Gregory Mankiw: Tax Cuts Might Accomplish What Spending Hasn’t, NYTimes.com
IMAGINE you are a physician and a patient arrives in your office with a troubling and mysterious disease. Some of the symptoms are familiar, but others are not. You have never treated anyone with quite...
View ArticleDavid Brooks: The Hanukkah Story, NYTimes.com
Tonight Jewish kids will light the menorah, spin their dreidels and get their presents, but Hanukkah is the most adult of holidays. It commemorates an event in which the good guys did horrible things,...
View ArticleRoss Douthat: Prisons of Our Own Making – NYTimes.com
If you’re a governor with presidential aspirations, you should never, under any circumstances, pardon a convict or reduce a sentence. That’s the lesson everyone seems to have drawn from the dreadful...
View ArticleRussia’s Market Reform Architect Dies at 53 – Obituary Obit – NYTimes.com
MOSCOW — Yegor T. Gaidar, the economist who oversaw the largest transition from Communism to capitalism as the first finance minister of post-Soviet Russia, only to be vilified by his countrymen for...
View ArticleThrongs of Mourners Attend Funeral of Iran’s Dissident Ayatollah – NYTimes.com
The funeral of a founding father of Iran’s Islamic revolution now embraced as the spiritual leader of the reform movement became a vast opposition protest on Monday, as mourners flooded the holy city...
View ArticleALAN KUPERMAN: There’s Only One Way to Stop Iran – NYTimes.com
PRESIDENT OBAMA should not lament but sigh in relief that Iran has rejected his nuclear deal, which was ill conceived from the start. Under the deal, which was formally offered through the United...
View ArticleSecurity System Failed, Napolitano Acknowledges – NYTimes.com
The secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said Monday that the thwarted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, not the success...
View ArticleAides to Iran’s Opposition Leaders Said to Be Arrested – NYTimes.com
A number of opposition figures were arrested Monday in the wake of violent nationwide protests a day earlier, Web sites reported, including three top aides to the opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi...
View ArticleU.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion – NYTimes.com
In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen. via U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion –...
View ArticleIran Lashes Out at West Over Protests – NYTimes.com
Iranian authorities continued arresting hundreds of opposition members and accused the United States and Britain on Tuesday of orchestrating the violent demonstrations that rocked the capital and other...
View ArticleIran Shielding Its Nuclear Efforts in Maze of Tunnels – NYTimes.com
Last September, when Iran’s uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain near the holy city of Qum was revealed, the episode cast light on a wider pattern: Over the past decade, Iran has quietly...
View ArticleThe First Senator From the Tea Party? – New York Times Magazine
Magazine Preview – The First Senator From the Tea Party? – NYTimes.com.
View ArticleSuicide Bombing Puts a Rare Face on C.I.A.’s Work – NYTimes.com
In the fall of 2001, as an anguished nation came to grips with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a slender, soft-spoken economics major named Elizabeth Hanson set out to write her senior thesis at Colby...
View ArticleG.O.P. Attacks Reid Over Comments – NYTimes.com
Republicans on Sunday sought to portray racially insensitive remarks attributed to Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, in a new book as similar to comments made in 2002 by Trent Lott, the...
View ArticleIn ‘Game Change,’ Insight, Anew, on the 2008 Campaign – NYTimes.com
Why another book on the 2008 campaign, a year after the inauguration of President Obama? What more is there to say about a race that was covered day in and day out by newspapers, magazines, television,...
View ArticleBritain Moves to Ban Islamic Group – NYTimes.com
LONDON — Britain said Tuesday it was outlawing a radical Islamic group that had incited outrage by planning a protest march through the streets of a town made famous for its somber ceremonies honoring...
View ArticleRussian Dissident’s Passion Endures Despite Tests – NYTimes.com
MOSCOW — You almost feel sorry for the police officer tasked with detaining Lyudmila M. Alexeyeva as she led an unsanctioned protest on New Year’s Eve. It is not just that at 82 years of age she...
View ArticleDavid Brooks: Obama is the Pragmatic Leviathan – NYTimes.com
When I was in college, I was assigned “Leviathan,” by Thomas Hobbes. On the cover was an image from the first edition of the book, published in 1651. It shows the British nation as a large man. The...
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Israel Completing Rebuttal to Goldstone Report – NYTimes.com
TEL AVIV — The Israeli military is completing a rebuttal to a United Nations report accusing it of grave violations of international and humanitarian law in its Gaza invasion a year ago. Its central...
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Jihad Denial in New York
A controversy has broken out this week that epitomizes how bold the Islamic supremacist forces in the U.S. have become, and how weak and supine those who are charged with protecting the public have...
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