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Rick Perry: Man vs himself. November 14th, 2011.
Water woes: Quiet conservationists. November 8th, 2011.
Evangelicals: Their brothers's keepers. November 3rd, 2011.
The next steps on climate change: Getting angry and going right. October 27th, 2011.
Professions of faith: Mormons are Christians. October 26th, 2011.
Unintended consequences: Birthers borking themselves. October 24th, 2011.
Race, Rick Perry, and the South: The hunting camp in question. October 4th, 2011.
Rick Perry's problems: The need for new narratives. September 27th, 2011.
The art of compromise: Taking it to the people. September 20th, 2011.
Social Security and climate change: Shortfalls and sceptics. September 19th, 2011.
The HPV vaccine: Jabs all around. September 13th, 2011.
Job creation: First, keep the jobs you have. September 12th, 2011.
Remembering 9/11: The response from the young. September 11th, 2011.
Social Security: Rick Perry's "monstrous lie." September 8th, 2011.
Natural disasters: Texas on fire. September 7th, 2011.
Sorry, air: The hole in the ozone standards. September 2nd, 2011.
Criminal justice: Reforming from the right. September 2nd, 2011.
The also-running: Can Mitt Romney win? August 31st, 2011.
Politicians: Is [insert name here] dumb? August 29th, 2011.
Comparing the states: The meaningful differences. August 24th, 2011.
Ron Paul: The potential upside of losing. August 23rd, 2011.
The Republican nomination: Searching for somebody different. August 22nd, 2011.
The Republican race: Who's afraid of Rick Perry? August 19th, 2011.
Campaign trouble: Barrels of gaffes. August 17th, 2011.
Job creation: Interrogating the "Texas miracle." August 16th, 2011.
Rick Perry: It's official. August 13th, 2011.
The Ames straw poll: The upside of skipping Iowa. August 12th, 2011.
Rick Perry: That's one way to win Saturday. August 8th, 2011.
Republicans: A quick response on isolationism. August 8th, 2011.
Hispanic households: Looking at the wealth gap. August 5th, 2011.
The blame game: What would Hillary have done? August 3rd, 2011.
Defence cuts: The return of isolationism. August 2nd, 2011.
Rick Perry: Crafty pols. August 1st, 2011.
The debt-ceiling deal: Mutually assured destruction. August 1st, 2011.
Terrorists: The plot that wasn't. July 29th, 2011.
Political reform: The problems of the permanent campaign. July 25th, 2011.
Rick Perry: Called to run. July 18th, 2011.
The death penalty: Worse than Texas. July 14th, 2011.
Michele Bachmann: Her Palin Problem. July 14th, 2011.
The space shuttle: Final countdown. July 8th, 2011.
The death penalty: A follow-up on barbarism. July 7th, 2011.
The death penalty: The political calculus on capital punishment. July 6th, 2011.*
Sex-selective abortion: Looking out for baby girls. June 28th, 2011.
Libertarians: Attack of the philosophers. June 27th, 2011.
The 2012 Republican primary: Rickrolling. June 24th, 2011.
Jose Antonio Vargas: How much do liars lie? June 23rd, 2011.
Tim Pawlenty at RightOnline: Unleashing the id, T-Paw edition. June 20th, 2011.
Netroots Nation: Unleash the id. June 19th, 2011.
Human capital: The military model. June 16th, 2011.
Mormons: They're here, they're square, get used to it! June 15th, 2011.*
Public morality: A corollary to the daughter test. June 14th, 2011.
Scandals: The cover-up can be worse than the crime. June 7th, 2011.*
Good strategy: Mitt Romney's midnight ride. June 6th, 2011.
The Republican nomination: Who's afraid of Sarah Palin? June 2nd, 2011.
The Republican nomination: Considering Rick Perry. May 31st, 2011.
Immigration: the French paradox, and the British backlash. May 24th, 2011.
Immigration: Australia and the principal-agent problem. May 23, 2011.
Birtherism: Natural born citizens. May 23rd, 2011.
Immigration: The United States vs Canada. May 20th, 2011.
The Republican nomination race: A hole shaped like Rick Perry? May 19th, 2011.
Border security: Reasonable fears. May 12th, 2011.
Sarah Palin: The exile. May 11th, 2011.
Immigration reform: Moving away from the border. May 10th, 2011.
Futurology: Onward, specks. May 9th, 2011.
