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Cartoon of a statue of Clinton being cleaned off

The Big Creep

An attempt to rehabilitate Bill Clinton is in full bloom. Unsurprisingly, the would-be hagiographers leave a lot out.

By ANDREW FERGUSON

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Photo of Lieutenant Bilal Khaibar, defector from Assad’s airborne forces

Inside Free Syria

Poorly armed, lacking in allies, and against all odds, an insurgency seeks to topple the Assad dictatorship.

By JONATHAN SPYER

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Photo of A Zelzal missile launched outside Qom, Iran, June 2011

The Coming Attack on Iran

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, something’s gotta give.

By TOD LINDBERG

February 20, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 22

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Affirmative Disaster

A Duke study documents the harm racial preferences in college admissions can do to the intended beneficiaries.

By HEATHER MAC DONALD

February 20, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 22

Photo of Robert Frost reading at Kennedy's inauguration

‘People, they like the poetry’

By WILLIAM KRISTOL

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Cartoon of God's hand passing out contraceptives

The Sacred Dogma of the Left

By JONATHAN V. LAST

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Photo of Xi Jinping with Barack Obama

Xi Whiz!

By ELLEN BORK and JAMIE M. FLY

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Cartoon of the GOP candidates as the Beatles

The Long and Winding Republican Road

By WILLIAM KRISTOL

February 20, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 22

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Smoking, No, Nicotine, Maybe

The diminishing returns of the anti-tobacco ­campaign.

By ELI LEHRER

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Cartoon of the left and the right arguing with each other

Get Ready for Candidate No. 3

The Americans Elect gambit.

By MICHAEL WARREN

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Cartoon of Obama

The Real Obama

The budget of a left-wing progressive.

By FRED BARNES

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Photo of Obama and Cecile Richards

The Fight the Left Wants

Religious liberty versus ‘women’s health.’

By JOHN MCCORMACK

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Photo of Booker T. Washington

Houses of Learning

One man’s vision meets another man’s philanthropy.

By DAVID G. DALIN

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Photo of Alberti’s medallion

To See Ourselves

The Renaissance portrait as a mirror of society.

By JAMES GARDNER

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Photo of Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer and John Updike signing books

The Great American Novel

Will there ever be another?

By ROGER KIMBALL

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Photo of a hand holding money

Polls Apart

Quantifying the conflict between the People and the Political Class.

By MARK HEMINGWAY

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Photo of The Clintons biking at the 1993 Renaissance Weekend®

The Clinton Renaissance®

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Cartoon of anonymous member of the press

Erroneous Progressive Condescension

February 20, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 22

Picture of a truth-o-meter on the setting "pants on fire"

Pants on (three-alarm) Fire

February 6, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 20

Painting detail from ‘The Good Samaritan’  by Théodule-Augustin Ribot

Good Samaritans

Claudia Anderson on Good Samaritans

By CLAUDIA ANDERSON

February 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 23

Cartoon of Bill Ayers pointing to his watch

The Dinner Party

Matt Labash’s dine and dash

By MATT LABASH

February 20, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 22

Caricature of a car salesman

Dancing with Wolves

Joseph Epstein, bitten buyer

By JOSEPH EPSTEIN

February 13, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 21

Cartoon of The Grim Reaper looming over people who use Twitter

The Plague

Jonathan V. Last, Twitter-immune

By JONATHAN V. LAST

February 6, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 20

Robocall 4: Romney Battles Genghis Khan

Robocall 4: Romney Battles Genghis Khan

February 20, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 22

WhiteHouse.gov becomes Monster.com

WhiteHouse.gov becomes Monster.com

February 13, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 21