Politics and policy.

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• Killing Eve How senators justify cloning—and infanticide.
  William Saletan Dec. 31, 2002
  
• Rosty the White Man Did Bill Frist use Marion Barry as a racial ploy?
  William Saletan Dec. 26, 2002
  
• Supple Frist The wily new Senate majority leader.
  William Saletan Dec. 20, 2002
  
• Nothing but Contrition Trent Lott's failure to explain himself.
  William Saletan Dec. 17, 2002
  
• The Lot of Them Trent Lott's hypocritical accusers.
  William Saletan Dec. 14, 2002
  
• Stabenow Takes a Stab A cure for the Democrats?
  William Saletan Dec. 10, 2002
  
• That's Showbiz Why Paul O'Neill had to go.
  William Saletan Dec. 6, 2002
  
• Global Reach The latest euphemism for American self-interest.
  William Saletan Dec. 3, 2002
  
• 700 Klutz Pat Robertson sabotages Bush's courtship of Muslims.
  William Saletan Dec. 2, 2002
  
• Bagh of Tricks, Part 2 How Saddam plans to weasel out.
  William Saletan Nov. 25, 2002
  
• Saddam's Paradox Why reserving war as a last resort is self-defeating.
  William Saletan Nov. 21, 2002
  
• Bagh of Tricks Saddam's ploys and how to beat them.
  William Saletan Nov. 19, 2002
  
• Prince Edwards The new candidate of Clintonomics.
  William Saletan Nov. 12, 2002
  
• Wellstone's Ghost How Minnesota voters got snowed.
  William Saletan Nov. 5, 2002
  
• Big Man on Campaign Why Mondale is coasting.
  William Saletan Nov. 1, 2002
  
• Frisky Fritz Walter Mondale tries to look hip.
  William Saletan Oct. 31, 2002
  
• No Contest Paul Wellstone's memorial service turns into a pep rally.
  William Saletan Oct. 30, 2002
  
• Don't Cry for Me, Arkansas The Guilty Indulgence State.
  William Saletan Oct. 25, 2002
  
• Bible Beltway On the campaign trail with Arkansas' new Romeo.
  William Saletan Oct. 23, 2002
  
• Well Fed On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, everyone wants a cookie.
  William Saletan Oct. 18, 2002
  
• Lawrence of Nashua New Hampshire's all-Arab-American Senate race.
  William Saletan Oct. 16, 2002
  
• The Sununu Machine The GOP's mechanical candidate.
  William Saletan Oct. 15, 2002
  
• Make Love, Not War Sex, consent, and the War Powers Act.
  William Saletan Oct. 11, 2002
  
• Give Him the Gun Whom do you trust? Bush or the United Nations?
  William Saletan Oct. 9, 2002
  
• A Tale of Two Enemies The real connection between al-Qaida and Iraq.
  William Saletan Oct. 8, 2002
  
• Slouching Toward Saddam The Senate debates the importance of debating Iraq.
  William Saletan Oct. 7, 2002
  
• Say You Want a Resolution The Senate's fake Iraq debate.
  William Saletan Oct. 4, 2002
  
• Gore's Game Plan The economic case against Bush.
  William Saletan Oct. 2, 2002
  
• The Torricelli Principle If you don't want an election to be about you, get out.
  William Saletan Sept. 30, 2002
  
• Grudge Match A Maryland swing voter weighs two evils.
  William Saletan Sept. 27, 2002
  
• Two Concepts of Anti-Terrorism The party of fear vs. the party of goodwill.
  William Saletan Sept. 24, 2002
  
• Shoot First Bush's whitewashed national security manifesto.
  William Saletan Sept. 20, 2002
  
• Return to Surrenderer Saddam Hussein's fraudulent concessions.
  William Saletan Sept. 17, 2002
  
• Appease This Bush's useful war lust.
  William Saletan Sept. 12, 2002
  
• Unbroken Bush refuses to stoop to Bin Laden.
  William Saletan Sept. 12, 2002
  
• Turning Bush Bush's evolving ideas about war, weakness, and women.
  William Saletan Sept. 11, 2002
  
