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Imagining a Gingrich Presidency
He's confrontational, volatile, and self-aggrandizing -- but those aren't the only reasons his former colleagues fear him becoming leader of the free world.
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He's confrontational, volatile, and self-aggrandizing -- but those aren't the only reasons his former colleagues fear him becoming leader of the free world.
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Primaries cater to the fringes. But for a general election, a candidate must be more than a political cheerleader for a particular ideology.
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Upset with polarization, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is calling for a nationwide cutoff of all campaign contributions
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The troubling implications for the United States in Egypt, in Libya, and on the Israel-Palestine question
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Congress' silent acquiescence to President Obama's authorization of force in Libya highlights a growing problem for American constitutional government
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The president assumed authority for the Libyan adventure without permission from Congress, which is more brazen than Bush's march into Iraq
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He may be too preachy for some tastes, but the Senator decided issues based on their merits, not party dictates
Democrats are expected to lose big in the coming election. Who is really responsible?
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A recent edition of the Washington Post shows just how out of touch the Obama administration has become
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The recent primaries have shown how a democracy can breed unpopular leaders, opposed by the majority of their constituency
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McChrystal was wrong in failing to understand why the Constitution provides for a single top commander
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Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina use their private sector success as proof they'd be good public servants. Why they should stop.
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Conservatives demand mindless conformity, driving independent thinkers from their ranks
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Republican congressmen who rallied health care protesters during the debate insulted the dignity of American democracy
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What does America mean to Liz Cheney and William Kristol?
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Steele must prove himself and fire the finance chiefs who cooked up the RNC's leaked fundraising campaign
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Neither party should get too smug about Gov. Rick Perry's primary win
I was asked yesterday whether I would be going to CPAC, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which is currently being held a…
If democracy is more about process--how decisions are made and who makes them--than about the policies that result, the United States Senate has…
Years ago, the Congress assigned to the President the task of submitting each year a proposed federal budget. It has no force of law--deciding…
Once a week during his presidency, members of the Republican congressional leadership gathered in the White House Cabinet Room to meet with Ronald…
Every other January, members of Congress--all 435 in the House and newly-elected Senators--take an oath of office in which they swear to protect and…
Predictably, conservatives and liberals have taken quite different positions on the Supreme Court decision upholding the right of corporations to…
The Massachusetts election is over and the result, a Republican victory, is predictably hurtful to Democrats, whose options for moving legislation…
It has been interesting--and amusing--to watch the media response to Michael Steele's kick-ass chairmanship of the national Republican Party. An…
Guilty.I confess. To those who saw me as--accused me of being--an unrepentant non-PC believer in American "exceptionalism", a (dare I use the word)…
Panelists on one of Politico's web pages (Politico/Arena), were asked recently to answer this question: "Has President Obama moved to the right?" It…
In the short term, it is the legislation currently before Congress that will matter most: how lawmakers change the ways Americans pay for health care…
Observers have had a great deal to work with recently in assailing the nut cases and nastiness on the political right. Like many others who have…
These remarks were delivered at Princeton on December 1 as part of a lecture series sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and…
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