Gossip, speculation, and scuttlebutt about politics.

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• Post Drinks Cheney's Kool-Aid! First the veep decided he should be unaccountable. Now the press agrees.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 13, 2008
  
• What We Didn't Overcome, Part 2 Why you can't blame it all on the South.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 13, 2008
  
• What We Didn't Overcome Obama won a majority of votes. He didn't win a majority of white votes.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 11, 2008
  
• The Uncabinet A guide to key appointments Obama should resist.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 5, 2008
  
• Why Don't War Heroes Win? Excepting George H.W. Bush, it's been 48 years since a war hero won the presidency.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 3, 2008
  
• Robert Rubin's Free Ride How does Clinton's Treasury secretary escape blame for the market meltdown?
  Timothy Noah Oct. 30, 2008
  
• McCain's Hero: More Socialist Than Obama! McCain can call Obama a socialist or he can call Teddy Roosevelt his hero. He can't do both.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 23, 2008
  
• Christopher Buckley, Repeat Apostate Why his vote for Barack Obama shouldn't surprise us.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 21, 2008
  
• Bygones! John McCain admires Bill Clinton, whom he voted to remove from office.
  John Dickerson Oct. 17, 2008
  
• Dubya, Stoned Why Oliver Stone had to bowdlerize our president's life story.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 17, 2008
  
• National Review Crackup! Mayhem at a conservative magazine.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 14, 2008
  
• Firm Hand at the Tiller John McCain on the economy.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 13, 2008
  
• Fun With Bailout Numbers The financial pages discover the word quadrillion.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 9, 2008
  
• The New Complacency Democrats relearn how to take the presidency for granted.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 7, 2008
  
• Not Using Wright, McCain-Style "Oh, we can't control her. She's just the vice-presidential candidate."
  Timothy Noah Oct. 6, 2008
  
• Alaska vs. Hawaii Why is Seward's Folly the "real America" and the Aloha State not?
  Timothy Noah Oct. 3, 2008
  
• Sarah Palin's College Daze Why did she attend five different colleges?
  Timothy Noah Oct. 1, 2008
  
• GOP, RIP? Nearly three decades of Republican dominance may be coming to an end.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 30, 2008
  
• Why Washington Hates Wall Street An 80-year rivalry explained.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 22, 2008
  
• Game-Changer Fatigue What is "certain" to dominate headlines between now and Election Day?
  Timothy Noah Sept. 16, 2008
  
• What Bush Doctrine? Sarah Palin was right to be confused. There isn't one.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 12, 2008
  
• Deep Throat Unmasked, Circa 1973? The Washington Post published a huge hint about its Watergate source on the break-in's first anniversary. Nobody noticed.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 11, 2008
  
• Egalitarian Conservatism Why do Republicans suddenly worry about growing economic inequality?
  Timothy Noah Sept. 9, 2008
  
• Sarah Palin, Hypocrite Why she shouldn't complain about big government wasting taxpayer money.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 4, 2008
  
• Dalton Conley Replies The NYU sociologist elaborates on stress, work, and the rich.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 4, 2008
  
• Sarah Palin Wows Convention! Why success is foreordained for the vice-presidential nominee's convention speech.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 3, 2008
  
• Stress and Class An NYU sociologist claims, preposterously, that it's more stressful to be rich than poor.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 2, 2008
  
• Sarah Palin, Web Invention How a college sophomore put Alaska's governor on the map.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 29, 2008
  
• Bill By the Numbers The former president shows Hillary how it's done.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 28, 2008
  
• Hillary By the Numbers The "I"s have it.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 27, 2008
  
• John Rumpelstiltskin McCain Stronger evidence that McCain's dislike of Obama is personal.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 21, 2008
  
• I Still Hate Harry and Louise The spoiled brats who killed Hillary-care return.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 19, 2008
  
• Mary Matalin, Publisher When political hacks edit books.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 13, 2008
  
