Gossip, speculation, and scuttlebutt about politics.

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• If You Knew Pinky … Remembering Benazir Bhutto during her younger and more languid days on the Isis. Or was it the Charles?
  Timothy Noah Dec. 31, 2007
  
• Holiday-Week Journalism All the news that's fit to pad.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 24, 2007
  
• First-Lady Extinction? If it's imminent, hallelujah.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 19, 2007
  
• The Federal-Contract Derby A new searchable database allows you to track where your tax dollars go. That's mostly—but not entirely—good news.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 14, 2007
  
• Whose Nominee Is It, Anyway? Why Florida and Michigan don't mind being disenfranchised.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 12, 2007
  
• You Won't Catch Your Death? The truth, at last, about winter coats and the flu.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 5, 2007
  
• Obama vs. Clinton on "Universality" The health-care primary, part 6.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 1, 2007
  
• Did Scandal End Lott's Career? Lott's sudden resignation coincides with an FBI raid on his brother-in-law's office. Maybe that's a coincidence, and maybe it isn't.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 28, 2007
  
• Larry King, Sucker Now it's official. America's pre-eminent TV interviewer will believe anything.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 27, 2007
  
• Lewis Lapham Mad Libs! How to write the sentence he has been redrafting for 40 years.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 13, 2007
  
• Decoding David Brooks Psst! His latest column is an attack on Times colleague Paul Krugman.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 10, 2007
  
• Chattermailbox: How Often Do You Vote Your Shares? Reich: Make equality, not ineffectual noises at shareholder meetings.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 6, 2007
  
• Was George Plimpton a Literary Giant? Uh, no. Why does Philip Roth insist on arguing that he was?
  Timothy Noah Oct. 30, 2007
  
• Is Bush Prince Hamlet on Darfur? That doesn't sound like the Dubya we know.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 29, 2007
  
• Robert Reich: New Best Friend to CEOs Why is Clinton's labor secretary defending the preposterous salaries of chief executives?
  Timothy Noah Oct. 24, 2007
  
• Lynne Cheney and the Anxiety of Influence How a soft-porn classic begat a memoir by the vice president's wife.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 19, 2007
  
• McCaincare: Provocative but Vague The health-care primary, Part 5.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 16, 2007
  
• Chris DeMuth, Hack Extraordinaire The leader of President Bush's favorite think tank bids adieu.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 12, 2007
  
• Bush Cabinet Quiz, Part 3 The White House fixes two erroneous entries on its Cabinet Web page but creates a new one.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 10, 2007
  
• Clawing Your Way to the Nobel Peace Prize A former vice president, a Holocaust hero, and a right-wing broadcaster duke it out with 10,000 Burmese monks.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 9, 2007
  
• Bush Cabinet Quiz, Part 2 Wherein your quizmaster admits error, but the White House does not.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 8, 2007
  
• Why Bush Was Dumb To Veto SCHIP It greases the skids for universal health care.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 4, 2007
  
• A Bush Cabinet Quiz Can you tell one seat-warmer from another?
  Timothy Noah Oct. 2, 2007
  
• Would Universal Health Care Wreck Cancer Treatment? Betsy McCaughey says so, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 28, 2007
  
• Nixon's Jew Count: the Whole Story! A multimedia extravaganza.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 26, 2007
  
• Squeezing O.J.'s Brain Could brain injuries suffered on the football field explain O.J. Simpson's erratic behavior?
  Chadwick Matlin Sept. 21, 2007
  
• Hillarycare II: New and Improved The health care primary, Part 4.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 20, 2007
  
• If I Robbed Him An exclusive excerpt from O.J.'s next book.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 17, 2007
  
• Obama Calms Turbulent Iowans! The Obama Messiah Watch, Part 8.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 12, 2007
  
• How O.J. Killed Nicole A review of If I Did It, part 2.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 31, 2007
  
• O.J. Is Still Beating His Wife A review of If I Did It.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 30, 2007
  
• Roger Stone Sings Again Why isn't the Washington Post covering his latest embarrassment?
  Timothy Noah Aug. 24, 2007
  
• When Booksellers Lie "O.J. will never sell" is the new "Your check is in the mail."
  Timothy Noah Aug. 23, 2007
  
• Is Mike Gerson a Glory Hog? Or is his former colleague, Matthew Scully, just unhinged?
  Timothy Noah Aug. 11, 2007
  
• How To Evade the New Ethics Bill And why it should become law anyway.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 7, 2007
  
• Tom Tancredo's Final Solution Meet the biggest fool running for president.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 3, 2007
  
• Giuliani's Tepid Health Reform The health-care primary, Part 3.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 3, 2007
  
• Remembering De Düva (The Dove) The best Ingmar Bergman parody, ever.
  Timothy Noah July 30, 2007
  
• Go NOPEC! Congress takes on the biggest, baddest cartel of all.
  Timothy Noah July 11, 2007
  
• Edwardscare: A Trojan Horse The health-care primary, Part 2.
  Timothy Noah July 6, 2007
  
• Why Bush Was Right To Spare Libby Disgrace, yes. Jail, no.
  Timothy Noah July 3, 2007
  
• Health Costs Screw Business, Too The victim Sicko won't acknowledge.
  Timothy Noah July 2, 2007
  
• Has Jonah Goldberg Gone Soft on Hillary? Her name's been removed from his forthcoming book's subtitle.
  Timothy Noah June 27, 2007
  
