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• It's Pat! 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 31, 1998
  
• The Impeachment Whodunit 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 28, 1998
  
• CyberChristmas: The Results 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 28, 1998
  
• 21st-Century Clinton 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 27, 1998
  
• Guaranteed: Hitler Mentioned Below 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 24, 1998
  
• The Mind of the Republican Moderate 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 23, 1998
  
• "William Jefferson Clinton" 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 22, 1998
  
• The Nazi Fox 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 22, 1998
  
• Fox or Foul? 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 22, 1998
  
• Unlisted Pornographer 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 19, 1998
  
• Counterprogramming 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 19, 1998
  
• Part Two: Why Mr. Livingston ... 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 19, 1998
  
• Why Mr. Livingston, I Had No Idea 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 19, 1998
  
• Howell Agonistes 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 18, 1998
  
• Impeach Saddam! 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 17, 1998
  
• The Wag the Dog Caucus 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 17, 1998
  
• Intellectuals at the Barricades 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 15, 1998
  
• Gossip About Gossip 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 15, 1998
  
• A Pox on the President 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 15, 1998
  
• Correction: Chatterbox Goofed 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 14, 1998
  
• Clinton's Rules of the Rude 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 13, 1998
  
• Going to the Theater 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 13, 1998
  
• How Many Columns Does the President Have? 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 11, 1998
  
• The Congress That Couldn't Add 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 10, 1998
  
• A Do-It-Yourself Censure 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 10, 1998
  
• Deconstructing Bill's Lies 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 8, 1998
  
• Albert Gore (1907-1998) 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 7, 1998
  
• A Fine Madness 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 5, 1998
  
• Oral Arguments 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 5, 1998
  
• The Red Queen Gambit 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 5, 1998
  
• The Road to the White House 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 4, 1998
  
• War May Be Hell, But ... 
  Eliza Truitt Dec. 3, 1998
  
• Great Expectations 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 2, 1998
  
• Gaslight 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 2, 1998
  
• Locked Out of the News 
  Walter Shapiro Dec. 2, 1998
  
• The Poetry of Flytrap 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 1, 1998
  
• Princeton Made Easy 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 30, 1998
  
• Finally! Economic Nirvana 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 29, 1998
  
• Inhaling the Constitution 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 28, 1998
  
• Censure and Sensibility 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 28, 1998
  
• We've Got Einstein's Brain! 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 26, 1998
  
• Schizoid Is Beautiful 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 24, 1998
  
• Al D'Amato's 20 Minute Gap 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 24, 1998
  
• Quotation of the Week 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 23, 1998
  
• Chatterbox Is Schizophrenic 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 23, 1998
  
• Accentuate the Positive 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 23, 1998
  
• Dash It, Sam's Gone 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 20, 1998
  
• Starr vs. Clifford 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 20, 1998
  
• Tom Wolfe, Internet Fogy 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 17, 1998
  
• Monica's Education Reforms Revealed! 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 17, 1998
  
• Blair and Quayle: In Their Own Write 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 17, 1998
  
• Church 'n State at Time, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 16, 1998
  
• Brazil's Bailout: The Real Story 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 15, 1998
  
• Silence Is Golden 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 13, 1998
  
• Lawmakers, Guns, and Money 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 12, 1998
  
• Church and State at Time 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 12, 1998
  
• Turnout Translation 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 10, 1998
  
• The Cost of No More Newt 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 10, 1998
  
• Who Killed Newt, Part Two 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 10, 1998
  
• Lobbyist Livingston, I Presume 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 9, 1998
  
• Who Killed Newt? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 7, 1998
  
• No Exit From Exit Polls 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 7, 1998
  
• White Flag Waving 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 4, 1998
  
• Just Asking 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 4, 1998
  
• The Internet: Better Than TV 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 4, 1998
  
• The Mitch McConnell Factor 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 4, 1998
  
• The Ralph Reed Factor 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 4, 1998
  
