Politics and policy.

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• Barak's Hard Place Why America should calm down about the new Israeli prime minister.
  David Plotz July 16, 1999
  
• And So's Your Old Man Why isn't George W. more like his dad?
  David Plotz July 2, 1999
  
• Impeachment Redux Flytrap is forgotten but not gone.
  David Plotz June 25, 1999
  
• Kissinger's Comeback Tour Old foreign policy advisers don't even fade away.
  David Plotz June 11, 1999
  
• The Cure for Sinophobia Just follow these seven steps.
  David Plotz June 4, 1999
  
• Thank Heaven for Little Boys The GOP makes a sexploitation play on the Hill.
  David Plotz May 28, 1999
  
• Learn Politics While You Drive Can these Republican tapes teach you how to be a candidate?
  David Plotz May 21, 1999
  
• Was Bob a God? In search of Robert Rubin's flaws.
  David Plotz May 13, 1999
  
• Point and Clique How the Poms, the Jocks, and the GOP Band rule Washington High School.
  David Plotz May 7, 1999
  
• The Phony War What's behind the Bradley surge and the Gore stumble? Not much.
  David Plotz May 1, 1999
  
• Serbs, Kosovars, Israelis, Palestinians The bewildering politics of Kosovo in Israel.
  David Plotz April 24, 1999
  
• Hawkish Doves, Dovish Hawks The confusing taxonomy of Kosovo.
  David Plotz April 17, 1999
  
• Leak and Load In Kosovo, the Pentagon covers its behind.
  David Plotz April 10, 1999
  
• The Peril of Faith Should we believe in the Republican governors?
  David Plotz April 3, 1999
  
• Would You Give Money to This Man? Why does anyone contribute to Lamar Alexander's presidential campaign?
  David Plotz March 27, 1999
  
• Advise and Consent (Also Obstruct, Delay, and Stymie) What's still wrong with the appointments process.
  David Plotz March 20, 1999
  
• Jews vs. Spooks And the loser is ... Clinton.
  David Plotz March 13, 1999
  
• The Litigation Lover Why hasn't Clinton learned to hate the law?
  David Plotz March 6, 1999
  
• Lose One for the Gipper! Unsure of their future, Republicans revive the past.
  David Plotz Feb. 27, 1999
  
• War Powerless The president shouldn't send troops to Kosovo. But Congress should.
  David Plotz Feb. 20, 1999
  
• A Senate Bestiary Who's doing what about the trial and why.
  David Plotz Jan. 9, 1999