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A woman in combat

Coed Combat Units

A bad idea on all counts

BY MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS

February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20

Obamcare getting signed into law.

Delay, Repeal, Replace

The Obamacare fight has just begun

BY JAMES C. CAPRETTA and JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20

Obama and his red tape

Obama’s Regulatory Rampage

Fasten your seatbelts, because the courts and Congress won’t be able to slow it down much

BY ADAM J. WHITE

January 28, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 19

Senator Harry Reid

A Small Man in a Big Job

The petty reign of Harry Reid

BY MICHAEL WARREN

January 21, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 18

Mohamed Abdel Aziz

The Moor Strategy

Mauritania’s President Mohamed Abdel Aziz on Islamists and underdevelopment in the Sahel

BY ROGER KAPLAN

January 21, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 18

The Salvation Army

Compassionate Conservatism

Properly understood

BY GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB

January 14, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 17

Boehner on the ropes

Small Ball

Why our fiscal debates amount to nothing

BY YUVAL LEVIN

January 14, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 17

Ken Myers

Pop Goes the Culture

One man’s quest to preserve and defend the good, the true, and the beautiful

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

January 14, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 17

Spider Man, Batman

Batman v. Spider-Man

Which is the greater hero?

BY TRAVIS D. SMITH

December 31 - January 7, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 16

Major-General Charles Orde Wingate in Reading, England, September 1943

What Wingate Wrought

The astonishing raids of a Special Operations pioneer in Palestine, Abyssinia, and Burma

BY MAX BOOT

December 31 - January 7, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 16

The U.S. embassy in Cairo, September 11, 2012

Al Qaeda Lives

The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12

BY THOMAS JOSCELYN

December 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 15

Ravenswood Red Ledger Ink

The Real Cliff

The staggering debt from decades of continuous government borrowing is about to come due

BY CHRISTOPHER DEMUTH

December 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 15

Moon Jae-in, left, and Park Geun-hye on the campaign trail

Democracy, Gangnam-Style

South Koreans pick a president

BY ETHAN EPSTEIN

December 17, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 14

Confederate troops firing from behind the stone wall

‘It Is Well That War Is So Terrible’

The battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

December 17, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 14

The USS Enterprise, right, sets out on its 22nd and final deployment, 2012.

USS Enterprise

Hail and Farewell

BY BARRETT TILLMAN

December 17, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 14

The New American Gothic

A Nation of Singles

The most politically potent demographic trend is not the one everyone talked about after the election

BY JONATHAN V. LAST

December 10, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 13

Rockets

A Recipe for Violence

Obama’s ‘offshore balancing’ and the New Middle East

BY THOMAS DONNELLY

December 10, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 13

Refugees

Charity Begins in China

The good works done by Christians after the 2008 earthquake have led Beijing to ease up on private philanthropy

BY JILLIAN KAY MELCHIOR

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

Rockets

The New Middle East

Israel and its neighbors

BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS

November 26, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 11

Jerry Brown and Prop 30

Decline and Fall

California votes for more: taxes, spending, debt, government

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

November 19, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 10

Cameron and Merkel

The World’s Dumbest Conservatives

How to turn a successful majority coalition into a perpetual election-losing machine

BY SAM SCHULMAN

November 19, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 10

A billboard advertising death

Last Rights

You can have the ‘right to die’—once you surrender all the others

BY SAM SCHULMAN

November 12, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 09

A young Korean girl

Where Have All the Children Gone?

Vanishing Korea

BY JONATHAN V. LAST

November 12, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 09

Henry Wallace, the Progressive candidate for president, faces down hecklers

A Story Told Before

Oliver Stone’s recycled leftist history of the United States

BY RONALD RADOSH

November 12, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 09

McGovern with the McGovern Democrats: Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug

Prairie Democrat

George McGovern, 1922-2012

BY JOSEPH BOTTUM

November 5, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 08

President Obama

The Day After

Four scenarios for the next four years

BY JAMES W. CEASER

November 5, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 08

obama wall street

‘The Biggest Kiss’

Mitt Romney was right: Dodd-Frank is a gift to big banks

BY C. BOYDEN GRAY AND ADAM J. WHITE

October 29, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 07

Randall Terry

Randall Terry Shoots an Ad

The anti-abortion crusader’s latest campaign

BY MATT LABASH

October 22, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 06

Obama Golfing

Addicted to Race

The left’s long twilight struggle against imaginary bigotry

BY NOEMIE EMERY

October 22, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 06

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán in Brussels, January 24, 2012

To Viktor Go the Spoils

Is Europe right to distrust Hungary’s prime minister?

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

October 15, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 05

Tawhid Brigade fighters

The Battle for Aleppo

A report from the front lines of the Syrian civil war

BY JONATHAN SPYER

October 8, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 04

Another much-hyped Gnostic “gospel”

Jesus’ Ex-Wife

Another much-hyped Gnostic “gospel” fails to upend Christianity

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

October 8, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 04