Five Best Thursday Columns
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
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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.
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.
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