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In arguing for his Iraq policy, President Bush posits a false choice between his strategy and even greater catastrophe. Too often Democrats seem to accept that choice, implicitly suggesting the…

Watching my daughter play basketball on her school team is a thrill I owe to Title IX, which, 35 years ago this month, banned gender discrimination in school athletics.Back when…

We have learned to track the daily twists and turns of presidential approval ratings as if they were the Dow Jones. Congressional approval questions have the same structure and employ…

One of my favorite Washington stories concerns Gordon Liddy, infamous for leading the Watergate burglary. A tough ex-FBI agent charged with plugging leaks by the Nixon White House, Liddy, imitating…

Since at least 1676, when Sir William Petty, previously a professor of anatomy and music, wrote Political Arithmetick, scholars have aspired to a physics of politics. While we have discovered…

To: Mike Henry From: Mark Mellman Re: Does the path to the nomination run through Iowa? Mike, you have succeeded as a great campaign manager by forging new strategies and…

Two-thirds of Americans are talking on them, while every careful pollster is talking about them. The question is simple: Will the rise in cell phone-only households render traditional telephone polls…

Some elements of the Religious Right have begun to expand their agendas to cover a broader range of interests. Having focused exclusively on opposing abortion and gay rights, while ignoring…

When issue groups or corporations ask me to work with them in devising messages to help sell their perspective on public policy, I usually assume the goal is to find…

I’m asking for trouble by reviving that much-maligned concept – nuance – in an attempt to rescue truth from politics.   Modern-day Torquemadas are busy torturing Democratic presidential candidates into…