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05/12/08: Rethinking the Iraq Critics
05/06/08: Why the London election matters
05/05/08: Wright controversy affects the polls
05/01/08: Obama throwing Wright under the bus
04/28/08: Popular vote gives Hillary an edge
04/24/08: Pennsylvania results mean Clinton could win — sort of
04/22/08: The Rules Are Changing for Obama
04/16/08: No train wreck in Denver
04/14/08: Uncle Sam Pays? Sure, Whatever
04/11/08: Is America a Good Country or Not?
04/08/08: John McCain Was One Lucky Guy in Primary Race With Romney
04/07/08: The Democratic Tribes at War
04/03/08: In Terms of Geography, Obama Appeals to Academics and Clinton Appeals to Jacksonians
03/28/08: Missing a generation
03/24/08: Will Obama lose Millennial support?
03/21/08: State by State, Obama and Clinton Stack Up Differently Against McCain
03/14/08: The Importance of Fallon's Fall
03/07/08: Clinton has only one plausible path to the nomination
03/03/08: Throw Out the Old Electoral Maps in 2008
02/29/08: Buckley: a History Changer
02/26/08: Delegate Counting in Texas and Ohio
02/25/08: Let's face it, the General Election Campaign Has already begun
02/21/08: No comeback for Hillary
02/19/08: More on a Hillary comeback
02/18/08: Is Hillary Due for a Comeback?
02/15/08: A Superfight Down the Road
02/11/08: The verdict of Super Tuesday
02/01/08: The Parties Change Places
01/31/08: Republicans Unite; Democrats Divide
01/28/08: South Carolina has set the stage for general election
01/23/08: The Political Plot
01/21/08: Mostly decent politics
01/14/08: The Political Landscape After Iowa and New Hampshire
01/11/08: Another Few Rounds for the Dems
01/10/08: New Hampshire fallout
01/09/08: Young women, feminism, and Hillary
01/07/08: A first cut for the real contenders
12/31/07: Lessons from the surge
12/24/07: Looking for Mr. Right
12/21/07: The Putin choice: Shame
12/17/07: A taxing time for Dems
12/10/07: A year later, signs of progress around the world
12/03/07: Iowans start choosing favorites
11/26/07: Political pounding — on both sides — isn't enough
11/19/07: Looking at Iraq in macrotime
11/12/07: Teacher unions' gain is children's loss 11/09/07: Clinton, Giuliani, and the Polls
11/06/07: Wavering Republicans
11/05/07: A watershed moment on immigration
10/31/07: Giuliani on a Roll?
10/29/07: When There's No Life in the Party
10/22/07: We're Not in 2006 Anymore
10/15/07: Is the tax issue back?
10/08/07: Ivory Tower decay
10/01/07: GM strike marks end of an era
09/24/07: Return on Success?
09/17/07: The Overlawyered War
09/12/07: The Petraeus and Crocker Testimony
09/10/07: The public looks beyond Iraq
09/04/07: Surge politics
08/30/07: Blacks and Law School Discrimination
08/28/07: Divest Iran
08/23/07: Michael Vick, a true Virginian
08/20/07: Verdict on the architect
08/13/07: Stuck in the past of trade
08/06/07: Good news on auto accident trends
07/31/07: Good news on auto accident trends
07/30/07: Our national funk
07/23/07: Leaving Boomer conflicts behind
07/09/07: Two Troublesome Powers
07/02/07: Immigration bill — shut down
06/25/07: Untangling the Polls
06/22/07: Who Does Mayor Mike Hurt?
06/18/07: A primary fix
06/13/07: Polls that move and polls that don't
06/11/07: Different realities — and those who can make a difference
06/04/07: Questions before going into Darfur
05/29/07: Why enforcement matters
05/21/07: Senate immigration bill is progress
05/14/07: The Contented Young
05/08/07: How Sarkozy won France: Anatomy of a political upset
05/07/07: Prioritizing our problems
04/30/07: Feeling Safe Isn't Safe
04/26/07: Boris Yeltsin, R.I.P.
