The thinking behind the news.

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• Romney's Religion A Mormon president? No way.
  Jacob Weisberg Dec. 20, 2006
  
• Where Have All the Flower Children Gone? Why you're not demonstrating against the Iraq war.
  Jacob Weisberg Dec. 13, 2006
  
• Go Ahead, Leak a Little Locked lips sink even more ships.
  Jacob Weisberg Dec. 6, 2006
  
• NATO to the Rescue The United States can't save Iraq. Here's who can.
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 29, 2006
  
• What's Next? The conservative era is over. What will replace it?
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 22, 2006
  
• The Philanthropist's Handbook How billionaires give their money away.
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 15, 2006
  
• The Lou Dobbs Democrats Say hello to the new economic nationalists.
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 8, 2006
  
• Poisoned Politics The ads this year are worse than ever. Both sides aren't to blame.
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 1, 2006
  
• Obama's New Rules In the past 10 days, he has turned American politics upside down.
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 26, 2006
  
• Karl's Marks Will Rove pass his midterms?
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 18, 2006
  
• That Axis of Evil It's here now. Thank you, Mr. President.
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 11, 2006
  
• The Decline of Rumsfeld From hero to zero in just three Woodward books.
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 4, 2006
  
• Don't Mention the War Why candidates aren't talking about what to do in Iraq.
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 27, 2006
  
• May the Best Man Lose Should anyone want to win the November election?
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 20, 2006
  
• The Wire on Fire Analyzing the best show on television.
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 13, 2006
  
• Five Years Free Why haven't we been attacked again?
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 6, 2006
  
• Dead With Ned Why Lamont's victory spells Democratic disaster.
  Jacob Weisberg Aug. 9, 2006
  
• Thanks for the Sanctions Why do we keep using a policy that helps dictators?
  Jacob Weisberg Aug. 2, 2006
  
• Don't Bet on It The silly war on Internet gambling.
  Jacob Weisberg July 26, 2006
  
• Don't Blame Bush The war in Lebanon isn't his fault.
  Jacob Weisberg July 19, 2006
  
• Not so SWIFT Why the Times shouldn't have published its story.
  Jacob Weisberg July 12, 2006
  
• Wealthy and Wise Warren Buffett's lesson to the rich.
  Jacob Weisberg June 28, 2006
  
• Deathstyles of the Rich and Famous The upper class has its problems, too.
  Jacob Weisberg June 14, 2006
  
• The Gay Panic Button Why pressing it won't work this time.
  Jacob Weisberg June 7, 2006
  
• Warming to Gore The loser of the 2000 election may yet be the winner.
  Jacob Weisberg May 31, 2006
  
• Playlist Politics What's on your iPod, Senator?
  Jacob Weisberg May 24, 2006
  
• The Hackocracy Why our MBA president can't manage the government.
  Jacob Weisberg May 10, 2006
  
• The Irrational Anthem Sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in English? Who's Bush kidding?
  Jacob Weisberg May 3, 2006
  
• I Smell Gas A subject that makes congressmen stupid.
  Jacob Weisberg April 26, 2006
  
• Three Cities, Three Scandals What Jack Abramoff, Anthony Pellicano, and Jared Paul Stern have in common.
  Jacob Weisberg April 19, 2006
  
• The Closet McCain Psst … he's not really a conservative.
  Jacob Weisberg April 12, 2006
  
• Frist, Do No Harm Why we don't need an immigration reform bill.
  Jacob Weisberg April 5, 2006
  
• The Erring Republican Authority Kevin Phillips is wrong about everything. Why is he taken so seriously?
  Jacob Weisberg March 29, 2006
  
• Rough Draft The gross unfairness of an all-volunteer Army.
  Jacob Weisberg March 22, 2006
  
• Claude Allen's Mentor Shoplifting and Bushonomics.
  Jacob Weisberg March 15, 2006
  
• The Three Stooges Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Howard Dean.
  Jacob Weisberg March 8, 2006
  
• MacBush The neoconservative tragedy.
  Jacob Weisberg March 1, 2006
  
• Breaking China Here's how to solve Google's Beijing problem.
  Jacob Weisberg Feb. 22, 2006
  
• Smoking Gun Dick Cheney's assault on the public's right to know.
  Jacob Weisberg Feb. 15, 2006
  
• Attention! Deficit Disorder If overspending is so bad, why is the U.S. economy doing so well?
  Jacob Weisberg Feb. 8, 2006
  
• Out of Gas Bush's sputtering State of the Union.
  Jacob Weisberg Feb. 1, 2006
  
• The Power-Madness of King George Is Bush turning America into an elective dictatorship?
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 25, 2006
  
• Drug Addled Why Bush's prescription plan is such a fiasco.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 18, 2006
  
• Swindlers and Fixers Which kind of Washington lobbyist is worse?
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 11, 2006