Political influence: Just a little bit of liking. May 6th, 2011.
Another fake quotation: Arguments from authority. May 4th, 2011.
2012: Changing the game. May 4th, 2011.
Osama bin Laden: What this means for 2012. May 4th, 2011.*
Republicans: Opening the field. April 27th, 2011.
Crime and punishment: A revival of flogging? April 25th, 2011.
Politicians: What's their function? April 20th, 2011.
Deepwater Horizon: One year later. April 20th, 2011.
2012: The return of immigration reform. April 19th, 2011.
Donald Trump and abortion: Changing your stripes. April 11th, 2011.
Constructing America: In defence of the Constitution. April 7th, 2011.
Historical Inaccuracies: Overinterpreting. April 6th, 2011.
Medicare reform: Does it have to be a voucher? April 5th, 2011.
Tim Pawlenty: Some guy against cap and trade. March 31, 2011.
Into Libya: Bringing about the future. March 29th, 2011.
Haley Barbour and the Republican race: An admission on slavery. March 28th, 2011.
Punxsutawney Pawlenty: Some guy for president. March 23, 2011.
Climate change: Americans and global warming, continued. February 16th, 2011.*
Family and state: The underlying moral logic. February 15th, 2011.
Obama's budget: Keeping the olds. February 15th, 2011.
Climate change: Why don't Americans believe in global warming? February 8th, 2011.*
The Republican race: Jeb in 2012? February 7th, 2011.
The Manchurian candidate: Huntsman in 2016? February 1st, 2011.
Ron Paul: Ron Paul in 2012? January 31, 2011.
The Challenger explosion: Ordinary people. January 28th, 2011.
The best lists: We're number one! January 28th, 2011.
State of the union live-blog (with everyone else). January 25th, 2011.
The Worst Lists: State of the states. January 25th, 2011.
True Grit v The Social Network: The starry heavens above me. January 24th, 2011.
Aging America: Surviving and thriving. January 23rd, 2011.
Hutchison's out: How Democrats can win in Texas. January 19th, 2011.
The Arizona shootings: The dust settling. January 12th, 2011.
Gabrielle Giffords: Bleeding Arizona. January 10th, 2011.
The Texas budget: Minding the gap. January 7th, 2011.
Getting tough: "A nation of fearless, bumbling morons." January 7th, 2011.
Abortion and birth control: Dialing down the rhetoric. January 5th, 2011.
Driving laws: Harm reduction. January 4th, 2011.
Conservatives and liberals: The empty middle. December 30, 2010.
Haley Barbour: The heat on Haley. December 28, 2010.
Commodities questions: Good as gold? December 27, 2010.
Cheerleading: The glossy skeins of rapturous speech. December 15, 2010.
Bar Culture, Texas-Style. November 30, 2010.
Chris Christie: The conservatives' new crush. November 22, 2010.
The 2010 elections: The fallout in the states. November 4, 2010.
The mid-terms: The end (for now) of Palinism. November 3, 2010.
Mid-term countdown: Who is the tea party? November 2, 2010.
Mid-term madness: In defence of the 2010 elections. November 2, 2010.
The youth vote: Out with the olds. October 25, 2010.
Latinos: Theirs to lose. October 11, 2010.
Independents: The fractious middle. October 5, 2010.
No aloha: Recognising racial politics. September 28, 2010.
Human smuggling: calling on the coyotes. September 14, 2010.
Goodbye Mayor Daley: Change for Chicago. September 8, 2010.
The youth vote: The young heart is fickle. September 3, 2010.
Sarah Palin: Feminism is for everyone. August 31, 2010.
Unemployment: An odd response to the job report. July 2, 2010.
Immigration reform: Kicking the can. July 1, 2010.
Republicans: Social conservatism circa 2010. June 29, 2010.
Mike Huckabee: the still-here kid. June 25th, 2010.
Tea-partying: Trickle-down ideas. June 23, 2010.
Crime on the border: How dangerous is Arizona? June 21st, 2010.
Tea-party feminists: The mama-bear movement. May 18, 2010.
Coin control: In for a dime, in for a dollar. May 17, 2010.
Tea-partying: Everyone's got a hobby. May 10, 2010.
You, me, and BP: Save the whales, save the workers. May 4, 2010.
Kay Bailey Hutchison: Staying in the Senate. May 4, 2010.
