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• Why Doesn't the Times Call Condi "Dr. Rice"? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 27, 2000
  
• What's the Difference Between a Pardon and a Commutation? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 27, 2000
  
• Presidential Cabinet FAQ 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 21, 2000
  
• Which Party Got More Votes? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 19, 2000
  
• What--You Can Still Send a Telegram? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 18, 2000
  
• Are There 1 Million Uncounted California Ballots? 
  Chris Suellentrop Dec. 14, 2000
  
• What Is a "Blue-Dog" Democrat? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 14, 2000
  
• Do the Electors Vote by Secret Ballot? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 13, 2000
  
• Did Stalin Really Say That Thing About Votes? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 13, 2000
  
• Does Florida Have a Certified Slate of Electors? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 13, 2000
  
• Can Republicans Get Florida's Ballots Sealed? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 12, 2000
  
• What Do the Supremes Mean When They Say "De Novo"? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 11, 2000
  
• What's the Ultimate Fate of the Florida Ballots? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 7, 2000
  
• Who Gets To Keep Their Government Titles? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 7, 2000
  
• Yes, Related No. 1 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 6, 2000
  
• Is This a Banner Election, or What? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 5, 2000
  
• Who Decides Who Is the “President-Elect”? 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 4, 2000
  
• What Does "Federalism" Mean? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 30, 2000
  
• The Election FAQs Just Keep Coming 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 29, 2000
  
• Supreme Court FAQ 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 28, 2000
  
• Who Are These Hard-Luck Presidents? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 27, 2000
  
• Have Voting FAQs, Will Travel 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 22, 2000
  
• You Ask, I FAQ 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 21, 2000
  
• Stop Me Before I FAQ Again 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 20, 2000
  
• Constitutional Crisis FAQ 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 16, 2000
  
• Yet Another Voting FAQ 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 16, 2000
  
• Another Voting FAQ 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 14, 2000
  
• Voting FAQ 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 13, 2000
  
• Are Concession Speeches Binding? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 9, 2000
  
• Who Controls the Senate if Strom Thurmond Dies? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 9, 2000
  
• Why Do You Say Gore When You Mean Bush? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 8, 2000
  
• What Are Exit Polls? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 7, 2000
  
• Is George W. Bush Barred From Canada? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 6, 2000
  
• Can a President Change the Oath of Office? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 2, 2000
  
• Why Are Federal Elections Held the First Tuesday in November? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 1, 2000
  
• Why Don't We Abolish the Electoral College? 
  Emily Yoffe Nov. 1, 2000
  
• Can a Presidential Candidate Announce His Cabinet Choices? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 30, 2000
  
• What’s the Difference Between Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 26, 2000
  
• What Is the National Debt? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 26, 2000
  
• Are You Middle-Class? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 24, 2000
  
• How Quickly Can You Buy a Gun? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 19, 2000
  
• What Is the Patients' Bill of Rights? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 18, 2000
  
• What Are Hamas and Hezbollah? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 17, 2000
  
• No Relation No. 9 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 12, 2000
  
• Was Slobodan Milosevic Ever Democratically Elected? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 12, 2000
  
• Could an Electromagnetic Pulse Destroy Civilization? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 11, 2000
  
• How Does a Tax Break Work? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 5, 2000
  
• Could a New President Ban RU-486? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 4, 2000
  
• What Are Rubber Bullets? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 4, 2000
  
• Can a Girl Take RU-486 Without Asking Her Parents? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 2, 2000
  
• When Do Supreme Court Justices Recuse Themselves? 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 2, 2000
  
• What Are School Vouchers? 
  Emily Yoffe Sept. 28, 2000
  
• Does Austria Have a Navy? 
  Emily Yoffe Sept. 27, 2000
  
• How Did Synchronized Swimming Become an Olympic Sport? 
  Emily Yoffe Sept. 26, 2000
  
• What Do We Know About Conjoined Twins? 
  Emily Yoffe Sept. 26, 2000
  
• Why Does Dick Cheney’s Company Segregate Bathrooms? 
  Jeremy Derfner Sept. 13, 2000
  
• How Far Apart Are the Israelis and Palestinians? 
  Jeremy Derfner Aug. 30, 2000
  
• How Does an Embryo Differ From a Fetus? 
  David Newman Aug. 29, 2000
  
• Are Sea Mines Still Dangerous? 
  Ben Wasserstein Aug. 23, 2000
  
• Four More Years of Rudy and Bill? 
  Ben Wasserstein Aug. 23, 2000
  
• Why Couldn't the Russian Sailors Swim to the Surface? 
  Ben Wasserstein Aug. 17, 2000
  
