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Jeffrey Goldberg gets Beinertized
Embracing the process: Jonathan Bernstein's joyous cynicism
Obama sets a clock ticking on gay marriage
Profiles in cowardice, courage, and a little bit of both
Lamar Alexander writes a short history of the Obama presidency
McConnell gets Pott(er)y-mouthed with the President
Where is Clive Crook's "center"?
What Peter Bergen got wrong about Woodward's "Obama's Wars"
"Last of the postwar liberals"
A hole in the bucket: Holbrooke's read on the AfPak strategy
Woodward's tribute to Richard Holbrooke
Myths are all very well, but dreams of purity are pernicious
Obama, the bully pulpit, and the battleship
Leadership alert: Obama's salute to Liu Xiaobo
Obama misrepresents his deal a little
From placation to implacability
Bringing home the borrowed bacon for the dispossessed
President, opposition leader come to terms on international pact
"Robin" Medvedev gets red-breasted over missile defense
A spotlight on patient diplomacy
Oh, something else to be thankful for
The thought thought round the world?
When Mr. Nice Guy won't yield...
Putting a Lugar to Jon Kyl's head
Historians, raise your shovels
Another crie de coeur from Cassandra
"Economic power grabs slowly, like the tide..."
New York Times Overreacts to Strife at G-20
"The electorate is smarter than all of us?" Lincoln said it better...
When the Party of Lincoln started stinkin'
Two can stonewall, Mr. President
Roubini wishes Obama had done it all
Hendrick Hertzberg's hierarchy of rights, cont.
Richard Holbrooke, prophet of doom
With Kafka in Obama's War Council
Hertzberg's left, Sullivan's right: busy getting dizzy
Tax cuts in the stimulus were not just a sop to Republicans
Obama's baby: the Independent Payment Advisory Board for Medicare
A wish fulfilled for Erica Jong
The clock ticks for liberalization in China
The Supreme Court opens markets
Birth by headlamp in Hinche, Haiti
And half the parents are above average
Barack Jefferson on National Security
Clive Crook dreams up a vital center for Obama
As Democrats tank, Is Stephen J. Rose rebounding? Will Obama?
Doc Suess writes pol site's head line
Obama, Clinton, Woodward, Branch
Stream of political consciousness
The moral equivalent of warmongering
A disclaimer passes its sell-by date
Environmental regulation, Chinese style
Thomas Friedman at his Thomas Friedmanest*
Fidel, let me help you walk that back...
Did Imam Rauf take Yossi Klein Halevi's advice?
Palestinian Authority highlights Ahmadinejad's stolen authority
"Its force is owed to its precision": Wieseltier's definitive defense of Park51
Martin Wolf recalls his cry of Feb. 2009, and bites Obama
When Democratic Presidents reappoint Fed Chairmen
Fallows tries again with "The Moral Equivalent of War"
A short history of America's rightward turn
Concluding unscientific local auto market survey
A Clinton-eye view of Republicans
False equivalence in WSJ's portrayal of structural deficit
Maybe Bernstein's wrong this time?
Obama honors his oath of office
The mind is a cold, calculating Polyanna
Christopher Caldwell girds for civilizational war near Ground Zero
Another corrupt public official gets off easy
Olympia Snowe, put up or shut up on healthcare reform's flaws
Michael Bloomberg reminds us what we should have learned in Kindergarten
Gideon Rachman on Richard Milhous Obama
I feel free, therefore I'm free?
Sarah Milhous tills the midterms
Why the Obama Administration won't cut defense spending
The anguish of the data collectors
The importance of being an earnest reader
Proud parent alert: Jonah & Brian on Matt & Kim
On debt-fueled consumption, rising inequality, education, and service sector pay
Yes, Weigel, Palin really needs to learn something
"The conservative equivalent of the Che Guevara T-shirt"
Social Security benefits are skewed to low earners
Our future is not in manufacturing
Rick Perlstein on the dark side of democracy
Netanyahu: I will go to Ramallah....
Two rivals on the weakness of Netanyahu
Rx for Kevin Drum's Obamanemia
Newspaper taxes readers' decoding chops
Michael Oren v. Michael Oren on Israel-US relations
The messy evolution of the legislative process, cont.
Attn, David Brooks: Where the "culture of exposure" came from
The well-tempered Presidential anecdote
What is a political "argument"?
The Ahmed Karzai Good Governance Award
Some green shoots of multipolar leadership?
Turning the lightbulb on the Gaza blockade
Can electorates walk and chew gum?
Something was missing in Obama's Oval Office speech...
Hillary Clinton, fisher of men
Is health care price transparency possible without price uniformity?
(Re)birth and (forecast) death of a genre
Beinert gestures toward "the liberal forces in Israel"
Israel's 'sigh of relief' over sanctions pursuit
Obama on indefinite detention: a Goldsmith blueprint?
There goes David Brooks again....
Too big to jail? Can the U.S. prosecute an ex-President?
Smoke and mirrors on Guantanamo recidivism
Look, ma no lies: Palin smears with hypotheticals
A bit of moonshine in Kristof's "Moonshine or the kids?"
Trouble with China as Euro depreciates?
Even Simon Johnson is surprised, if not satisfied, by the FinReg bill
Parsi, Sick, and Cohen lament in concert as U.S. spurns fuel deal
Peter Beinert's shock therapy for American Jewry
Dept. of unpublished letters, cont.
Polyanna alert: my 'trust in government' is high
Gates, like Obama, invokes Eisenhower as prudent steward
Stephen J. Rose's Rebound foresees America Unbound
God cop/bad cop in Pakistan, cont.
Terrorist news disorientation syndrome
Scrutinizing Warren's warranty for Goldman
Wednesday morning amateur philosphizing
A secure environmentalism for Midtown?