• Blind Date Don't fetishize Sept. 11.
  William Saletan Sept. 9, 2002
  
• Slamming Dorr How a Bush appointee manipulated farm subsidies.
  William Saletan Aug. 30, 2002
  
• Cheney vs. Scowcroft How to duck the arguments against attacking Iraq.
  William Saletan Aug. 27, 2002
  
• Should We Invade Syria? Tom DeLay's case for war with Iraq—and nine other countries.
  William Saletan Aug. 23, 2002
  
• Stroke the Rich Bush's bailout for well-off investors.
  William Saletan Aug. 20, 2002
  
• Everybody Loves Me, Baby Bush's self-refuting argument for war with Iraq.
  William Saletan Aug. 16, 2002
  
• Fake Forum Bush's economic forum belies its pretense.
  William Saletan Aug. 13, 2002
  
• Save the Bigots How to decry persecution by practicing it.
  William Saletan Aug. 9, 2002
  
• Michigan Mash-Up Tuesday's congressional election was decided years ago.
  William Saletan Aug. 7, 2002
  
• What Gore Doesn't Get Al Gore's bogus defense of his populist message.
  William Saletan Aug. 5, 2002
  
• Tom Daschle, Mosquito How to suck the president's blood.
  William Saletan Aug. 1, 2002
  
• Democratic Derby How Bush's challengers are positioning themselves for 2004.
  William Saletan July 30, 2002
  
• Trial Balloon Edwards blames big business; Bush blames lawyers.
  William Saletan July 26, 2002
  
• Brokers in Stocks Liberals call for blood in the new war on crime.
  William Saletan July 19, 2002
  
• Bush's Mutant Cloning Report The political manipulation of Bush's bioethics council.
  William Saletan July 16, 2002
  
• Compassionate Corporatism McCain vs. Bush on corporate corruption.
  William Saletan July 11, 2002
  
• Harken Hypocrisy Bush's corporate ethics: Do as I say, not as I do.
  William Saletan July 9, 2002
  
• White-Collar Willie Hortons How corporate scandal threatens the GOP.
  William Saletan July 8, 2002
  
• Death of a Thousand Cuts Killing the death penalty softly.
  William Saletan July 2, 2002
  
• Green Light, Red Flag Opening the floodgates for school vouchers won't help Republicans.
  William Saletan June 28, 2002
  
• Electile Dysfunction Why democracy won't cure Palestine.
  William Saletan June 26, 2002
  
• Tell a Vision When is a state not a state? When it's Palestinian.
  William Saletan June 24, 2002
  
• Land for War Israel to terrorists: Take our peace, lose your land.
  William Saletan June 19, 2002
  
• Loose Lips The government blows the "dirty bomber" bust by bragging about it.
  William Saletan June 12, 2002
  
• The Bomb in Your Head The "dirty bomb" is just the detonator. You're the fallout.
  William Saletan June 10, 2002
  
• Reorganizing Government Does Bush's Department of Homeland Security make sense?
  William Saletan June 7, 2002
  
• C.Y.A. Op Intelligence failures and 9/11: If you've got a problem, blame someone else.
  William Saletan June 5, 2002
  
• The Triangle Offense How Bush is winning the war over going to war with Iraq.
  William Saletan May 29, 2002
  
• Watch Your Language, Young Man Is the 9/11 whistle-blower a "young lady"?
  William Saletan May 28, 2002
  
• Why Democrats Aren't Toast The folly of predicting which party will win the 9/11 debate.
  William Saletan May 22, 2002
  
• Bum Rap Bush should have anticipated Sept. 11? Easy for you to say.
  William Saletan May 20, 2002
  
• Run, Al, Run Why another Gore campaign would be good for the Democrats.
  Joe Klein March 27, 2002
  
• Iraq Now? 
  Jacob Weisberg Feb. 7, 2002
  
• State of the Union: Instant Analysis 
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 29, 2002
  
• Yes Over His Dead Body 
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 24, 2002
  
• Enron as Whitewater 
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 15, 2002
  
• Rascally Marc Racicot 
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 9, 2002
  
• Simple Gifts How Bush's shallowness makes him a good war president.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 4, 2002