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What Biden and Palin Have in Common

One quick, random thought about the Sarah Palin veep selection: Half the candidates on the national tickets this year now come from states accounting for a combined 0.5 percent of the national population, which must be (at least according to my quick ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  29 Aug 2008

"We Play Soccer Like the Brazilians Play Ping-Pong"

It may be an Asian century that lies ahead of us, but we're not quite there yet. Western declinists and China alarmists, take note: Its soccer team is still abysmal. How can an increasingly prosperous nation of 1.3 billion be so bad at its favorite ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  15 Aug 2008

Obama on Taxes

Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee fill in some of the details of Barack Obama's tax plan in their op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal. There's lots of stuff in there that's of interest: They point out that John McCain, unlike Obama, offers no tax ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  14 Aug 2008

Obama: Not Owned by Teachers Unions

National Review's David Freddoso has a column this week arguing that Barack Obama marches in lockstep with teachers' unions. I came to a different conclusion in an article back in March, and it struck me as an especially odd claim to make given that ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  13 Aug 2008

There's No Populism in Baseball

I'm not the world's biggest Sherrod Brown fan, but his op-ed in today's Washington Post (refreshingly, if somewhat gratuitously, suffused with anti-Yankees fervor) is dead on: It's a disgrace to baseball that mediocre ex-commissioner Bowie Kuhn was ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  13 Aug 2008

What Did We Tell Georgia?

As the conflict in Georgia may or may not be winding down, McClatchy's Jonathan Landay reports that, contrary to earlier accounts, Bush administration officials are insisting that they counseled Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to avoid ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  12 Aug 2008

What Penn Got Right and Wrong

To my mind, the most interesting tidbit in Joshua Green's big Atlantic story on the Hillary campaign isn't Mark Penn's incendiary "Obama-as-other" strategy (is anyone really surprised?). It's his analysis, from March 2007, about how the race would play ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  12 Aug 2008

Freeing Hamdan

The matter emerged as both vindication and defeat for the administration: vindication, in the sense that the commission in this case proved not to be the kangaroo court many critics once feared and predicted; defeat, in that even military jurors and a ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  11 Aug 2008

"I Know Hawaii Is a State"

[G]oing off this week to a vacation in Hawaii ... does not make any sense whatsoever. I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place. He should be in ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  11 Aug 2008

Weekend Georgia Update

The Georgians have apparently cried uncle, withdrawing their troops from South Ossetia and calling for a cease-fire. Those looking to place the conflict in historical context would do well to consult James Traub's lengthy New York Times Week in Review ...

From JOSH PATASHNIK, The New Republic,  10 Aug 2008

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