Trade-offs: Border security v immigration reform. April 30, 2010.
Polls: Para gobernador. April 29, 2010.
Circle of Life: "I...sent it to where the coyotes go." April 28, 2010.
Snacks for thought: Hot dogs, tamales, arugula, moose stew. April 27, 2010.
The Supreme Court: All the single ladies. April 27, 2010.
Sarah Palin: Quote of the day. April 15, 2010.
Ron Paul's polling: Mass mischief. April 14, 2010.
Corporate ads: KDR development wants a say. April 14, 2010.
The Southern Republican Leadership Conference: Reading the tea leaves. April 12, 2010.
Deficit reduction: The subjectivity of opinion polls. April 9, 2010.
Bill and Hillary: Gentle gossip from a bygone era. April 8, 2010.
Today's news: News roundup. April 1, 2010.
Student loans: The runaway costs of college. March 31, 2010.
The strange path to health-care reform: The vicissitudes of fate. March 23, 2010.
John Wayne and Clint Eastwood: The Duke and Dirty Harry. March 10, 2010.
Sacred and accessible values: The sacred and the mundane. March 12, 2010.
On taboo trade-offs in politics: Don't think of a sacred cow. March 9, 2010.
The governor's race in Texas: People they admire him. March 2, 2010.
Harold Ford: A serving of sour grapes. March 2, 2010.
America's foreign-aid budget: Whatever works. March 1, 2010.
Rick Perry for president: Why not Perry? February 9, 2010.
The Perry-Palin ticket. February 10, 2010.
Sarah Palin: Sarah in Texas. February 8, 2010.
Sex education: Another round on abstinence. February 2, 2010.
Holden's state of the union. January 29, 2010.
Teenage pregnancy: Growing pains, cont'd. January 26, 2010.
Bob McDonnell: McDonnell's moment. January 26, 2010.
Money and politics. January 25, 2010.
Are the Muppets conservatives? January 22, 2010.
Speaking of fair. January 20, 2010.
All politics is not Coakley. January 19, 2010.
A delightful way to waste time. January 19, 2010.
A death penalty problem. January 26th, 2009.
Does innocence matter? October 26th, 2009.
Rick Perry: Man vs himself. November 14th, 2011.
Water woes: Quiet conservationists. November 8th, 2011.
Evangelicals: Their brothers's keepers. November 3rd, 2011.
The next steps on climate change: Getting angry and going right. October 27th, 2011.
Professions of faith: Mormons are Christians. October 26th, 2011.
Unintended consequences: Birthers borking themselves. October 24th, 2011.
Race, Rick Perry, and the South: The hunting camp in question. October 4th, 2011.
Rick Perry's problems: The need for new narratives. September 27th, 2011.
The art of compromise: Taking it to the people. September 20th, 2011.
Social Security and climate change: Shortfalls and sceptics. September 19th, 2011.
The HPV vaccine: Jabs all around. September 13th, 2011.
Job creation: First, keep the jobs you have. September 12th, 2011.
Remembering 9/11: The response from the young. September 11th, 2011.
Social Security: Rick Perry's "monstrous lie." September 8th, 2011.
Natural disasters: Texas on fire. September 7th, 2011.
Sorry, air: The hole in the ozone standards. September 2nd, 2011.
Criminal justice: Reforming from the right. September 2nd, 2011.
The also-running: Can Mitt Romney win? August 31st, 2011.
Politicians: Is [insert name here] dumb? August 29th, 2011.
Comparing the states: The meaningful differences. August 24th, 2011.
Ron Paul: The potential upside of losing. August 23rd, 2011.
The Republican nomination: Searching for somebody different. August 22nd, 2011.
The Republican race: Who's afraid of Rick Perry? August 19th, 2011.
Campaign trouble: Barrels of gaffes. August 17th, 2011.
Job creation: Interrogating the "Texas miracle." August 16th, 2011.
Rick Perry: It's official. August 13th, 2011.
The Ames straw poll: The upside of skipping Iowa. August 12th, 2011.
Rick Perry: That's one way to win Saturday. August 8th, 2011.
Republicans: A quick response on isolationism. August 8th, 2011.
Hispanic households: Looking at the wealth gap. August 5th, 2011.
The blame game: What would Hillary have done? August 3rd, 2011.
Defence cuts: The return of isolationism. August 2nd, 2011.
