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• Clinton on the Web: An Update 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 29, 2000
  
• The Resurrection of Bob Strauss 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 28, 2000
  
• Jason Robards, Newspaper Ink Blot 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 27, 2000
  
• Be Kind to Liberals Month 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 21, 2000
  
• Beat-Sweetener Contest: The Winners 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 21, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: Post-Game Wrap-Up 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 19, 2000
  
• Reader Contest: Write a Beat-Sweetener! 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 18, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: The Revolution Will Be Televised! 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 18, 2000
  
• Harvard Does What Katherine Harris Wouldn't 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 15, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: This Election Ain't Over! 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 15, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: Was Cheney Naughty in ’76? 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 15, 2000
  
• Buckle Up, Mr. Justice 
  Emily Yoffe Dec. 14, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: Gimme "Equal Protection" 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 14, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: The Greeley Precedent 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 13, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: The Supreme Court Factor 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 11, 2000
  
• Houston, We Have a Problem in Leon County 
  Gregg Easterbrook Dec. 9, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: The Nation Gets Naughty! 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 8, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: Ask Doctor Faithless! 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 7, 2000
  
• St. John Ashcroft's Passion 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 6, 2000
  
• Katherine Harris' Secret Chatterbox Past 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 5, 2000
  
• Did Adnan Khashoggi Throw the Election to Dubya? 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 4, 2000
  
• Indecision 2000: Palindrome Contest Winners! 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 1, 2000
  
• What Do Floridians Want? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 30, 2000
  
• Dana Milbank, Deadline Jumper 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 30, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: The Abstention Option 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 30, 2000
  
• Hey Rehnquist! Use the Web 
  Chris Suellentrop Nov. 29, 2000
  
• Sweeney and the Siege of Miami 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 28, 2000
  
• Indecision 2000: The Palindrome Contest 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 28, 2000
  
• Katherine Harris Pulls the Helpless Routine—Again! 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 27, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: The Dimple Dilemma 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 24, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: Al Gore Says No Dice 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 22, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: Daniel Schorr Gets Naughty 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 21, 2000
  
• Faithless Elector Watch: Dangling Democrat? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 20, 2000
  
• Katherine Harris, Meet Alexander Graham Bell 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 18, 2000
  
• The Elector Hunt Begins 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 16, 2000
  
• Paul Berman Turns the Tides of History 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 16, 2000
  
• How Intellectuals Blew the Election "Crisis" 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 14, 2000
  
• Psst! Wanna Buy a Presidential Election? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 13, 2000
  
• Did Charlie's Angels Prophesy the Presidential Election? 
  David Plotz Nov. 13, 2000
  
• Social Science Tackles the Palm Beach Ballot 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 10, 2000
  
• Al Gore for (Harvard) President? Part Two 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 9, 2000
  
• James A. Michener, Near-Faithless Elector 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 9, 2000
  
• What Monica Did for Dubya 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 8, 2000
  
• Should the Voting Age Be Lowered? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 8, 2000
  
• Al Gore for (Harvard) President? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 6, 2000
  
• The Economist (Really) Endorses George W. Bush 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 3, 2000
  
• Abolish the Senate! 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 2, 2000
  
• Who Is Joe Allbaugh? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 1, 2000
  
• George W. Bush, The Last Relativist 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 31, 2000
  
• Won’t You Shut Up, Bill Daley? 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 30, 2000
  
• Pat Buchanan Chokes on Deadline! 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 27, 2000
  
• When Junior Is President, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 27, 2000
  
• When Junior Is President, Part 1 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 25, 2000
  
• More on Dubya, Reyn Archer, and the Commissioner of Love 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 24, 2000
  
• Learning To Love Bush’s Brain 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 23, 2000
  
• Dueling Dubyas 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 19, 2000
  
• Dubya, Reyn Archer, and the Commissioner of Love 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 19, 2000
  
• George W., Washington Insider 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 18, 2000
  
• The Witless Undecided Voter 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 17, 2000
  
