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Daniel Leaderman / The gazette

Downward Mobility

Maryland’s sorry Republican party.

BY KATE HAVARD

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

Gary Locke

It Just Gets More and More Dismal

Caution: economists at work.

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

From this day forward, for better, for worse?

Is Traditional Marriage Toast?

Very possibly.

BY IVAN KENNEALLY

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Medicare

Out of Balance

Obama’s deceptive budget.

BY JAY COST

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Gas

Strategic Gas

The foreign policy case for U.S. energy exports.

BY GARY SCHMITT

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Farm

Farmers with Benefits

The perpetual subsidy machine.

BY ELI LEHRER

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Gary Locke

The Climate Circus Leaves Town

As traditional energy sources go from doom and gloom to boom.

BY STEVEN F. HAYWARD

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Family

Start a Family...

And before you know it, you'll be voting for the GOP.

BY JONATHAN V. LAST

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Obama

The Decline of Obama

How to lose friends and influence.

BY FRED BARNES

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Tim Scott

The Tea Partier’s Progress

From the House to the Senate.

BY MICHAEL WARREN

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Elephant herd

Location, Location

The secret to the Republicans' House majority.

BY JAY COST

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Obama

Waiting for Obama

Don't expect White House leadership on corporate tax reform.

BY IKE BRANNON

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Thatcher

Iron Without Irony

The triumph of toughness

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

KnightSec's online calling-card

A Media Smear

Noxious gender politics go mainstream.

BY CATHY YOUNG

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

The soon-to-be Conservative party leader in her Chelsea kitchen in 1975

The Victorian Lady

Margaret Thatcher's virtues.

BY GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Peter Joseph

My Cousins, the Syphaxes

A very American story.

BY KEN JENSEN

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

Tax-free tokin’ in Seattle—for now

High Prices

Lessons from the marijuana market.

BY JOSHUA GELERNTER

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

Gary Locke

Less Is More

Mandatory minimum sentences should be minimized.

BY ELI LEHRER

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

Okay, but who pays?

Health Costs Will Never Be Contained

When antidiscrimination law meets infertility treatment mandates.

BY WESLEY J. SMITH

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

Edward Lansdale in 1963

A Better Afghanistan

Will require a better president.

BY MAX BOOT

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) stands next to a printed stack  of Obamacare’s

Obamacare Isn’t Forever

This is not the second coming of Medicare.

BY JAY COST

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

Juan E. Méndez

Defining Torture Down

Every policy the left dislikes becomes a crime against humanity.

BY WESLEY J. SMITH

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

Ah, the good old days

The Lost Era of Economic Growth

Republicans have neglected their best issue.

BY FRED BARNES

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

USS Harry S. Truman on a training mission in December 2012

Sea-questration

The dismantling of the Navy.

BY SETH CROPSEY

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

Is this where the unions will end up?

The Unions vs. Obamacare

Disenchantment sets in.

BY MARK HEMINGWAY

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

Jorge Mario Bergoglio at his first mass  as Pope Francis in the Sistine Chapel

New World Pope

An Argentinian Jesuit in the Vatican.

BY JOSEPH BOTTUM

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

Obamacare

Round Two

Another constitutional challenge to Obamacare.

BY TERRY EASTLAND

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

Tom Corbett

Booze Blues

The politics of liquor stores in Pennsylvania.

BY FRED BARNES

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

Some folks didn’t get the memo.

Partners in Terror?

Iran, al Qaeda, and the secret bin Laden files.

BY THOMAS JOSCELYN

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

Tom Wolff

Cash for Doctors

Revisited.

BY TONY MECIA

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

The Senate Barbershop

Supercuts

The Senate barbershop gets a trim.

BY RYAN LOVELACE

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

Who Will End Up with Heartburn?

Who Will End Up with Heartburn?

The president breaks bread with Republicans.

BY FRED BARNES

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26