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- E. J. Dionne Jr. on Campaigning in Favor of Public Services
- Karen DeYoung on the Resignation of Matthew Hoh
- Dominic Sandbrook Reviews Alan Allport's "Demobbed: Coming Home After World War II"
- Christopher Cook Reviews Roger Bootle's "The Trouble With Markets"
- Matt Miller on the "Trigger" for the Public Option
- Alexander Cockburn on the Obama Administration and Fox News
- Thomas Frank on Richard Hofstadter and the Paranoid Style in American Politics
- Joe Conason on Executive Compensation in the Health Insurance Industry
- Jonathan Chait on the Worldview of Conservative Republicans
- An Excerpt from Andrew Ross Sorkin's "Too Big to Fail"
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Politics
- A "Tsunami of Spending" Awaits Us
- Bush's Ownership Society
- David Frum on Scott McClellan and the Bush White House
- Eleanor Clift on the 2008 Election and the Abortion Issue
- GOP Chairman Apologizes for Republican Exploitation of Racism
- How Republicans Intend to Exploit Unfunded Liabilities
- Janet Daly on Bush and American Patriotism
- John Lukacs on the History of Liberalism
- Jonathan Chait Refuses to be Open-Minded About Privatizing Social Security
- Just Say No to Hillary Clinton in 2008
- Living in Bushworld
- Maybe Their Policies are Just Vile
- Peter Beinart on the Liberal Legacy That Bill Clinton Inherited
- Robert H. Frank on Making the Bush Tax Cuts Permanent
- Robert Samuelson on the Debate We Need to Have
- Some Thoughts on the Election and the Future of the Democratic Party
- The "Starve the Beast" Strategy
- The Coming GOP Crackup?
- The GOP Fault Line on Abortion
- The Problem is the Amount of Spending on the Elderly
- The Still Emerging Democratic Majority?
Books
- Bernard Lewis, Cultures in Conflict
- Curtis Bowman & Yolanda Estes, J. G. Fichte and the Atheism Dispute (1798-1800)
- Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942
- Josh Benson on What's the Matter with Thomas Frank's Book
- Larry Bowman, Before the World Series
- Marc Bousquet, How the University Works
- Nicholas Royle, The Uncanny
- Robert Warshow, The Immediate Experience
- Simon Blackburn, Truth: A Guide
Culture
- "How long should I search for an academic position?"
- "Should I go to graduate school?"
- An Anti-Semitic Observation From Kant
- How Not to Criticize Critics
- Hugo Hamilton on the Loneliness of Being German
- Jonathan Chait on Why Most Academics Aren't Republicans
- Moses Mendelssohn and the Haskalah
- Ronald J. Sider on the Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience
- Swimming with the Psychos (B-Scan 360)
- The "Whatever" Response
- The Conservative Baby Boom
- Theodore Dalrymple on the Frivolity of Evil
- Thomas Sowell on Redneck Culture - White and Black
- Why Nietzsche Probably Wasn't a Relativist
The War in Iraq
- Anthony Cordesman on the Development of the Iraqi Insurgency
- Can Military Action End the Insurgency?
- Eric M. Johnson on The Washington Post in Iraq
- Farnaz Fassihi's Baghdad Diary
- Farnaz Fassihi's Email about the Situation in Iraq
- Gene Healy and Justin Logan on Staying the Course in Iraq
- Iraq Pre-War Intelligence
- John B. Judis on Withdrawing from Iraq
- Lee Smith on Shiite Ascendancy in Iraq
- Paul Berman and the War in Iraq
- Prewar Intelligence Predicted Insurgency
- Robert Kagan on Whether or Not We Should Have Waged War in Iraq
- Spencer Ackerman on Anthony Shadid's Views of the Origins of the Insurgency
- What Went Wrong in Iraq
- Why Don't We Leave Iraq?
Foreign Policy
- B. R. Myers on North Korea - #1
- B. R. Myers on North Korea - #2
- Joshua Kurlantzick on China's Growing Influence
- Niall Ferguson on the Unconscious Colossus
- Patrick Buchanan Foresees the End of the American Empire
- Pervez Hoodbhoy on the Pakistani Army
- Power and Weakness 3.0
- The Coming U.S. Nuclear Primacy?
The War on Terror
- Al Qaeda vs. al Qaedaism
- Andrew Sullivan on What We Now Know About Torture at U.S.-Run Detention Facilities
- Gary Berntsen on the Failure to get Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora
- How Not to Finish the Job in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Religious Sources of Islamic Terrorism
- The Failure To Get Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora
- What Does Osama bin Laden Want?
- Where is Osama bin Laden?
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