• Enough Already 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 4, 1998
  
• Sheik, Rattle and Roll 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 3, 1998
  
• Clinton v. Jefferson v. Hamilton 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 2, 1998
  
• The Ic Tic 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 1, 1998
  
• Witches' Brew 
  Walter Shapiro Nov. 1, 1998
  
• Politics as Pleasantville 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 31, 1998
  
• The GOP's PAC Shakedown 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 29, 1998
  
• Payload Payoff 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 28, 1998
  
• Clinton's Nixon 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 27, 1998
  
• Monitors or Sitting Ducks? 
  Kate Galbraith Oct. 26, 1998
  
• It's the Issues, Stupid 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 26, 1998
  
• The Check Isn't in the Mail 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 24, 1998
  
• Made or Broken 
  David Plotz Oct. 23, 1998
  
• A Chatterbox Contest! 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 23, 1998
  
• Why Wye? 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 21, 1998
  
• Exclusive: Clinton Tells the Truth! 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 21, 1998
  
• Orrin Hatch, Lib-Lover 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 20, 1998
  
• Defining "Moderate" 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 19, 1998
  
• Maynard Parker Remembered 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 17, 1998
  
• How Many Teachers, Mr. President? 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 17, 1998
  
• Mr. Chatterbox's Neighborhood 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 16, 1998
  
• What the Do-Nothing Congress Did 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 15, 1998
  
• Poll Plot 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 14, 1998
  
• A Thought Experiment 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 13, 1998
  
• The Campaign Money-go-round 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 11, 1998
  
• Sid Blumenthal Framed! 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 9, 1998
  
• Bill Clinton and Civil Disobedience 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 8, 1998
  
• Seinfeldian Justice 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 7, 1998
  
• Bob Michel on Impeachment 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 6, 1998
  
• Searching Flytrap 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 5, 1998
  
• Roll, Jordan, Roll 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 3, 1998
  
• Flytrap Language Lesson 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 2, 1998
  
• Specimen-Cup Politics 
  Walter Shapiro Oct. 2, 1998
  
• Chatterbox vs. Joan Didion 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 1, 1998
  
• A Bibliophile's Guide to the Oval Office 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 30, 1998
  
• The Smoking Cigar 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 29, 1998
  
• Derrida to the Defense 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 29, 1998
  
• Friendly Fire at the White House, Part Two 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 29, 1998
  
• Holy Cow! Harry Caray Got It Right 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 29, 1998
  
• Clinton Hit by Friendly Fire 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 28, 1998
  
• Clinton Must Go: A Democratic Party Scenario 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 25, 1998
  
• This Scepter'd District 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 25, 1998
  
• Fry Monica Lewinsky! 
  Jodie T. Allen Sept. 25, 1998
  
• Clinton's Polls: The Fidel Effect 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 25, 1998
  
• Boycott Chatterbox! 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 24, 1998
  
• The Ollie North Parallel 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 22, 1998
  
• More Smut on TV, Please 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 22, 1998
  
• A Bouquet of Bennetts 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 21, 1998
  
• Oh Canada! 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 21, 1998
  
• Clinton's Testimony: Real Time Commentary! 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 21, 1998
  
• Disinfect This 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 19, 1998
  
• Newt the Plagiarist 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 18, 1998
  
• Two-faced on Resignation 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 18, 1998
  
• Medicating Bill 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 17, 1998
  
• But What If He Resigns? 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 17, 1998
  
• Move Over, Tom Clancy 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 17, 1998
  
• Non-Reader of the Week 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 17, 1998
  
• Let's Go to the Tape 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 17, 1998
  
• A Guide to the Quickie Starr Papebacks 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 15, 1998
  
• The Sexless Starr Report 
  David Plotz Sept. 14, 1998
  
• Bill Clinton and the Meaning of "Is" 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 14, 1998
  
