Five Best Friday Columns
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.
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Joe Nocera on banking regulation, Bret Stephens on Iran negotiations, Ramesh Ponnuru on free trade, DeWayne Wickham on Mitt Romney's education plan, and Philip Gourevitch on intervention in Syria.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
J. Peter Pham on Charles Taylor, Stephen Carter on public assets, David Brooks on controlled experiments, Lawrence Summers on Romney's budget, and Nicholas Thompson on Klout.
Karl Rove on picking Dick Cheney, Ezra Klein on Congressional races and money, Joshua Green on negative presidential campaigns, Ruchir Sharma on China's growth rate, and Noah Feldman on Arizona's immigration law.
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on Wal-Mart's bribes, John Dickerson on Marco Rubio, Maureen Dowd on John Edwards, Peter Orszag on 'taxmageddon,' and Dana Milbank on Romney's immigration policy.
Gideon Rachman on the French elections, Ramesh Ponnuru on Reagan's memory, David Brooks on competition, Peter Beinart on anti-Mormonism, Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez on raising taxes
James Surowiecki on unemployment, Norman Matloff on software engineering, Arthur Hunter Jr. on Arizona's immigration law, Ann Marlowe on the U.S. military's photo scandal, and Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Breivik trial.
Andrew Exum on new technology in the battlefield, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Girls, Charles Krauthammer on the Discovery shuttle's flight, Michael Kinsley on Romney's success, and James Forman Jr. and Trevor Stutz on stop-and-frisk.
Caroline Baum on BLS jobs numbers, Margaret Talbot on the "war on women," Joshua Green on Roger Clemens's trial, David Schulz on the press and Guantánamo, and Jim Sollisch on donating a kidney.
Ann Patchett on the fiction Pulitzer, Ryan Lizza on Romney's government cuts, Maureen Dowd on the "mommy wars," Robert Leider on Stand Your Ground laws, and Clive Crook on Instagram.
Ramesh Ponnuru on Romney's focus on gender, Leonard Burman on the Buffett Rule, Marc Thiessen on Romney's gaffes, Bret Stephens on Bo Xilai's scandal, and Michael Tomasky on Obama's swagger.
Jackson Diehl on Obama's delay tactics, Mohamed Keita on African journalism, Juliette Kayyem on Indonesia's tsunami prep, L. Gordon Crovitz on journalism on the internet, and Adam Gopnik on Mad Men nostalgia
Michelle Goldberg on Romney and women, Paul Krugman on Chris Christie, Peggy Noonan on the GOP primaries, Dominic Holden on legalization's surprising opponents, and Michael Kinsley on the language of class warfare.
Gary Younge on George Zimmerman's trial, Matt Miller on tax policy deceptions, George Will on drug policy, Karl Meyer on the Toulouse killings, and Fred Barnes on Romney's election strategy
Dana Milbank on Rick Santorum, Jonathan Fenby on Bo Xilai, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on Facebook, Clarence Page on Mitt Romney, and Margaret Carlson on the GSA conference.
Paul Moreno on Obama and the courts, David Brooks on America's two economies, John Stossel on the TSA, David Cay Johnston on tax fraud, and Joanna Weiss on 'Texts from Hillary Clinton'
Peter Funt on TV interviews, Bill Schneider on Rick Santorum, Noah Feldman on strip searches and the Supreme Court, James Surowiecki on medical tourism, and Robert Samuelson on Social Security
Walter Shapiro on Santorum's campaign, Jonathan Alter on Romney's liabilities, Khalil Gibran Muhammed on the specter of black-on-black violence, Charles Krauthammer on Obama's Supreme Court comments, and Michael Kinsley on bizarre lobbying campaigns.
Gail Collins on the G.S.A. conference scandal, Joshua Green on un-cutting the deficit, Karl Rove on Santorum's odds, Dana Milbank on Romney and the press, Andrea Louise Campbell on insuring pre-existing conditions.
Amy Davidson on Obama's opponents, Mark Bittman on pink slime, Peter Orszag on food stamps, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on high-speed trading, and Anna Schiffrin on measuring happiness.
Joe Nocera on hating the banks, James Feldman on Solicitor General Verrilli, Richard Clarke on cybersecurity, Bret Stephens on Egypt's presidential candidates, and Adam Cohen on cruel and unusual prison food.
Jeffrey Toobin on the Supreme Court, William Kristol on the Republican campagin, John Sununu on picking VPs, Albert Hunt on New Orleans, and Juliette Kayyem on the Jet Blue captain.
Stephen Carter on the Supreme Court, Fareed Zakaria on shale gas, David Brooks on a moderate Republican, Jim Hoagland on second terms, and Kimberley Strassel on Obamacare pessimism.
Juliette Kayyem on Obama and Medvedev, Michael Bloomberg on taxes, David Ignatius on Syria's transition, Ezra Klein on the individual mandate, and Stuart Green on illegal downloading.
Jeffrey Rosen on health care arguments, Clive Crook on the World Bank pick, Edwidge Danticat on detaining immigrants, Rachel Maddow on ending war, and Roger Kimball on Hilton Kramer.
Michael Gerson on religion in 2012, Michael Kinsley on health care and the Supreme Court, Ann Curry on hiring veterans, Charles Lane on ideological purity, and Tony Haymet on deep sea exploration.
Eran Ben-Joseph on parking lots, John Cassidy on Mitt Romney, Lawrence Summers on the recovery, Fred Hiatt on North Korea, and Tom Nassif on guest workers.
Eugene Robinson on Trayvon Martin, Howard Kurtz on disinterest in the campaigns, Michael Kinsley on age discrimination, Jack Shafer on covering presidential kids, and Witold Rybczynski on Eisenhower's memorial.
John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham on Afghanistan, Margaret Carlson on Etch-A-Sketch, Nicholas Thompson on Apple, Nicholas Kristof on psychology and personal politics, and Bill Maher on giving offense.
Dana Milbank on Paul Ryan's budget, Angelo Izama on Uganda, Scot Lehigh on Rick Santorum, Peter Orzag on water shortages, and Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. on hackers.
George Packer on Sergeant Bales, Emily Bazelon on Dharun Ravi, Jeffrey Goldberg on Israel and Iran, Dana Milbank on the Supreme Court, and Bryan Walsh on gas prices.
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