Five Best Tuesday Columns
Andrew Ross Sorkin on J.C. Penney, Jon Lee Anderson on Petraeus, Michael Tomasky on the death of Reaganomics, Saransh Sehgal on Tibet, and Christine Ockrent on François Hollande.
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Thomas L. Friedman on Syria, Chuck Thompson on Texas, Vali Nasr on drones, Christopher Dickey on Jordan, and Doyle McManus on Obama's cabinet.
Andrew Ross Sorkin on J.C. Penney, Jon Lee Anderson on Petraeus, Michael Tomasky on the death of Reaganomics, Saransh Sehgal on Tibet, and Christine Ockrent on François Hollande.
Maureen Dowd on Romney's America, Sarah Westwood on college Republicans, Doyle McManus on wedge issues, Ahmed Rashid on Afghan peace, William D. Cohan on Wall Street reform.
Noreen Malone on Megyn Kelly, Seth Mandel on Republican governors, Margaret Carlson on female senators, Jay Ulfelder on forecasting world politics, Damien Ma on China's last ten years.
Amy Davidson on Sasha and Malia, Gail Collins on the fiscal cliff, Maghan Daum on single women voters, Ezra Klein on the filibuster, and Ana Marie Cox on gay equality.
Jonathan Cohn on Obama's mandate, Jonathan Haidt, on common fear, Dana Milbank on Romney HQ, Linda Woodhead on extreme religious freedom, John Tamny on Romney's economic advisors.
Ramesh Ponnuru on drones, Michael Gerson on math and politics, Kevin M. Kruse on truth in politics, Randy E. Barnett on the Libertarian Party, and Sasha Issenberg on why we vote.
Aaron B. O'Connell on military-industrial complex, Robert J. Samuelson on campaign disconnect, David Corn on political truth, Steven Greenhut on California's spending problem, and Gordon G. Chang on China's Enrons.
Paul Krugman on partisan politics, Charles Krauthammer on ideological ascendancy, Haley Barbour on disaster relief, Thomas K. McCraw on immigrant innovation, and Carl Pope on politics of green.
Matt Miller on Sandy's moral instinct, Susan Antilla on the broken brokerage system, E.J. Dionne Jr. on compromise, Xiao Guozhen on Chinese law and advocacy, and Donald Cohen on the minimum wage.
David Rohde on Sandy and inequality, Yonah Freemark and Lawrence J. Vale on housing aid, David Weigel on glamorizing the flip-flop, Kathleen Parker on the race card, and Ted Galen Carpenter on the Mexican drug war.
Ana Marie Cox on Hurricane Sandy, Jeffrey Rosen on wiretapping, Richard Cohen on Obama's authenticity, Richard Vedder on online learning, and Noah Feldman on the Supreme Court.
Bill Keller on "no agenda" myth, Michael Hiltzik on high taxes and millionaires, Thomas B. Edsall on rogue billionaires, Brian Lee Crowley on U.S. and Canada, and Jeffrey Toobin on the right to vote.
Roger Cohen on self-absorbed foreign policy, Eugene Robinson on America's identity, Jonathan Cohn on the auto bailout, David Brooks on being moderate, and Evan Osnos on China's corruption.
E.J. Dionne Jr. on the right wing, Amy Sullivan on Mourdock, Richard H. Thaler on entrepreneur safety nets, Greg Lukianoff on free speech at college, and Pete Early on the mentally ill.
Ross Douthat on foreign policy, Dana Milbank on conventional wisdom, Efraim Halevy on Republicans and Israel, Michael Tanner on big government, and Irin Carmon on Republican misogyny.
Peter Beinart on George W. Bush policy, David Brooks on poll addiction, Roger Cohen on Muslim Brotherhood, Charles Lane on the postal service, and Richard Vedder on college education.
William D. Cohan on regulating Wall Street, Alex Pareene on confused moderates, Robert J. Samuelson on Obamacare, Wendy Kopp on education and foreign policy, and Bob Dole on George McGovern.
David Brooks on environmentalism, Ruth Marcus on Romney the '50s dad, William Pesek on global hunger, Timothy Egan on Romney the manager, and Touré on blacks voting Obama.
Ezra Klein on Romney and Bush, Nicholas Kristof on healthcare, Anne Applebaum on diplomatic security, Linda Greenhouse on the embarrassment of Fisher v. Texas, and K.C. Cole on male white CEOs.
Cass R. Sunstein on the conservative Constitution, Steven M. Davidoff on Dodd-Frank, Jeffrey A. Meyer on privacy and drug-sniffing dogs, Steve Kornacki on the debate impact, and Ruth Marcus on solitary confinement.
Ramesh Ponnuru on protectionism, David Brooks with rules for lawmakers, William Pesek on "Gangnam Style" economy, Dana Milbank on Harry Reid, and Jo Ellen Chatham on the conservative argument for PBS.
Bill Keller on sexual predators, Jackson Diehl on Obama and Syria, Paul Krugman on health care, Tim Judah on the EU's Nobel Peace Prize, and Lawrence Summers on the vicious economic cycle.
David Brooks on the VP generation war, Dana Milbank on Biden framing the campaign, Iain Martin on the EU peace prize, Kathleen Sharp on EPO culture, and Laura Ling on North Korea.
Gary E. MacDougal on poverty, Ezra Klein on campaign hope and promise, Dana Milbank on outing the CIA, Laura Bush on Malala Yousafzai, and Noliwe M. Rooks on standardized testing.