• Who Is Honorable? 
  Ben Wasserstein Aug. 4, 2000
  
• Whose Convention Goes First? 
  Jeremy Derfner Aug. 3, 2000
  
• What Is a Player To Be Named Later? 
  Jeremy Derfner Aug. 3, 2000
  
• Why Was Al Gore Wearing an Earpiece? 
  Jeremy Derfner July 24, 2000
  
• What Are Punitive Damages? 
  Jeremy Derfner July 18, 2000
  
• Who Gets To Use .org? 
  Bruce Gottlieb July 18, 2000
  
• What Does "Abrogate" Mean? 
  Jeremy Derfner July 13, 2000
  
• Could Clinton Run for VP? 
  David Newman July 12, 2000
  
• Does Bob Graham Own the Post? 
  July 11, 2000
  
• Did the Brits Burn Churches? 
  Couper Samuelson July 10, 2000
  
• Can Non-Citizens Join the Military? 
  Jeremy Derfner July 7, 2000
  
• No Relation No. 8 
  Couper Samuelson July 6, 2000
  
• What's the Difference Between "Top Secret" and "Confidential"? 
  David Newman July 6, 2000
  
• How Does Asylum Work? 
  Jeremy Derfner June 21, 2000
  
• What Is an Electronic Signature? 
  Bruce Gottlieb June 16, 2000
  
• Does Judge Jackson Talk Too Much? 
  Jodi Kantor June 15, 2000
  
• What the Hell Is Happening in the Solomon Islands? 
  Jeremy Derfner June 9, 2000
  
• What the Hell Is Happening in Fiji? 
  Jeremy Derfner June 9, 2000
  
• Where Will United Get the $4.3 Billion To Buy US Airways? 
  Jeremy Derfner May 31, 2000
  
• Why Do Drugs Cost Less in Canada? 
  John Buntin May 25, 2000
  
• What Is the One-China Policy? 
  Jeremy Derfner May 25, 2000
  
• Was Nixon Disbarred or Not? 
  Jeremy Derfner May 24, 2000
  
• What Is an Executive Order? 
  Jeremy Derfner May 13, 2000
  
• What Laws Did ILOVEYOU Break? 
  Jeremy Derfner May 10, 2000
  
• British Moviemakers Named Mike 
  Josh Daniel May 5, 2000
  
• Could Microsoft Have Settled? 
  Jeremy Derfner April 27, 2000
  
• A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer 
  Francesco Barbera April 25, 2000
  
• Who Says It's a Famine? 
  Maura Kelly April 25, 2000
  
• Can George W. Save Bill G.? 
  Ted Rose April 18, 2000
  
• Does Castro Have a Home in Washington? 
  Ted Rose April 11, 2000
  
• Is Tony Coelho a Crook? 
  Ted Rose April 7, 2000
  
• Is Your Juvenile Record Sealed? 
  Ted Rose March 31, 2000
  
• Why Is There a House Chaplain, Anyway? 
  Chris Suellentrop March 27, 2000
  
• Actually, Gas Prices Aren't That High 
  Ted Rose March 21, 2000
  
• Are NCAA Betting Pools Illegal? 
  Ted Rose March 20, 2000
  
• Can Bill Clinton Sue Wayne LaPierre? 
  March 20, 2000
  
• Do I Have To Count? 
  Ted Rose March 16, 2000
  
• Could Madeleine Albright Be Expatriated? 
  Ted Rose March 15, 2000
  
• Do Delegates Have Free Will? 
  Ted Rose March 14, 2000
  
• Do Washingtonians Count Slowly? 
  Ted Rose March 7, 2000
  
• Know Your Christians 
  Ted Rose March 7, 2000
  
• What's an Annulment? 
  Ted Rose Feb. 25, 2000
  
• Where Do Explainers Come From? 
  Feb. 24, 2000
  
• Is John McCain a Crook? 
  Chris Suellentrop Feb. 18, 2000
  
• Can Rupert Murdoch Make Women Stay Married? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 16, 2000
  
• Leaving the Scene of a Crime 
  Noam Scheiber Feb. 15, 2000
  
• Who Gets the Confiscated Iraqi Oil? 
  Noam Scheiber Feb. 10, 2000
  
• Is Al Gore a Crook? 
  Chris Suellentrop Feb. 9, 2000
  
• Counting the Civilian Dead in Yugoslavia 
  Noam Scheiber Feb. 9, 2000
  
• Is Ehud Barak a Crook? 
  Noam Scheiber Feb. 1, 2000
  
• Is Helmut Kohl a Crook? 
  Noam Scheiber Jan. 26, 2000
  
• Who Are the Tibetan Lamas? 
  Matt Alsdorf Jan. 14, 2000
  
• Is It Illegal To Do Favors for Campaign Donors? 
  Matt Alsdorf Jan. 13, 2000
  
• What's the Difference Between CEOs and Chairmen? 
  Matt Alsdorf Jan. 12, 2000
  
• Is McCain Eligible for the Presidency? 
  Matt Alsdorf Jan. 7, 2000
  
• Were the Y2K Preparations in Vain? 
  Matt Alsdorf Jan. 6, 2000
  
• Is George W. Bush a "Weak" Governor? 
  Chris Suellentrop Jan. 5, 2000