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Star struck 17 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
President Obama has spent this summer trying to prop up his unpopular health-care plan via his most loyal constituency: Hollywood. When other constituencies desert him — and even loyal allies like lab...
All the Presidents' Vacation Reading 9 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
This month, for a fourth summer, President Barack Obama will vacation on Martha's Vineyard. What will he read during his down time? That, too, has become something of a summer ritual. On his two most ...
What 'World War Z' can teach us about pandemics 27 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Barack Obama is America's most famous pop culture fan, enjoying movies, TV and tooling around on his iPad. Cultural scolds might deride these tendencies, but occasionally pop culture can prove instruc...
ObamaCare Ad Wars Heat Up 20 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
President Obama's political group Organizing for America has just launched a seven-figure ad campaign to sell Americans on the Affordable Care Act. Spending on health care advertising is nothing new, ...
Leaky Leon Strikes Again 6 Jun 2013 | 09:30 pm
In 2009, I warned in this space that Obama CIA nominee Leon Panetta was the most likely leaker of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's "benign neglect" memo to the New York Times in 1970. Moynihan was a Nixon Wh...
The ObamaCare Blame Game 1 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
President Obama's Affordable Care Act won't be implemented fully until 2015. But by most every measure, and according to most every voice, things are not going well. Health-insurance premiums are beco...
Review of Two Presidents Are Better Than One 27 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
There is no doubt that the American presidency is an imperfect institution and that it has been inhabited by imperfect people. Given these incontrovertible facts, political scientists have long sought...
Fielding an All-Star Political Baseball Team 1 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
As we enjoy another baseball season, we do so with the knowledge that our city lacks the baseball history—and championships—of places such as New York, Boston, and St. Louis. Yet Washington has had it...
The Changing Bird Flu Threat 26 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
The outbreak of avian flu in China has killed at least 22 people and infected more than 108—including a man in Taiwan who had traveled in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou. For two months airline sto...
Measuring the Drapes 25 Mar 2013 | 06:00 pm
For decades, one common cliché of American campaign rhetoric has been the criticism that presidential aspirants are "measuring the drapes." When news leaks that a candidate is contemplating his future...
