Five Best Tuesday Columns
Evan Osnos on Bill Daley, Joe Nocera on BP, Ron Klain on Congress, Alfred Blumstein and Kiminori Nakamura on hiring and criminal records, and Jonah Goldberg on Mitt Romney.
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Jonathan Chait on Romney's win, Robert Kelley on Iran's weapons, Dana Milbank on reporters' secrets, Jonathan Hansen on Guantánamo, and Major Garrett on Ron Paul
Evan Osnos on Bill Daley, Joe Nocera on BP, Ron Klain on Congress, Alfred Blumstein and Kiminori Nakamura on hiring and criminal records, and Jonah Goldberg on Mitt Romney.
Bill Keller on Vice President Clinton, L. Gordon Crovitz on internet regulation, James Surowiecki on volatile markets, Jon Sununu on Romney's steady campaign, and William Cohan on Wall Street cartels.
Michael O'Hanlon on one-war capability, Peggy Noonan on Romney's attackers, Laurence Tribe on recess appointments, Paul Krugman on Romney's job creation, and Virginia Postrel on liberal arts majors.
Four economists on finding consensus, Vinton Cerf on the right to the internet, Fareed Zakaria on Iran, Doyle McManus on the Tea Party, and John Steele Gordon on the history of negative campaigning.
Jay Cost on Iowa, Richard Epstein on rent control, Jeff Jacoby on Congressional pay, Peter Robinson on presidential public speaking, and John Tirman on casualties of war.
Jeffrey Goldberg on the TSA, George Packer on political journalism, Matthew Kaminski on Middle East democracy, Roger Cohen on employee burnout, and Dana Milbank on Rick Santorum.
John Sununu on primaries, Yu Hua on Chinese grievances, Robert Samuelson on the economy and 2012, Kevin Sabet on drug policy, and Nicholas Lemann on Ron Paul.
Amy Davidson on Newt Gingrich, Lenore Skenazy on false trends, Ron Klain on the payroll tax, Dana Milbank on punditry, and Ayad Allawi, Osama al-Nujaifi, Rafe al-Essawi on Iraq.
William McGurn on Kim Kardashian's taxes, William Patry on copyright law, Charles Lane on crime rates, Jonah Goldberg on the conservative establishment, and Darrell Driver, Jin Pak, and Kyle Jette on military pensions.
Nicholas Burns on peace, Frank Mugisha on gay activism in Uganda, Charles Krauthammer on the payroll debacle, Noah Feldman on withdrawal from Iraq, and Dennis Ross on pressuring Iran.
George Will on Newt Gingrich, Joshua Green on the payroll tax, Nicholas Kristof on North Korea, Dana Milbank on John Boehner, and Daniel Henninger on Christmas.
Paul Butler on jury nullification, John Steele Gordon on Christmas, Juliette Kayyem on Iraq, Holman Jenkins on AT&T, and Maureen Dowd on Gingrich's religion.
Madeleine Albright on Vaclav Havel, Jeffrey Goldberg on Wal-Mart, Frank Bruni on the candidates' spouses, Dana Milbank on John Boehner, and Melanie Kirkpatrick on Kim Jong Il.
Michael Hirsh on Kim Jong Il, Edward Glaeser on Chile, Rahm Emanuel on community colleges, John Rosenthal on high-speed rails, and Leon Aron on Putin.
Matt Miller on Wyden-Ryan, Tom Hayden on the anti-war movement, Kirk Johnson on Iraqi resettlement, Walter Shapiro on presidential races, Kimberley Strassel on Ron Paul
Joshua Green on Perry's ad, Karl Rove on Republican debates, Brian Greene on the Higgs particle, Ezra Klein on death panels, and David Ignatius on Iraq's prime minister.
Owen Matthews on Russia's protests, George Will on Newt Gingrich, Paul Sherman on foreigners and free speech, Amy Davidson on 'All-American Muslim', and Nate Jackson on the N.F.L.'s medical advice.
Richard Russo on Amazon's price check promotion, Marc Thiessen on Amnesty International, Jonah Goldberg on 'Newtzilla', Charles Krulak and Joseph Hoar on the defense bill, and Jonathan Macey on insider trading.
James Surowiecki on bankruptcy, Juliette Kayyem on medical marijuana, Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske on public education, E.J. Dionne on Obama's foreign policy, and Noah Feldman on Sunni-Shiite violence.
Michael Specter on the morning-after pill, Valerie Panyushkin on Russia's protests, Kimerley Strassel on Rick Perry, Jonathan Alter on Newt Gingrich, and Con Coughlin on Syria's civil war.
Scott Clement on Israel in 2012, Joshua Green on Obama's speech, Stephen Carter on Congress's exemptions, Karl Rove on Gingrich's disorganized campaign, and Gail Collins on Ginger White.
