Older Feds Aren't Playing to Their Strengths
Is It Too Hard to Fire Misbehaving Feds?
Americans Still Like the Postal Service
A Forced 4-Day Weekend for Many Feds
No More Tax-Cheating Feds, Senators Say
Video: The Daily Show on Apple's Taxes
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Political Balance
April 20, 2004 Over the course of the Clinton presidency, the American public became very polarized. One camp hated the president and his wife; the other camp supported them. The division was widely viewed as a commentary on the Clintons -- and nothing more. During the 2000 campaign, conservatives' animosity toward President Clinton ...
Perilous Times
April 13, 2004 President Bush's re-election campaign has a certain Perils of Pauline aspect. Just as the job-creation situation showed signs of improving, Iraq suddenly turned worse. A month or two from now, we could see things in Iraq get better but see the jobs situation turn south again. For now, Iraq seems ...
Teetering on the Edge
April 5, 2004 If the presidential election had been held in December after the capture of Saddam Hussein, President Bush would certainly have won. But if he'd had to face the voters in the second half of January or any time in February, Bush probably would have lost. And if the election were ...
The Known Quantity
March 23, 2004 Seeing conventional wisdom turned on its head is always exciting, especially when a new theory forces me to rethink cherished assumptions. A paper on the decline of competitive congressional races -- delivered by Emory University professors Alan Abramowitz and Brad Alexander at last week's annual meeting of the Western Political ...
The Nader Effect
March 16, 2004 Most national polls, as well as surveys in the 16 crucial battleground states, show the race between President Bush and his Democratic challenger to be so close that the election seems mere days away instead of almost eight months. Already, factors that might seem almost trivial in a less evenly ...
The Case for Gephardt
March 9, 2004 In the interest of full disclosure, I must confess that I have never accurately predicted whom a presidential nominee would pick as his running mate. Then again, I don't know anyone else who has. I do not know a soul who predicted that Al Gore would pick Joe Lieberman or ...
Warning Signs
March 2, 2004 Ralph Nader's decision to run for president as an independent caused Democrats to have heart palpitations and made Republicans euphoric. But just the opposite was the case five days earlier, when, for the first time since 1991, Democrats captured a Republican seat in a House special election. With the closeness ...
Power Struggle
February 24, 2004 North Carolina Sen. John Edwards's strong second-place finish in Wisconsin means the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination is not quite over. But now that Democrats have captured a Republican-held congressional seat in the special election in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District, attention may soon begin to turn, albeit briefly, to ...
Rush to Judgment
February 17, 2004 It is dangerous to assume anything this election year. But at this point, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's claim on the Democratic presidential nomination looks close to rock-solid, and the contours of a President Bush vs. Kerry race are beginning to take shape. In the wake of Bush's headline-grabbing Thanksgiving Day ...
Crowning Kerry
February 10, 2004 Editor's Note: This week marks the debut in the Tuesday column slot of "On Politics," a look at what's happening in the world of campaigns and elections. With the 2004 presidential contest well under way, and with many other races also destined to have a big impact on the operations ...
