Sitemap - 2009 - xpostfactoid
When Obama stole a line from Cheney
Are the Taliban and al Qaeda "symbiotic"? A famed jihadist says no
Exhorting the Iranian people, denouncing the regime
When Abu Walid met Leah Farrall
2006 flashback: the enrichment of Iran's Revolutionary Guards
A Christmas gift from the Senate
Save the filibuster, guardian of health care reform
Eight rebuttals to "10 reasons to kill the Senate bill"
Bubble Alert: $400/sq ft in Shunyi County, China
Attention, filibuster-busters: remember 2002-2006?
Herszenhorn misrepresents the fading public option
A public option that isn't? What's the tradeoff?
Clive Crook is off-kilter on Obama
Iranian students chomping at the bit?
The rougher road to health care cost control
Obama's Afghan course: risk or risk management?
And now for something completely different: Clare Lockhart cheers Obama's Afghan effort
Steve Coll notes three conundra for the U.S. in AfPak
Obama channels Gates to defend timeline
Obama skates past a strong counter-proposal on Afghanistan.
Unfinished business: Obama's case for renewed effort in AfPak
On trusting Obama: the Af/Pak review
A tailor's yard for cutting megabanks to size
A Wrinkle in (Presidential) Time
The party of federal debt and the path to sustainability
Movin' Meat mulls Senate bill's cost controls
David Brooks gins up another faux consensus
Water on a Stone: Fallows relays an insider's view of Obama's Chinese conversations
A 'beautiful bill' goes to the operating table
A Wolf whistle on bankers' pay
Oxfam's survey of Afghans: their wishes are no mystery
Obama pitches "The End of History" in Shanghai
"No one can describe a taste" - Why?
The incredible shrinking Afghan surge
David Leonhardt tries to do Obama's job for him, part II
Obama at Fort Hood: Embracing 'The Long War'?
Gates whistles past the graveyard of empires
Owens' win in NY 23: bad for Democrats, good for the country?
A question for the data-mining maestros
"The logical core of Matthew Hoh's resignation letter": a counterpoint to Fallows
Public option and public perception
The David Brooks "consensus": Bring back George W. Bush
Holbrooke hearts Hoh in mid-resignation
Oh for a health care monopsony
Did Defoe really celebrate diversity? Yes
Did McChrystal (or Petraeus) Read Henry V?
Steve Coll vs. Rory Stewart on the AfPak endgame
Obama to Karzai: No marriage, no dowry?
Up the Great Chain of Being with Jalal a-Din Rumi
General McChrystal, the gentler gamester
Obama (re) declares war on lobbyists
Does the public option rest on a thin Reid?
For the Lord and for Gideon...
The Japanese sway to Obamameter
A mantra for true health care reform
AHIP Report: Disingenuous, but pushing toward broader coverage?
Commonwealth Club: 78,000 Americans die yearly for lack of "timely and effective" health care
Health care endgame: lobbyist pressure vs. "deficit neutral" pledge
Brooks v. Brooks on the Baucus bill
T.R. Reid: For-Profit Insurance Destroys Health Care Delivery
Future Perfect on health care reform
Health care coverage continues to melt down
Vengeance PR from the Pentagon?
David Brooks' lazy free market fantasy
Self-funded employers against the public option
Change you can believe in? By degrees...
Taliban verdict: George Bush let us back in
David Brooks lambastes Democrats for agreeing with him
Attention, Clive Crook: "uncertainty" is an antidote to "unintended consequences"
If you read one post on health care reform...
Dispelling dystopian dyspepsia
Battle of the Bush surrogates: Burt trumps Bolton in WSJ
Swallowing the fly in Afghanistan
Is Obama trying to force a unity government in Afghanistan?
Three legs of financial reform
Is Obama signalling no more troops to Afghanistan?
The crown jewels of health care cost-cutting
Boehner gives the game away on missile shield in Eastern Europe
Wydening the insurance exchange
Is a specter haunting Chinese communism?