• Dubya: God Is My Press Secretary 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 16, 2000
  
• The Economist (Sort Of) Endorses Al Gore 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 13, 2000
  
• So You Want To Win the Nobel Peace Prize 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 12, 2000
  
• The Bull Market’s 10th Birthday 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 11, 2000
  
• Dinesh D'Souza vs. "Equality of Opportunity" 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 10, 2000
  
• Conservatives Against Materialism 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 9, 2000
  
• Cheney's Cheap Debate Shot 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 6, 2000
  
• Matt Drudge, Internet Snob 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 5, 2000
  
• Bad News for Poe Buffs 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 4, 2000
  
• Confessions of a Paul Simon Fan 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 3, 2000
  
• Is Mr. Potato Head Racist? Part 2 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 3, 2000
  
• Chain-Chain-Cheney of Fools 
  Chris Suellentrop Oct. 3, 2000
  
• Is Mr. Potato Head Racist? 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 30, 2000
  
• Two More Cheers For the NYT 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 28, 2000
  
• Bill Bradley Still Hates Al Gore 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 27, 2000
  
• Two Cheers for the Times' Non-Apology Apology 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 26, 2000
  
• William Safire Doesn’t Apologize 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 25, 2000
  
• Cheney, Dicked 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 21, 2000
  
• notHarvard, We Hardly Knew Ye 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 20, 2000
  
• Readers Dramatize Clinton's Most Outrageous Moment 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 19, 2000
  
• The Dossier on J. Edgar Hoover 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 18, 2000
  
• Reader Contest: Re-Create Clinton's Most Outrageous Moment 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 15, 2000
  
• Why Won’t the Times Apologize to Wen Ho Lee? 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 14, 2000
  
• Cold Fusion and the Patent Office, Continued 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 13, 2000
  
• Plato, Aristotle, Bush, Gore, and the FTC 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 12, 2000
  
• Hapworth 16, 1924: A Chatterbox Investigation 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 11, 2000
  
• Honey, I Lost the Ballot 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 8, 2000
  
• Big Government Chic? 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 7, 2000
  
• Fun With Open Mikes 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 6, 2000
  
• Adam Clymer Blows His Moment 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 5, 2000
  
• Reader Nominations: More Decadent Than Doggie Perfume! 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 31, 2000
  
• Was Dubya Drunk? More Expert Opinion 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 30, 2000
  
• Was Dubya Drunk? 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 29, 2000
  
• Reader Contest: Top Doggie Perfume! 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 28, 2000
  
• More on Cold Fusion and the Patent Office 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 25, 2000
  
• George W. Bush's Seasonal Ethics 
  Chris Suellentrop Aug. 25, 2000
  
• Is It Religious To Believe in Cold Fusion? 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 24, 2000
  
• Poe House Update! 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 23, 2000
  
• The Gores, the Bushes, and Watergate 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 22, 2000
  
• Readers Weigh In on Island-Nation Naughtiness 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 21, 2000
  
• Pat Buchanan vs. the NAACP? 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 11, 2000
  
• What Is a "Jewish American"? 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 9, 2000
  
• The Sisters Get Stingy About Lieberman 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 8, 2000
  
• Two Cheers for Joe Lieberman 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 7, 2000
  
• Plato, Aristotle, and the 2000 Election 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 4, 2000
  
• Fly-Fishing Through the GOP Convention 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 3, 2000
  
• Spinning the Republican Color Wheel 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 2, 2000
  
• Memo to Marian Wright Edelman: Don't Sue Dubya! 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 1, 2000
  
• The Reform Party Veepstakes 
  Timothy Noah July 31, 2000
  
• Len Garment Kills the Messenger 
  Timothy Noah July 29, 2000
  
• How Dick Cheney Is Like Dan Quayle 
  Timothy Noah July 27, 2000
  
• Cheney's Lynne Problem 
  Timothy Noah July 24, 2000
  
• Is Dubya Bankrupting Texas? (Not Really) 
  Timothy Noah July 20, 2000
  
• Signers Update: Did Daddy Rush Plagiarize T.R. Fehrenbach? 
  Timothy Noah July 18, 2000
  
