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Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, currently serving as editor of Slate magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and connector celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point. Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a prominent Chicago lawyer and, later, judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison.

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Does Obama need to speak more harshly about Islam?

When it comes to any issue that involves Islam, President Obama starts with an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that he's seen as sympathetic to Muslims. The disadvantage is also that he's seen as sympathetic to Muslims. With a Muslim ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, Slate,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  George W. Bush

Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal.

"I think this would be a good time for a beer," Franklin D. Roosevelt said upon signing a bill that made 3.2-percent lager legal again, some months ahead of the full repeal of Prohibition. I hope Barack Obama will come up with some comparably witty ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, Slate,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Department of Justice

Obama's right. It's time to stop taking Fox's skewed news seriously.

Last week, when White House communications director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded the way it always does. It denied the accusation with a straight face while proceeding to confirm it with its coverage. ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, Slate,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Fox News Channel,  White House,  John McCain,  David Gergen

Books of The Times: The Kingdom and the Power, All Self-Made

When Michael R. Bloomberg became mayor of New York City on Jan. 1, 2002, there was every reason to expect him to fail. A cosseted tycoon with no political experience, he had essentially purchased the office with a $74 million check. He had no place in ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  Ross Perot,  New York Times Company,  Joel I Klein

Irving Kristol saved the right from intellectual bankruptcy in the '60s. Who will save it now?

In the heyday of Kristol's influence in the 1980s, Republicans styled themselves the party of ideas. Whatever you thought of those ideas—challenging Soviet power, cutting taxes, passing power back to the states, ending affirmative action, cutting off ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, Slate,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Irving Kristol,  Lionel Trilling,  Daniel Patrick Moynihan,  James Q. Wilson

Taylor Branch's The Clinton Tapes.

When Paul Begala came up with the phrase "the comeback kid" to spin Bill Clinton's second-place showing in the New Hampshire primary in 1992, he may have been making a deeper observation than he knew. At any given moment, Clinton seems to be winning ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, Slate,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Taylor Branch,  Paul Begala,  Barack Obama,  Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's time to stop the paternalistic meddling, Bloomberg.

If the past pattern holds, initial gasps of outrage at such bureaucratic interference will sputter into acceptance. When Bloomberg extinguished smoking in restaurants, bars, and workplaces in 2002, the New York Post denounced him as the "Mommy Mayor" ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, Slate,  19 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  Barack Obama,  New York Post,  Christopher Hitchens,  Boris Johnson

It's Republicans, not Democrats, who are trying to kill the elderly.

Republicans charge that Democratic health care reform would, in Sen. Charles Grassley's words, "pull the plug on Grandma." According to Sen. Jon Kyl, the bills before Congress would ration medical treatment by age. Rep. John Boehner says they promote ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, Slate,  29 Aug 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  Jon Kyl,  John Boehner

Kay Bailey Forehead

On September 27 a Texas grand jury indicted the newest member of the Senate, Kay Bailey Hutchison, on five counts of records tampering and misuse of public office. The felony and misdemeanor charges stem from her tenure as state treasurer, when workers ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, The New Republic,  17 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Republican National Committee,  Anne Armstrong,  Kay Bailey Hutchison,  U.S. Senate,  Molly Ivins

Is Obama trying too hard not to be like his predecessors?

Politicians, like generals, suffer from a tendency to fight the last war. Having studied meticulously the mistakes of their predecessors, they take care to avoid repeating them—and make the opposite ones. They fortify Maginot lines. They overcompensate ...

From JACOB WEISBERG, Slate,  1 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  Lyndon B. Johnson

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