Obama "triggers" a recount of heath care bills' costs
The invisible 1/3 of U.S. health care funding
The great myth about Obama's soaring rhetoric
Obama seizes the center on health care
The free market that ate conservatism
His speech will be pretty good
Ali Soufan goes nuclear on Cheney
$27 million split how many ways?
Of venal dentists and patients' incentives
Ah, September: bedwetting season for Democrats
Gideon Rachman's low-key contrarianism
The ninth circle of hell is reserved for theocrats
The strange lies of Dick Cheney
American exceptionalism, domestic peace edition
Betsy McCaughey's blunderbuss lands one shot
Goldhill's health care fix: cure worse than disease?
Dept. of self-cancelling statements
Addington's legacy: we're "one bomb away"
It ain't so, MoDo: Palin never changed
Annals of unpublished letters: NYT flags global payment proposal in Massachusetts
Iran kills 7 lawyers representing detainees: Jerusalem Post
The Blackwaters of universal healthcare?
Will health insurance giants administer single payer?
Life after Life for the last fighting Tommy?
Healthcare inflation reaches every nook and cranny
An Iranian's forecast that resonates
Alienation in Tehran, and abroad
Return to Oz: Buffalo Garden Walk 2009
Scat, CAT scan: Obama on U.S. health waste
Public plan advocates, read this...
MedPAC: Obama's rudder for the healthcare battleship
The Times points another arrow at fee-for-service medicine
In Kenya, charging a phone by pedalling a bike
Out of context quote of the day
I took Obama's "blue pill" -- and got maybe 90% of "red pill" benefit....
David Leonhardt tries to do Obama's job for him
Buffalo, go "double green" on July 25!
Massachusetts Commission cuts the Gordian Knot on healthcare costs
Did Rafsanjani cede the key point?
Wings beating against a web, III: Iran's frozen-out elite
Jeffrey Goldberg: How "alien" is Hamas' "apocalyptic thinking" to Americans?
Iranian prison officials stage "rebirth"
Matt Miller clarifies healthcare reform
Wings breaking through a web? Iranian persistence in resistance
Obama to Africans in Ghana: do it yourself...
The Guard that has the whip hand in Iran
Iran's Press TV finds an "outside interference" echo in China
What's happening to newspapers (and books?): two short tales
Leonhardt seconds Gawande: put doctors on salary
Back story to the Iranian crackdown
The Horrid fascination of history
Strike, sandstorm and shutdown in Tehran?
Governing from an empty center
Wings beating against a web, cont.: Iran's Revolutionary Guard asserts "deciding role"
Palin: Good bye, and thanks for the nice "title"...
Sofie's Choice, Tehran edition
"Healthcare reform is entitlement reform," cont.
Is something happening on Iranian Press TV?
Re: The Appalachian conversation
Back story to the uprising: Ahmadinejad's consolidated grip
The battered children's revolt
Fertile ground for Iranian paranoia
Mousavi to Iranians: Go Shopping
Of Mousavi, security and negative capability
Mosssdegh, the Shah, Khamenei and "outside interference" in Iran
Between the Basiji and the Green Wave
Mousavi's Paradise Lost: Khomeini's Republic
About that ballot recount offer: a fig leaf for a redo?
"Mousavi is not Khomeini, and Khamenei is not the Shah"
Who speaks for the Islamic Republic?
Iranian attitudes toward Israel: the TFT poll
Autocracy, inflation, revolt, crackdown
Reza Pahlavi seconds Nate Silver
Orzag hones in on doctors' incentives
Is Iranian resistance "about" Mousavi?
A running mate for Ahmadinejad?
Mousavi's brinksmanship: resistance within the law
The limits of Republican 'rethink'
Did Obama read Atul Gawande? - part 3
Human Rights Watch's true-blue conservative
As if Marcus Garvey had his way
Did Obama read Atul Gawande? - cont.
A really naive anti-terror idea
How will Obama raise tax revenue?
