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President Obama will receive an Oval Office briefing from new defense secretary Leon Panetta for the first time (Politico) Mitt…

Avik Roy reports that a new Government Accountability Office survey finds that children enrolled in Medicaid “have worse access to…

David Brooks’s Times column today is a condemnation of the Tea Party (although he doesn’t name it as such) for…

Walter Russell Mead has a way of putting big problems into perspective. Here he is on American cities:  After the…

Mitt Romney has made Obama’s failure to improve the economy his campaign theme, and has claimed that Obama’s polices have…

Today there will be little content on the blog as we at the Spectator celebrate Independence Day. We’ll be back…

On Wednesday, Phil Angelides, the Democratic chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, wrote a piece in the Washington Post excoriating…

At the Washington Post, Matt Continetti declares New York governor Andrew Cuomo the frontrunner for the 2016 presidential election, and…

President Obama will take off for Camp David, despite calling out Congress for not working on the debt ceiling earlier…

President Obama’s press conference Wednesday was really a classic of the genre. His depiction of Republicans as full-blown, mustache-twirling villains…