd-Frank, Jeffrey A. Meyer on privacy and drug-sniffing dogs, Steve Kornacki on the debate impact, and Ruth Marcus on solitary confinement.
Ramesh Ponnuru on protectionism, David Brooks with rules for lawmakers, William Pesek on "Gangnam Style" economy, Dana Milbank on Harry Reid, and Jo Ellen Chatham on the conservative argument for PBS.
Bill Keller on sexual predators, Jackson Diehl on Obama and Syria, Paul Krugman on health care, Tim Judah on the EU's Nobel Peace Prize, and Lawrence Summers on the vicious economic cycle.
David Brooks on the VP generation war, Dana Milbank on Biden framing the campaign, Iain Martin on the EU peace prize, Kathleen Sharp on EPO culture, and Laura Ling on North Korea.
Gary E. MacDougal on poverty, Ezra Klein on campaign hope and promise, Dana Milbank on outing the CIA, Laura Bush on Malala Yousafzai, and Noliwe M. Rooks on standardized testing.
Jack Welch on the jobs report, Maureen Dowd on Obama on his own, Clive Crook on "elected autocracy," Ross Douthat on liberal failure, and Dana Milbank on the campaign's Snuffleupagus.
Joe Nocera on campaign finance, David Rothkopf on Iran, Dana Milbank on Romney's brainwash, Jonathan Cohn on a delayed pivot, and Andrew Sullivan on Obama giving up.
E. J. Dionne Jr. on the moral hole, Bill Keller on end-of-life care, Mark Buchanan on social influence and the market, Eric Posner on drone wars, and Buzz Bissinger on voting for Romney.
Dana Milbank on Obama's evasiveness, Paul Hodgson on bank clawbacks, Timothy Egan on the idiot undecideds, Jonathan Weil on hedge funds from prison, and Thomas J. Espenshade on affirmative action.
Ezra Klein on Obama and Romney's differences, Matt Miller on Romney's audacity, Karen L. Cox on being gay in the South, Sudhir Venkatesh on guns and gangs, and Chloe Angyal on the contraception debate.
Newton N. Minow on debates, Dana Milbank on zingers, Peter Orszag on progressive entitlements, Michael Kinsley on gaffes, and Josh Ozersky on meat supply.
Eugene Robinson on which Mitt will debate, Todd Moss on Obama's Africa failure, Roger Lowenstein on high-frequency trading, Jeffrey Goldberg on Obama's Middle East policy, and Mallory Factor on public union "official time."
Tariq Ramadan on Arab democracy, William D. Cohan on the SEC's craziness, Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. on affirmative action, Howard Kurtz on Romney's negative narrative, and Noah Feldman on human rights law.
Mickey Edwards on power of political parties, Timothy Egan on public land, Jonathan Weil on bank regulation, Eugene Robinson on "skewed" polls, and Craig Unger on Karl Rove.
Michael Doran and Max Boot on intervening in Syria, Ezra Klein on the undecided voter, Debra Saunders on the myth of Obama's obstacles, Charles M. Blow on what is known, and Steve Coll on football's future.
Harold Meyerson on upward redistribution, Cass. R. Sunstein on social dynamics and success, Dana Milbank on Hillary's "hit man," John Dickerson on how to choose a president, and Fran Tarkenton on NFL's fumbles.
Richard Cohen on Republican brain drain, David Brooks on the conservative mentality, Jeffrey Goldberg on "Muslim Rage," Michael Gerson on Republicans and Hispanics, and Naomi Wolf responds to critics.
Robert J. Samuelson on empty American dreams, Jeff Rubin on oil price and the economy, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on Romney's tax plan, Thomas B. Edsall on Pennsylvania's swing state status, and Gordon G. Chang on China protests and the economy.
Peggy Noonan on Romney's "rolling calamity," David Brooks on nurturing grandiosity, Joel Kotkin on the last swing territory, Daniel W. Drezner on presidents and foreign affairs, and Pankaj Mishra on China-Japan relations.
George F. Will on grown-up voters, Susan J. Lambert on labor laws, Ed Whitacre on GM, Nicole Gelinas on cronyism, and Linda Greenhouse on Constitution Day and Medicaid.
Mitt Romney on dependency, Ross Douthat on Romney's gaffe and culture, David Rothkopf on the Israel myth, Andy Kessler on innovation economics, and Dana Milbank on the gaffe economy.
David Brooks on Romney's ignorance, Ramesh Ponnuru on GOP's misguided welfare worries, Shikha Dalmia on immigrants and the economy, Lawrence Summers on Britain's economy, and Thomas Sowell on the divisive tax rate.
Thomas B. Edsall on poverty and politics, Robert J. Samuelson on Bernanke's stimulus, Steven Rattner on Medicare costs, Simon Johnson on Deutsche Bank, and Sir Elton John on HIV-positive prisoners.
Alex Marshall on governments and markets, Prudence Bushnell on embassy security, Gordon Brown on growth in Europe, Charles Krauthammer on Obama and Iran, and Kate Tulenko on health workers.
Gail Collins on Romney's reaction, Liz Cheney on Obama's foreign policy, Stephen Starr on the effect of rebel violence, George F. Will on the Fed's role, and Mark Hertsgaard on the farm bill.