• The Dickerson Paradox 
  Timothy Noah July 18, 2000
  
• What If Patty Hearst Endorsed Al Gore? 
  Timothy Noah July 13, 2000
  
• Harry Potter and the Bucket of Warm Spit 
  Timothy Noah July 12, 2000
  
• Jeff Jacoby Without Tears 
  Timothy Noah July 11, 2000
  
• The Unluckiest Man in Movie History, Part 3 
  Timothy Noah July 10, 2000
  
• Did Paul Harvey Invent the Urban Legend That Could? 
  Timothy Noah July 7, 2000
  
• The Urban Legend That Could 
  Timothy Noah July 7, 2000
  
• Korean Missiles: What's the Hurry? 
  Timothy Noah July 5, 2000
  
• Did OpSail Redline Harlem? 
  Randy Cohen July 5, 2000
  
• "Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!" 
  Timothy Noah July 3, 2000
  
• The Unluckiest Man in Hollywood, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah June 30, 2000
  
• Is George Will a Lout? 
  Timothy Noah June 28, 2000
  
• Reader Contest: Explain the Naughtiness of Island Nations 
  Timothy Noah June 27, 2000
  
• How To Lower Gas Prices, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah June 26, 2000
  
• Doing a McCain to Buchanan 
  Timothy Noah June 23, 2000
  
• How To Lower Gas Prices 
  Timothy Noah June 22, 2000
  
• Was--Is--Dubya Pro-Choice? 
  Timothy Noah June 21, 2000
  
• … And Then There Were No Rogue States 
  Timothy Noah June 20, 2000
  
• Rogue State Contest Winners 
  Timothy Noah June 19, 2000
  
• Chatterbox Answers His Critic 
  Timothy Noah June 16, 2000
  
• Reader Contest: Find Clinton a New "Rogue State"! 
  Timothy Noah June 15, 2000
  
• The Unluckiest Man in Movie History 
  Timothy Noah June 13, 2000
  
• The Politics of M:I-2: Screenwriter Robert Towne Speaks! 
  Timothy Noah June 11, 2000
  
• More on Springsteen and Diallo 
  Timothy Noah June 9, 2000
  
• Readers Explain M:I-2's Political Message 
  Timothy Noah June 9, 2000
  
• Springsteen's Thwarted Hillary Assist? 
  Timothy Noah June 8, 2000
  
• Bayer Verks Vunders, Part 2: Der Text 
  Timothy Noah June 7, 2000
  
• Has Bob Bartley Gone Soft? 
  Timothy Noah June 6, 2000
  
• The Midlist Reader's Bliss 
  Timothy Noah June 5, 2000
  
• Bayer Verks Vunders 
  Timothy Noah June 1, 2000
  
• Victim of the Century 
  Timothy Noah May 31, 2000
  
• Tsunami Update 
  Timothy Noah May 31, 2000
  
• The President's Phone Number Is Missing! 
  Timothy Noah May 30, 2000
  
• Reader Contest: Explain the Politics of M:I-2 
  Timothy Noah May 29, 2000
  
• Do Soccer Moms Bowl Alone? 
  Timothy Noah May 25, 2000
  
• Anagrams for "House Passes China Trade Pact" 
  Timothy Noah May 25, 2000
  
• Privatizing Congressional Hearings 
  Timothy Noah May 24, 2000
  
• Lazio, Hillary, and Carpetbagger Math 
  Timothy Noah May 22, 2000
  
• The Bearish Veep 
  Timothy Noah May 18, 2000
  
• The Shadowy Gridiron: Part 3 
  Timothy Noah May 18, 2000
  
• Helen Thomas, the Gridiron, and the Moonies 
  Timothy Noah May 17, 2000
  
• The Misunderstood Los Alamos Fire 
  Timothy Noah May 16, 2000
  
• The Silver Lining About Guns 
  Timothy Noah May 15, 2000
  
• Reader Contest: Challenge the Conventional Wisdom! 
  Timothy Noah May 11, 2000
  
