Gossip, speculation, and scuttlebutt about politics.

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• Why Pardoning Nixon Was Wrong Ignore the cost-free magnanimity of Ford's rehabilitators. You had it right the first time.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 29, 2006
  
• Washington's Jones for Gerald Ford The very discreet charms (and substantial drawbacks) of Richard Nixon's successor.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 28, 2006
  
• Time Stole My Mirror Trick! My sister's, actually. But that isn't the point.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 20, 2006
  
• Tom DeLay, Blogger The Hammer finds his métier.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 15, 2006
  
• Jeane Kirkpatrick, Realist The former U.N. ambassador's neoconservatism looks quaint today.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 8, 2006
  
• Calling iTunes, Part 3 Wherein we finally locate a customer-service telephone number.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 6, 2006
  
• Breakdown at the New York Times Unprecedented dumbness strikes the good gray broadsheet.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 4, 2006
  
• Blaming Iraqis What we tell ourselves about an American failure.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 1, 2006
  
• Happy Birthday, Iran-Contra! An anniversary the press ignored.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 29, 2006
  
• Defending If I Did It Sue me, but I'd like to read O.J.'s confession.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 22, 2006
  
• Dump Pelosi? Let's put the new House speaker on probation.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 17, 2006
  
• The GOP Triangulates Is a carbon tax in America's future?
  Timothy Noah Nov. 9, 2006
  
• Time To Socialize Medicine How Democrats can make themselves useful.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 8, 2006
  
• The Invisible Candidate Quick: Who's D.C.'s Republican nominee for mayor?
  Timothy Noah Nov. 7, 2006
  
• Bono, Tax Avoider The hypocrisy of U2.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 31, 2006
  
• Rush Limbaugh Fakes Stupidity You may think he's dumb as a chair, but it's all an act.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 25, 2006
  
• Peace Prize Campaign '06! Norway helps those who help themselves.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 11, 2006
  
• Bush's Fart-Joke Legacy It didn't start with Dubya.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 2, 2006
  
• Armitage Was Never "Off the Record" Plamegate's greatest irony.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 19, 2006
  
• Wayne Schmuck, Used-Car Distributor How he earned his name.
  Timothy Noah May 17, 2006
  
• Aptronym Watch: Climatology Edition You don't need to be named Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
  Timothy Noah May 12, 2006
  
• Aptronym Watch: Sue Yoo Too! Meet a born lawyer.
  Timothy Noah May 2, 2006
  
• Aptronym Watch: Ballet Edition Better a ballet dancer than a shut-in.
  Timothy Noah May 1, 2006
  
• Aptronym Watch: Tony Snow The new White House press secretary's surname is also his job.
  Timothy Noah April 26, 2006
  
• Documents Wanted! Announcing a new Slate feature.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 16, 2006
  
• Malek's List, Part 7 The Post finally lets the Jew-counter have it.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 6, 2006
  
• The Peace Epidemic, Defended Is this a "trough" or an "epoch"? Who cares?
  Timothy Noah Feb. 3, 2006
  
• Mary Mapes for Dummies The last thing you'll have to read.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 31, 2006
  
• Did Nan Talese Lie to Oprah? What did James Frey's publisher know and when did she know it?
  Timothy Noah Jan. 27, 2006
  
• Sundance or Davos? A celebrity quiz.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 27, 2006
  
• Susan Orlean, Domestic Goddess "I have a $2 million weekend house and you don't."
  Timothy Noah Jan. 20, 2006
  
• Bad Coaches Chatterbox readers present their horror stories.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 19, 2006
  
• Magazines Bribe, Too! But they aren't very good at denying it.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 11, 2006
  
• The Coach as Culture Hero What's so great about the guy with the whistle around his neck?
  Timothy Noah Jan. 6, 2006
  
• The Peace Epidemic, Part 2 More evidence that the world is getting safer.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 4, 2006