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Defiance

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Monday, March 1

Defiance

WASHINGTON -- The word "partisanship" is typically accompanied by the word "mindless." That's not simply insulting to partisans; it's also untrue.If we learn nothing else in 2010, can we please finally acknowledge that our partisan divisions are about authentic principles that lead to very different approaches to governing?Last week's health care summit was a day-long seminar that should make it impossible for anyone to pretend otherwise. But before we get to that, let's examine the ... (905 words)

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Summited Out

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Friday, February 26

Summited Out

Who won? It's the exact same question people asked in 2008, after each of the presidential debates. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. What's "winning"--scoring more debate points, making fewer gaffes, or simply appealing to more voters? And aren't all those judgments pretty subjective anyway?But if Thursday's event didn't produce a winner, it was clarifying.Health care reform, as I've said many times now, is really about achieving three basic goals: ... (920 words)

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Poll Tax

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Thursday, February 25

Poll Tax

Last week, I left the Obama administration to join the Center for American Progress. Policy—constructing it, selling it—has been my career, as an advisor for the president and Hillary Clinton. The New Republic has asked me to use this experience to help illuminate the glorious (and occasionally unattractive) process of policymaking, how wonks and politicians think about the hard work of governing. Herewith, my first installment.What can defeat health care reform? Polls—or more specifically, Democratic ... (846 words)

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Pencils Down

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Tuesday, March 2

Pencils Down

On February 2, at the first Senate hearings on gays in the military since 1993, Admiral Mike Mullen became the only sitting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to support allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. He said the “institutional integrity” of the armed forces demands that they stop forcing gay service members to lie in order to serve their country. The current policy of “don't ask, don't tell” (DADT), ... (2195 words)

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The GOP's Pre-Existing Ideology

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Tuesday, March 2

The GOP's Pre-Existing Ideology

You’d have to be pretty cold-hearted to think somebody should go without insurance just because she has a kid with asthma, was born with diabetes, or survived a bout of breast cancer--just three of the conditions that today would render an individual “uninsurable” in the eyes of the industry.To fix this problem, President Obama and the Democrats would prohibit insurers from denying coverage, or even charging higher rates, to people with pre-existing medical conditions. It’s ... (1079 words)

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The Republican Civil War

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Tuesday, March 2

The Republican Civil War

All across the country, Republicans are fantasizing about a gigantic electoral tide that will sweep out deeply entrenched Democratic incumbents this November. In their telling, this deep-red surge will be so forceful as to dislodge even legislators who don’t look vulnerable now, securing GOP control of both houses of Congress.But could this scenario really come to pass? That will depend, in part, on what type of Republican Party the Democrats are running against in the ... (1544 words)

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Venice in Texas

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Tuesday, March 2

Venice in Texas

Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli AltarpieceBlanton Museum of ArtCombine a mystery and a masterpiece and what do you have? You have “Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece,” a small, perfectly focused exhibition recently at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. The show--which has also been seen at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa--comes with a backstory engaging enough to make museum-goers pay close ... (3125 words)

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Terrorists Without Borders

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Tuesday, February 23

Terrorists Without Borders

Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan FieldEdited by Antonio Giustozzi(Columbia University Press, 318 pp., $40) My Life with the TalibanBy Abdul Salam ZaeefEdited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn(Columbia University Press, 331 pp., $29.95)After several hours of driving down one of the two-lane asphalt roads that wind through Pakistan’s tribal areas, our kidnappers entered the territory of Baitullah Mehsud, the widely feared leader of the Pakistani Taliban. It was the middle ... (4546 words)

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1937, 2010

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Wednesday, February 17

1937, 2010

Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court By Jeff Shesol(W.W. Norton, 656 pp., $27.95)In 1937 President Roosevelt tried to “pack” the Supreme Court--increase its size so that he could fill the vacancies thus created with liberals, who would shift the balance of power from the conservative majority that had invalidated a number of New Deal laws. Surprisingly--considering the overwhelming margin by which Roosevelt had been re-elected in 1936, the Democrats’ lock on both houses ... (4322 words)

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Carded

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Thursday, February 4

Carded

The Original of Laura By Vladimir NabokovEdited by Dmitri Nabokov(Knopf, 304 pp., $35) (6058 words)

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The Accountable Presidency

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Tuesday, February 2

The Accountable Presidency

Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush By John Yoo(Kaplan, 544 pp., $29.95)Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State By Garry Wills(Penguin, 288 pp., $27.95) I. (7417 words)

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For the Love of Culture

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Monday, January 25

For the Love of Culture

In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided to do something that might strike most of us as common sense. Her father had directed or produced more than a hundred documentaries. Some of these were quite famous (Nine from Little Rock). (6768 words)

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