The GOP’s Dukakis...

Theo Anderson, In These Times Republicans gloat that President Obama’s days are numbered—but Romney could go the way of Michael Dukakis.When voters begin paying attention to Mitt Romney late this summer, what will they see? The wealthy venture capitalist? The...

The Soundtrack of My Yo...

Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star WASHINGTON — The soundtrack of my youth is fading. That's hardly an original observation, I realize, but self-indulgence is a columnist's inalienable right and music has unique power to summon unbidden waves of nostalgia. I'll spend...

One Thing Is Clear: Not...

Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard Hot Topics: Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you.Summer is approaching and nerves are jangling. In recent years the green shoots of the early months withered in the heat of summer. The queue of people worried that this summer will...

Liberals Move to Slash ...

George Will, Washington Post Read more:  Liberals Move to Slash the Bill of...

Leading Sarkozy to the ...

Maureen Dowd, New York Times NANTERRE, France SHE is the most potent blonde France has produced since Catherine Deneuve. Her office, in a squat, ugly, gray and blue building west of Paris, smells of cigarettes and ambition. Her legs jiggle as she talks. Images of Joan of Arc, another...

America Betrays Chen Gu...

Kirsten Powers, The Daily Beast Does the United States still stand as a beacon of hope to the oppressed around the world? Human-rights lawyer and Chinese folk hero Chen Guangcheng thought we did. That's why he risked his life to get to the United States Embassy in Beijing. But it was...

Pro-Obama Mormons Unswa...

Scott Conroy, RCP In many ways, Hannah Wheelwright fits the typical profile of a young volunteer for President Obama's re-election campaign.Wheelwright, 19, grew up in northern Virginia before heading out West to Utah to pursue a political science degree and becoming active in her...

A Teen With a Job Becom...

Allison Linn, NBC News Alan Poizner / for msnbc.comNick Gentry, 18, has found summer work. Lots of other teens haven't.Nick Gentry will be able to celebrate two major accomplishments this month: He’s graduating from high school and, after a very long job search, he has...

The Man Who Started the...

David Kushner, The New Yorker In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile subscriber. He wanted an iPhone, but he also wanted to make calls using his...

President Tries to Sell...

Tim Alberta, National Journal For the second time in as many weeks, President Obama on Tuesday made an overt attempt to contrast his humble beginnings and real-world struggles against the privileged life of Mitt Romney — without actually mentioning the Republican nominee-in-waiting...