Rick Perry: Crafty pols. August 1st, 2011.
The debt-ceiling deal: Mutually assured destruction. August 1st, 2011.
Terrorists: The plot that wasn't. July 29th, 2011.
Political reform: The problems of the permanent campaign. July 25th, 2011.
Rick Perry: Called to run. July 18th, 2011.
The death penalty: Worse than Texas. July 14th, 2011.
Michele Bachmann: Her Palin Problem. July 14th, 2011.
The space shuttle: Final countdown. July 8th, 2011.
The death penalty: A follow-up on barbarism. July 7th, 2011.
The death penalty: The political calculus on capital punishment. July 6th, 2011.*
Sex-selective abortion: Looking out for baby girls. June 28th, 2011.
Libertarians: Attack of the philosophers. June 27th, 2011.
The 2012 Republican primary: Rickrolling. June 24th, 2011.
Jose Antonio Vargas: How much do liars lie? June 23rd, 2011.
Tim Pawlenty at RightOnline: Unleashing the id, T-Paw edition. June 20th, 2011.
Netroots Nation: Unleash the id. June 19th, 2011.
Human capital: The military model. June 16th, 2011.
Mormons: They're here, they're square, get used to it! June 15th, 2011.*
Public morality: A corollary to the daughter test. June 14th, 2011.
Scandals: The cover-up can be worse than the crime. June 7th, 2011.*
Good strategy: Mitt Romney's midnight ride. June 6th, 2011.
The Republican nomination: Who's afraid of Sarah Palin? June 2nd, 2011.
The Republican nomination: Considering Rick Perry. May 31st, 2011.
Immigration: the French paradox, and the British backlash. May 24th, 2011.
Immigration: Australia and the principal-agent problem. May 23, 2011.
Birtherism: Natural born citizens. May 23rd, 2011.
Immigration: The United States vs Canada. May 20th, 2011.
The Republican nomination race: A hole shaped like Rick Perry? May 19th, 2011.
Border security: Reasonable fears. May 12th, 2011.
Sarah Palin: The exile. May 11th, 2011.
Immigration reform: Moving away from the border. May 10th, 2011.
Futurology: Onward, specks. May 9th, 2011.
Political influence: Just a little bit of liking. May 6th, 2011.
Another fake quotation: Arguments from authority. May 4th, 2011.
2012: Changing the game. May 4th, 2011.
Osama bin Laden: What this means for 2012. May 4th, 2011.*
Republicans: Opening the field. April 27th, 2011.
Crime and punishment: A revival of flogging? April 25th, 2011.
Politicians: What's their function? April 20th, 2011.
Deepwater Horizon: One year later. April 20th, 2011.
2012: The return of immigration reform. April 19th, 2011.
Donald Trump and abortion: Changing your stripes. April 11th, 2011.
Constructing America: In defence of the Constitution. April 7th, 2011.
Historical Inaccuracies: Overinterpreting. April 6th, 2011.
Medicare reform: Does it have to be a voucher? April 5th, 2011.
Tim Pawlenty: Some guy against cap and trade. March 31, 2011.
Into Libya: Bringing about the future. March 29th, 2011.
Haley Barbour and the Republican race: An admission on slavery. March 28th, 2011.
Punxsutawney Pawlenty: Some guy for president. March 23, 2011.
Climate change: Americans and global warming, continued. February 16th, 2011.*
Family and state: The underlying moral logic. February 15th, 2011.
Obama's budget: Keeping the olds. February 15th, 2011.
Climate change: Why don't Americans believe in global warming? February 8th, 2011.*
The Republican race: Jeb in 2012? February 7th, 2011.
The Manchurian candidate: Huntsman in 2016? February 1st, 2011.
Ron Paul: Ron Paul in 2012? January 31, 2011.
The Challenger explosion: Ordinary people. January 28th, 2011.
The best lists: We're number one! January 28th, 2011.
State of the union live-blog (with everyone else). January 25th, 2011.
The Worst Lists: State of the states. January 25th, 2011.
True Grit v The Social Network: The starry heavens above me. January 24th, 2011.
Aging America: Surviving and thriving. January 23rd, 2011.
Hutchison's out: How Democrats can win in Texas. January 19th, 2011.
The Arizona shootings: The dust settling. January 12th, 2011.
Gabrielle Giffords: Bleeding Arizona. January 10th, 2011.