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn on blacklisting terrorists, Harold Meyerson on Chicago power plays, Dana Milbank on Romney and Republicans, Paul Moreno on how public unions grew, and Richard Vedder on remedial college classes.
Kurt Eichenwald on what Bush knew, Ramesh Ponnuru on a difficult Romney presidency, Dennis Byrne on the teacher's strike, Matt Miller on wartime taxes, and David Brooks on why men fail.
Charles Koch on corporate cronyism, John Fund on "none of the above," Gerard Lemos on anxiety in China, Nate Silver on polling without all the data, and Jim Cooper and Alan I. Leshner on the seriousness of science.
Eugene Robinson on a successful Democratic National Convention, Jonathan Weil on who to blame for Facebook, Steven Greenhut on broken California, David W. Blight on the original voter I.D., and Gary Younge on Obama's walkthrough speech.
Nicholas D. Kristof with Obama's report card, Ezra Klein on the wonk-in-chief, Susan Antilla on trusting financial brokers, Linda Greenhouse on how we talk about abortion, and Steve Coll on rowdy Senate elections.
Ezra Klein on the dumbest campaign question, Glenn Greenwald on CNN International, Steve A. Yetiv on domestic oil, Thomas Friedman on interdependent foreign policy, and Michael Kazin on presidents as family men.
Ramesh Ponnuru on Obama's second term, Paul Thomas Chamberlin on talking to terrorists, Noam Scheiber on Obama and Wall Street, Matt Miller on the Rubio paradox, and Frank Bruni on the VP hex.
David Brooks on Republican individuality, Matt Miller on why Romney's ideas don't matter, Daniel Kanstroom on who is getting deported, Shmuley Boteach on circumcision, and William Pesek on China's economy.
Maureen Dowd on the pitiful Mitt Romney, Sally Kohn on Paul Ryan in three words, Bill Keller on Condoleezza Rice, Minxin Pei on American perception of China, and George F. Will on bluffing voters.
John McCain on Republican foreign policy, Dana Milbank on Romney the control freak, Thomas Friedman on Egyptian President Morsi, Marc Tracy on Chris Christie with a Mitt lens, and Daniel P. Aldrich on community building.
Ramesh Ponnuru on Social Security, Kimberley Strassel on the spirit of reforming governors, Sean Lennon on fracking, David Brooks on the "real" Romney, and Najmedin Meshtaki and Guive Mirfendereski on a relationship with Iran.
Bill Keller on the last bipartisan senator, Stephen Smith on public transit, Allan S. Weiner on human rights and economics in Vietnam, Nicholas Sambanis on identity conflict in Europe, and Michael Barone on the evolution of Republicans.
Mitt Romney on what he learned at Bain, Michael Bloomberg and George Mitchell on fracking correctly, Thomas Geoghegan on Medicare as an unstoppable stimulus, Henri J. Barkey on intervening in Syria, and R. Scott Asen on paying more for private school
William B Harrison Jr. in defense of big banks, Nancy Pelosi on the unproductive Republican House, Tom Coburn on Paul Ryan's seriousness, Linda Greenhouse on the way judges interpret free speech, and Rowan Callick on the weight of history on East Asia.
Laurence Kotlikoff on economists as political hacks, Thomas Friedman on the need to meet in the middle, David Ignatius on negotiations with Iran, Alexander Cooley on the problems bordering Afghanistan, and Anne Applebaum on why Pussy Riot is Putin's greatest threat.
David Brooks on a dynamic America, Peter Orszag on private-market healthcare, Noreen Malone on Paul Ryan and GenX, Michael Moore and Oliver Stone in defense of WikiLeaks, and Chad Griffin on the language of hate.
Lawrence Summers on the truth about small government, Peter Beinart on public debate about war with Iran, Anita Isaacs on the real reason Ecuador housed Assange, Elena Marks on the flexibility of insurance exchanges, and Ahmed Zewail on science research.
Peggy Noonan on Paul Ryan as Clark Kent, Dana Milbank on labeling hate groups, Karin Olsson on Julian Assange's flight to Ecuador, Alex Koppelman on dying breed of moderates, and Jonathan Weil on bank regulation.
Ezra Klein on Obama launching Ryan to the top, Karl Rove on GOP's Medicare advantage, Charles K. Armstrong on change in North Korea, Victor Davis Hanson on the culture divide in California, and Dana Milbank on the Democrats getting dirty.
Amy Davidson on Paul Ryan's father, Bartle B. Bull on the needs of Syrian rebels, William Pesek on state-sponsored business, John Lough on Pussy Riot, and Ruth Marcus on Medicare debates.
Michael R. Bloomberg on immigration reform and the economy, Dexter Filkins on the troubled Afghanistan, Charles Lane on the financial health of senior citizens, Margaret Carlson on Paul Ryan, and George Monbiot on biofuels and the African famine.
Bill Keller on the Romney administration, Adam Kirsch on money and politics, Matt Miller on the myths of Paul Ryan, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mark Zandi on the last housing crisis solution, and Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom on voter ID laws and democracy
Jonathan Alter on past elections, Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik on the election's decisive dates, Jonathan Chait on Paul Ryan, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Romney's culture, and Ruth Marcus on Louise Mensch.
Ezra Klein on the tax reform challenge, Ellen Ullman on computerized trading bugs, Arjun Sethi on Sikhs in America, Steve Coll on domestic terrorism, and Nicholas Kristof on Syria.
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