Featured Articles — December 18, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
Voters Signal a Hunger for Change — Gerald Seib
Change is the most powerful word in politics, and it’s beginning to appear American voters want to send change roaring through the system like a gale-force wind in 2008.
A Buyer’s Christmas — James Surowiecki
’Tis the season to buy. Of course, for Americans [...]

Featured Articles — December 17, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
The Algerian terror lesson — Boston Globe Editorial
THE SUICIDE BOMBINGS at United Nations headquarters and the Supreme Court building in Algiers last week were crimes against humanity. They also offered clues about the aims of Al Qaeda and true scope of the threat from fanaticized jihadists.
General Petraeus, Man of the [...]

Featured Articles — December 16, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
Justice Clinton? – Douglas Kmiec
President Taft went on to the Supreme Court. Maybe Mrs. Clinton will park her husband there.
McCain’s Last Stand — Fred Barnes
He still has a chance.
Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are struggling to stay front-runners — Michael Goodwin
A year ago, it was in the bag. Six months [...]

Featured Articles — December 15, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
Of Pork and Patriotism — Brian M. Carney
John McCain doesn’t mince words when it comes to Iraq, the State Department and spending.
Barack Obama seizes his chance — Toby Harnden
Clumsy slurs from Hillary Clinton’s campaign have seen Barack Obama pull past her in the race for the White House. Toby Harnden [...]

Featured Articles — December 14, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
An Overdose of Public Piety — Charles Krauthammer
Mitt Romney declares, “Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.” Barack Obama opens his speech at his South Carolina Oprah rally with “Giving all praise and honor to God. Look at the day that the Lord has made.” Mike Huckabee explains his [...]

Featured Articles — December 13, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
Intelligence Oversight in Free Fall — David Ignatius
Whatever else one might say about America’s accident-prone intelligence agencies, it seems clear that the system of congressional oversight that was established in the mid-1970s to supervise them isn’t working.
Misreading the Iran Report — Henry Kissinger
The extraordinary spectacle of the president’s national security [...]

Featured Articles — December 12, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
The Roots of the Mortgage Crisis — Alan Greenspan
Bubbles cannot be safely defused by monetary policy before the speculative fever breaks on its own.
America must resist protectionism — Michael Bloomberg
The US economy has turned downward. People are feeling insecure. There are grave concerns about jobs moving overseas and about losing [...]

Featured Articles — December 11, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
The Postwar Election — David Brooks
The 2008 presidential election has fundamentally shifted, but it hasn’t been because of events in Iowa and New Hampshire. It’s because of events everywhere else.
How to Defuse Iran — FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN LEVERETT
IN the wake of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s [...]

Featured Articles — December 10, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
After the Battle of Al-Fajr — Michael Totten
Fallujah is known as the City of Mosques. It is also a city of walls, and of war.
Paulson Behind the Curve — Sebastian Mallaby
Hank Paulson ranks among the Bush administration’s many disappointments. When he left the top job at Goldman Sachs to take [...]

Featured Articles — December 8, 2007

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad: 
Iowa: Mojo versus manpower — Jonathan Martin
As the battle for Iowa enters the home stretch, the race appears to be breaking down along a simple fault line: Mike Huckabee’s momentum and passion versus Mitt Romney’s organization.
Huckabee Surges, Obama Gains in Iowa — Michael Hirsh
The new NEWSWEEK poll shows the former [...]