04/23/07: Funding the Troops
04/17/07: Imus firing has cut off pipeline for Dems
04/16/07: Of victims and virtues
04/11/07: The Road to Damascus
04/02/07: Three Scenarios for '08
03/26/07: Gore's faith is bad science
03/23/07: Will the District of Columbia get another electoral vote?
03/19/07: The Blame-America-First Crowd
03/12/07: A Tale of Two Crimes
03/05/07: Reaching a deal on education
02/26/07: Where's the Beef.com?
02/19/07: The misuses of intelligence
02/12/07: A fair health fix
02/05/07: Turning toward Iran
01/29/07: Empty words from the U.S. Senate
01/24/07: Live reactions to the State of the Union Address
01/22/07: Presidential pickings
01/15/07: Open-field presidential politics in 2008
01/12/07: Thoughts on the President's Speech
01/08/07: We're going to see a very loud and bitter clash on the Hill
01/05/07: Partisanship in the House
01/05/07: Gerald Ford, Cold Warrior
12/26/06: The down-side of optimism
12/21/06: What Next in Iraq?
12/18/06: The Experience Factor
12/13/06: Lobbying and the way the world works
12/12/06: House Seniority and Committee Leadership
12/11/06: There is a way
12/08/06: Governors and the Presidency
12/06/06: Karl Rove on Iraq; A Third Way?
12/05/06: The 2008 Presidential Race
12/04/06: Sticking to his guns
11/30/06: The Balance in the Senate
11/28/06: Does Gates's History Mean Continuity or Change in Iraq?
11/27/06: Where do Dems go from here?
11/22/06: The abortion issue: No longer salient?
11/21/06: The Pentagon's new plan
11/20/06: Wanted: New Ideas
11/20/06: Wanted: New Ideas
11/14/06: The basic political balance
11/13/06: Post-thumpin' politics
11/10/06: The political marketplace does its work
11/10/06: Thoughts in the wee hours of election night
11/07/06: The weekend's numbers
11/06/06: Stuck in the '60s
10/30/06: The Story Behind the Polls
10/23/06: Uneasy for a reason
10/16/06: Dems lack ideas for 2008
10/13/06: What Warner's bowing out says about the Dems
10/09/06: A Democratic House?
10/03/06: The Disappearing ‘Us’
09/25/06: The Growth of a Nation
09/18/06: Have the GOPers mastered the first and most important rule of politics?
09/14/06: What the election results really mean
09/11/06: A new narrative
09/14/06: What the election results really mean
09/05/06: A rare, intriguing race
08/28/06: As election looms, GOP seeing ‘terrorist factor’ bounce in polls
08/21/06: Our covert enemies
08/18/06: Is Iran retreating?; The evil of multiculturalism
08/15/06: Primary Colors: What sets Lieberman apart from fellow Democrats is his belief in America
08/14/06: London plot, Tuesday victory exposes Left
08/11/06: Thoughts on the primary defeat of Joe Lieberman
08/07/06: The New Americans
08/01/06: Blueprint's new idea
07/31/06: And now, the good news
07/28/06: Trade talks in ruins — powerful farmers win; most others lose
07/31/06: And now, the good news
07/24/06: At least there is no cry for the non-solution of land for peace
07/17/06: Close Elections: Is This a Trend?
06/27/06: A 1970s education proposal
06/26/06: How safe will we remain when our protection depends on the NYTimes
06/20/06: Vietnam, Watergate and Rove
06/19/06: Stronger than he seems
06/14/06: The plight of the Republicans
06/12/06: Souring public opinion against GOPers won't necessarily translate into Dem wins at polls
06/06/06: A bipartisan issue
06/05/06: Bush knows his history
05/22/06: Heard the good news?
