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Israel's Fraying Image

There are growing signs of a divergence in American-Israeli relations and interests. 

The Myth of a Moderate Obama

The president is no pragmatic centrist. In fact, he has the most expansive and leftist vision in the history of the presidency.

The Elusive Obama Doctrine

The president gets solid marks for his handling of a host of tactical challenges. But his Afghan policy proved disjointed, he lacks a clear strategic framework and he has failed to put U.S. economic power at the core of his foreign policy.

Conservative Nation

Declarations of conservatism's demise after the 2008 election were greatly exaggerated. As the opposition, American conservatives are in their element—can they draw upon their intellectual tradition to solve what ails America?

How to Succeed in Politics

The Tea Party movement is blazing its agenda across America. But this is a movement without a cause. If the Whigs, Populists and Feminists can be co-opted by the Democrats and Republicans, this newest third party will suffer the same fate.

Republican Reckoning

Mismanaged for eight years by the Bush administration, the Republican Party is in peril. Neoconservative table scraps are neither appropriate nor wise. But the GOP has another foreign-policy tradition to which it can turn. Presidents from Eisenhow

Commentary

Conrad Black's Essential Americans

A new history makes great men the force behind the US rise.

The GOP Can Survive Its Iraq Wounds

As soon as the Democrats screw up, voters will give the Republicans a chance.

Why Stay in the Middle East?

The United States ought consider a smaller role as a balancer of last resort. 

Blogs

Why Doesn't Mitt Romney Love Dick Cheney?

The question is whether Romney can return the GOP to its more moderate, realist origins. Or whether he even wants to.

The Rise of Ron Paul: the Latest Republican Debate

Among sniping, sparring and floundering, one candidate emerged as a prophet. Is a Pauline conversion of the GOP in the works?

Liberate Us from the Parties

How to cure America's entrenched addiction to partisanship.

Books & Reviews

Reassessing the Coolidge Legacy

Despite poor reviews from most historians, Silent Cal presided over a robust economy, surpluses, serious reductions in the national debt and generally very good times.

The Hagiography of Mr. Holbrooke

Richard “The Bulldozer” Holbrooke left a deep mark on U.S. foreign policy. Yet this collection of essays by his friends and admirers, which gushes with praise, leaves out significant elements of the story.

Death by Irrelevance

Rockefeller, Lindsay, Scranton—just three of the “moderates” who failed to keep the GOP from the clutches of Goldwater and Nixon. Geoffrey Kabaservice laments their defeat with a wistfulness that obscures from him their true frustration.

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May 24, 2013