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The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer
Fox’s 24 is exquisite nonsense. But can its limerick logic survive in the post-Cheney era? READ MORE
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Yet American diplomacy has proved most successful when it has tempered its idealistic aspirations with that canonical realist precept: the importance of limits. Balancing ambition with feasibility, ideational goals with material costs, has been perhaps the highest realist doctrine.
David M. Kennedy
From “What Would Wilson Do?”, Jan/Feb 2010
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Not Since Reagan
Sarah Palin’s tea party speech was the most electrifying from a Republican in decades (William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) READ MORE
Dante Alighieri: Epic Poet, Ass Kicker
Will the new video-game version of Inferno prove the perfect model for introducing readers to difficult classics? (wikimedia commons) READ MORE
Team Obama Dithers on Terror Trial
The botched handling of the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed case shows the administration is soft (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) READ MORE
An Improvised Pot Pie
Spoiled chicken almost stopped the author from cooking—but then she got creative (gtrwndr87/flickr) READ MORE
What Toyota Can Learn from Intel
The microchip company came out stronger after a public relations disaster like the one hurting the automaker (Scott Olson/Getty Images) READ MORE
Pandering to Zealots
The public editor of the New York Times is wrong to say a reporter can’t cover Israel because of a son serving in the country’s army (paalia/flickr) READ MORE
Do the Rich Shovel?
The wealthy really are different from you and me, especially in their snow cleaning habits (digital image fan/flickr) READ MORE
The Senate’s Threat to America
The gratuitous use of filibusters and holds has brought the government to a standstill (matti mattila/flickr) READ MORE
Bipartisan Blizzard
What a snowball fight between politicians would look like READ MORE
6 New Stimulus Ideas
How to grow the economy and shrink the debt without creating more red ink (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) READ MORE
