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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

Obama’s Palace Guard

Obama’s Palace Guard

How media fact checkers made themselves of service to the president in the welfare reform debate

BY MARK HEMINGWAY

October 1, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 03

Abigail Fisher

Supremely Overdue

With Fisher v. University of Texas, the High Court can finally put an end to racial preferences in university admissions

BY CARL COHEN

October 1, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 03

Antietam

The War’s Worst Day

Looking back at Antietam

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

September 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 02

Raphael’s ‘School of Athens’

Who Killed the Liberal Arts?

And why we should care

BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN

September 17, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 01

The War on Women

Can This Be What Women Want?

The Democrats condescend to half the electorate

BY MEGHAN CLYNE

September 10, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 48

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Tehran, 2004

Princeton’s Iranian Agent of Influence

The cautionary tale of Seyed Hossein Mousavian

BY REUEL MARC GERECHT

September 10, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 48

Baseball Games

Numbering the Days

Memories of Strat-O-Matic baseball

BY ALAN DAVISON and JOSEPH BOTTUM

September 3, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 47

Just whose hands are you talking about?

Medicare Jujitsu

How Romney and Ryan are turning the Democrats’ favorite campaign attack against Obama

BY YUVAL LEVIN

August 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 46

 Calvin Coolidge

Unto the Hills

The sober wisdom of Calvin Coolidge

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

August 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 46

The Egyptian armored personnel carrier stolen by jihadists on August 5, still sm

High Anxiety

Israel’s somber summer—as Syria crumbles, Iran goes nuclear, and the Muslim Brotherhood rides high in Egypt

BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS

August 20, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 45

 Ali Khamenei

The Most Dangerous Man in the World

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ali Khamenei

BY REUEL MARC GERECHT

August 20, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 45

Mitt Romney at the Wailing Wall

The Real Romney Trip

With the Republican candidate abroad

BY FRED BARNES

August 13, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 44

Batman

A One-Man Department of Justice

Batman as the American hero

BY JONATHAN V. LAST

August 13, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 44

Mark Regnerus

Revenge of the Sociologists

The perils of politically incorrect academic research

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

July 30 - August 6, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 43

ryan, romney

Man with a Plan

How Paul Ryan became the intellectual leader of the Republican party

BY STEPHEN F. HAYES

July 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 42

Microtasking

Capitalism’s Brave New World

We have seen the future, and it microtasks

BY JONATHAN V. LAST

July 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 41

General George McClellan

Seven Bloody Days

Forgotten battlefields; monuments to vanity

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

July 2 - July 9, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 40

Photo of Ronald Reagan delivering a radio address in the mid-1970s

The Real Reagan

In his own words.

BY FRED BARNES

June 25, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 39

Photo of Gough Whitlam in 1972

The Case of the Shaky Ally

The U.S.-Australia Cold War of 1972-73.

BY ROSS TERRILL

June 25, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 39

Young Obama

Self-Made Man

Barack Obama’s autobiographical fictions

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

June 18, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 38

The Libertarian Party

Un-conventional

The Libertarian Party does Vegas

BY MARK HEMINGWAY

June 11, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 37

Gov Scott Brown

Indian Spring

Another Massachusetts miracle for Scott Brown?

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

June 4, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 36

Double Rainbow Guy and Tron Guy

The Meme Generation

Hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your husband. The end is nigh.

BY MATT LABASH

June 4, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 36

Photos of Obama and Romney

Our Age of Anxiety

Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback.

BY YUVAL LEVIN

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Scott Walker

High Noon in Wisconsin

Governor Scott Walker hangs tough.

BY STEPHEN F. HAYES

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of a woman carrying a bag marked "U. S. Aid"

Birth of a Nation

With American evangelicals on the ground in South Sudan.

BY ARMIN ROSEN

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Image of a phrenologist's skull

The New Phrenology

How liberal psychopundits understand the conservative brain.

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Photo of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

We Who Are About to Bug Out Salute You

The liberal habit of sanctimonious betrayal, from Reconstruction to Afghanistan.

BY SAM SCHULMAN

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Photo of Marco Rubio and David Rivera in January 2008

The Rise of Rubio

Will a longstanding friendship block his vice presidential prospects?

BY STEPHEN F. HAYES

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Photo of Marine Le Pen

The Lady with the Popular Front

France’s rightists have grown too big to ignore.

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32

Cartoon of Mitt Romney as a wind-up toy

Authentically Yours

Against his primary opponents, what looked like Romney’s characteristic defect ended up serving him well.

BY NOEMIE EMERY

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32