05/19/06: Bush's seven freedoms
05/09/06: The Ugly Duckling Issue
05/04/06: Dems and the working class
05/02/06: Blowback on the press
04/26/06: What's up down South
04/10/06: Slouching toward France
04/07/06: The K Street Project
03/31/06: Checking party IDs
03/27/06: Living with illegals?
03/24/06: Are there any swing voters anymore?
03/14/06: The Lessons of 1994, Con't
03/13/06: The Lessons of 1994
03/09/06: The Supreme Court on military recruiters
03/02/06: Bush's grand strategy
02/27/06: Bush's grand strategy
02/13/06: A higher calling
02/08/06: Who does research?
01/23/06: Messy but not broken
01/13/06: The House Republican leadership race
01/10/06: Other Americans Vote
01/09/06: K Sera, Sera: Lobbyists will always be with us
01/04/06: What's up (and down) with state populations
01/03/06: The Wal-Mart Model
12/19/05: Lessons of 25 Years
12/15/05: CEOs who share the wealth
12/12/05: Reforms that foster accountability and competition
12/05/05: Getting specific
11/30/05: E.J. Dionne's ‘Labor's Lost Story’
11/23/05: The ombudsman as schoolmarm
11/18/05: John Murtha's call for withdrawal
11/18/05: What Bob Woodward knew
11/18/05: What Bob Woodward knew
11/16/05: Bookshelf: Thomas Barnett's Blueprint for Action
11/15/05: ‘I think it's a lie to say that the president lied’
11/14/05: Ahmad Chalabi speaks
11/10/05: The election results
11/07/05: Getting immigration right
10/31/05: Down but Not Out
10/17/05: Spurning America
10/10/05: Down but Not Out
09/30/05: The Tom DeLay indictment
09/27/05: John McCain
09/26/05: The big picture
09/19/05: Real Estate Moms
09/12/05: Blame Aplenty
08/29/05: An End to Polarization?
08/22/05: Of Minds and Metrics
08/08/05: Cultures Aren't Equal
08/02/05: Supreme Court Should Reduce Reliance on Law Clerks
08/01/05: CAFTA: Points on the board for Bush
07/25/05: Bush Bashing Fizzles
07/22/05: Roberts will redefine ‘mainstream’
07/11/05: Our House of Lords
07/06/05: Nomination Battle Won't Help Either Party
07/04/05: An emerging alliance with India
06/27/05: Rove speech exposes fundamental split
06/20/05: A Less Perfect Union
06/06/05: Future Shock
05/23/05: Opposing Free Trade
05/16/05: It's the Third Way, Old Chap
05/09/05: Tony Blair's Last Hurrah
05/03/05: The Perils of Obstructionism
04/16/05: Faith in Our Future?
04/11/05: The Hardest Numbers
04/05/05: One man can change the course of history
03/28/05: No, it wasn't a cynical ploy
03/21/05: The trustfunder left
03/14/05: Democrats are out of gas
02/28/05: Minds are changing
02/22/05: 2000 changed everything
02/14/05: Blogosphere politics
02/07/05: A transformative president
01/24/05: Revolutionary president
01/17/05: Eyes on the future
01/03/05: The lessons of Clintoncare
12/27/04: The new status quo
12/20/04: Bush proved to be a successful Jacksonian and Hamiltonian president — how about Wilsonian as well?
12/13/04: Nonviolent protest
12/06/04: Burdens of proof
11/29/04: Pro-health insurance
11/22/04: Reshaping the electorate
11/15/04: A bad election for old media
11/08/04: The 51 percent nation
11/03/04: The second Bush term
11/01/04: Unfounded certitudes
10/25/04: A late-breaking election?
10/18/04: The third debate
10/11/04: OK, curb your enthusiasm
10/04/04: Behind the ambivalence
09/27/04: Peaceful regime change
09/20/04: The campaign always reflects the candidate
09/13/04: The Dems' real problem
09/07/04: The president takes control
08/30/04: No truce in the culture war
08/23/04: Winter in Cambodia?