The Texas budget: Minding the gap. January 7th, 2011.
Getting tough: "A nation of fearless, bumbling morons." January 7th, 2011.
Abortion and birth control: Dialing down the rhetoric. January 5th, 2011.
Driving laws: Harm reduction. January 4th, 2011.
Conservatives and liberals: The empty middle. December 30, 2010.
Haley Barbour: The heat on Haley. December 28, 2010.
Commodities questions: Good as gold? December 27, 2010.
Cheerleading: The glossy skeins of rapturous speech. December 15, 2010.
Bar Culture, Texas-Style. November 30, 2010.
Chris Christie: The conservatives' new crush. November 22, 2010.
The 2010 elections: The fallout in the states. November 4, 2010.
The mid-terms: The end (for now) of Palinism. November 3, 2010.
Mid-term countdown: Who is the tea party? November 2, 2010.
Mid-term madness: In defence of the 2010 elections. November 2, 2010.
The youth vote: Out with the olds. October 25, 2010.
Latinos: Theirs to lose. October 11, 2010.
Independents: The fractious middle. October 5, 2010.
No aloha: Recognising racial politics. September 28, 2010.
Human smuggling: calling on the coyotes. September 14, 2010.
Goodbye Mayor Daley: Change for Chicago. September 8, 2010.
The youth vote: The young heart is fickle. September 3, 2010.
Sarah Palin: Feminism is for everyone. August 31, 2010.
Unemployment: An odd response to the job report. July 2, 2010.
Immigration reform: Kicking the can. July 1, 2010.
Republicans: Social conservatism circa 2010. June 29, 2010.
Mike Huckabee: the still-here kid. June 25th, 2010.
Tea-partying: Trickle-down ideas. June 23, 2010.
Crime on the border: How dangerous is Arizona? June 21st, 2010.
Tea-party feminists: The mama-bear movement. May 18, 2010.
Coin control: In for a dime, in for a dollar. May 17, 2010.
Tea-partying: Everyone's got a hobby. May 10, 2010.
You, me, and BP: Save the whales, save the workers. May 4, 2010.
Kay Bailey Hutchison: Staying in the Senate. May 4, 2010.
Trade-offs: Border security v immigration reform. April 30, 2010.
Polls: Para gobernador. April 29, 2010.
Circle of Life: "I...sent it to where the coyotes go." April 28, 2010.
Snacks for thought: Hot dogs, tamales, arugula, moose stew. April 27, 2010.
The Supreme Court: All the single ladies. April 27, 2010.
Sarah Palin: Quote of the day. April 15, 2010.
Ron Paul's polling: Mass mischief. April 14, 2010.
Corporate ads: KDR development wants a say. April 14, 2010.
The Southern Republican Leadership Conference: Reading the tea leaves. April 12, 2010.
Deficit reduction: The subjectivity of opinion polls. April 9, 2010.
Bill and Hillary: Gentle gossip from a bygone era. April 8, 2010.
Today's news: News roundup. April 1, 2010.
Student loans: The runaway costs of college. March 31, 2010.
The strange path to health-care reform: The vicissitudes of fate. March 23, 2010.
John Wayne and Clint Eastwood: The Duke and Dirty Harry. March 10, 2010.
Sacred and accessible values: The sacred and the mundane. March 12, 2010.
On taboo trade-offs in politics: Don't think of a sacred cow. March 9, 2010.
The governor's race in Texas: People they admire him. March 2, 2010.
Harold Ford: A serving of sour grapes. March 2, 2010.
America's foreign-aid budget: Whatever works. March 1, 2010.
Rick Perry for president: Why not Perry? February 9, 2010.
The Perry-Palin ticket. February 10, 2010.
Sarah Palin: Sarah in Texas. February 8, 2010.
Sex education: Another round on abstinence. February 2, 2010.
Holden's state of the union. January 29, 2010.
Teenage pregnancy: Growing pains, cont'd. January 26, 2010.
Bob McDonnell: McDonnell's moment. January 26, 2010.
Money and politics. January 25, 2010.
Are the Muppets conservatives? January 22, 2010.
Speaking of fair. January 20, 2010.
All politics is not Coakley. January 19, 2010.
A delightful way to waste time. January 19, 2010.
A death penalty problem. January 26th, 2009.
Does innocence matter? October 26th, 2009.