• Political Shakedowns: A Cost-Benefit Analysis 
  Timothy Noah May 11, 2000
  
• Al Gore, Joke Thief 
  Chris Suellentrop May 10, 2000
  
• The bCentral.com Presidential Candidate Index 
  Timothy Noah May 10, 2000
  
• Chattermailbox: Gridiron, Aryan Nations, Etc. 
  Timothy Noah May 9, 2000
  
• Who Blackballed William Safire? 
  Timothy Noah May 8, 2000
  
• Tom DeLay, Compassionate Conservative 
  Timothy Noah May 5, 2000
  
• Los Angeles Times Square? Not on Your Life, Pal! 
  Timothy Noah May 4, 2000
  
• ... And by the Way, a Tsunami May Hit D.C. 
  Timothy Noah May 3, 2000
  
• Bill Clinton Remakes American Beauty 
  Timothy Noah May 2, 2000
  
• DeLay Stonewalls on His Elián Error! 
  Timothy Noah May 1, 2000
  
• More on That Elián Search Warrant 
  Timothy Noah April 28, 2000
  
• Whither McCain Goeth ... 
  Timothy Noah April 26, 2000
  
• How About Reading That Elián Warrant? 
  Timothy Noah April 25, 2000
  
• Drugging Elián 
  Timothy Noah April 24, 2000
  
• Fidel Blackmail Clinton? Er, How? 
  Timothy Noah April 24, 2000
  
• Elián: The Atheists Done It 
  Timothy Noah April 22, 2000
  
• Easter Egg Dye: A Chatterbox Investigation 
  Timothy Noah April 21, 2000
  
• Can Harvard Sue notHarvard.com? 
  Timothy Noah April 20, 2000
  
• E.M. Forster on Elián González 
  Timothy Noah April 19, 2000
  
• Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Thunk 
  Timothy Noah April 18, 2000
  
• Dubya and the Dow 
  Timothy Noah April 17, 2000
  
• NYU vs. Edgar Allan Poe, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah April 13, 2000
  
• Anarchists Sabotage the Washington Post! 
  Timothy Noah April 12, 2000
  
• A Little More on Dubya's Jean Valjean 
  Timothy Noah April 11, 2000
  
• Dubya's Jean Valjean 
  Timothy Noah April 10, 2000
  
• Say It Ain't So, Bones! 
  Timothy Noah April 7, 2000
  
• Elián González: The Anagrams 
  Timothy Noah April 6, 2000
  
• Letter to Juan Miguel González 
  William Saletan April 6, 2000
  
• More Buildings Worth "Kingdome"-ing 
  Timothy Noah April 5, 2000
  
• Slate and Antitrust: Possible Remedies 
  Timothy Noah April 4, 2000
  
• Is Queen Amidala Actually Queen Victoria? 
  June Thomas April 4, 2000
  
• Scenes From the Gas-Price Hike, Part II 
  Timothy Noah April 2, 2000
  
• Does a Short Index Finger Make You Gay? 
  Timothy Noah March 30, 2000
  
• Anthony Powell, R.I.P. 
  Timothy Noah March 30, 2000
  
• The Skulls Is No Brotherhood of the Bell 
  Timothy Noah March 28, 2000
  
• Is Trent Lott Soft on Abortion? 
  Timothy Noah March 27, 2000
  
• Buildings Worth "Kingdome"-ing 
  Timothy Noah March 27, 2000
  
• Chatterbox Dialogues With Philip Morris 
  Timothy Noah March 24, 2000
  
• Scenes From the Gas-Price Spike, Part 1 
  Timothy Noah March 22, 2000
  
• The Skulls (and Bones) Prequel 
  Timothy Noah March 22, 2000
  
• Why the Center Is Dangerous for Dubya 
  Timothy Noah March 20, 2000
  
• Defending Dubya, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah March 17, 2000
  