08/09/04: A choice on trade
08/02/04: Kerry's risky strategy
07/30/04: Edwards Night: A Tale of Two Hotels
07/29/04: A star is born
07/28/04: My heart belongs to daddy
07/26/04: The Boston Democrats
07/06/04: The company they keep
06/21/04: Changing Warhorses in Midstream: An electoral loss by Lincoln in 1864 would have greatly altered U.S. history. The situation is similar today
06/14/04: He stands in history
06/11/04: It wasn't always easy for the Gipper
06/09/04: The 'Bush lied' lie
06/07/04: Forgetting the Founding Fathers
06/01/04: Forging ahead in Baghdad
05/24/04: The Pentagon's new map
05/19/04: Hard reality for soft America
05/17/04: Ownership society, anyone?
05/14/04: Poll-gazing: Are the numbers moving?
05/12/04: Permission to gerrymander
05/10/04: No, it's not the American way
05/03/04: New Europe vs. Old
04/19/04: An election on a knife's edge
04/09/04: The jobless recovery may not have been jobless
04/05/04: The long shadow of Vietnam
03/26/04: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
03/16/04: Heartening progress in Iraq
03/08/04: In the steps of JQA and FDR
02/27/04: Bush's reelection campaign
02/20/04: After Wisconsin
02/09/04: But what would Kerry do?
02/06/04: After February 3
02/02/04: The shape of things to come
01/30/04: After New Hampshire
01/26/04: The shape of things to come
01/23/04: After Iowa
01/12/04: The new shoe-leather politics
01/05/04: Waging the last campaign
12/03/03: Choice and accountability
11/24/03: Those divided Dems
11/10/03: Harshness and vitriol
10/27/03: Stopping rogue nukes
10/13/03: Governor Arnold
09/29/03: Reading the reversals
09/15/03: Iraq in historical perspective
09/02/03: Prez has knack for reframing
08/11/03: California's action hero
07/30/03: The good news coming from Iraq
07/21/03: An Irish parable, unfinished
07/08/03: A question of confidence
06/27/03: Yes, she's running for president. Is that good for the Dems?
06/16/03: Making new amigos
06/03/03: Next stop, Medicare?
05/19/03: Statues fall, minds change
05/09/03: Kicking it off in Columbia: First Democratic debate was really three
05/05/03: A tale of two nations
04/22/03: Changes for the better
04/08/03: After the fighting, democracy
03/25/03: Shaping world opinion
03/21/03: Diplomatic debacle? Not so … Countering the president's critics
03/10/03: The next stage of war
02/18/03: Sakharov's advice for us
02/03/03: A new light on the issues
01/13/03: Waging postindustrial war
01/06/03: Crunch time
12/24/02: Showing where they stand
12/09/02: Feeling some heat
11/27/02: Remaking the Middle East
11/11/02: No more 49% nation
11/04/02: The deeper currents
10/21/02: Dems have to do more than complain about the economy
10/14/02: Playing by the rules?
10/07/02: Latino voters and American politics
9/30/02: The Dems' dilemma
9/23/02: Taking the U.N. seriously
9/17/02: A special moral responsibility
8/09/02: An unusual step: Why did Andrew Cuomo drop out of the race for governor of New York?
08/21/02: Too clever by half
08/19/02: Corn dogs and candidates
08/13/02: No Democratic tide
07/31/02: South of the border
07/26/02: Poll position
07/18/02: Europe follows Bush
07/16/02: Dinner at Granita
07/09/02: The only major country where a "third way" center-left government is thriving
06/26/02: Rightward march?
06/11/02: The road to Baghdad
05/23/02: If dipping into the Social Security surplus is so terrible, why did Democrats do it every chance they got for 24 years?