Jack Welch on the jobs report, Maureen Dowd on Obama on his own, Clive Crook on "elected autocracy," Ross Douthat on liberal failure, and Dana Milbank on the campaign's Snuffleupagus.
Joe Nocera on campaign finance, David Rothkopf on Iran, Dana Milbank on Romney's brainwash, Jonathan Cohn on a delayed pivot, and Andrew Sullivan on Obama giving up.
E. J. Dionne Jr. on the moral hole, Bill Keller on end-of-life care, Mark Buchanan on social influence and the market, Eric Posner on drone wars, and Buzz Bissinger on voting for Romney.
Dana Milbank on Obama's evasiveness, Paul Hodgson on bank clawbacks, Timothy Egan on the idiot undecideds, Jonathan Weil on hedge funds from prison, and Thomas J. Espenshade on affirmative action.
Ezra Klein on Obama and Romney's differences, Matt Miller on Romney's audacity, Karen L. Cox on being gay in the South, Sudhir Venkatesh on guns and gangs, and Chloe Angyal on the contraception debate.
Newton N. Minow on debates, Dana Milbank on zingers, Peter Orszag on progressive entitlements, Michael Kinsley on gaffes, and Josh Ozersky on meat supply.
Eugene Robinson on which Mitt will debate, Todd Moss on Obama's Africa failure, Roger Lowenstein on high-frequency trading, Jeffrey Goldberg on Obama's Middle East policy, and Mallory Factor on public union "official time."
Tariq Ramadan on Arab democracy, William D. Cohan on the SEC's craziness, Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. on affirmative action, Howard Kurtz on Romney's negative narrative, and Noah Feldman on human rights law.
Mickey Edwards on power of political parties, Timothy Egan on public land, Jonathan Weil on bank regulation, Eugene Robinson on "skewed" polls, and Craig Unger on Karl Rove.
Michael Doran and Max Boot on intervening in Syria, Ezra Klein on the undecided voter, Debra Saunders on the myth of Obama's obstacles, Charles M. Blow on what is known, and Steve Coll on football's future.
Harold Meyerson on upward redistribution, Cass. R. Sunstein on social dynamics and success, Dana Milbank on Hillary's "hit man," John Dickerson on how to choose a president, and Fran Tarkenton on NFL's fumbles.
Richard Cohen on Republican brain drain, David Brooks on the conservative mentality, Jeffrey Goldberg on "Muslim Rage," Michael Gerson on Republicans and Hispanics, and Naomi Wolf responds to critics.
Robert J. Samuelson on empty American dreams, Jeff Rubin on oil price and the economy, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on Romney's tax plan, Thomas B. Edsall on Pennsylvania's swing state status, and Gordon G. Chang on China protests and the economy.
Peggy Noonan on Romney's "rolling calamity," David Brooks on nurturing grandiosity, Joel Kotkin on the last swing territory, Daniel W. Drezner on presidents and foreign affairs, and Pankaj Mishra on China-Japan relations.
George F. Will on grown-up voters, Susan J. Lambert on labor laws, Ed Whitacre on GM, Nicole Gelinas on cronyism, and Linda Greenhouse on Constitution Day and Medicaid.
Mitt Romney on dependency, Ross Douthat on Romney's gaffe and culture, David Rothkopf on the Israel myth, Andy Kessler on innovation economics, and Dana Milbank on the gaffe economy.
David Brooks on Romney's ignorance, Ramesh Ponnuru on GOP's misguided welfare worries, Shikha Dalmia on immigrants and the economy, Lawrence Summers on Britain's economy, and Thomas Sowell on the divisive tax rate.
Thomas B. Edsall on poverty and politics, Robert J. Samuelson on Bernanke's stimulus, Steven Rattner on Medicare costs, Simon Johnson on Deutsche Bank, and Sir Elton John on HIV-positive prisoners.
Alex Marshall on governments and markets, Prudence Bushnell on embassy security, Gordon Brown on growth in Europe, Charles Krauthammer on Obama and Iran, and Kate Tulenko on health workers.
Gail Collins on Romney's reaction, Liz Cheney on Obama's foreign policy, Stephen Starr on the effect of rebel violence, George F. Will on the Fed's role, and Mark Hertsgaard on the farm bill.
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn on blacklisting terrorists, Harold Meyerson on Chicago power plays, Dana Milbank on Romney and Republicans, Paul Moreno on how public unions grew, and Richard Vedder on remedial college classes.
Kurt Eichenwald on what Bush knew, Ramesh Ponnuru on a difficult Romney presidency, Dennis Byrne on the teacher's strike, Matt Miller on wartime taxes, and David Brooks on why men fail.
Charles Koch on corporate cronyism, John Fund on "none of the above," Gerard Lemos on anxiety in China, Nate Silver on polling without all the data, and Jim Cooper and Alan I. Leshner on the seriousness of science.
Eugene Robinson on a successful Democratic National Convention, Jonathan Weil on who to blame for Facebook, Steven Greenhut on broken California, David W. Blight on the original voter I.D., and Gary Younge on Obama's walkthrough speech.
Nicholas D. Kristof with Obama's report card, Ezra Klein on the wonk-in-chief, Susan Antilla on trusting financial brokers, Linda Greenhouse on how we talk about abortion, and Steve Coll on rowdy Senate elections.
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