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- Taxing Inheritance - June 28, 2009
- Iraq and the economy are hard problems. President Barack Obama seems to be handling them gracefully. Iran and health care are hard problems. The president is having more...
- 50 Years Later - June 21, 2009
- PITTSBURGH -- This September the leaders of the 19 most influential nations and a representative of the European Union will gather on the banks of the Allegheny River to...
- Assigned Reading - June 14, 2009
- The auto industry is on life support, banks are almost nationalized, investment houses are gasping for breath, retailers are struggling. So it may not surprise you to...
- Roosevelt and the Jews - June 7, 2009
- Seventy years ago there raged in Washington one of the most portentous, and least known, debates in Western history. World War II had not yet begun. The full extent of...
- Is It Too Soon to Be Naming Schools After Obama? - May 31, 2009
- The Webster School on Holly Avenue in St. Paul, Minn., has a tradition going back almost 130 years. It has a rousing song ("Webster School is great as can be / Teachers,...
- Getting the Small Things Right - May 24, 2009
- The call came late at night and the tone of the voice was ominous. We had to meet. Immediately. It could not wait. It had to be the next day. So I flew to Boston and met...
- After the Wall - May 17, 2009
- It was built in darkness -- and destroyed in sunlight. It separated Berlin -- and united much of Europe. It provided the backdrop for perhaps the most stirring speech...
- Jack Kemp: Ideas Into Action - May 10, 2009
- He was always in motion. As a quarterback wearing No. 15 for the Buffalo Bills, as a young congressman afire with passion about supply-side economics, as a presidential...
- Presidents Don't Prosecute Their Predecessors - May 3, 2009
- When Thomas Jefferson succeeded John Adams, a contest that put America on such a different footing that it is remembered today as the Revolution of 1800, he did not seek...
- The Truman Show - April 28, 2009
- There are scores of ways to evaluate the beginning of a presidency. One of the most facile is to look at a president's first 100 days, which in the case of President...
- Still a Lion, With a Gentle Roar - April 19, 2009
- ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH, Fla. -- There's no pretense here at the Beachcomber restaurant -- heck, there are hardly any windows here at the Beachcomber -- and that befits a...
- The Recovery Cometh - April 12, 2009
- It may take years for the cost of this recession to be paid back -- and if you are young, the scars from this recession will be with you always. You'll be leery of the...
- Big Change - April 5, 2009
- "What has transpired in the last six months in the U.S. and elsewhere is that the forces of the universe overwhelmed everybody in ways that have forced change, and at a...
- Three Mile Island - March 29, 2009
- "I can't stand the sight of the things anymore," Machita said to me that afternoon. I called her up the other day and together we relived the frightening time we shared...
- The Tragic Story of Monte Cassino - March 22, 2009
- At the center of the battle was a great hulking monastery, which, founded by St. Benedict in A.D. 529 and used as the model for abbeys throughout Western Europe, was one...
- The First-Hundred Daze - March 15, 2009
- But from the start that was an unfair comparison or, if you are one of the many readers who think the press is rooting too hard for President Obama, you may prefer...
- Is Obama Trying to Do Too Much? - March 8, 2009
- Now that the Dow has given up half its value, the government has thrown trillions of dollars into banks and investment houses, and unemployment is doing a high step...
- Obama's America - March 1, 2009
- The president is a luminous figure, a symbol of American possibility, the personification of decades of dreams, particularly for black Americans. (So was John F. Kennedy...
- Washington's Legacy - February 22, 2009
- It is true, too, that America doesn't really need the Lincoln Memorial. Lincoln's memory lives in the nation's splendid diversity, in its ennobling spirit and in its...
- Lincoln's Legacy - February 16, 2009
- So what are we to make of Thursday's 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, coming as it does in the first month of the administration of Barack Obama, the...
- Pride of the Yankees - February 8, 2009
- But he is, or soon will be, the secretary of commerce. President Barack Obama selected him last week -- the third Republican in his Cabinet -- and in choosing the senior...
- Portrait of a President - February 1, 2009
- But before long Obama is likely going to want to make some changes in the most famous office in the world. Indeed, a top White House official said in an e-mail exchange...
- The Eloquence is in the Moment - January 21, 2009
- For yesterday the nation paused -- not in grief but in remembrance, not in celebration but in solemnity, not in raucous joy but in quiet fulfillment -- a fulfillment not...
- The Tyranny of History - January 17, 2009
- This slogan from one of the nation's most storied military units, the Seabees, has a special meaning for this season of hope and renewal in American civic life. The new...
- The Obama Era - January 13, 2009
- Which is why the boasts of the trumpet's call to arms in American inaugurations are almost always accompanied with the whisper of humility, a word that actually appears...
- The Men Who Go to Lunch - January 4, 2009
- They are coming together in the house whose heritage they share at the invitation of George W. Bush to honor, warn, counsel and commiserate with Barack Obama. The...
- Hope Chest - December 28, 2008
- Not to darken the mood, but I feel obliged to remind that there is a Bad Luck Mountain in Hampden, Mass., and to note that every political writer of a certain age...
- The Years the Locusts Ate - December 20, 2008
- In the 10 years since Clinton was impeached, the economy has tumbled twice, four planes were hijacked over American airspace with the intention of using them as lethal...
- In Trouble, In Perspective - December 14, 2008
- Sometimes columnists start out their weekly work with a general idea of the topic and then let the facts at hand steer the course. (It's an honest way to explore your...
- Stop -- In The Name of History - December 7, 2008
- These pages from the frayed American scrapbook seem more vivid than ever in times like these, when we have the sense -- the conviction -- that we are living through...
- The Facebook Revolution - November 30, 2008
- She spent about $50 on Facebook, mobilized students at Plymouth State College and Dartmouth, upset an incumbent with decades of political experience -- and, far more...
- The GOP's Wilderness Years - November 23, 2008
- It is almost too terrible to watch. And yet no party can avoid the agony that the Republicans must endure as they try to regroup for a future in a landscape they could...
- History Will Judge - November 16, 2008
- The fact that the president was all but invisible at Republican congressional and senatorial rallies and barely appeared at John McCain's side this fall is a potent...
- The Burden Of Office: Obama Has Much to Prove - November 9, 2008
- When Sen. Obama becomes President Obama he will face four challenges, each one big enough to daunt a president of uncertain faith. There is the economy, which helped...
- Winning By 'Losing' - October 26, 2008
- So this is an argument to turn all known election strategy on its head. In fact, it's a plea for each nominee to run the final sprint as if he knows he is going to lose,...
- It's All About the Ground Game Now - October 19, 2008
- No one expects turnout to reach those levels in 2008. But it is true that how an election turns out depends in large measure on who turns out.That said, beware the...
- The Importance of Being President - October 12, 2008
- "Young man, I have lived in this house many years and seen the occupants of that White House come and go, and nothing that you minor officials or the occupant of that...
- Confidence Game - October 5, 2008
- But we ought not to mistake what we are witnessing: a multi-dimensional revolt with elements of 1987, 1994 -- and maybe 1976. It affects the financial markets and the...
- Let the Debates Begin - September 21, 2008
- Today, for example, nobody remembers anything about Quemoy and Matsu, particularly which candidate (Nixon) charged the other (Kennedy) with reluctance to defend these...
- Palin's Nomination Puts New Spin on the Election - September 14, 2008
- In some ways this election is wide open: no incumbent seeking another term (as in 2004, 1996, 1992, 1984, 1980), no vice president seeking to move up (2000, 1988), no...