05 Tuesday Feb 2002
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Quiz time, folks: Who was it that ran against FDR in 1944? I must confess, I had forgotten. But I was in excellent company, as the couple dozen people to whom I’ve put the question over the past couple weeks, all of them quite knowledgeable about politics and most of them in the business, likewise mainly found themselves scratching their heads.
29 Tuesday Jan 2002
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It looks like an answer is beginning to emerge to the question of the Bush domestic agenda for the remainder of his term: There isn’t going to be much of one.
22 Tuesday Jan 2002
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When Bill Clinton convened a meeting of former officials and staff in his Harlem offices a couple weeks ago to talk about promoting the legacy of his administration, Republicans mainly saw it as another “Big He” moment: the latest egregious exercise in self-obsession by the master of modern megalomania. And in fact, the conclusion that some of the participants in the meeting were themselves a little embarrassed by it is hard to resist, given the leaks about it to the press that could only have come from them.
15 Tuesday Jan 2002
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Not long after September 11, Fareed Zakaria published in Newsweek a lengthy essay, subsequently much praised and rightly so, called “Why They Hate Us.” I would like to devote my space this week to a brief survey of the subject, “And Why the Others Have Mixed Feelings.”
08 Tuesday Jan 2002
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As President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle square off over taxes, the federal budget surplus and the state of the economy, it’s interesting to see how September 11 has reframed the context of our political disputes.
01 Tuesday Jan 2002
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The year came to an end substantially closer to our fondest wishes than to our worst fears, and there’s much to be grateful for in that. But this is no time to start slipping back into a Sept. 10 frame of mind. For all Americans, from the president on down, the proper New Year’s resolution this year is: Be resolute.
25 Tuesday Dec 2001
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I think Washington, the city of politics, can use all the inspiration it can get. The city is, necessarily, driven by the clash of monumental ambitions, the spirit of “what have you done for me lately?” and the sense of one’s fellow human beings here (foe and friend alike) as means to an end. This is, for better or worse, the nature of politics, and it is necessarily in many respects a nasty business. But it is also, in many cases, gratuitously nasty, and to my mind anything that might help to check this tendency should be welcomed. I have sometimes found myself reflecting on the application to life here of Jesus’ parable of the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16), and the Christmas season seems an especially good time to explore it.
18 Tuesday Dec 2001
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There really is no excuse for the Senate’s unwillingness to schedule a floor vote on the confirmation of Eugene Scalia as solicitor in the Labor Department. Everyone agrees he is a highly capable lawyer. Therefore, one looks to the partisan politics of the matter to explain the delay. But one should not stop by looking there. These confirmation fights are also an indication of an ongoing struggle for power between the executive and legislative branches of the government.
11 Tuesday Dec 2001
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LONDON. – The question on this side of the pond boils down to this: What is Tony Blair getting out of the “special relationship” between Britain and the United States?
04 Tuesday Dec 2001
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Notwithstanding a torrent of criticism in what amounts to the first major divide in elite opinion since September 11, a large majority of Americans supports the Bush administration’s plans to subject certain non-U.S. citizens linked to terrorism to trial before military commissions, rather than in the U.S. court system or before international tribunals. Likewise, there is little public discontent so far over the hundreds of persons detained on visa and other violations since the attacks, persons whom law-enforcement authorities say they are unable to clear of connections to aspiring terror networks operating in the United States.
Tod Lindberg 