5 Best Thursday Columns
David Ignatius on playing diplomatic chicken with Iran, Timothy Garton Ash on Europe sleepwalking to decline, and more
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David Ignatius on playing diplomatic chicken with Iran, Timothy Garton Ash on Europe sleepwalking to decline, and more
Hope you like shameless self-promotion!
At least she's being honest
The Democratic Congressman calls out an "unholy alliance"
Larry Pressler on the "technicality generation," James McGregor on rethinking U.S.- China trade relations, and more
A potential political disaster turned battle over semantics
David Brooks on children of the '70s, Anne Applebaum on pirates, and more
We thought we knew everything about the guy
Paul Krugman on Republican extremism, Robert Samuelson on the debt wake-up, and more
Elena Kagan's sexuality, Brits beating Americans at speed, and the importance of a liberal education
Finally, people have some suggestions!
How Kagan is like many single women, how feeding the poor and then forcing them to diet looks silly, and more
The bipartisan consensus: That was awesome
A woman calls Obama "a hottie with a smokin' little body," Twitter explodes
Lewis Black slams Beck for playing six degrees of Adolf Hitler
Nicholas Kristof on Pakistan and Times Square, Doug Glanville on outspoken athletes, and more
Maureen Dowd on Hamid Karzai, Steven Pearlstein's deficit-reduction plan, and more
Now with embedded tweets!
Kagan, Karzai, oil, and Greece
No followers? I can say whatever I want?! Here we go...
Paul Krugman on sex, drugs, and the oil spill, Susie Orbach on male-mannequin emaciation, and more
Since there was no bomb, it's OK to joke
MarketWatch's media columnist floats the idea
Racial profiling vs. affirmative action, books vs. iPad, vinegar diets vs. happiness
Not quite the end of the world as we know it
Who wouldn't be having a bad day?
Cancer, guns, nuclear meltdowns -- this may be the scariest roundup yet
The perilous future of an iconic weekly magazine
Nanjala Nyabola gives an African view of the Rhodes, Kathleen Parker ponders GOP-Tea Party dynamics, and more
David Brooks on the limits of policy, Marc Cooper on an atheist justice, and more
Tweet, baby, tweet
The liberal PBS host left a "body of work without parallel"
Paul Krugman on voguish environmentalism, James Carroll on the PowerPoint letdown, and more
Big Pharma, the BP oil spill, embedded journalism and more...
Other stuff happened, but we find this most exciting
David Brooks on energy innovation, Paul Krugman on Europe's financial mess, and more
Jennifer McCreight on 'Boobquake' data, E.J. Dionne on saving capitalism, and more
Jimmy Carter on Sudan's elections, Joel Moskowitz on cell-phone perils, and more
Other things happened in the Twitterverse today, you know
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