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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

Cartoon of Romney and Obama facing off

The Businessman vs. the Professor

The personal dimension of the Romney-Obama face off.

BY JAMES W. CEASER

April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31

Court building

From Blessing to Curse

The evolution of ‘wrongful birth’ lawsuits.

BY JONATHAN V. LAST

April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31

Drawing of the guillotine

Civil Society Reconsidered

Little platoons are just the beginning.

BY GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB

April 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 30

Photo of The University of California, Merced, in December 2004

Boondoggle U.

With taxpayers struggling to support the University of California, why did the state build a tenth campus in the middle of nowhere?

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

April 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 30

Bloom holding the book

The Book That Drove Them Crazy

Allan Bloom’s ‘Closing of the American Mind’ 25 years later.

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

April 9 - April 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 29

Artist’s rendering of the SLS

Candidates in Orbit

The late, great U.S. space program.

BY P.J. O'ROURKE

April 9 - April 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 29

China

What’s Left, Who’s Right?

Why did the Chinese Communists purge Bo Xilai?

BY ROSS TERRILL

April 2, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 28

Ryan

A Tale of Two Budgets

Paul Ryan draws the contrast Republicans will need this fall.

BY YUVAL LEVIN

April 2, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 28

Car Wars

Car Wars

General Motors is no longer ‘Government Motors,’ if it ever was. So why won’t the Obama administration sell its GM stock?

BY FRED BARNES

April 2, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 28

Cartoon

Without Precedent

The Supreme Court weighs Obamacare.

BY ADAM J. WHITE

March 26, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 27

Photo of James Wilson

A Gentleman and a Scholar

James Q. Wilson, 1931-2012

BY CHRISTOPHER DEMUTH

March 19, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 26

Cartoon of French candidates racing on bikes

‘The Rich People’s President’

Will France’s Nicolas Sarkozy be the next European leader to fall?

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

March 12, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 25

Map of Mali

Mischief in Mali

A model African country confronts subversion—with U.S. help.

BY ROGER KAPLAN

March 12, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 25

Photo of the Ronald Reagan Republican Center

Tales of Woe

The myth of a powerful Republican establishment.

BY NOEMIE EMERY

March 5, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 24

Cartoon of Portland hipsters

Insufferable Portland

Oregon’s capital of cool and the downside of hipness.

BY MARK HEMINGWAY

March 5, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 24

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

Photo of a statue of Washington Duke

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 Police arrest workers protesting ‘bullying’ bosses in Shenzen.

Authoritarian Chic

The Chinese economic model is nothing for Westerners to envy— or emulate. Its successes have come from emulating the West.

BY YING MA

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

Cartoon of Greek men trying on German clothing

Über Alles After All

Europe’s German future.

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

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

Photo of Geert Wilders during his hate-speech trial

So Sorry

The old story: European politician gets in trouble, helps the Jews.

BY SAM SCHULMAN

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

Photo of white flag

Strategic Retreat

The war on terror is far from over. Why are we coming home?

BY BILL ROGGIO and THOMAS JOSCELYN

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

Photo of Ali Khamenei

Drones Are Not Enough

Getting counterterrorism policy wrong.

BY REUEL MARC GERECHT

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

Photo of Obama inspecting troops

The Obama Way of War

To the rear, march!

BY THOMAS DONNELLY

January 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 19

Photo of Vermin Supreme

Past Their Sell-By Date

A dwindling group of Occupiers take on the New Hampshire primary.

BY MATT LABASH

January 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 18

Photo of cargo ship

The Real Oil Shock

An Iran with nuclear weapons is the true threat to the world economy.

BY MICHAEL MAKOVSKY AND LAWRENCE GOLDSTEIN

January 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 17

Photo of Kim Jong Eun

One Korea, After All

Time to undo the Kim family regime

BY ROSS TERRILL

January 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 17

Photo of a Naval craft

Dire Straits

Iran’s navy plays a dangerous game.

BY MICHAEL RUBIN

January 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 17

Photo of Occupy Wall Street protestors

Bankers Versus Capitalism

When it comes to defending private enterprise, Wall Street is its own worst enemy.

BY IRWIN M. STELZER

January 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 17

Photo of Mehdi Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani

A Ph.D. in Torture

Why is Rafsanjani’s son studying at Oxford?

BY EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI

January 2 - January 9, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 16