The thinking behind the news.

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• Don't Believe Ron Suskind His book about Obama is as spurious as the ones he wrote about Bush.
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 22, 2011
  
• "Let Him Die" A debate question exposes the incoherence—and cowardice—of the Republican candidates' opposition to Obamacare.
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 13, 2011
  
• Republicans vs. Economics Does the GOP oppose Obama's jobs plan for ideological reasons or political ones?
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 9, 2011
  
• Lessons of the Crisis The debt-ceiling debacle revealed that politics is broken in every possible way and there's no point in explaining complicated matters to the American people.
  Jacob Weisberg Aug. 4, 2011
  
• Going Sane The Republican presidential field is much less wacky than expected.
  Jacob Weisberg June 14, 2011
  
• Bubble Trouble Is Web personalization turning us into solipsistic twits?
  Jacob Weisberg June 10, 2011
  
• What Is Obama's Foreign Policy? He was a realist. He's becoming an idealist.
  Jacob Weisberg May 24, 2011
  
• Fantasy Island Are Republicans losing their grip on reality?
  Jacob Weisberg May 20, 2011
  
• The Ryan Reaction How Paul Ryan's flawed budget plan has improved the debate over our fiscal future.
  Jacob Weisberg April 20, 2011
  
• Good Plan! Republican Paul Ryan's budget proposal is brave, radical, and smart.
  Jacob Weisberg April 5, 2011
  
• The Irresistible Charlie Sheen Why do we care about celebrities?
  Jacob Weisberg March 3, 2011
  
• Tech Revolutionaries The Arab Revolt shows that Google's and Twitter's corporate values are better than Facebook's.
  Jacob Weisberg Feb. 24, 2011
  
• The Irrational Anthem So Christina Aguilera flubbed "The Star-Spangled Banner." It's a wonder anyone gets it right.
  Jacob Weisberg Feb. 7, 2011
  
• The Tea Party and the Tucson Tragedy How anti-government, pro-gun, xenophobic populism made the Giffords shooting  more likely.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 10, 2011
  
• Spurning Sperling It makes no sense to blacklist Obama adviser Gene Sperling because he worked for Goldman Sachs.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 5, 2011