A weekly political crossword.

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• "Non-Habitat for Humanity" Permanent residents? No. Politics? Indeed.
  Matt Gaffney Dec. 30, 2002
  
• "Destination Unknown" Where do you want to go today?
  Matt Gaffney Dec. 23, 2002
  
• "Elision Elusion" The perils of overenunciating.
  Matt Gaffney Dec. 16, 2002
  
• "Obsolesce and Evanesce" Lose your edge, and you're out of the Dow Jones.
  Matt Gaffney Dec. 9, 2002
  
• "One Hundred Years of Politude" Strom's hitting triple digits, but other political figures beat him to it.
  Matt Gaffney Dec. 2, 2002
  
• "I've Put a Lott Into This" The result of Daschle's displacement as majority leader.
  Matt Gaffney Nov. 25, 2002
  
• "Merge With Care" Newspapers that probably shouldn't buy each other.
  Matt Gaffney Nov. 18, 2002
  
• "Mardi Groan" If you found Tuesday's Senate results painful, solve this.
  Matt Gaffney Nov. 11, 2002
  
• "Notice a Pattern?" Tomorrow, Steve Largent seeks Oklahoma's statehouse.
  Matt Gaffney Nov. 4, 2002
  
• "Ad Nauseam" The short path from representative to huckster.
  Matt Gaffney Oct. 28, 2002
  
• "U.N. Intervention" Facets of Kofi Annan that may be unfamiliar.
  Matt Gaffney Oct. 21, 2002
  
• "The October Revelation" An etymological coincidence 510 years in the making.
  Matt Gaffney Oct. 14, 2002
  
• "Yerevan To Hear Something Funny?" Humor from the bygone Soviet era.
  Matt Gaffney Oct. 7, 2002
  
• "Continental Congress" Where landmasses meet, expect conflict.
  Matt Gaffney Sept. 30, 2002
  
• "The All-Star Game" To look up the answers, look up.
  Matt Gaffney Sept. 23, 2002
  
• "Que., Será?" What would happen if French Canada seceded?
  Matt Gaffney Sept. 16, 2002
  
• "Morning Becomes Electoral" The politics of breakfast.
  Matt Gaffney Sept. 9, 2002
  
• "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" Washington's working class.
  Matt Gaffney Sept. 3, 2002
  
• "Fifty Down" Today's the day for the New York Times crossword puzzle editor.
  Matt Gaffney Aug. 26, 2002
  
• "Affront-Page News" ID-ing the dissed.
  Matt Gaffney Aug. 19, 2002
  
• "That's Just My Opinion" The lonely struggle of the sole dissenter.
  Matt Gaffney Aug. 12, 2002
  
• "Social Promotion" Upward mobility for the nobility.
  Matt Gaffney Aug. 5, 2002
  
• "You Must Carry on the Family Name" In more ways than one.
  Matt Gaffney July 29, 2002
  
• "I'm Honored" From the recipients, name the award.
  Matt Gaffney July 22, 2002
  
• "Eurotrashed" Six months later, remembering the new currency's victims.
  Matt Gaffney July 15, 2002
  
• "The Triliteral Commission" Fear not the Illuminati but the Alliterati.
  Matt Gaffney July 8, 2002
  
• "Central America" Five for the Fourth.
  Matt Gaffney July 1, 2002
  
• "That's My Old Number" I won, and so on.
  Matt Gaffney June 24, 2002
  
• "World Cup vs. World History" Soccer as sublimated warfare.
  Matt Gaffney June 17, 2002
  
• "High Marks" What's linking these political phrases?
  Matt Gaffney June 10, 2002
  
• "I Now Pronounce You" Politicians whose names you're saying wrong.
  Matt Gaffney June 3, 2002
  
• "Ballot by Bullet" Pim Fortuyn's predecessors.
  Matt Gaffney May 27, 2002
  
• "You've Got To Represent" A parliament of foolish.
  Matt Gaffney May 20, 2002
  
• "Sleeping With the Enemy" Amity and conflict in the Matalin-Carville household.
  Matt Gaffney May 13, 2002
  
• "Sound Politics" When the two meet.
  Matt Gaffney May 6, 2002
  
• "L'etat, C'est Qui?" Two Parisians discuss the upcoming election.
  Matt Gaffney April 29, 2002
  
• "Wipe the Slate Clean" Salon gets loans, we get this.
  Matt Gaffney April 22, 2002
  
• "You're Gonna Pay for This!" The midnight hour approaches.
  Matt Gaffney April 15, 2002
  
• "It's a Small World" Mini-nation minutiae.
  Matt Gaffney April 8, 2002
  
• "Grade Inflation" Dedicated to the faculty of Harvard University.
  Matt Gaffney April 1, 2002
  
• "A Word From Our Sponsors" Senate bills we'd like to see.
  Matt Gaffney March 25, 2002
  
• "1726" A cutesy little puzzle.
  Matt Gaffney March 18, 2002
  
• "Sounds Irish ..." But it isn't.
  Matt Gaffney March 11, 2002
  
• "The First Shall Be Last" And vice versa.
  Matt Gaffney March 4, 2002
  
• "Name That Fat Cat" From their Forbes 400 listings.
  Matt Gaffney Feb. 25, 2002
  
• Twin Stars With parallel political lives.
  Matt Gaffney Feb. 18, 2002
  
• Opposition Party Dedicated to Antony, M.
  Matt Gaffney Feb. 11, 2002
  
• Visualize World Peace And you'll solve the puzzle.
  Matt Gaffney Feb. 4, 2002
  
• "He's Back!" A Canadian duo takes center stage.
  Matt Gaffney Jan. 28, 2002
  
• "The Great Vowel Shift" And its political implications.
  Matt Gaffney Jan. 21, 2002
  
• "Famous Last Words" Final thoughts from history.
  Matt Gaffney Jan. 14, 2002
  
• "Found in Translation" Explaining some world leaders.
  Matt Gaffney Jan. 7, 2002
  
• 2002 Eve We refer to sagas of other such times.
  Matt Gaffney Jan. 2, 2002