Policy made plain.

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• Protection Money How pols play poker with pill prices. 
  Michael Kinsley Dec. 30, 2000
  
• Reasonable People Can Differ? Not with me they can't. 
  Michael Kinsley Dec. 22, 2000
  
• Equal Protection of Whom? From What? We interrupt the era of reconciliation to bitch about an awful Supreme Court decision. 
  Michael Kinsley Dec. 15, 2000
  
• George and Justice OK, so you get to be president. Just stop yapping about how fair it is. 
  Michael Kinsley Dec. 8, 2000
  
• No Contest The most outrageous Bush argument yet.
  Michael Kinsley Nov. 29, 2000
  
• The Secretary's Discretion It's not law versus fairness, it's Harris versus fairness.
  Michael Kinsley Nov. 23, 2000
  
• Democracy Is Approximate: Live With It 
  Michael Kinsley Nov. 16, 2000
  
• What Gore Should Do (Maybe)  
  Michael Kinsley Nov. 11, 2000
  
• Gore Carries Slate Most of us voted Democratic. Does that prove we're biased? 
  Michael Kinsley Nov. 7, 2000
  
• The Art of Finger-Pointing Why wait until next week? Let's start now. 
  Michael Kinsley Oct. 31, 2000
  
• The Emperor's New Brain George W. and the stupidity issue.
  Michael Kinsley Oct. 24, 2000
  
• A Fundamental Debate? 'Fraid Not 
  Michael Kinsley Oct. 17, 2000
  
• Lies the Press Likes 
  Michael Kinsley Oct. 10, 2000
  
• Voters To Decide Election We get paid for this? 
  Michael Kinsley Oct. 3, 2000
  
• Frankly, My Dear Politicians' favorite verbal tic.
  Michael Kinsley Sept. 26, 2000
  
• It's an Outrage (Never Mind What) Wen Ho Lee and the Amazing Flexible Senators.
  Michael Kinsley Sept. 19, 2000
  
• Totally Disingenuous You disagree with the Republicans? So do the Republicans. 
  Michael Kinsley Sept. 12, 2000
  
• Wise Fool How big an oxymoron is George W. Bush? 
  Michael Kinsley Sept. 6, 2000
  
• Reason, Faith, and Stem Cells  
  Michael Kinsley Aug. 29, 2000
  
• So What's New? Is the "New Economy" really different from the old one?
  Michael Kinsley Aug. 22, 2000
  
• Slate: The eBook 
  Michael Kinsley Aug. 9, 2000
  
• Is There a Doctrine in the House?  
  Michael Kinsley Aug. 8, 2000
  
• The Nominating Committee Who really chose Bush and Cheney? 
  Michael Kinsley Aug. 1, 2000
  
• McCain for Veep: It's Still Not Too Late! When the press won't take no for an answer. 
  Michael Kinsley July 25, 2000
  
• Death—the Ultimate Free Lunch  
  Michael Kinsley July 18, 2000
  
• "I Did Not Have Leaks With That Newspaper" 
  Michael Kinsley July 11, 2000
  
• The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy of Silence 
  Michael Kinsley July 4, 2000
  
• Introducing MySlate It slices, it dices …  
  Michael Kinsley July 1, 2000
  
• Faking Right on Abortion 
  Michael Kinsley June 13, 2000
  
• Rick Lazio Has Nothing To Be Ashamed Of 
  Michael Kinsley June 6, 2000
  
• Mercenaries: Why Not? 
  Michael Kinsley May 31, 2000
  
• No Einstein George W. Flunks Math
  Michael Kinsley May 23, 2000
  
• The Ten Dotcommandments Or, the joy of pandering.
  Michael Kinsley May 16, 2000
  
• The Trouble With Equal Opportunity  
  Michael Kinsley May 9, 2000
  
• Soccer Mom's Successor  Who's the symbolic voter of 2000?
  Michael Kinsley May 2, 2000
  
• Republicans for Hillary "Did we say children shouldn't have legal rights? Whatever were we thinking?" 
  Michael Kinsley April 25, 2000
  
• Baby Needs a New Set of Genes Everyone's against genetic discrimination. Or so they think. 
  Michael Kinsley April 18, 2000
  
• Lake Washington Isn't Getting Any Bigger  
  Michael Kinsley April 4, 2000
  
• Oil Crooks Dangerous criminals conspire baldly in Vienna. 
  Michael Kinsley March 28, 2000
  
• Slate and Salon: An Update  
  Michael Kinsley March 22, 2000
  
• What Social Security Trust Fund? For $2.7 trillion, will you shut up about it already?
  Michael Kinsley March 21, 2000
  
• Nyeh Nyeh Nyeh Salon on Slate; Slate on Salon. 
  Michael Kinsley March 18, 2000
  
• Anti-Politics as Usual 
  Michael Kinsley March 14, 2000
  
• No headline 
  Michael Kinsley March 7, 2000
  
• Simple Gifts McCain wants to close this loophole, Bush wants to keep it, Clinton wants to enlarge it. Guess who's right? 
  Michael Kinsley Feb. 29, 2000
  
• McCain's High Horse  
  Michael Kinsley Feb. 22, 2000
  
• Edith Wharton for President Even in 2000, blue blood still helps. 
  Michael Kinsley Feb. 5, 2000