• Jesuit's Corner 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 13, 1998
  
• Saturday Chatterdump 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 12, 1998
  
• That Clinton Touch 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 12, 1998
  
• Chattershot Comments 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 11, 1998
  
• Footnote Fetish 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 11, 1998
  
• Paying Sources 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 10, 1998
  
• Exclusive: Anne Frank-Flytrap Nexus 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 10, 1998
  
• Seeing Is Deceiving 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 8, 1998
  
• Eureka, Look What Clinton's Reading 
  Walter Shapiro Sept. 2, 1998
  
• Monica's Brilliant Literary Career 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 31, 1998
  
• Mea Culpa Part II? 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 27, 1998
  
• Vineyard Gossip 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 27, 1998
  
• Group Therapy on the Vineyard 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 21, 1998
  
• A Is for Air Strike 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 20, 1998
  
• Alternative Programming 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 17, 1998
  
• Madcap Monica Marathon (Continued) 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 16, 1998
  
• Flytrap Clearance Sale 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 14, 1998
  
• Hillary's Dogpatch Defense 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 12, 1998
  
• The President's Previous Apology 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 12, 1998
  
• Congress Has Your Number? 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 7, 1998
  
• Clinton Meets Cochran 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 4, 1998
  
• Cover Girl Monica Lewinsky 
  Walter Shapiro Aug. 4, 1998
  
• Calvin Coolidge: Still Dead 
  Walter Shapiro July 31, 1998
  
• Clinton's Con 
  Walter Shapiro July 30, 1998
  
• Supreme Irony 
  Walter Shapiro July 28, 1998
  
• The O.J. of D.C. 
  Walter Shapiro July 24, 1998
  
• More Primary Choler 
  Walter Shapiro July 21, 1998
  
• Primary Choler 
  Walter Shapiro July 16, 1998
  
• Annals of Influence Peddling 
  Walter Shapiro July 14, 1998
  
• Advice for Would-Be Ambassadors 
  Walter Shapiro July 10, 1998
  
• Chatterbox Demands a Recount! 
  Walter Shapiro July 6, 1998
  
• Only In New York, Kids 
  Walter Shapiro June 30, 1998
  
• Deja Vu, All Over Again 
  Walter Shapiro June 30, 1998
  
• What's the Frequency, Peter? 
  Walter Shapiro June 26, 1998
  
• A Vast Right-Field Conspiracy? 
  Walter Shapiro June 25, 1998
  
• Conspiracy No, Machinery Yes 
  Jacob Weisberg June 23, 1998
  
• Beer and a Shot 
  June 23, 1998
  
• Political Scuttlebutt 
  Timothy Noah June 21, 1998
  
• Friday the Rabbi Smoked Winston 
  Walter Shapiro June 19, 1998
  
• The Buck Stops Here 
  Walter Shapiro June 17, 1998
  
• Goldberg's DisContent 
  David Plotz June 16, 1998
  
• Just Say No Comment 
  Walter Shapiro June 15, 1998
  
• The Mark Hanna of the Christian Right 
  Walter Shapiro June 13, 1998
  
• Which Side Are You On, Boys 
  Walter Shapiro June 12, 1998
  
• Chatterbox Endorses Cheerios 
  Patrick Quigley June 11, 1998
  
• Hot Gas From Time Magazine 
  Cyrus Krohn June 10, 1998
  
• America: Love It and Leave It 
  Matthew Cooper June 10, 1998
  
• Burnt Bacon? 
  Cyrus Krohn June 9, 1998
  
• Who Bombed in India? 
  Jack Shafer June 3, 1998
  
• All-Sniping Edition! 
  Mickey Kaus May 26, 1998
  
• Joyce, Monica and Mommy! 
  Mickey Kaus May 20, 1998
  
• None Dare Call it Chatter! 
  Mickey Kaus May 19, 1998
  
• Chatterbox: Hope or Hype? 
  Mickey Kaus May 15, 1998
  
