Five Best Tuesday Columns
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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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.
David Ignatius on Bin Laden, L. Gordon Crovitz on Enyclopaedia Britannica, Noah Feldman on Afghanistan withrdrawal, James Surowiecki on Uniqlo and labor, and Mary Anastasia O'Grady on the Pope's visit to Cuba.
Stephen Carter on fanatical politics, Mark Vanhoenacker on restrictions to tourists, Tevi Troy on think tanks, Amy Davidson on anti-war voters, and Michael Kinsley on ugly campaigns
Ezra Klein on Americans Elect, Felix Salmon on the Goldman op-ed, Fareed Zakaria on deterrence, Garry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov on sanctioning Russia, Theresa Brown on measuring hospital care
Shirin Ebadi on women and the Arab Spring, Greg Smith on quitting Goldman Sachs, Peter Orzag on electing a new Congress, Michael Medved on beating Obama, and Maureen Dowd on Hillary Clinton.
Michael Gerson on teleprompters, Roger Cohen on #StopKONY, Jeffrey Goldberg on Netanyahu, Gideon Rachman on China's history, and Geoff Porter on Libya's flawed election law.
Elliott Abrams on Tunisia's press freedom, L. Gordon Crovitz on Apple and anti-trust, Patricia Murphy on Gingrich's Southern strategy, James Surowiecki on the recovery, and Richard Brodsky on nuclear regulation.
Michael Medved on Republicans and college grads, Jonathan Tepperman on intervening in Syria, Matthew Yglesias on housing shortages, Condoleezza Rice on Russia's middle class, and Virginia Postrel on over-the-counter birth control.
Charles Murray on narrowing the class divide, Joshua Green on the politics of manufacturing, Steve Chapman on the NFL bounty scandal, Matt Miller on Obama's media strategy, and Ezra Klein on the Koch brothers and Cato
Clarence Page on Rush Limbaugh, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. on Apple's closed ecosystem, Dana Milbank on Obama's lobbyists, Samuel Waksal on paying for drug treatment, and Wendy Kopp on publicizing teacher rankings
Michael Kinsley on the Limbaugh fallout, William McGurn on Reagan and Romney, Gideon Rachmann on democracy, Peter Popham on Myanmar sanctions, and Charles Lane on electric cars.
Paul Begala on the foreign policy election, L. Gordon Crovitz on self-driving cars, Joel Klein on candidates and education, Luke Harding on Putin's election, and Bill Keller on New York transit.
Robert Samuelson on Obama's reelection odds, Timothy Geithner on forgetting the crisis, Scot Lehigh on candidate gaffes, Aram Nerguizian on Assad's support, and David Brooks on self-control.
Andy Kessler on social media in campaigns, Fareed Zakaria on the Afghanistan drawdown, Ezra Klein on the welfare state, Joshua Green on a Romney-Paul 'bromance', and Kirsten Powers on Obama's apologies.
John Dickerson on Romney's victories, Amy Davidson on Olympia Snowe, John Kerry on foreign aid, Margaret Carlson on Scott Brown, and Bert Stratton on landlords
Charles Lane on gas prices, David Carr on federal whistle-blowers, Kimberley Strassel on Rick Santorum, Stephen Trachtenberg on affirmative action, and Jane Harman on Bashar al-Assad.
Michael Tomasky on the Michigan primary, Mary Anastasia O'Grady on rethinking the drug war, William Cohan on Wall Street incentives, Juliette Kayyem on nucelar reductions, and Neal Ascherson on Scottish independence.
David Brooks on tax loopholes, Fouad Ajami on Syrian intervention, Ruth Marcus on the Title X debate, Dorothy Rabinowitz on Rick Santorum, and Jonathan Alter on Mitt Romney's Keynesian gaffe.
George Will on Republican candidates, Bill Gates on teacher evaluations, Joshua Green on Super PACs, Meghan Daum on Internet parenting, and Michael Wolff on Obama v. Santorum
Adam Winkler on affirmative action, Dana Milbank on Rick Santorum's Nazi rhetoric, Amy Davidson on Koran burning, Austan Goolsbee on boosting exports, and Michael Warsaw on the contraception mandate.
William McGurn on Rick Santorum, Ron Klain on gas prices, Richard Cohen on Saudi Arabia, Joe Nocera on governors and gay marriage, and Bret Stephens on the politics of memory.
Jeffrey Kluger on John Glenn, Bill Keller on WikiLeaks, Drew Western on attack ads, The Washington Post on transparency, W. James Antle on Pat Buchanan.
Bobby Ghosh on Anthony Shadid, Gish Jen on Jeremy Lin, Kimberley Strassel on Oregon's Ron Wyden, Bloomberg View on the next World Bank head, and Charles Krauthammer on Obama and contraception.
Mitt Romney slams China, Fareed Zakaria talks "zones of immunity," and The New York Times edit board gives a bipartisan round of applause.
Peggy Orenstein on Komen, Amy Davidson on religion, Edwin Truman on Europe, Susan Crawford on public internet, and Holman Jenkins, Jr. on Romney.