• Chatterbox Defends Dubya! 
  Timothy Noah March 16, 2000
  
• Stupid Bill Alert 
  Timothy Noah March 15, 2000
  
• Does George W. Want Your Gas Bill To Rise? 
  Timothy Noah March 14, 2000
  
• Los Angeles Becomes a Midwestern Colony Again 
  Timothy Noah March 13, 2000
  
• More on Newsweek's High School Rankings 
  James Fallows March 10, 2000
  
• BJU Mystery Solved, Shifty Evangelicals Exposed 
  Timothy Noah March 9, 2000
  
• Bob Jones, Prevaricator? 
  Timothy Noah March 8, 2000
  
• A Gotcha Question for George W. Bush 
  Timothy Noah March 8, 2000
  
• Top 10 Super Tuesday Palindromes 
  Timothy Noah March 8, 2000
  
• Super Tuesday Palindrome Contest! 
  Timothy Noah March 6, 2000
  
• These Aren't America's Best High Schools 
  James Fallows March 5, 2000
  
• Bob Jones Changes Mind About Jungle Fever! 
  Timothy Noah March 4, 2000
  
• More on Gore, Quotas, Regs, and Segs 
  Timothy Noah March 3, 2000
  
• Vote Shafer! Vote Early! Vote Often! 
  Timothy Noah March 1, 2000
  
• Deconstructing Bob Jones 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 29, 2000
  
• Bauer's Revenge 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 29, 2000
  
• More on Skull & Bones and Hollywood 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 24, 2000
  
• Let 'Em Drive Cars 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 23, 2000
  
• Did Gore Protect Bob Jones University? 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 23, 2000
  
• Hollywood's Sneak Attack on George W. 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 21, 2000
  
• Benetton and Newsweek: A Chatterbox Investigation 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 19, 2000
  
• Against Retirement 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 15, 2000
  
• Chatterbox Slept Here 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 15, 2000
  
• Republican Debate Preview 
  Chris Suellentrop Feb. 14, 2000
  
• Sleeping With the Enemy 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 14, 2000
  
• Bill Bradley's Secret Admirer 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 10, 2000
  
• Whom Does Forbes Hate More: Bush or McCain? 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 9, 2000
  
• Something Bad About John McCain 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 8, 2000
  
• Memo to the New Yorker Copy Desk 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 7, 2000
  
• Gary Bauer, Call Your Webmaster 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 3, 2000
  
• Gilbert and Sullivan Do TV Chat 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 3, 2000
  
• McCain's Online Gold Rush 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 2, 2000
  
• Buchanan Campaign Endorses Bush in N.H.! 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 1, 2000
  
• What's Your Op-Ed IQ? 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 27, 2000
  
• Weatherbox: Call This a Blizzard? 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 26, 2000
  
• Gore and Dope: A Chatterbox Exclusive 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 25, 2000
  
• Larry Klayman for Attorney General! 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 24, 2000
  
• In Praise of Cluelessness 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 20, 2000
  
• Demonizing the 1970s 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 19, 2000
  
• Norman Mailer: Truth in Blurbing 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 18, 2000
  
• Bellow the Fertility King 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 17, 2000
  
• United Killers of Benetton 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 13, 2000
  
• Anagrams of "AOL Time Warner Inc." 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 12, 2000
  
• Microsoft Leaks Own Plans for Coup D'Etat 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 11, 2000
  
• Did Nora Ephron Broker the AOL-Time Warner Deal? 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 10, 2000
  
• The McCain Mutiny 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 6, 2000
  
• Ed Yardeni, Extreme Film Critic 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 5, 2000
  
• The Great Yardeni 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 4, 2000
  
• Religion 4.0 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 3, 2000
  
• Is the New York Times Y2K-Compliant? 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 1, 2000