• The Adventures of Jimmyflathead The Internet postings of Bruce Ivins.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 7, 2008
  
• When "Skinny" Means "Black" The Journal stumbles over racial subtext.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 4, 2008
  
• The McCain Record: Taxes Toward a unified field theory of McCainsian fiscal policy.
  Timothy Noah July 30, 2008
  
• AstroTurf Watch Introducing an occasional series spotlighting ersatz grass-roots lobbying by corporations.
  Timothy Noah July 24, 2008
  
• Karadzic's Gift to Jonah Goldberg How the Serbian butcher's disguise gives aid and comfort to Liberal Fascism.
  Timothy Noah July 23, 2008
  
• Health Care Reform: The Slugfest Begins Meet the interest groups that will decide the fate of medical insurance.
  Timothy Noah July 22, 2008
  
• Adam Bellow Agonistes A culture warrior does battle with himself.
  Timothy Noah July 17, 2008
  
• Hypocrisy in Flight The airlines have some nerve complaining about "disclosure" and "transparency."
  Timothy Noah July 10, 2008
  
• Congress Doesn't Want War Powers And anyway, it already has them.
  Timothy Noah July 9, 2008
  
• John McCain, Prisoner of Cash How GOP fat cats will bring a Republican maverick to heel.
  Timothy Noah July 1, 2008
  
• Planet Survival, Pro and Con Will the earth be obliterated by Labor Day? What the Times didn't tell you.
  Timothy Noah June 27, 2008
  
• Guns of Convenience The Supreme Court thinks convenience is an argument against gun control. Actually, it's an argument for it.
  Timothy Noah June 26, 2008
  
• Anyone but Webb Why Jim Webb would make an awful running mate.
  Timothy Noah June 9, 2008
  
• Bill Clinton Lucks Out Why Hillary's loss is Bill's gain.
  Timothy Noah June 5, 2008
  
• Hillary and the City Is Sex and the City our culture's consolation prize to Hillary Clinton's supporters?
  Timothy Noah June 2, 2008
  
• Camelot After 1980 Psst, Hillary: Ted Kennedy did not renounce the presidency and achieve his greatest legislative deeds after he lost to Jimmy Carter.
  Timothy Noah May 27, 2008
  
• Ralph Nader and the Komodo Dragon The third-party candidate's bungled gotcha moment.
  Timothy Noah May 21, 2008
  
• Did McCain Create an HDTV Monster? The technology he helped bring to market could kill his candidacy.
  Timothy Noah May 19, 2008
  
• Get Me Rewrite Dan Balz falls off the momentucrat wagon.
  Timothy Noah May 14, 2008
  
• Defending Hillary Psst. Her cheap pander on OPEC is good policy.
  Timothy Noah May 7, 2008
  
• Clinton-Wallace Mix 'n' Match Match the quotation with the angry white male!
  Timothy Noah May 5, 2008
  
• Hillary Clinton, Fairy Princess Can we please stop pretending she has a plausible chance to win the nomination?
  Timothy Noah May 2, 2008
  
• Peggy Noonan's Litmus Test Does Obama love Sutter's Mill? America demands an answer.
  Timothy Noah April 28, 2008
  
• Hillary Clinton, Ex-Arithmecrat Enough with the fake metrics.
  Timothy Noah April 23, 2008
  
• Thomas Frank Speaks The author of What's the Matter With Kansas? weighs in on Bittergate.
  Timothy Noah April 21, 2008
  
• Hillary's Rev. Wright, Part 3 Clinton is only too happy to accept her endorsement from Richard Mellon Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
  Timothy Noah April 21, 2008
  
• Two Degrees of Adolf Hitler Readers connect the Führer to the three major presidential candidates.
  Timothy Noah April 18, 2008
  
• Six Degrees of Adolf Hitler A reader contest in the spirit of Philadelphia's April 16 presidential debate.
  Timothy Noah April 17, 2008
  
