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Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:55:42 PM
At first blush, conservatives debating whether Ronald Reagan was a better foe of big government than George W. Bush can sound like obsessive comic-book fans arguing in their parents’ basements about whether Superman was stronger than the Incredible Hulk. But as 2008 approaches and the Right becomes more reflective—as opposed to reflexively defensive—in its assessment of our 43rd president, such discussions will play an important role. Sunday, January 29, 2006 04:10:50 PM
In the Middle East, we are told, it’s a choice between democracy and terror. What then are we to make of Hamas’ upset victory in the Palestinian Authority last week? In an election that saw 78 percent turnout, Hamas won at least 74 of 132 seats in the Legislative Council. President Mahmoud Abbas asked the Islamists to form the next government. Sunday, January 15, 2006 06:21:36 PM
If you’re ever in Boston, there’s a dingy little bar, nestled inside a Back Bay parking garage, named after the beatnik writer Charles Bukowski. It’s not uncommon to find young aspiring writers, unshaven and quaffing pints, sitting at the bar scrawling their thoughts on notepads and occasionally offering them to the patron on the next stool. Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:14:15 PM
One of the biggest mistakes conservatives have made in recent years is to assume that government, especially at the federal level, can effectively transmit their values now that the Republicans hold power in Washington, D.C. Sunday, December 18, 2005 09:48:02 AM
Eugene McCarthy and William Proxmire are dead. So, it seems, is the kind of maverick politics the two Democratic former senators represented. The process that allowed such men to hold public office in the first place isn’t looking very healthy either. Sunday, December 11, 2005 09:55:31 PM
The Financial Times headline says it well: “Bush tries balancing act on illegal immigration.” The president has been traveling the country, pledging strengthened border security and improved interior enforcement—alongside the adoption of a guest-workers program that would effectively amnesty millions of illegal aliens. Thursday, December 01, 2005 07:43:47 PM
Behold the all-powerful religious right. Abe Foxman, longtime national director of the Anti-Defamation League, recently warned that groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council were engaged in a “pervasive and intensive assault” on the separation of church and state, aimed at “Christianizing America.” Former Sen. John Danforth (R-Mo.) claimed last month that the Republican Party “has been taken over by the Christian conservatives,” and is currently writing about on the subject (his publisher hopes it will “dilute the meanness” in American politics). Sunday, November 20, 2005 05:47:31 PM
The debate over the Iraq war has become partisan and predictable. Republicans spout slogans like “stay the course” and “cut and run” while confusing support for the administration with support for the troops. Democrats take positions that are less antiwar than anti-Bush. Saturday, November 12, 2005 09:42:20 PM
The riots that spread across France sparked considerable debate in our own country. If you thought the violence refuted multiculturalism, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says you’re wrong. Tuesday, November 08, 2005 09:21:22 PM
“Racist, sexist, anti-gay, right-wing judges go away!” So the young protestors chanted when Judge Samuel Alito was nominated to the Supreme Court. The Harriet Miers interlude, pitting President Bush against his own base, has been replaced with a bare-knuckled ideological scrap between the left and the right. Saturday, October 29, 2005 05:50:04 PM
The withdrawal of Harriet Miers spared some of President Bush’s strongest supporters from having to make a fateful decision: stand by their president or sit out a dubious Supreme Court nomination. Saturday, October 22, 2005 12:00:00 AM
Senate Judiciary Committee members may have described Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’ questionnaire responses as “incomplete to insulting.” Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:00:00 AM
As cries of sexism, elitism and disloyalty to the president fail to persuade, conservative opposition to the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination continues unabated. Some Miers defenders are left with the following argument: President Bush had no choice. Monday, October 10, 2005 03:50:41 PM
For the first time in his presidency, George W. Bush faces a widespread conservative revolt. Nothing he has done before – not McCain-Feingold, not steel tariffs, not his failure to veto excessive spending, not even last year’s proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants – has provoked as hostile a reaction on the right as the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Sunday, October 02, 2005 12:00:04 AM
Conservatives, it’s time to put aside partisan loyalties and speak frankly: the Republican majority in Washington, now approaching its 11th year, is floundering. If the GOP does not right its course, defeat may be ahead in 2006 and victory may not really matter. Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:56:45 AM
It was a strange lesson to take from 9/11, but it was the one that hardened into conventional wisdom: The federal government’s failure to prevent the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon demonstrated once and for all the impracticality of limited government. Sunday, September 18, 2005 12:27:20 AM
Big government conservatism, anyone? Explaining the decision to add the entire $62.3 billion cost of two post-Katrina hurricane-relief bills to the $331 billion deficit rather than seek offsetting spending cuts, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) declared "ongoing victory" in the battle to bring the federal budget under control. Friday, September 02, 2005 01:07:39 PM
A dozen years ago, the usually academic debate over the economics of international trade spilled onto front pages and resonated on talk radio as never before. Sunday, August 14, 2005 08:47:41 AM
Growing up less than thirty miles south of Boston, many of my friends and neighbors were conscious of their ethnicity and the "old country" from which their ancestors came. Though it would be remarkable today, back then it was not uncommon to hear Italian spoken in the streets. Sunday, August 07, 2005 06:45:27 AM
In an odd-numbered year and a season when most Americans ordinarily take a vacation from politics, partisans on both sides are busily spinning the results of the recent special election in Ohio's Second Congressional District. |