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- Obama's Dysfunctional Decision-Making - November 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the beginning, the Obama administration directed a spotlight toward its careful, thoughtful decision-making process on Afghanistan. National security...
- Eric Holder's Grave Mistake - November 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Eric Holder -- distinguished prosecutor, judge, foe of public corruption, basketball enthusiast, mentor to disadvantaged youth -- seemed a reassuring...
- Losing the Fight for Darfur - November 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The genocide in Darfur is no longer a trendy, breathless global cause. But the women of Darfur haven't gotten the message. On May 15, a woman near the Al...
- Obama Needs Leadership Transfusion - November 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The decision on President Obama's Afghanistan strategy -- expected during the next few weeks -- finally seems close. After a process attacked as dithering...
- Obama Cedes the Center - November 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- During long campaign swings in Virginia's recent gubernatorial campaign, Bob McDonnell's staff would count the cars that sported both Obama and McDonnell...
- Funding Health Care on the Backs of the Young - November 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As I was talking recently with the founder of a large American corporation, the conversation turned (inevitably) to health care reform. His employees in...
- Too Small to Lead - October 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, seems poised to lose the jewel in President Obama's political crown. In November 2008,...
- Giving Democracy a Dose of Clarity - October 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There have been various attempts over the decades to bury moral philosophy -- to dismiss convictions about right and wrong as cultural prejudices, or...
- An Evening with the Grand Mufti - October 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sheik Ali Gomaa, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, possesses a wonderfully exotic title, a scholarly manner and the unique burden of issuing about 5,000 fatwas a...
- Snowe's Lonely Heresy - October 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There are 18 states, as columnist Mark Shields recently pointed out to me, that have gone Democratic in each of the last five presidential elections. Of...
- Gates' Green Revolution for Africa - October 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When you are Bill Gates -- directing a foundation with assets larger than the GDP of 104 countries -- your enthusiasms get amplified on a global scale. Six...
- The Limits of Star Power - October 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's Nobel Prize for climate change -- the Nobel committee credited him with "creating a new climate" -- was useful in at least one...
- Creigh Deeds vs. 'What's Going On in Washington' - October 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Creigh Deeds, the Democrat running for governor of Virginia, may not be much of a candidate, but he has a future as a political commentator. During a...
- A Nobel Prize for Good Intentions? - Washington Post - October 9, 2009
- Immigration and Political Suicide - October 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Mel Martinez's recent resignation from the United States Senate was for personal and family reasons. But the departure of the Republican Party's most...
- Leaving Israel With No Choice? - October 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- On June 7, 1981, Israeli F-15s and F-16s took off for the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, after the pilots were emotionally briefed that "The alternative...
- Decision Time for Obama - September 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As President Obama approaches a decision on the way forward in Afghanistan -- the most historically consequential choice of his presidency so far --...
- All About Obama - Washington Post - September 26, 2009
- I've refrained from commenting on President Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly because the speech made me angry. And most postings -- or letters, or...
- The Internet 'Brutopia' - September 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The transformation of Germany in the 1920s and '30s from the nation of Goethe to the nation of Goebbels is a specter that haunts, or should haunt, every...
- Liberalism Without Liberty - September 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Two Octobers ago, the Dalai Lama received the Congressional Gold Medal, one of America's highest civilian honors, in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol....
- Land of the Second Chance - September 18, 2009
- CHICAGO -- The streets of West Garfield Park provide a distant vista of the Sears Tower and closer views of corner drug dealers, abandoned buildings still defended by...
- The Relational Wasteland - September 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There is a segment of society for whom traditional family values are increasingly irrelevant, and for whom spring-break sexual liberationism is...
- Liberal Agenda Struggling - September 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In 1950, Lionel Trilling could write, "In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition." In...
- Obama's Crisis: Credibility - September 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Jimmy Carter once sent a note to an adviser extolling the importance of crisis to leadership. "When a president has authority to act unilaterally...
- In Afghanistan, No Choice but to Try - September 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- We are seeing the stirrings of a cross-ideological revolt against American military involvement in Afghanistan. On the right, some who accepted the Cold...
- Obama's Health Care Options - September 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The incompetence of President Obama's health care reform effort is undeniable, and unexpected. A supremely competent candidate and campaign usually...
- The First Election of the Obama Backlash - August 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The late-night hotel desk clerk in Salem, Va., -- after my long drive from Washington down the Shenandoah Valley -- wanted to talk political philosophy. He...
- Obama's Reality Problem - August 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- At first it seemed plausible that President Obama had a communications problem on health care -- to which the solution was always more and more Obama. But...
- Unavoidable Questions About Rationing - August 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- This week, as the health care reform debate reached new levels of divisiveness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that America's...
- Hitler and Health Care - August 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- During live television coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, novelist Gore Vidal famously called William F. Buckley a " crypto-Nazi." To...
- The Joyful Revolution - August 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a civil rights hero, and unique even in that select company. Most civil rights revolutions are made by rhetoric and law --...
- Obama Wasted His Honeymoon - August 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's political honeymoon is now over. It was steamy and nice while it lasted. The 44th president was elected as a voice of reason transcending...
- Helping America's Least Wanted - August 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The RV arrived at a corner near Marvin Gaye Park, also known to locals as "Needle Park." A steady procession of addicts came to the door, mounted a few...
- Off to Camp, and Beyond - July 31, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the venerable tradition of summer, my wife and I sent our two children -- a tween and a young teen -- off to camp last week. Both boys had butterflies,...
- Obama Discovers Engagement's Limits - July 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration lacks a foreign policy ideology as a matter of ideology. Speaking recently at the Council on Foreign Relations, Secretary of State...
- A Humane Trade Reform - July 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There was a time when international trade was the subject of poetry. In "Locksley Hall," Alfred Tennyson "Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of...
- Health Care's Sensible Center - July 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- After a dominating political victory, as in 2008, the expectations of a party's most ideological elements are raised. With sufficient boldness, and...
- Justice Ginsburg In Context - July 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There was a scandal this week concerning the Supreme Court, though it didn't concern the nomination of its newest member. The New York Times Magazine...
- Obama, Science and God - July 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- According to one survey, just 7 percent of elite American scientists believe in a personal god -- the kind to whom you pray. About 8 percent, however,...
- One Reason We Fight in Afghanistan - July 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Being an educated, professional woman in Afghanistan could not have been easy at any time during the last few decades. I recently met with a group of...