Articles filed under Commentary
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Obama outpoints Romney in third debateOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - BOCA RATON, Fla. — The “horses and bayonets” moment is probably the headline. But the larger story of the third and final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign p...
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Relentlessly reassuring RomneyOct 23, 2012 5:42 pm - “The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull,” said Dean Acheson. During the final presidential debate, Mitt Romney was every bit the statesman. On foreign p...
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World Series of politicsOct 23, 2012 5:00 am - Who are these undecided voters? The one thing that seems clear is that there aren’t many of them. The harder question is how anyone who really does plan to vote could st...
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Skating on electoral thin iceOct 22, 2012 7:40 pm - I’ve voted all my life in either Washington, D.C., or New York state. Most of that time, my vote didn’t matter one bit and this year is no exception. New York, where I n...
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Why the chill on climate change?Oct 22, 2012 5:00 am - Not a word has been said in the presidential debates about what may be the most urgent and consequential issue in the world: climate change. President Obama understands...
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Seeds of our dysfunctionOct 22, 2012 5:00 am - Seeds of our dysfunction Elections supposedly prevent convulsions, serving as safety valves that vent social pressures and enable course corrections. November’s electio...
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Exhausting the insignificantOct 22, 2012 5:00 am - Oh, to be 12 again, the better to enjoy the presidential debates. Or rather, the better to appreciate the Twitterverse, where America’s obsessive-compulsive, attention-...
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The great gaffeOct 21, 2012 5:00 am - Fight night at Hofstra. The two boxers, confined within a ring of spectators — circling, feinting, taunting, staring each other down — come several times, by my reckonin...
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The weird political war between the generationsOct 21, 2012 5:00 am - A weird war between the generations is growing, and the Republican candidates are the mongers. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both accuse President Obama of taking money out ...
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Whole binders full of women?Oct 19, 2012 5:00 am - Everybody is writing about how a different Barack Obama came out Tuesday night from the one we saw in the first debate. True enough. On Tuesday, the president took the s...