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- The GOP's No-Exit Strategy - November 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Normal human beings -- let's call them real Americans -- cannot understand why, 10 months after President Obama's inauguration, Congress is still tied down...
- We Need a Civilian ROTC - November 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Imagine a time when government work was exciting, widely admired, and much sought after. It seems an outlandish thought at a moment when you cannot turn on...
- Don't Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform - November 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- For some years, Democrats have denounced parodies casting their party as utterly closed to the views of those who oppose abortion. Last weekend, Democrats...
- On Election Day, a Win for Government - November 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Here's a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing...
- Not Right-Wing, But Still Angry - November 4, 2009
- EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Tuesday's elections were a rebuke to the right wing and a warning to Democrats. They were also a timely reminder that President Obama needs to...
- Hearts, Minds and Health Care - November 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The next health care fight has already started. It's the battle to define the bill that President Obama will eventually sign as a victory for consumers,...
- Lessons of Two Campaigns - October 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Memo to Democrats: You will be defined by President Obama whether you like it or not, so you might as well embrace him for the benefits he can bring...
- Is U.S. Really Becoming More Conservative? - Washington Post - October 27, 2009
- If I were a conservative, I would probably tout the new Gallup study showing that conservatives now outnumber moderates, as Bill Kristol did in his column on Tuesday....
- Boston's Landmark Election - October 25, 2009
- BOSTON -- Mayor Tom Menino looks around the elevator and reaches instinctively for the hand of the only person in the car he's never met. "Where are you from?" he asks...
- The GOP Asks: 'Who is Us?' - October 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Is there room in the Republican Party for genuine moderates? Truth to tell, the GOP can't decide. More precisely, it's deeply divided over whether it...
- Time to Reawaken Young Voters - October 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Will the young and hopeful abandon the political playing field to older voters who are angry? That is the quiet crisis confronting President Obama and the...
- Time for Obama to Take Ownership - October 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Now, two people will have to choose. The fate of the health care bill is largely in the hands of Barack Obama and Olympia Snowe. The Finance Committee's...
- Prizing Peace on the Homefront - October 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is a sign of our weird political moment that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama will probably hurt him among some of his fellow...
- Stimulation Without the S-Word - October 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- So now we know: The economic stimulus plan passed by Congress at the beginning of the year was not big enough. We also know this: Once it secures a health...
- When Caution Takes Courage - October 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- At a White House dinner with a group of historians at the beginning of the summer, Robert Dallek, a shrewd student of both the Kennedy and Johnson...
- The Public Option Only Looks Dead - September 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The strangest aspect of the debate over a public option for health coverage is that the centrists who oppose it should actually love it. It doesn't involve...
- A Political Love Letter Home - September 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Fall River, my hometown in Massachusetts, has been a bastion of devotion to the Kennedy family since John F. Kennedy's 1952 Senate race. We were so...
- Charity Begins withs Charities - September 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If the uninsured can't count on the do-gooders to help them, where else can they turn? The question arises because certain leaders of the sector of our...
- Warping the Debate About Government - September 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's time to cast aside the political shorthand and ideological pigeonholing that distort our debates over health care in particular and government's role...
- Testing the Obama Effect - September 16, 2009
- McLEAN, Va. -- Will the bitter, smoldering feelings let loose by Washington's health care fight ricochet across the Potomac River and decide Virginia's race for...
- Joe Wilson and Our Character - September 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If you saw a woman struck by a car, would you call an ambulance right away? Or would you first ask for her papers to make sure she was not an illegal...
- Obama Fires Back on Health Reform - September 9, 2009
- After a listless summer during which his opponents dominated the health-care debate, President Obama used a dramatic appearance before Congress on Wednesday to seize...
- Justice Roberts' Big Test - September 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama's health care speech on Wednesday will be only the second most consequential political moment of the week. Judged by the standard of an...
- Distorting the Voice of the People - September 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Health care reform is said to be in trouble partly because of those raucous August town hall meetings in which Democratic members of Congress were besieged...
- How Obama Can Win on Health Care - August 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama can still secure major health care legislation this year if he learns from his mistakes in recent months and spends more time reminding...
- Ted Kennedy's Humanity - August 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Ted Kennedy was treasured by liberals, loved by many of his conservative colleagues, revered by African-Americans and Latinos, respected by hard-bitten...
- The Invisible Achievement - August 23, 2009
- SYDNEY, Australia -- The hardest slogan to sell in politics is: "Things could have been a whole lot worse." No wonder President Obama is having trouble defending his...
- The Politics of the Jackboot - August 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Try a thought experiment: What would conservatives have said if a group of loud, scruffy leftists had brought guns to the public events of Ronald Reagan or...
- Can Republicans Escape Their Extremists? - August 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Things are looking up for the Republicans, relatively speaking. President Obama's poll numbers have dipped, GOP recruitment for the 2010 elections is going...
- Let's End the Score-Settling - July 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The problem with "teachable moments" is that the term sets up one group of people as teachers while another group is consigned to the role of pupils. In a...
- Arm the Senate! - July 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Isn't it time to dismantle the metal detectors, send the guards at the doors away, and allow Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights by being...
- Why Health Care Will Pass - July 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Wow, what big and unexpected news! Reforming the health care system is really hard, and Republicans want President Obama to fail. Imagine that. Oh, yes,...
- Obama's Hole Cards - July 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It was not the soaring rhetoric that is Barack Obama's signature, but he recently offered the sound bite that may define his presidency: "Don't bet against...
- The Silent Education Crisis - July 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's the silent education crisis, the one we don't talk about much because its existence undermines the story we like to tell about our country. The...
- The Real Court Radicals - July 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- This week's hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court represent the opening skirmish in a long-term struggle to challenge the...
- Does Obama Have a Friend in the Vatican? - July 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When President Obama meets with Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, there will be no right-wing Catholic demonstrators upbraiding the pontiff, as they did Notre...
- Obama's Long, Hard Summer - July 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As President Obama confronts his testing time this summer, he holds major assets but faces deep tensions within his governing coalition. This will force...
- Cap-and-Trade a Risk Worth Taking - July 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Hours before the House passed its cap-and-trade bill last week, freshman Democrats Tom Perriello and Frank Kratovil were pondering the political fallout of...
- Obama and the Stone Tablets - June 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Every general studies the mistakes of the last war, and President Obama's style has been much influenced by the difficulties of Bill Clinton's...
- The Supreme Court Is Full of Politics - June 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The United States Supreme Court claims to be above politics, and it sometimes even achieves that aspiration. The court has occasionally solved problems...