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Thomas Perez

Thomas Perez Makes a Deal

How Obama’s Labor nominee made a Supreme Court case disappear

BY TERRY EASTLAND

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Thomas Fluharty

Beyond the Pale

At ‘white privilege’ conferences, a lengthening list of victims issue an ever-more-detailed indictment of Western civilization

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Gary Locke/BigStock/Landov/Newscom

Radioactive Regime

Iran and its apologists

BY REUEL MARC GERECHT

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

Afghan Local Policemen receive certificates

Special Operators at Work

Training the Afghan Local Police

BY WILLY STERN

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

David Clark

The Fall of Rome

Bankrupt and bloodied, Italy’s political elite clings to power

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

Carter and Reagan

The Talent Contest

What makes a political winner? Ideology and party platforms are overrated.

BY NOEMIE EMERY

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

Union soldiers at Chancellorsville awaiting orders

A Masterpiece of War

The battle of Chancellorsville, 150 years on

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

Steven Chorney

The Twidiocracy

The decline of Western civilization, 140 characters at a time

BY MATT LABASH

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

Gosnell

Barbarism in Philadelphia

The crimes of Kermit Gosnell

BY JON A. SHIELDS

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Anti-fracking protesters in New York, August 2012

The Fractured Left

Good news on natural gas is bad news for a Democratic party full of environmental true-believers

BY ROBERT H. NELSON

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Sam Fox in Belgium, 2008

Advise and Dissent

The recess appointment power: a slow-motion train wreck

BY JEFF BERGNER

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Instagram, North Korea

Dateline Pyongyang

The AP's problematic North Korea bureau

BY ETHAN EPSTEIN

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Morris Dees

King of Fearmongers

Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, scaring donors since 1971

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

An irritated Woods and his club part ways in May 2007.

Can You Forgive Him?

Next stop, Augusta, on the Tiger Woods rehabilitation tour

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

With fellow freshmen outside the White House, July 2011

Tea Party Insider

Rep. Steve Southerland and the GOP class of 2010 make peace with the House leadership, and vice versa

BY JONATHAN STRONG

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

A loud reminder in Dublin, July 2011

Irish Stew

Where abortion and national identity collide

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

Prayer

Among the Evangélicos

For Republicans reaching out to immigrant groups, a glimmer of hope: Protestant Hispanics are genuine swing voters.

BY MICHAEL WARREN

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

C.F. Payne

The Heretic

Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

Elephant double Bind

The Double Bind

What stands in the way of a Republican revival? Republicans.

BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

YPG fighters in Sere Kaniyah

The Kurds Are for the Kurds

Syria’s other combatants

BY JONATHAN SPYER

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

How to Prevent Atrocities

How to Prevent Atrocities

There’s no substitute for presidential leadership

BY TOD LINDBERG

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

Gov. Jerry Brown & Californians

Paradise Lost

California is not too big to fail.

BY K.E. GRUBBS JR. and SHAWN STEEL

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

A gun.

The American Way with Guns

Our national story is firearms all the way down

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

In Erbil, it is indeed.

The Other Iraq

Kurdistan prospers, even as pressure from Baghdad grows

BY DAVID DEVOSS

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

Marco Antonio Rubio

The Perils of Reform

Our immigration system can be fixed, but Republicans should aim for better policies, not better pandering

BY IRWIN M. STELZER

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23

President Obama and Eric Holder

Politicizing Justice

Attorney General Eric Holder’s agenda begins and ends with delivering favors to Obama’s constituencies

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23

Anderson Jury

We, the Grand Jury

An education in American citizenship

BY CLAUDIA ANDERSON

February 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 22

Neighbors-to-be? Hamas rally, left, and Fatah, right.

Better Late than Never?

Obama’s trip to Jerusalem and the ‘peace process’

BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS

February 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 22

Obama the bargainer

Obama the Bargainer

How to lose friends and alienate Congress

BY JAY COST

February 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 21

Jack Davis

Abandon ‘the Children’

We need a better argument against the massive federal debt

BY MEGHAN CLYNE

February 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 21

Donkey and Elephant

Losing Streak

The Democratic ascendancy and why it happened

BY JEFFREY BELL

February 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 21

The scourage of 'human rights' commissions

The Sensitivity Apparat

On the scourge of ‘human rights’ commissions

BY MARK HEMINGWAY

February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20

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