Five Best Thursday Columns
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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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.
William Moseley on the drought, Masha Lipman on Pussy Riot, Maureen Dowd on Obama, Dana Milbank on Bain, and Edward Glaeser on city parking.
Michael Rich on perfecting crime prevention, Farah Stockman on the Tea Party, Fred Crupp on climate change, Michael Gerson on Romney's faith, and Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on empirical economics.
Susan Crawford on the Olympics and the Internet, Peter Beinart on Romney's taxes, Josh Barro on Chick-fil-A's defense, Richard Hasen on voter fraud, and Bill Keller on leaks.
Ezra Klein on Romney's tax plan, Peggy Noonan on the campaign, William Reilly on fuel efficiency standards, Stephen Carter on inequality, and Joshua Green on demographics.
Jared Diamond on Romney's 'culture' argument, Juliette Kayyem on India's power outage, Steve Salbu on Chick-fil-A, Michael Kinsley on success, and Robert Samuelson on medical imaging.
Ed Kilgore on the Texas primary, Sanjay Gupta on medical mistakes, David Ignatius on anti-leak legislation, Handel Reynolds on mammography, and Steven Rattner on bank regulation.
Gideon Rachman on Romney's foreign policy, Lauren Collins on Jordyn Wieber's loss, Josh Barro on 'You didn't build that,' Joe Nocera on the Postal Service payments, and Michael Auslin on the South China Sea
Albert Hunt on one-term presidents, Steve Coll on Romney's trip abroad, John Sununu on party conventions, Raymond Bonner on lethal injection, and Richard Muller on his climate change conversion.
Michael Bloomberg on the NRA, Fareed Zakaria on Romney's foreign policy, Stephen Carter on NCAA sanctions, Nicholas Watt on Romney in Britain, and Stephen Marche on art and violence.
Dana Milbank on Romney and defense cuts, Michael Kinsley on changing public opinion, George Will on the Texas Senate race, Andrew Jensen on gun control, and Lisa Biagiotti on AIDS in the rural South.
Gary Alan Fine on Penn State's victories, Robert Samuelson on the deficit, Peter Orszag on privatizing the Postal Service, Craig Whitney on the gun control debate, and Margaret Carlson on Yahoo's new CEO.
Mark Ragins on reacting to Aurora, Joe Nocera on the Penn State sanctions, Arthur Herman on modernizing the Pentagon, Charles Lane on European gun sales, and DeWayne Wickham on Michele Bachmann.
Jill Lepore on the election, Jackson Diehl on the Olympics and the press, Josh Barro on Obama and the rich, Michael Gerson on AIDS prevention, and Seth Goldman on Bloomberg's soda ban
Peggy Noonan on communication failures, Mark Edmunson on online education, Joshua Green on Romney's campaign strategy, Barack Obama on cybersecurity, and Taner Akcam on Turkey's human rights
Juliette Kayyem on Bachmann's crusade, Gail Collins on the VP picks' writings, Michael Kinsley on Romney's faith, Joseph Thorndike on tax returns, and Maggie Shipstead on weddings.
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on Mexican drug crime, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Joe Paterno's statue, John Lloyd on London's Olympics gloom, Peter Orszag on summer vacation's harm, Clifford Winston on the driverless car
Ramesh Ponnuru on the GOP's defense spending hypocrisy, Richard Cohen on the Bain debate, Luigi Zingales on ethics at business school, Frank Bruni on selfishness in America, and John Podhoretz on Romney's apology demands.
Tom Coburn on Grover Norquist, Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change, David Lampo on the GOP and gay rights, Albert Hunt on candidates' fiscal plans, and Megan McLemore on protection for sex workers.
Peggy Noonan on Condie for VP, Eugene Robinson on Paterno's shame, Joshua Green on Bush's tax cuts, Benjamin Sachs on pensions and Citizens United, and Newt Gingrich on power outages.
Patricia Murphy on the Obamacare repeal, Michael Kinsley on outsourcing, Jamal Abdi on Apple and Iran, Edward Glaeser on coal mining, and Daniel Henninger on Romney's vacation.
Matt Miller on Republicans and health care, Milos Forman on Obama's 'socialism', Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on China's Huawei, Doyle McManus on political ads, and John Steele Gordon on air conditioning.
Michael Tomasky on taxes, Clint Bolick on the Supreme Court, Joe Nocera on underwater mortgages, Marc Thiessen on Obama and the individual mandate, and Frank Bruni on gay rights.
Susan Crawford on Google and monopoly, Peter Beinart on Republicans and class resentment, Benjamin Soares on turmoil in Mali, Michael Singh on sanctioning Iran, and Hugo Dixon on Barclays
Michio Kaku on Higgs boson, Joshua Green on Romney's risk aversion, Mark Lubell on the Colorado fire, Colin Dayan on solitary confinement, and Jody Freeman on regulating fracking.
John Cassidy on Obama's campaign, Fareed Zakaria on health care costs, Susan Antilla on Rajat Gupta, George Will on Chicago's teachers, and Nicholas Kristof on African microsavings.