Bret Stephens on Xi Jinping, Frank Bruni on Rick Santorum, Dana Milbank on Obama's budget, Jeffrey Goldberg on homicide rates, and Richard Thaler on incentives for citizenship
E.J. Dionne on the Catholic compromise, Noah Feldman on the Constitution, Ho Pin on Xi Jinping, Alan Blinder on the safety net, and Andrew Gumbel on online voting.
Jonathan Alter on campaign finance, David Brooks on Mitt Romney, Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh on copyright, William Finnegan on immigration, and Donald Wuerl, Charles Colson, and Meir Soloveichik on the contraception rule.
Gail Collins on Catholics and contraception, George Will on Republicans and defense, Noah Feldman on gay marriage, Karl Rove on Gingrich's electoral strategy, and Meghan Daum on the latest Tiger Mom.
Robert Reilly on Mitt Romney the businessman, Andrew Cohen on the Prop. 8 ruling, Thomas Friedman on Syria, Jeff Jacoby on Justice Ginsburg, and Katrina vanden Heuvel on the employment news
Frank Bruni on gay marriage, James Dorsey on China's Syria veto, Dana Milbank on Jack Abramoff, Gideon Rachman on Putin, and Bret Stephens on Israel and Iran
Bill Keller on online piracy, James Carroll on television, Hendrik Hertzberg on debates, Lisa Levenstein and Jennifer Mittelstadt on food stamps, and Albert Hunt on Obama.
Jill Lepore on Planned Parenthood, Jonathan Alter on Gingrich's attacks, Robert Pape on humanitarian intervention, Peggy Noonan on Obama's Catholic decision, and Charles Krauthammer on Syria and Iran.
Michael Wolff on Facebook's IPO, Juliette Kayyem on women in combat, Howard Markel on influenza research, Fareed Zakaria on the post-American century, and Andy Kessler on the 'Like' button
Robert Samuelson on tax reform, Jeff Greenfield on the GOP convention, Holman Jenkins Jr. on Wi-Fi, Benjamin Nugent on Asperger Syndrome, and Fouad Ajami on Putin and Syria.
George Packer on the 1972 election, Leif Babin on publicizing the Navy SEALs, Jonathan Cohn on Romney's wealth, Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Mark Hanis on drones, and Dana Milbank on Newt Gingrich.
Steve Coll on Iran, Gary Greenberg on the APA, Noah Feldman on Newt Gingrich, Grace-Marie Turner on RomneyCare, and Faiza Patel and Elizabeth Goitein on the NYPD.
Kevin Drum forecasts a gloomy future for online privacy, Kimberly Strassel discusses Romney's missed opportunity, and Paul Farhi explains why Siri is making everyone's cell phone coverage worse
Dana Milbank on Ben Bernanke, Ezra Klein on election year rhetoric, Amy Davidson on women at the State of the Union, Henry Levin and Cecilia Rouse on graduation rates, and Richard Thaler on corporate responsibility.
Doyle McManus on the State of the Union, Dana Milbank on Newt Gingrich, Jeff Jacoby on the Massachusetts Senate race, Michael Wahid Hanna on Egypt, and Edward Alden and Liam Schwartz on visas.
Bret Stephens on the GOP candidates, Joe Nocera on the NCAA, George Will on Romney and Gingrich, Roger Cohen on Sarkozy, and Ron Klain on Iowa's voting dysfunction.
Peter Beinart on Iraq and Iran, L. Gordon Crovitz on regulating the web, Bill Keller on bombing Iran, James Surowiecki on private equity, and Juliette Kayyem on Islam and Republicans.
Ariel Levy on Gingrich's debate, Nicholas Burns on Iran, Jonathan Alter on the State of the Union, David Brooks on the Romneys, and Carlo Rotella on talking heads.
Joe Karaganis on web piracy, Joshua Green on food stamps, Nicholas Kristof on banking, Alan Blinder on the deficit, and George Will on police overreach
Ezra Klein on Romney's taxes, Jamie Stiehm on Showtime's Homeland, Scot Lehigh on young voters, William Pesek on Myanmar, and Arthur Herman on military cuts.
John Cassidy on the debate, Joe Nocera on bank regulations, Bret Stephens on Europe, Michael Gerson on global warming, and David Brooks on campaigns.
Stephen Tuck on Martin Luther King Jr., James Fallows on Jon Huntsman, James Carroll on Catholics and the culture war, Ricardo Caballero and Francesco Giavazzi on Italy, and Fred Hiatt on the weak Republican field.
Charles Krauthammer on Ron Paul, Su Chi on Taiwan's future, Jonathan Alter on William Daley, Peggy Noonan on South Carolina, and Michael Kinsley on Romney's health care record.
Ezra Klein on presidents and jobs, Nicholas Kristof on teacher quality, Conor Friedersdorf on the hunt for conservative alternatives, Elliott Abrams on the Middle East, and Joan Vennochi on Scott Brown.
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