05/19/02: America's interest in protection against attack is secured not by arms control but by regime change
05/07/02: Sizing up the 2002 races
04/29/02: Living with conflict
04/22/02: Old ways die hard
04/16/02: Our Vichy gamble
04/08/02: Off the Side Track
04/01/02: Europeans for the U.S.
03/18/02: The common good
03/11/02: What happens in the eight months until California's general election?
03/05/02: Latin America and the 'war on terrorism'
02/27/02: The nature of the regime that replaces Saddam Hussein's is of critical importance
02/25/02: Power & the American Presidents
02/21/02: A Big Stick: TR's sure sense of America has much to tell us today
02/19/02: Politics of the investor class
02/11/02: Toujours l'audace!
02/04/02: What America stands for
01/28/02: Tainted data
01/23/02: Leaving well enough alone
01/21/02: "New kind of war" will bring new kind of result: No feeding the welfare state
01/14/02: A turn in the polls?
01/14/02: Deficit politics
01/10/02: Trading places
01/07/02: Bush's Republicanism
01/02/02: Domestic squabbling
12/21/01: How the Democrats have changed in the past 12 months
12/17/01: Domestic squabbling
12/11/01: 'Go to the source'
12/03/01: Winners and losers
11/27/01: Sticking with the plan
11/19/01: Now, on to Baghdad
11/14/01: Dirty diamonds
11/06/01: Time to stand and fight
11/01/01: The costs of war: Civilian casualties and collateral damage are inevitable in any war
10/29/01: Burden of proof
10/24/01: The second front
10/22/01: A decision of historic importance
10/16/01: By silence betrayed
10/08/01: War and government
09/17/01: War, and we must win
09/11/01: After quotas, a better way
09/04/01: That four-letter word
08/06/01: The CEO at DOD
07/25/01: Americans seem wedded to a life of less crime and welfare
06/18/01: Labor's love lost?
06/05/01: The death of the Bush agenda may be greatly exaggerated
05/21/01: Italian lessons: Why Silvio Berlusconi's victory affects America, too
05/08/01: Delay the golden years
05/02/01: Be our guest
04/23/01: Kennedy and Bush are more alike than you might think
04/11/01: Bully (for) Bush
03/27/01: Following the money
03/13/01: Politics of the possible
02/26/01: End it, don't mend it
02/13/01: The durable Reagan
01/30/01: The missing answer
01/17/01: Boomers but not twins
01/02/01: President-elect Bush aims to make friends, one at a time
12/18/00: Red Queen rules
12/04/00: Lies and statistics
11/28/00: Thou shalt not steal
11/14/00: How Bush can lead
10/31/00: Puzzled by the state poll results? So are the candidates
10/18/00: When talk is cheap
10/03/00: The death of Big Media
09/09/00: A fair question
08/28/00: Making labor's day
07/11/00: The new Mexico: The 20-year history behind an overnight change
07/06/00: A textbook campaign: Bush makes hay before the convention lights shine
06/23/00: Beat the press
06/06/00: Reining in regulators: Will the Supreme Court clip Washington's wings?
05/25/00: In plain English: Bilingual education flunks out of schools in California
04/28/00: Gore in the balance: His book reveals a fanatical approach to the environment
04/04/00: President-elect Putin offers a basis for hopes–and for fears
03/14/00: Over the long, long haul, the issues may yet favor the Republicans
03/02/00: Will unions rule? Indispensable to Gore, labor may be the campaign's secret winner
02/15/00: A reformers' party
01/03/00: The voters rule: In Manchester, Mexico, and Moscow, an imperfect system works
01/19/00: The era of Big Promises
12/08/99: Welcome to the world of 'good enough'
11/2/99: Just saying no
11/12/99: Money talks, as it should
10/28/99: Mexico votes – for real
10/03/99: Going against type
09/28/99: The unions go public
08/31/99: China's strait flush
08/25/99: The first two contests
08/03/99: Paddling upstream
07/08/99: Taking Hillary seriously
06/22/99: Trying the lawyers
06/07/99: Facts on the ground

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