Philip Pullman, enough with the Biblical retakes
Obama at Michigan: the era of "the era of big government is over" is over
The Senate gets into the swing of bankwhacking
Don't crow, but savor the moment
Reverse field opinion writing at the FT
In which I (essentially) win my "quick bet against Brooks"
Goldman et al short the Democrats
Gretchen Morgenson echoes Mitch McConnell
Does Goldman's "it's perfectly normal" defense hold water?
Ah, soft power: a chorus of nations urges yuan appreciation
Unreal city: the Democrats frame a debate
There's a turkey being slaughtered behind Daniel Henninger's column
Can a libertarian love "commandments"?
How Chinese households serve the banks
Where Obama's "placation" ended
What Ailes Democracy in America
Broder notes that Obama is patient. But Broder isn't.
Byzantium in Brazil? The Pope looks south and east
The Administration gets game on FinReg
Data in the chatter: life in the Nate Silver era
Mitch McConnell, bank-shrinker?
How not to attack the Administration
A second White House Seder? Larry Summers sings Dayenu to Martin Wolf over health care reform
Larry Summers takes a long and multilateral view of China and trade rebalancing
Happiness Indices: Post-industrial and Pre-Modern
Five noun run spurs brain freeze
State-Croft in the Obama Administration, cont.: the Deputies' Committee
New coverage rules for employer-provided health plans
High risk pools within 3 months? How?
The delayed gratification presidency
A more perfect speech draft: Obama edits "our" national story
Bracketing up: HCR, income redistribution and tax reform
Our Undemocratic Constitution, cont.: fixes from Calif. and Down Under
The punch that landed: Rachman writes Obama's second chapter
Romney is phoney but not funny
Nudging toward Bethlehem, 3: "This is what change looks like"
Nudging towards Bethlehem, cont.
Dingell to wavering Democrats: You have no choice
The making of a great President
Politico repeats a myth about Obama's post-Scott Brown HCR plans
Never let a noncrisis go to waste
How HCR will change lawmaking: Stern vs. Ezra Klein
FT triptych: a "multilateral web" for China
What has it got in its pocketses? What's on Stupak's List?
With God -- okay, CBO -- on their side
Is 'deem-and-pass' an irredeemable boondoggle?
Pascrell on board for health care reform?
Durbin to House Democrats: We are not the enemy
Michael Mukasey's bait-and-switch: 'al Qaeda 7' for Yoo and Bybee
A whip for Rep. Pascrell on HCR
Trouble with the children of Israel
Zogby: Voters' "hearts" are with the Dems on health care reform
Ted Williams advises Dems on HCR
The sun never sets on the British blazer
"Enemy Belligerent" lawmakers: McCain and Lieberman
The name of the game is the finger game...
Tom DeLay undercuts Republican high dudgeon
Reconciling the press to reconciliation
You'd think Obama wrote the damned bill
Senate HCR bill today; public option tomorrow
Obama bends over backwards, and does not yield
Pelosi calls for courage -- and demonstrates it
Bipartisan health care reform: the sound of one hand clapping
Factcheck.org misleads on reconciliation
David Brooks "Dull as Expected" on health care reform
We all fail if health care reform fails
Reconciliation explanation fail, cont.
Chait, is the gate "wide open"?
Matt Miller's self-cancelling 'don't worry about the deficit now' argument
Rudolph Penner points a steep path toward budget salvation: tax reform and health care reform
Calling Boehner Cantor et al...
Levinson's "Our Undemocratic Constitution": a book whose time has come?
Greece, hanging on a cross of Euros; U.S., hanging on a dollar-yuan?
The view from Pakistan: what capture? what advance?
Lindsey Graham lets the mask slip
The earth beneath their feet: Obama recasts health care reform
Building a new world order as China rises
Afghanistan redux: Obama's HCR surge
As in Afghanistan, Obama picks "none of the above" from the HCR menu
On jumping off our Constitutional shadow
The Plouffe of the pudding is in the (OFA) email.
A gallon of water at bedtime for bedwetters: Obama's HCR prescription
The contortions of Brooke Buchanan
Against the Weak Yuan, a Coalition of the Wounded?
How Obama will -- and won't -- lead on health care reform
Summers channels Krugman chanelling Uncle Sam(uelson)
1995 Redux: Call the Republicans' shut-down-the-Senate bluff
If you think that Obama's open dialogue with House Republicans was remarkable,
A health care strategy in Obama's pregnant pause?
Did Nate Silver miss the big picture for once?
Grade for the great test of leadership: Incomplete
Quell Pascrell, who'd kill the bill
Plouffe offers political clarity on health care reform
Frank Rich wrote his column too early this week
Hillary puts the Chinese government in strange company
The staggering Narcissism of House progressives
One more chilling Cohn crie de coeur
Did Obama read Ezra Klein today?
Webb drops a bomb on his putative party
Chait's crucial warning to Democrats
Who's thwarting 'the will of the people'?
The U.S.-Israeli-Nazi-al Qaeda-Saudi plot against Iran
Wise men, stateswomen...today's Democrats?
Question for Fallows: Can the U.S. "muddle through" to structural change?
Is the Iranian regime Sistani-able?
Verbal noun mash-up dazes headline reader
Who uses credit cards in Nigeria (or Ghana)?
The battle for a national health insurance exchange
Two ways of looking at a Hellfire
A cliff note for deconstruction
"Move your Money" -- if convenient and profitable
Writhing in the budget strait jacket
Old dogs, old tricks, tired people
Under the dull surface at Iran's PressTV
Back from the cliff's edge: Rory Stewart hails Obama's limited goals in Afghanistan