• Chatterbox Spans the Political Spectrum! 
  Mickey Kaus May 13, 1998
  
• Hillary's Jewish Problem: The Local Angle 
  Mickey Kaus May 8, 1998
  
• The Chatterbox Conjecture: A No-Brainer! 
  Mickey Kaus May 5, 1998
  
• Can We All Get Along? 
  Mickey Kaus May 3, 1998
  
• When Good News Means Bad News 
  Mickey Kaus May 1, 1998
  
• Snap Quiz! 
  Mickey Kaus April 30, 1998
  
• The Stalls Have Ears! 
  Mickey Kaus April 27, 1998
  
• Hale Bait 
  Mickey Kaus April 23, 1998
  
• Who Heard the P-word? 
  Mickey Kaus April 20, 1998
  
• Chatterbox Gets Short!! 
  Mickey Kaus April 19, 1998
  
• Talking Points for the Times! 
  Mickey Kaus April 17, 1998
  
• The Flytrap Cure 
  Mickey Kaus April 16, 1998
  
• Post Hack, Ergo Propter Hack 
  Mickey Kaus April 14, 1998
  
• This isn't Argument. It's Mere Refutation! 
  Mickey Kaus April 12, 1998
  
• Washington's $7 Million Man 
  Mickey Kaus April 9, 1998
  
• Brox Crox Redux! 
  Mickey Kaus April 3, 1998
  
• Good News Hunting! 
  Mickey Kaus April 2, 1998
  
• Chatterbox Goes Too Far! 
  Mickey Kaus March 31, 1998
  
• You Don't Know Jackboots! 
  Mickey Kaus March 27, 1998
  
• Chatterbox Goes Right! 
  Mickey Kaus March 23, 1998
  
• Where's Hillary? 
  Mickey Kaus March 22, 1998
  
• Fondlee, Kathleen: Isikoff on the Stand? 
  Mickey Kaus March 19, 1998
  
• Secret Gore Strategy Revealed! 
  Mickey Kaus March 17, 1998
  
• Poster Boys 
  Mickey Kaus March 14, 1998
  
• The Curse of the Opel 
  Mickey Kaus March 14, 1998
  
• Dish of Currie! 
  Mickey Kaus March 9, 1998
  
• "I'd 'I Do' Dodi": Di 
  Mickey Kaus March 6, 1998
  
• The Hell of Gates, Jr. 
  Mickey Kaus March 3, 1998
  
• Did I Dis Sid? I Did! 
  Mickey Kaus March 1, 1998
  
• Why Chatterbox Cares 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 27, 1998
  
• Views You Can Use! 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 24, 1998
  
• Do You Have Any Interns in That Basket? 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 18, 1998
  
• WAPO BURIES THE LEAD! 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 16, 1998
  
• Name That Scandal: And the Winner Is ... 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 5, 1998
  
• Kathleen Willey Grope 'n' Gripe Extravaganza! 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 3, 1998
  
• Chatterbox Buries the Lead! 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 3, 1998
  
• When Is a B___ J___ Not a B___ J___? etc. 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 2, 1998
  
• What Did George Know and When Did He Spin It? 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 2, 1998
  
• Lives of the Starrs 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 30, 1998
  
• "Full-Service" Chatterdump 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 29, 1998
  
• Who's on Top? 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 29, 1998
  
• Chatterdump: How to Stop Drudge, Etc. 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 27, 1998
  
• I Sing the Body Elected 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 27, 1998
  
• Stephanopoulos Analyzes His Own Crime 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 25, 1998
  
• Name That Scandal 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 23, 1998
  
• The Snooze Strategy 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 23, 1998
  
• Eight Questions About Monica, Etc. 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 23, 1998
  
• No Gore in '04 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 23, 1998
  
• Chatterdump 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 23, 1998
  
• She's Good Conversation, Too 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 23, 1998
  
• Suborn Again? 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 23, 1998