Ian Toll on Pearl Harbor, Eric Berkowitz on Afghan women, Michael Kazin on Gingrich vs. Obama, Dana Milbank on Republicans and abortion, and Maxim Trudolubov on Russia's awakening.
Vygaudas Usackas on Soviets in Afghanistan, Joe Nocera on Medicare's former chief, Ramesh Ponnuru on Gingrich, Spike Dolomite Ward on ObamaCare, Roger Cohen on Israel
Michael Mukasey on the Supreme Court recusals, Margaret Heckel on Merkel, Adam Hochschild on Gingrich the historian, Arnold Schwarzenegger on renewable energy, and Michael Lewis on the 99 percent.
Charles Krauthammer on Republican front-runners, Jeffrey Fisher on the sixth Amendment, Alfonso Aguilar on immigration, David Brooks on the German ethos, and Jonathan Alter on Marco Rubio.
George W. Bush on World AIDS Day, Joshua Green on Gingrich, Julene Bair on contaminated farm water, Jack Shafer on privacy and the press, and David Ignatius on civil rights post-revolution.
Dana Milbank on Barney Frank, Ian Desai on Gandhi in modern America, Scot Lehigh on Romney, Ruth Marcus on Brownback's twitter critic, and Peter Skerry on Gingrich and immigration.
Wael Ghonim on Egypt, Austin Goolsbee on Europe, Charles Lane on the death penalty, Jeffrey Goldberg on the Arab Spring, and Tom McNichol on Steve Jobs.
James Surowiecki on Europe, Bill Keller on economics, Simon Gass on Afghanistan, Noah Feldman on law professors, and James Carroll on 'the city on the hill.'
Michael Medved on Romney's electability, Stephen Carter on charitable deductions, Andrew Reynolds on Egypt's elections, Eli Lake on Pakistan's ambassador, and Sarah Schulman on gays and anti-Muslim sentiment.
William Galston on the Super Committee, Bret Stephens on tonight's debate, Jeffrey Toobin on pepper spray, Conor Friedersdorf on Obama's foreign policy failures, and David Brooks on parties in the minority.
Robert Samuelson on the debt deal, Jane Mayer on Keystone XL, Gordon Crovitz on tent cities, Lawrence Summers on income inequality, and Yan Xuetong on China's rise.
Peggy Noonan on Herman Cain, Michael Bérubé on Joe Paterno, Jay Rockefeller and Michael Chertoff on cyberattacks, Ezra Klein on American opportunities, and John Arnold and Katherina Rosqueta on holiday food drives.
Paul Starr on health care in 2012, Joshua Green on Occupy Wall Street, Lawrence Lessig on campaign finance reform, Dana Milbank on the supercommittee, and David Pilling on the Pacific century.
Rebecca MacKinnon on internet freedom, Holman Jenkins Jr. on Congressional insider trading, Ruth Marcus on the Supreme Court's health care ruling, Bret Stephens on Iran, and Josh Kraushaar on Obama's campaign.
Michael Tomasky on Newt Gingrich, Jeffrey Goldberg on Obama's mic check, Gideon Rachman on Europe's technocrats, Frank Bruni on water-boarding, and Joanna Weiss on politics and late-night TV.
Michael O'Hanlon on Pentagon cuts, Alan Blinder on the flat tax, Virginia Postrel on Amazon's lending library, John Sununu on taxing e-commerce, and L. Gordon Crovitz on privacy and technology.
Paul Krugman on the Eurozone, Michael Gerson on ending AIDS, and Peggy Noonan on the GOP race.
Scott Ostler on Joe Paterno, Gail Collins on the GOP debate, and Meghan Daum on personhood
Ilan Berman on China and Iran, Margaret Carlson on Republican candidates, Kathleen Parker on Herman Cain
Dana Milbank on Cain's new accuser, Jeffery Goldberg on Iran's bomb, and Jonathan Turley on videotaping the police.
Robert Samuelson on deficit reduction, James Surowiecki on consumer spending, and Albert Hunt on Herman Cain
Andrey Kurkov on Ukraine, Brett McGurk on Iraq, and Clive Stafford Smith on drones.
Nicholas Kristof on family planning, Dana Milbank on Herman Cain, and Joshua Green on Mitt Romney.
Margaret Carlson on Cain's moment, Steven Rattner on the Euro, and Bill Gates on foreign aid.
Joe Nocera on Jon Corzine, Charles Lane on U.S. infrastructure, and Frank Bruni on gay marriage.
Bill Keller on India's protests, Hendrik Hertzberg on Occupy Wall Street, and L. Gordon Crovitz on immigration for engineers.
Firuz Kazemzadeh on Iran, Robert Morgenthau on immigration, and Paul Krugman on Iceland.
Nicholas Kristof on capitalism, E.J. Dionne on the Vatican, and Jonathan Chait on Paul Ryan.
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