Year in Review: Top Global Stories of 2009
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 22nd, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Year in Review: Top Global Stories of 2009
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The Rise of Republican Nihilism
Jonathan Chait, The New Republic
Does the Republican Party have any ideas? The query may have a familiar ring. Five years ago, the question of substance was demanded incessantly of the Democrats. Indeed, in one of those intellectual fads that periodically sweep through Washington, the political class became obsessed with the notion that conservatives had unambiguously won what everybody was calling “the war of ideas.” The notion was everywhere. The right gloated. (“Conservative thought,” boasted right-wing foundation maven James Piereson, “has seized the initiative…
Obama’s Hyper-Partisan Policies
Jennifer Rubin, Commentary