• Who Wrote the Worst Celebrity Profile? A Chatterbox investigation.
  Timothy Noah June 20, 2007
  
• Obamacare: Better Than It Looks The health care primary, Part 1.
  Timothy Noah June 19, 2007
  
• Sopranos Endings You Can Live With Online parodists remix the finale.
  Timothy Noah June 18, 2007
  
• Implausible Deniability The Internet foils fudging by three "voter fraud" warriors.
  Richard L. Hasen June 13, 2007
  
• Who Will Be the Last Bush Loyalist? Whoever you are, don't forget to kill the lights.
  Timothy Noah June 6, 2007
  
• Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade The right's holy fool.
  Timothy Noah May 15, 2007
  
• Ronald Reagan's Family Values What the diaries show.
  Timothy Noah May 4, 2007
  
• Abstinence Bushie Busted! Randall Tobias, hypocrite.
  Timothy Noah April 28, 2007
  
• Blogging Spector Our revels now are ended.
  Timothy Noah April 25, 2007
  
• The Rule of Threes Sanjaya, Gonzales, Wolfowitz.
  Timothy Noah April 19, 2007
  
• How Sorry Are We? For Blacksburg, not enough.
  Timothy Noah April 18, 2007
  
• Novak's Denial, Part 2 Plame was "undercover," not "covert." Nobody cares, Bob.
  Timothy Noah April 13, 2007
  
• The Deeper Fakery of Couric's Plagiarism Why original thought is harder to steal.
  Timothy Noah April 12, 2007
  
• The Wit and Wisdom of Don Imus A guide for Washington's power crowd.
  Timothy Noah April 10, 2007
  
• A Phil Spector Primer How to rubberneck an underappreciated murder trial.
  Timothy Noah April 8, 2007
  
• Ray's Original Chatterbox Accept no substitutes: Obama Messiah Watch, part 7.
  Timothy Noah April 4, 2007
  
• The Bush Sell-Off It's all in the timing.
  Timothy Noah April 2, 2007
  
• Jim Webb, Scofflaw? Does he flout D.C.'s handgun ban?
  Timothy Noah March 28, 2007
  
• DeLay's Hillary Smear The Hammer revives an urban myth.
  Timothy Noah March 26, 2007
  
• Novak's Denial You blew a CIA employee's cover, Bob. Live with it.
  Timothy Noah March 23, 2007
  
• Jonah, Where Art Thou? Is the author of Liberal Fascism caught in a conservative paradigm shift?
  Timothy Noah March 20, 2007
  
• The Fall-Guy Quiz Do you have what it takes to take the rap?
  Timothy Noah March 15, 2007
  
• Fallguyology: A User's Guide The role Alberto Gonzales was born to play.
  Timothy Noah March 14, 2007
  
• A Short History of Health Care Jonathan Cohn shows how we got here.
  Timothy Noah March 13, 2007
  
• Doug Feith, Flimflam Man In Washington, there are no outcomes. There is only process.
  Timothy Noah March 9, 2007
  
• Would You Privatize Defense? The case for socialized medicine, Part 1.
  Timothy Noah March 6, 2007
  
• More on Wikability The arguments for a notability guideline don't hold up.
  Timothy Noah March 2, 2007
  
• Rescued by Wikipedia Is Wikipedia's ticket to "notability" the writing of one published article about … Wikipedia?
  Timothy Noah Feb. 26, 2007
  
• Evicted From Wikipedia Why the online encyclopedia won't let just anyone in.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 24, 2007
  
• Does Bush Know What Neocon Means? That isn't a rhetorical question.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 23, 2007
  
• Obama: Better Than Civil Rights! The Obama Messiah Watch, Part 6.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 15, 2007
  
• Do Space Aliens Advise Obama? The Obama Messiah Watch, Part 5.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 13, 2007
  
• "Barry" Obama Discovers Jazz The Obama Messiah Watch, Part 4.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 9, 2007
  
• Obama, D.C. The Obama Messiah Watch, part 3.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 7, 2007
  
• Obama Messiah Watch, Part 2 A Harvard Law wunderkind masters laws that govern the universe.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 5, 2007
  
• Baby Einstein Replies An e-mail from Julia Aigner-Clark, and a reply.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 1, 2007
  
• The Obama Messiah Watch Introducing a periodic feature considering evidence that Obama is the son of God.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 29, 2007
  
• Bush's Baby Einstein Gaffe The president lionizes a mountebank.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 24, 2007
  
• The Academy's Fatty Problem Why didn't Richard Griffiths get nominated for The History Boys?
  Timothy Noah Jan. 24, 2007
  
• O.J., Volume 2 The new memoir he's peddling is far more obscene than the first.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 22, 2007
  
• O.J. Confesses. Really. The ghostwriter of If I Did It calls Simpson "a murderer."
  Timothy Noah Jan. 16, 2007
  
• When Sunlight Doesn't Disinfect How lobbyists learned to subvert shame.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 12, 2007
  
• The Many Presidents of George W. Bush Why the current president has more ghostly familiars than most.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 12, 2007
  
• Dinesh D'Souza's Mullah Envy A leading conservative thinker blames 9/11 on liberalism.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 10, 2007
  
• Amazon's Secret Price Guarantee The online retailer's Zen customer benefit.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 3, 2007
  
• Late-Breaking Deaths in 2006 Good timing for some, bad timing for others.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 3, 2007