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- Obama's Big Bets - February 25, 2009
- By far the biggest and most important of these gambles involves health care, and the administration's seemingly paradoxical claim that it can simultaneously cover...
- The High Point of GOP Unity - February 18, 2009
- Still, the ability of House Republicans to maintain their united front -- twice -- came as an unpleasant shock to the White House. Even after the first rebuff, the...
- In Retrospect, Not Such a Bad Start for Obama - February 11, 2009
- And certainly, there were problems with the rollout of his stimulus package. The administration ceded too much control over the contents to House Democrats, although it...
- Obama Dolls Could Change Racial Perceptions - January 27, 2009
- Yes, and my new doll, Two-Faced Tania, has nothing to do with Lundeen. Beautiful name, though. The classic, cynical Washington move at this point would be to...
- A Big Step Forward - January 21, 2009
- Forgive this bit of parental tale-telling, but her comment has been on my mind. I understood, on an intellectual plane, the significance of electing the first black...
- My Beef With Burris - January 15, 2009
- If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can think more than one chess move ahead, he certainly didn't demonstrate it on this one. He got all his Democratic colleagues...
- Confirmation Hearings Lack Candidness - January 14, 2009
- What about giving private employers more leeway to implement comp and flextime arrangements? "I would like to explore that more with this committee. ... But that's...
- The Stimulus Cure? - January 7, 2009
- As with the practice of medicine, the application of economic stimulus is as much art as science. Under normally bad circumstances, stimulus spending should be applied...
- Pyrrhic Torture Trials - December 31, 2008
- Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a report concluding that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's decision to authorize "aggressive...
- Beyond Senator Caroline - December 17, 2008
- Well, once more into the breach. The relevance of my readers' reaction to Kennedy's newborn political aspirations involves the deep hostility expressed toward...
- A Vote for Senator Caroline - December 9, 2008
- For one, dynasties tend to illustrate the phenomenon of reversion to the mean: It's rare that the second generation outperforms the first. The Kennedy family itself...
- PC Police Keep Summers Out of Treasury - December 3, 2008
- This small but significant variance, he hypothesized, suggested differences in innate aptitude -- "whatever the set of attributes are that ... correlate with being...
- Was Larry Summers Right? - December 3, 2008
- This small but significant variance, he hypothesized, suggested differences in innate aptitude -- "whatever the set of attributes are that . . . correlate with being an...
- Obama Should Keep the BlackBerry - November 19, 2008
- "Like what?" Michelle Obama asked. "Me not being able to take a walk ... ," her husband replied. "I'd love to take you for a walk." Every president-to-be...
- Will Obama Hold in the Left in Check? - November 5, 2008
- We're about to conduct a rerun of that test -- with Democrats substituting for 4-year-olds. Obama will have to contend with the hydraulic force of pent-up...
- 'A New Kind of Politics'? - October 29, 2008
- This is, I believe, Obama's animating vision. It catapulted him into the national spotlight when he delivered his mesmerizing convention speech in Boston four years...
- Winning Clinton's West Virginia Voters - October 27, 2008
- For Barack Obama, though, Mingo presents a decided challenge -- one with implications that reach beyond the West Virginia coalfields and may linger beyond Election...
- McCain's Campaign Is Both Uncivil and Uncivilizing - October 22, 2008
- "Senator Obama's economic goal is, as he told Joe, quote, spread the wealth around," McCain warns, to angry cries of "Socialist!" Obama's tax plan "is not a tax cut --...
- Who Will Budget Responsibly? - October 15, 2008
- What better moment to change course than when only 8 percent believe the country is on the right track? Nothing concentrates the mind like a $1 trillion deficit....
- McCain vs. Palin - September 30, 2008
- Listening to McCain debate was like a stroll down foreign policy memory lane: Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko. George Shultz, "our great secretary of state." Perestroika....
- Time for a Bipartisan Financial Summit - September 25, 2008
- And -- here's my twist -- Barack Obama and John McCain should each send their top economic advisers. They should pack right now and come back Monday morning at...
- Obama Closing the Whopper Gap - Washington Post - September 22, 2008
- The Race to the Bottom - September 17, 2008
- In the 2008 race, and especially in the last few weeks, the imbalance has become unnervingly stark. Ideological differences aside, John McCain's campaign has been...
- Conflicted Moms Wonder About Palin - September 10, 2008
- But the moment captured the topsy-turvy nature of the Palin debate: The loudest voices in the usual stay-at-home chorus cheer Palin's careerism, while many working moms...
- The Lesson of Bristol Palin - September 2, 2008
- The unwed mother -- or at least, the not-yet-wed mother -- has become a more common (this is bad) and less shameful (this is good) phenomenon in 21st century America....
- Palin a Cynical Choice - August 31, 2008
- But I can't believe that McCain truly thinks Palin is the best choice to be a heartbeat away -- especially in a White House that would be occupied by the oldest man...
- Is Obama the Ladies' Choice? - August 20, 2008
- Now, a bill to fix this equal pay Catch-22 is pending in Congress -- and the Ledbetter case has emerged as a key piece of Obama's effort to woo women. In particular,...
- Ninenty-Nine Percent Honesty - August 12, 2008
- He was once derided as the Breck girl. Now it turns out we're talking Ivory soap, 99 and 44/100ths percent pure. But the thing about honesty: It's the last 1...
- Obama Pivots to Populism - August 7, 2008
- This turn to populism is not an extreme political makeover. Rather, it's a distinct tonal shift as the Democratic presidential candidate finishes a trip through...
- Dubious Campaign Claims on Oil - Washington Post - August 6, 2008
- Crude Campaigning - August 6, 2008
- Then came McCain's reversal on new offshore drilling. This wasn't, in itself, the problem. The moratorium on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf has been in place...
- Professor Obama's Questions - August 1, 2008
- To read Obama's exams is to get a glimpse of the supple intelligence he would bring to the presidency and to be impressed by his lawyerly capacity -- perhaps even...
- Baghdad is Berlin 60 Years Later - July 23, 2008
- Sixty years ago this month, Berlin stood on the pivot point of history. The Soviet Union choked off food and fuel for the western sector of the divided city. The...
- Scandal In Plain Sight - July 16, 2008
- Now, it's George W. Bush's turn. My immediate impetus for raising this topic is a sting operation by the Sunday Times of London. The Times duped Texas...
- When a Flip Isn't a Flop - July 2, 2008
- True, playing endless rounds of "his surrogate said WHAT?" makes talking about flip-flops look like the Lincoln-Douglas debates -- serious fare compared to fixating on...
- The Audacity of a Broken Promise - Washington Post - June 25, 2008
- McCain Attacks Gitmo Ruling at His Peril - Washington Post - June 18, 2008
- The Ground Clinton Broke - Washington Post - May 21, 2008
- Hijabs at a Harvard Gym - Washington Post - March 26, 2008