BOOKS Nick Baumann Anwar al-Awlaki, American Objective Troy A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone Scott Shane Tim Duggan Books, $28, 416 pp. rones are a tool, not a policy,” the...
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SHORT TAKE Nick Baumann Get Used to Gridlock THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS WON'T CHANGE MUCH Most of us will never admit it, but almost everyone who works in or covers national politics already knows...
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LETTER FROM WASHINGTON Nick Baumann Catastrophic Coverage THE MEDIA OVERREACT TO OBAMACARE'S GLITCHES Barack Obama, it seems, is a big believer in the power of nagging. "I ask every American who...
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BOOKS Nick Baumann Pulling Up the Ladder Twilight of the Elites America After Meritocracy Christopher Hayes Crown, $26, 304 pp. The United States is in the midst of a broad crisis of...
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Books Nick Baumann Old Glory The Short American Century A Postmortem Edited by Andrew Bacevich Harvard University Press, $25.95, 296 pp. This collection of essays constitutes a how-to...
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THE LAST WORD On the House Nick Baumann Journalists have a long and essentially uncomplicated relationship with alcohol. "Between 1899 and 1904 there was only one reporter south of the...
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Nick Baumann Backstage Pass The Promise President Obama, Year One Jonathan Alter Simon & Schuster, $28, 480 pp. The "White House book" is an odd, if familiar, genre. Presidential...
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Short Takes Nick Baumann Rules of the Road IS OBAMA FAVORING AUTOWORKERS OVER BONDHOLDERS? OF COURSE. O n May 29, three days before General Motors filed for bankruptcy, Marc Ambinder of...
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Commonweal . September 12, 2008 2 Waking Up Nick Baumann Daydream Believers How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power Fred Kaplan Wiley, $25.95, 256 pp. Heads in the Sand How...
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.g i eloquent antiwar statement--and the most disturbing piece of music--I have ever heard. Britten inserts into the Mass the biting antiwar poetry of Wilfred Owen, a promising English poet...
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