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James Fallows: China's Silver Lining 05/14/08
Timothy Noah: Get Me Rewrite 05/13/08
Amy Sullivan: Jeremiah Wright Goes To War 04/28/08
Michelle Cottle: Voices In Her Head: Inside Hillaryland's Fatal Psychodrama 04/21/08
Matt Cooper: ABC News' Depressing Debate 04/17/08
Amy Sullivan: The Dems' Delicate Dance on Faith 04/15/08
Michael Kinsley: Writers Vs. Editors 04/10/08
Joshua Green: He's Not Joking May 2008
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Michelle Cottle: Poison Penn 04/082008
Art Levine: The Republican War on Voting 4/1/2008
Art Levine: Did FBI Ignore Threats to Jail Black Voters? 4/1/2008
Benjamin Wallace-Wells: A Case of the Blues 3/30/2008
David Ignatius: Mideast Openings 3/30/2008
Michelle Cottle: Wife Lessons 3/10/2008
Matt Cooper: Why Is Prostitution Illegal Anyway? 3/10/2008
James Fallows: The Great Firewall 3/01/2008
Stephanie Mencimer: Have You Signed Away Your Right to Sue? 3/01/2008
Joshua Green: Inside the Clinton Shake-up 2/12/2008
Matthew Miller: First, Kill All the School Boards Jan/Feb 2008
James Fallows: The $1.4 Trillion Question Jan/Feb 2008
Stephanie Mencimer: Did the Clintons Try to Whack a Cat? 1/15/2008
Charles Peters: Judge Him By His Laws 1/4/2008
Michael Kinsley: Why They Really Run 1/3/2008
Jonathan Rowe: The Language of Strangers 1/1/2008
Jon Meacham: A New American Holy War 12/17/2007
Walter Shapiro: The last Iowa debate (Thank God!) 12/14/2007
Walter Shapiro: Safe haven for Clinton in New Hampshire? 11/30/2007
Stephanie Mencimer: Suckers Wanted 11/26/2007
Timothy Noah: Larry King, Sucker 11/26/2007
Jonathan Alter: Rudy's Loyalty Problem 11/26/2007
Joe Nocera: Forget Fair; It's Litigation as Usual 11/17/2007
Walter Shapiro: Obama goes for the capillaries 11/12/2007
Jonathan Alter: A Gender Fender Bender 11/05/2007
Jon Meacham: The Revolutionary 11/04/2007
Walter Shapiro: The Democratic duel of the race 10/31/2007
T.A. Frank: Jenna vs. Chelsea 10/29/2007
Benjamin Wallace-Wells: Giuliani's Policy Professor 10/26/2007
Amy Sullivan: Huckabee's Bid For the Christian Right 10/22/2007
Joshua Green: The Colbert Notion 10/19/2007
Michael Kinsley: Receiving Psychotic Dictators: An Etiquette Guide 10/12/2007
Michelle Cottle: The Machinations of Jeri Thompson 10/12/2007
Matt Cooper: Fred Thompson's Big Flop 10/12/2007
Art Levine: The GOP's Socialized Medicine 10/12/2007
David Segal: Mitt Romney's Ideological Turnabout 10/10/2007
Jonathan Alter: A Schmoozer Shares All 10/08/2007
Jon Meacham: A Nation of Christians Is Not A Christian Nation 10/07/2007
Walter Shapiro: Rudy, Mitt, Fred or John 10/05/2007
Stephanie Mencimer: Detainee Rights on the Docket 09/27/2007
Art Levine: Unionbusting Confidential 09/07/2007
Mickey Kaus: Is the GQ Man a Wuss? 09/07/2007
Joe Nocera: This Climate Is Surely Full of Hot Air 09/07/2007
Michael Kinsley: How Dare You 09/07/2007
Michelle Cottle: Hillary's Consigliere Speaks 09/07/2007
Matt Cooper: A Dicey Proposition 09/07/2007
Walter Shapiro: Killing Her Softly With His Song 09/07/2007
Michael Kinsley: God as Their Running Mate 09/06/2007
David Segal: Bill Clinton Has What it Takes for Giving 09/05/2007
Timothy Noah: O.J. is still beating his wife 08/30/2007
Matt Cooper: Ted Olson for Attorney General 08/27/2007
Nicholas Lemann: Rovian Wars 08/27/2007
Michael Kinsley: Bush and his unreliable speechwriters 08/24/2007
Walter Shapiro: Fred Thompson has a revealing back story 08/23/2007
Jonathan Meacham: The Hardest of Calls 08/20/2007
Jonathan Alter: I know what you did last summer 08/20/2007
Joshua Green: A Great Society Conservative 08/14/2007
Benjamin Wallace-Wells: What is wrong with Alaska? 08/13/2007
Timothy Noah: Is Mike Gerson a Glory Hog?....Or is his accuser just unhinged? 08/11/2007
Matt Miller: Callous About Health Care? 08/09/2007
Michelle Cottle: Hillary Control 08/13/2007 issue
Jonathan Alter: A Red Play for the Golden State 08/13/2007 issue
Timothy Noah: How to avoid the new ethics bill...and why it should become law anyway 08/07/2007
Gregg Easterbrook: Road kill 08/05/2007
David Segal: The Puzzling, Tragic End of a Golden Couple 08/01/2007
Mickey Kaus: McCain's Hope 07/31/07
James Fallows: Harry Potter Comes to China 07/31/07
Art Levine: The Bush Administrations New Target 07/31/07
Nicholas Thompson: A War Best Served Cold 07/31/07
David Segal: For I Like Turtles Boy, 17 Seconds of Fame. 07/30/07
Rachel Morris: Inside Story (audio.) 07/27/07
Timothy Noah: Donkey King. 07/29/07
Jonathan Alter: Talking To Dictators 07/27/07
James Fallows: Moving the Bancroft/Murdoch Choice to The Moral Level 07/30/07
Nicholas Lemann: Reversals 07/30/07
Walter Shapiro: How The Democrats Differ on Iraq. 07/25/07
Michael Kinsley: Private Equity Pigs. 07/19/07
Joshua Wolf Shenk: Depression is Real 07/23/07
Gregg Easterbrook: Greatest Living American Ignored 07/21/07
David Segal: In New York, An Explosion Forces Stifled Fears to the Surface. 07/19/07
James Fallows: Sane Thinking About Airborne Threats. 07/19/07
Jonathan Alter: He Only Saved A Billion People 07/19/07
Walter Shapiro: The Bill Richardson Difference 07/19/07
Rachel Morris: Prisoner 345:What Happened to Al Jazeeras Sami al-Haj. 07/17/07
David Segal: Yankees Fans, Losing With a Vengeance. 07/17/07

August 4, 2008

CHARACTER WITNESS....What's the difference between "Zhonghua" and "Zhongguo"? Answer: the first one means that Taiwan shows up for the Beijing Olympics, and the second one means it doesn't. Beijing's fascinating game of linguistic chicken is explained here.

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