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- The Bernie She Never Knew - July 1, 2009
- Among the alumni of Far Rockaway High School in Queens, N.Y., are three Nobel Prize winners -- two in physics (Richard Feynman, Burton Richter) and one in medicine...
- Open the Military Closet - June 30, 2009
- Back during the initial fuss about "don't ask, don't tell," I went over to the Pentagon to see the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We mostly discussed the...
- A Respect for What We Don't Know - June 23, 2009
- The foreign policy sins of the United States fall into two categories: commission and omission. The commission ones include the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and a one-time...
- Where Anti-Semitism Is Mainstream - June 16, 2009
- To far more people than we would like to admit, the mystery of James W. von Brunn, the alleged shooter at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is not that he held such weird...
- Dreams Built in the Projects - June 2, 2009
- With the nose of a trained columnist, I detect the whiff of elitism-cum-racism emanating from the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The whiff does not...
- Wordsworth's Lament, Updated - May 26, 2009
- "The world is too much with us," the poet William Wordsworth wrote -- and that, of course, was before Elizabeth Edwards published her book and went on television to...
- In a Nuclear Minefield - May 19, 2009
- In 1947, a British lawyer with no experience in the region arrived in India to draw lines on a map. Within several weeks, Cyril Radcliffe had severed the future Pakistan...
- What if Cheney's Right? - May 12, 2009
- Blogger Alert: I have a written a column in defense of Dick Cheney. I know how upsetting this will be to some Cheney critics, and I count myself as one, who think -- in...
- A Litmus Test That Counts - May 5, 2009
- As the time approaches for President Obama to choose a successor to Justice David Souter, the term "litmus test" will be heard throughout the land. The White House will...
- We Are All on the Rack - April 28, 2009
- On April 16, President Obama released the now-infamous torture memos along with a covering statement that said the CIA's old interrogation methods not only failed to...
- Hamas's Bloody Hands - April 21, 2009
- Some residents of Gaza were taken from their homes and shot in the legs or feet. Some were brutally beaten and some were simply murdered, sometimes after hideous...
- A Texas-Sized Challenge - April 14, 2009
- Former President Bush and some of his White House aides are gathering in Dallas to plan the future George W. Bush Policy Institute. There, I guess, they will ponder...
- Sacrificing Wealth to Serve in Government - April 7, 2009
- Summers is clearly one of these people. D.E. Shaw paid him $5.2 million last year to meet with important clients. In addition, he lent the firm his expertise as a crack...
- No More Auto Bailouts - March 31, 2009
- The Obama administration has warned both companies that it may let them sink into bankruptcy. In the meantime, though, more money is probably on the way -- along...
- The Stale Air of Business as Usual - March 24, 2009
- The pressure for the legislation was great. In just a day, Charlie Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, went from opposing the idea to...
- Don't Blame Jim Cramer - March 17, 2009
- Or take Richard Fuld. He is the former chairman of Lehman Brothers, which, as we all know, is no more. He lost about $1 billion. Or take Citigroup's former...
- Obama's Realism Settles In - March 10, 2009
- The Obama administration is talking to the Syrians. It is willing to talk to the Iranians. It will parley with the North Koreans. It has kicked the wheels off the...
- History Roars Back - March 3, 2009
- Then Zweig experienced a stark loss of control over his life. He went from being at home anywhere in Europe to being on the lam, a Jew fleeing the Nazis. He wound up in...
- Israel Must Achieve Equality for All - February 24, 2009
- Weizmann's admonition may not be known to Avigdor Lieberman, an immigrant from the former Soviet republic of Moldova and now one of Israel's most important...
- Partisan Realities - February 17, 2009
- Gregg's turnabout was supposedly an embarrassment for the new Obama administration -- and I suppose it was. But it also was a moment of realism, of clarity, of an...
- Pope Should Not Accept Holocaust Denier - February 10, 2009
- Still, he could go to Treblinka, also in Poland, or any of the other Polish camps -- Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek. In Germany, Austria and elsewhere he could visit Dachau,...
- Use Spending to Demand Education Reform - February 3, 2009
- That message is only compounded by the stimulus package. The need for at least $1 trillion in economic stimulus is beyond argument, and the GOP's obsession with tax...
- Moving Past Torture - January 27, 2009
- Dershowitz, mind you, was not in favor of torture but argued that if torture was going to be done, it was best that it be done legally. In a similar vein, the...
- The Weight of the World Now Falls on Obama... - January 20, 2009
- As he was dressing, tribes in the nether reaches of Afghanistan started to move toward the Pakistan border. In the Korengal Valley of Konar province, a U.S....
- Meet Lady Subprime - January 13, 2009
- This tale, unfortunately as American as apple pie, was recounted recently in The Wall Street Journal. Since the story ran over a long, holiday weekend, it is...
- Could Have Seen This War Coming - January 6, 2009
- I get the impression that Israel is expected to put up with this. The implied message from demonstrators and some opinion columnists is that this is the price...
- Reading Into Bush's Book List - December 30, 2008
- In his Wall Street Journal column, Rove says that Bush read 95 books in 2006 alone. In 2007, he read 51 books and as of last week, he had read 40 in 2008. The...
- Warren On? Party Off. - December 23, 2008
- I should say right off that my mother feels less strongly about Warren than my sister does. But I should add immediately that my sister feels very strongly indeed....
- Leaks Help Burst a President's Bubble - December 16, 2008
- Inside The Bubble, as Obama well knows, lurks a further danger: groupthink. Obama has used this Orwellian word himself. "One of the dangers in a White House, based...
- Predator For a Predator - December 9, 2008
- Zimbabwe has almost literally come apart. Mugabe, the onetime freedom fighter, expropriated the white-owned farms that were his country's breadbasket and awarded them to...
- Holder is Disqualified by Mark Rich Pardon - December 2, 2008
- Rich was a commodities trader who amassed both a fortune and some influential friends back in the 1970s and '80s. Along with his partner, Pincus Green, he was...
- Obama Will Govern Above Politics - November 25, 2008
- Not quite. There was always a synaptic gap between Obama's ethereal image and his more grounded reality, and the sneaky suspicion that he and Hillary Clinton were...
- Obama Should Look to FDR Not Lincoln - November 18, 2008
- The revisionist take on Roosevelt is contained in Amity Shlaes' book "The Forgotten Man." She argues that New Deal programs not only failed to lift the country out of...
- Three Men for Today's Challenges - November 11, 2008
- The new president's urgent priority has to be the economy. He has no other choice. But given that Obama has no foreign policy background, he needs a secretary of...
- Historic Change - November 6, 2008
- Of course, Barack Obama is not a descendant of slaves -- but that is hardly the point. The point instead is that he would have been a slave himself in another era...
- The Election That LBJ Won - November 4, 2008
- My colleague David Broder dates the moment he knew "this presidential campaign was going to be the best" he'd ever covered to Dec. 8, 2007. That was when about 18,000...
- Palin's Love Boats - October 28, 2008
- What followed, once everyone returned to the lower 48, was a gusher of a mush -- praise, love notes, sweet nothings and, altogether, the sort of mooning one does...
- Party Like It's 1964 - October 21, 2008
- It is worth remembering that both Rice and Powell spoke to that Philadelphia convention. And it is worth recalling, too, that Bush ran as a "compassionate...
- A Few Debate Questions - October 14, 2008
- Senator McCain, I'd like to ask you why you've attacked Senator Obama for associating with the former domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, even though you have...
- Media Gives Palin a Pass - October 7, 2008
- Not enough? OK. Palin also said that she "and others in the legislature" called for the state of Alaska to divest itself of investments in companies that do...