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IN THE November 29, 2010, ISSUE

From Defeat to Rout

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They can’t say they weren’t warned. The polls showed independents beginning to turn away from President Obama in the spring of 2009. Town halls in the summer showed strong grassroots ...

Also In This Issue

Articles

Politics & Policy

Political Economy

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On November 2, Democrats suffered one of the worst midterm beatings in American history. The 65 House seats that they are now set to surrender represent the largest net loss ...
Politics & Policy

What to Cut

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If the 2010 election produced any conservative mandates, they are to create jobs and to rein in soaring spending and deficits. Republicans should begin implementing this agenda by extending the ...
Politics & Policy

Thus Does It Grow

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The American people did not give power to congressional Republicans; they took it away from congressional Democrats. Republicans now have an opportunity to prove that they deserve majority status — ...
Politics & Policy

Tax Extension

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The 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are set to expire on December 31. In the months before the election, the White House pressed the case for permanently extending tax cuts ...
Politics & Policy

Four Governors

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The 50 states may be “laboratories of democracy,” but sometimes their experiments go awry. Many of America’s newly elected governors will be inheriting severe budget deficits that demand root-canal fiscal ...
Politics & Policy

States Right

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Voters obviously gave the president plenty to wince about on Election Day, so it is understandable that one particular irony escaped his notice: Barack Obama, whose most substantive political experience ...
Politics & Policy

Tea in 2012

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Amid all the recriminations about the electoral ineffectiveness of some Tea Party–backed candidates, it’s easy to lose sight of a central fact: It’s doubtful that, without a newly emboldened grassroots ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

A Religious Journey

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V.S. Naipaul is a gifted writer whose diction, imagery, and insight on postcolonial societies from the Caribbean to South Asia have won his work, both novels and narrative non-fiction, great ...
City Desk

Whoa, Dude!

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When Sony stopped production of the Walkman, it had long been superseded by more advanced technology, but in the early Eighties, when it first caught on, it was a revolutionary ...
Politics & Policy

For God and Man

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In this book, George Weigel maintains the very high standard he has long achieved of presenting controversial Roman Catholic subjects with the sympathy and insight of a committed adherent and ...
Politics & Policy

Mad Scientists

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The English philosopher C. D. Broad once noted that “the nonsense written by philosophers on scientific matters is exceeded only by the nonsense written by scientists on philosophy.” You might ...

Sections

The Bent Pin

Unbalanced

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In baseball you can’t tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary you need a metaphor. As intellectually destitute as it was, the midterm campaign now blessedly drawn ...
The Long View

POTUS Communication Surveillance Transcript

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National Security Agency POTUS Communication Surveillance Transcript BEGIN EXTRACT 12:03:55 [Static. Ringing.] UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE: Y’hello? POTUS: Bill? It’s Barack Obama. UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE: Hey! Greetings, Mr. President. POTUS: Did I call at a bad time? UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE: ...
Politics & Policy

Poetry

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TATTERS I see the garment of a grief and pain you no longer can feel, the sleeve of my own heart tugged at on this lost winter’s afternoon, cold and indecisive sun reflected in the eyes ...
Politics & Policy

From Defeat to Rout

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They can’t say they weren’t warned. The polls showed independents beginning to turn away from President Obama in the spring of 2009. Town halls in the summer showed strong grassroots ...
Politics & Policy

Letters

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U. Topia Up North Jonah Goldberg’s “U. Topia” (October 18) was a terrific piece, but his cheap shot at Canada — he says Canadians “think they’ve transcended international conflict when really ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐ Sixty-five and counting: Nancy Pelosi does turn out to be a job creator. ‐ Soon-to-be-former Speaker Pelosi wants to stay on as minority leader in the new year. For now, ...
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