March 29, 2010 · Vol. 15, No. 27

COVER STORY

A Power to Persuade

BY Virginia Postrel

Editorial

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Barack Obama

BY Matthew Continetti

Scrapbook

Pardon the Interruption

Articles

Delusions of Grandeur

BY Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn

Yes, It Is Sectarian Violence

BY Joseph Bottum

Features

Germany’s War on the War on Terror

BY Joseph Epstein

Parody

Obama Offers Compromise On Meeting Pacific Allies

Sunday,
March 21, 2010

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Barack Obama

First time tragedy, second time farce.

After his 1851 coup d’état, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the real Napoleon, pronounced himself Napoleon III. It was the rise to power of this great-man-wannabe that prompted the famous opening of Karl Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis-Bonaparte: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.

The Process Is the Substance

The sordid truth about Obamacare.

BY Matthew Continetti

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Obama Outfoxed

Good thing he has large congressional majorities, because his powers of persuasion are limited.

BY Fred Barnes

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Obama Offers Compromise On Meeting Pacific Allies

A Parody.

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Kristol: Reconciliation "Fixes" Make Health Care Reform MORE Politically Toxic

Thank you, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rules Committee Chair Louise Slaughter.

BY William Kristol

Meetings or Markets?

Around the world, conferences have convened. But will they be of any use?

BY Irwin M. Stelzer

MORE FEATURES

Whip Count: Pelosi Doesn't Have the Votes Without Stupak

Boccieri flips from "no" to "yes;" Rahall flips from "yes" to "no."

BY John McCormack

Clinton Bows to Russian Support of Iran

After condemning Israel the previous week.

BY Gary Schmitt

Will Obama Reopen the U.S. Embassy in Damascus?

Israel gets an ultimatum; Syria gets an ambassador.

BY John Noonan

Obama is Doomed...

...at least when it comes to his basketball brackets.

BY Victorino Matus

Zack Space Flips From 'Yes' to 'No' on Health Care

BY Mary Katharine Ham

Obama Holds Pep Rally for Health Care on Hill

BY Mary Katharine Ham

Dems Do Away With Deem-and-Pass

Two votes planned on reconciliation bill and Senate bill.

BY Mary Katharine Ham

The Daily Grind

BY Mary Katharine Ham

December 10, 2008 10:18 AM

"The democratic process is often messy," Axelrod wrote in the op-ed. "Diverse constituencies fight fiercely for their priorities. Their elected representatives use the influence they have to meet those needs, including sometimes the exchange of favors - consideration for jobs being just one.

White House party goes late, gets rowdy.

Iowahawk: Feds seize Blago's eBay account

Obama's vague answer on Blagojevich didn't cut it.

He doesn't make it any clearer in his first post-Blago interview.

Hezbollah checks "No" on Jimmy Carter's love note, totally stands him up for prom.

Blago returns to work today.

RNC Chair Mike Duncan announced his bid for re-election.

White House and Congress agree, "in concept," to throw lots of taxpayer money at Detroit in the absence of taxpayers who are willing to do it on their own by...buying cars.