Obama denounces Holocaust denial, loses Arab students
An honest broker for Israelis and Palestinians
"Do parties need philosophies?" Yes
The Amalek connection: Goldberg protests too much
Sotomayor: no racist, no writer
"Why healthcare costs so much"
Is trusting Obama like trusting Bush?
Obama: Preventive detention yes, "unitary executive" no
Maddow, Isikoff trump up evidence of Obama 'politicizing' justice
Does economic growth foster democracy?
From a short history of sexuality
Goldberg: Will Netanyahu smite the "Amalekites"?
The sum of all Constitutional fears: Zelikow
Martin Wolf and Paul Krugman share a worry: will Obama funk reform?
Who owns credit default swaps on GM? And who's on the hook?
Obama sticks the shiv in Cheney
To the spielers go the victory
Ambinder stitches up some fig leaves for Pelosi et al
Why the banks *held* toxic securities
Condi Rice to 4th Grader: Terror Works
A lesson in humility from Robert Gates
Homo electus and the last election
Over the meadow and through the woods with Obama
Nudging toward Bethlehem: Obama's theory of governance
"Obama probably understands this....
Ahmadinejad's "free and fair choice" for "Palestinians"
Depends what your definition of "works" is
"Did torture work?" is the wrong question - Ali Soufan shows why
Wolf, crying; Obama, rebalancing
Zelikow: Obama is "potliticizing" detainee issue with attempt to forestall prosecution
Did torture "work" on Abu Zubaydah?
"Measuring him by the sentiment of his country..."
A "seam-ly" internal Administration debate resolved?
The end of money management as we know it?
Let's not kill *all* the bankers
Undermining democracy in Pakistan?
Just what did Obama commit to on missile defense?
Wielding power by mapping its limits
Obama's "loose ends" theory of leadership
"Such a grasp of the range and limits of violence"...
From financial shotgun marriages, miscarriages
Obama's "Lincoln Defense" of Geithner
Is Edward Liddy *our* fox now?
John Gapper plumbs AIG's heart of darkness
Obama re-gifts a campaign candygram to Business Roundtable
Bracketing up: will Obama soak the superrich?
Macro-wreckonomics: a 30,000-foot view
C.S. Lewis, democrat by default
P.S., I love EU: Rachman's startled valentine to the European Union
Obama: Republican budgeting = Wall Street risk management
Talking to each other about health insurance failure
Bring on the realists, part II: Gates on 'victory' in Iraq
Obama's doctrine of pre-emption
One (possible) reason Geithner's not nationalizing...yet
David Brooks dreams up a revolution
Six key moments in Obama's address to Congress
Seamus Heaney hits the sports page
Kill all the shareholders? Not so fast...
Orzag et al: health care reform *is* entitlement reform
Fireside Chat 2.0: Obama's weekly address
Roubini to Obama: "Make haste slowly" on bank nationalization
Shrieks on a train - -a cell phone shouter pays
Hilllary's '07 blueprint for interrogation policy review
Obama's modest and ambitious agenda, part II
Mike Mullen "re-arms" America, Covers Obama
Emanuel's box score: lots of runs, hits and errors
Can this economic destruction be creative?
Noonan's avatar of national anomie
"It is whatever Obama wants" -- a counternarrative peeks out
Obama's message to the middle east
Depends what your definition of "screwed up" is
Poison pill in the stimulus bill
What Republicans should be good for
Was losing Daschle a 'catastrophic' cost?
Obama realigns bailout bankers' incentives
Did a health insurance meltdown prick the housing bubble?
Down girl, down! Dowd sics herself on Wall Street
David Brooks shadows forth a conservative Obama
What "restoring honor and dignity to the White House" really meant
Bring on the realists: on attaining "very concrete things" in war zones
Obama's Inaugural: dark skies, stark challenges
Stone made flesh at the Lincoln Memorial
Make it thirteen...accomplishments of George W. Bush
Mind-Bogle-ling certainty from Vanguard pere
"A president forgtten but not gone"? That's a bit Rich...
Oh, balm, ah: a soothing history lesson