Bret Stephens on Mexico's election, Ken Silverstein on sheltering dictators, Noah Feldman on Roberts's decision, David Ignatius on negotiations with Iran, and Farah Stockman on a Taiwanese rivalry.
Michael Hirsh on Obama's health care message, Juliette Kayyem on the Colorado fires, Robert Frichtel on marijuana DUIs, Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein on in-home attendants, Jeffrey Toobin on John Roberts.
George Will on the conservative court victory, Jonathan Chait on Roberts's long game, Peggy Noonan on Obama's good day, Jack Shafer on CNN's screw-up, and Jeffrey Goldberg on work-life balance.
Ezra Klein on Republicans and health care, Sallie Krawcheck on women in finance, Michael Gerson on Romney's immigration strategy, Dambisa Moyo on China's African investment, and Michael Kinsley on Tom Friedman.
John Podhoretz on Nora Ephron, George Will on the Eighth Amendment, Reps. Nadler, Markey, and Thompson on port security, Thomas Hazlett on the iPhone's fifth birthday, and Jeffrey Rosen on the Supreme Court's Arizona ruling.
Noah Feldman on reading the Supreme Court, Fouad Ajami on the Muslim Brotherhood, Dana Milbank on immigration, Joe Nocera on Madoff's victims, and Ramesh Ponnuru on Romney's VP.
Jimmy Carter on America's bad human rights record, David Martin on Obama's immigration move, Albert Hunt on Romney's business-unfriendly politics, Misha Glenny on regulating cyberwars, and Josh Barro on fixing air travel.
David Halperin on gay culture, Stephen L. Carter on the Supreme Court's legitimacy, Charles Krauthammer on Obama's immigration move, Paul Krugman on New Jersey's privatization, and Jack Shafer on TV industry coverage.
Jeff Leach on eating dirt, David Ignatius on diplomacy and drones, Ezra Klein on covering presidential 'gaffes', Juliette Kayyem on immigration reform, and Gail Collins on privatization.
Hillary Clinton on trade with Russia, Tim Wu on free speech for computers, Noah Feldman on Egypt's looming crisis, Chen Guangcheng on his nephew's detainment, and Peter Orszag on compulsory voting.
Alex Brill and James Glassman on the G-20, Joe Nocera on city finances, Jeffrey Goldberg on Romney's Jewish standard, Sara Khorshid on Egypt's military council, and Joanna Weiss on George Bush and Game of Thrones.
Adam Gopnik on the Olympics, Fred Hiatt on campaign finance, L. Gordon Crovitz on the UN and the Internet, Albert Hunt on the Obama campaign, and Alan MacDonald on Africa's water supply.
Dana Milbank on Obama's Ohio speech, Peggy Noonan on national security leaks, John Cassidy on Obama's reelection strategy, Nikos Konstandaras on Greece's election, and Alicia Shepard on the Nixon tapes.
Nicholas Kristof on Iran, George Will on school elections, Joan Vennochi on Scott Brown's pact, Ezra Klein on a new start-up, and Steve Kornacki on Obama and Bush
Maureen Dowd on the Sandusky trial, Nathaniel Frank on gay parenting, John Dickerson on Jeb Bush, Richard Arenberg on the filibuster, and David Mason on Mormonism.
Katrina vanden Heuvel on administration leakers, Joe Nocera on Europe's crisis management, Ramesh Ponnuru on Wisconsin, Frank Bruni on the 2012 race, and Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on the death penalty.
Paul Krugman on Europe, Niall Ferguson on the future, E.J. Dionne on government, The Wall Street Journal on bailouts and Juan Williams on Obama's playbook.
Paul Krugman on Reagan, Robert Satloff on Syria, Peggy Noonan on Obama, Jonathan Chait on Romney's money, and John Yoo on drone strikes.
Walter Russell Mead on the Wisconsin recall, Alec MacGillis on union power, Sohrab Ahmari on Ray Bradbury, John Nagl on modern warfare and Michael Kinsley on banning soda.
Michael Tomasky on Walker's win, Scot Lehigh on filibuster reform, Garrett Epps on the Prop. 8 ruling, Christopher Fettweis on the Afghan withdrawal, and Mark Bittman on the soda ban
Margaret Carlson on the Wisconsin recall, Rowena Xiaoqing He on Tiananmen, Ezra Klein on the Keynesian case for Romney, Alan Watson on the Queen's influence, and Jay Pasachoff on Venus's transit.
Fred Hiatt on presidential leadership and the deficit, William D. Cohan on Facebook's small investors, Anne Applebaum on the Diamond Jubilee, Preet Bharara on combating cybercrime, and Juliette Kayyem on writing columns.
Peggy Noonan on the candidates' missteps, Noah Feldman on China's pseudo-censorship, Timothy Egan on presidents with business experience, Bob Edgar on ALEC's lobbying, and Maggie Severns on teaching non-English speaking children.
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