National Interest Archive
The 2010 Public Misconduct Awards
There’s an old song about show biz that begins, “The clown, with his pants falling down/ Or the dance, that’s a dre
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13 years ago
Here’s a wild guess: I’m betting that you haven’t spent the holidays curled up with a stack of political books. Why wou
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13 years ago
As we attend to the unfinished business of 2010, let us honor the winner of this year’s John Belushi “The Thing That Wouldn
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13 years ago
As the old saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows. And no sackmates seem stranger – at first glance – than Pat Robert
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13 years ago
In his press briefing late yesterday, President Obama said: “A lot of folks in this town predicted that after the midterm elections
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13 years ago
‘Tis the season to be merry, and with good reason: President Obama has signed the law that finally banishes institutional bigotry i
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13 years ago
In the multiracial America of the 21st century, is it conceivable that voters would elect, as their next president, a southern white guy
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13 years ago
Was that a newsy weekend, or what?For starters, the U.S. Senate finally acknowledged mainstream public opinion when it voted to end the b
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13 years ago
Fox News is breeding stupid people. I know that sounds like hyperbole, but now we have the proof.I’m in South Florida today, prepar
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13 years ago
Some aspects of politics are universal. The players always change, but the same conflicts – insiders versus outsiders, principle ve
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13 years ago
For sheer brio, nothing beats the conservative message machine. Ever since federal judge Henry Hudson ruled Monday in Virginia that a key
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13 years ago
The death of legendary diplomat Richard Holbrooke will barely register on the national consciousness. After all, he spent his long and pe
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13 years ago
The Nixon White House is our perpetually open sewer, forever disgorging its waste matter. Every few years, the National Archives releases
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13 years ago
Yes to the rich, no to 9/11 workers
Whatever happened to the Republicans’ reverence for the heroes of 9/11? In political news, the most common headline begins wi
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13 years ago
So what, pray tell, is “sex by surprise?”The odyssey of WikiLeaks founder and global icon-villain Julian Assange gets juicier
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13 years ago
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