China’s Crisis: A...

Evan Osnos, The New Yorker This was to be a year of tidy political theatre for the Chinese Communist Party, capped by the scripted handoff of power from nine senior apparatchiks to a new generation. One day this fall, the incoming cast would stride across the stage of the Great Hall of...

Shuttled: How a 747 Man...

After yesterday’s Space Shuttle Discovery fly-over of D.C. , plenty of people wondered how exactly a 747 could fly with a shuttle strapped to its back. Well, consider this—the people that would usually ride in a 747 are heavier than the shuttle was. [ more › ] See the...

Phony Mommy Wars...

Maureen Dowd, New York Times Ann Romney is a good mom.She’s also a good pol.And though her people skills are far superior to Mitt’s, it turns out that Ann is just as capable as her husband of turning an advantage into a disadvantage.After the liberal strategist Hilary...

Nation Divided Over Tra...

Ruben Navarrette, CNN The case against Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman — which has, for the last several weeks, been exhaustively tried in the court of public opinion — is now headed where it belongs: to a court of law.Special prosecutor Angela Corey...

Obama’s Zimmerman...

Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review God save me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.That thought must be coursing through the mind of President Obama right now as his White House rigs for silent running in the murder trial of George Zimmerman.Obama foolishly inserted...

Cannibalize the Future...

Paul Krugman, New York Times One general rule of modern politics is that the people who talk most about future generations — who go around solemnly declaring that we’re burdening our children with debt — are, in practice, the people most eager to sacrifice...

The Tipping Point for t...

Jay Ambrose, OC Register Almost every Friday morning, a friend and I get together for strong coffee and bracing political discussion, and sometimes he will say journalists lie. No, I respond — they make mistakes and their biases pop through their reporting, but it's not lying....

From O.J. to Trayvon...

Charles Blow, New York Times The case of Trayvon Martin is producing another O.J. Simpson moment for America.At least that’s the view of the people at Gallup who released a poll on Thursday detailing divergent racial views of the Martin case.The USA Today/Gallup poll found that...

Obama Can’t Stop ...

Caroline Baum, Bloomberg Barack Obama isn't the first U.S. president to conjure up scapegoats to serve his political ends. The Roosevelts, both Teddy and Franklin, were masters at the game. TR decided the trusts were an enemy of the people and busted the likes of Standard Oil and...

The Drug Legalization D...

George Will, Washington Post The human nervous system interacts in pleasing and addictive ways with certain molecules derived from some plants, which is why humans may have developed beer before they developed bread. Psychoactive — consciousness-altering — and...