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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

Peter Joseph

My Cousins, the Syphaxes

A very American story.

BY KEN JENSEN

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

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

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

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

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

Is she the one to close with and destroy hostile forces?

Congress Goes AWOL

Over women in combat.

BY JOHN MCCORMACK

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

Paul Ryan: The fiscal chickens have come home to roost.

A Difference that Can’t Be Split

The parties have to fight over the budget because the status quo is untenable.

BY JAY COST

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

Can we let some of them out?

The Party of Prison Reform

Conservatives lead the way.

BY ELI LEHRER

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

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

Okay, now render unto Caesar.

Tax the Nonprofits

A modest proposal.

BY CHARLES WOLF JR.

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

Sequester Boomerang

Second-Term Blues

Is Obama’s free ride over?

BY FRED BARNES

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

Grillo the clown

Our Italian Future

Atop a political volcano.

BY MICHAEL LEDEEN

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

The micro-hip: We’ll keep the children under the sink.

Living Small

The micro-apartment craze.

BY ETHAN EPSTEIN

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

The Senkakus, aka the Chinese pretext

Sayonara, Asian Allies

Obama’s damaging diffidence.

BY ROSS TERRILL

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

Pope Benedict

Benedict and the Rabbi

A Christian pope on the Hebrew Bible.

BY MEIR Y. SOLOVEICHIK

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

golf obama

Unrequited Love

The unions went all in for Obama. What’s he done for them?

BY MARK HEMINGWAY

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

Rahm Emanuel

The Guns of Chicago

And the safe sidewalks of New York.

BY HEATHER MAC DONALD

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

Sen. Chuck Hagel

What a Defense Secretary Does

Pace Hagel, it’s a policy-making job.

BY DAN SENOR

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

Miss you!

Electing the Next Pope

The race is close, and turnout promises to be high.

BY JOSEPH BOTTUM

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

How a Republican can Win

How to Win in 2014

Stop Obama, promote the farm team.

BY JAY COST

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

Obama and Boehner

Fiscal Fitness

A political economy regimen for Republicans.

BY JOHN D. MUELLER and LEWIS E. LEHRMAN

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23

Watching the SOTU from Wisconsin

Governor Walker’s Play-by-Play

The State of the Union, as seen from Wisconsin.

BY STEPHEN F. HAYES

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23