• Who Is the Working Class, Anyway? And do the proles really hate the party of the working man?
  Timothy Noah April 15, 2008
  
• Bevel's Second Children's Crusade A hero of the civil rights movement was put on trial this week for incest. Some would call that a story.
  Timothy Noah April 10, 2008
  
• Death by Blogging The New York Times invents another trend.
  Timothy Noah April 7, 2008
  
• Père et Fils: The Real Bush Twins? The unacknowledged resemblance between Poppy and Dubya.
  Timothy Noah April 4, 2008
  
• Hillary's Rev. Wright, Part 2 On second thought, Scaife isn't Hillary's Jeremiah Wright. He's her Louis Farrakhan.
  Timothy Noah March 31, 2008
  
• Hillary's Rev. Wright His name is Richard Mellon Scaife.
  Timothy Noah March 25, 2008
  
• The Clairvoyant Times The Obama Messiah Watch, Part 11.
  Timothy Noah March 25, 2008
  
• Threading the Race Needle After Obama's speech on race, identity politics may never be the same.
  Timothy Noah March 18, 2008
  
• A Shonda for the Quakers? What does Eliot Spitzer have against George Fox?
  Timothy Noah March 11, 2008
  
• Agony of the Arithmecrats Mr. Dooley was wrong. Politics is beanbag.
  Timothy Noah March 7, 2008
  
• Lay Off Ralph Nader Third-party candidates are people, too.
  Timothy Noah March 4, 2008
  
• Reuters Claps Horns on Hillary The Obama Messiah Watch, Part 10
  Timothy Noah March 2, 2008
  
• Doris Goodwin on Obama's Borrowings One of these two people has committed plagiarism, and it isn't Obama.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 26, 2008
  
• How To Live A Long And Happy Life The lesson of the master.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 22, 2008
  
• New York Times 0, New Republic 0, McCain 1 How two publications spooked each other into running weak stories.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 21, 2008
  
• Obama, ABC, and Attribution ABC News chides Obama while stealing credit from the Boston Globe.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 19, 2008
  
• Michelle Obama's Reuters Halo! The Obama Messiah Watch, Part 9.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 13, 2008
  
• Hurray! D.C. Matters! Why nobody ever noticed the D.C. primaries before.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 13, 2008
  
• I Want My Pentagon Papers! Why won't the New York Times share that controversial new Iraq study with its readers?
  Timothy Noah Feb. 11, 2008
  
• Achilles' Heel Check: Hillary and Obama A brief guide to the weaknesses of the remaining Democratic presidential contenders.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 7, 2008
  
• Triumph of the Arithmecrats Who says Super Tuesday produced no landslide?
  Timothy Noah Feb. 7, 2008
  
• Earl Butz, History's Victim How the gears of racial progress tore up Nixon's Agriculture secretary.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 5, 2008
  
• Momentucrats vs. Arithmecrats, Part 2 The delegate count and the Republican primaries.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 30, 2008
  
• Momentucrats vs. Arithmecrats Is the delegate count becoming more important than the big mo?
  Timothy Noah Jan. 28, 2008
  
• Is Obama Winning? Only if you're counting primary delegates.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 21, 2008
  
• Happy Birthday, Monicagate! An anniversary we'd all rather forget.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 18, 2008
  
• Dubya: Deaf and Blind! How the president hears and sees what he wants.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 15, 2008
  
• Hillary's "Experience" Lie If that's her selling point, put me down for Obama.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 15, 2008
  
• Steinem Makes Excuses for Hillary Gender, race, and the presidency.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 8, 2008
  
• The Politics of Weeping Once deemed fatal to presidential candidacies, it's now an undisputed good.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 8, 2008
  
• Jesse Jackson Jr., Saboteur? Obama's campaign co-chairman compares his candidate to a murderer.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 4, 2008
  
• What's Wrong With There Will Be Blood A blown chance to say something big about money and power in America.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 3, 2008