Ronald Reagan

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Mugged by reality
Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
Generation Dem
Beyond the failure of Karl Rove, the momentous 2006 elections signaled the emergence of a younger, bluer America that could reshape politics for years to come.
A man who hated government
Conservative economic guru and liberal nemesis Milton Friedman disliked intervention of any sort, whether in the market or in recreational drug use.
Viva Sandinista!
Meet the new Nicaraguan president. Same as the old one.
The GOP begins to implode
Bush's immigration speech was a desperate attempt to keep his delicate coalition together -- but all it did was accelerate its shattering.
Did Reagan win the Cold War?
John Lewis Gaddis' history succinctly captures the long faceoff that shaped our world. But his analysis is marred by Reagan worship.
Meek, mild and menacing
Samuel Alito's Willy Loman facade conceals seething resentments -- and a dangerous belief in unbridled presidential power.
The long march of Dick Cheney
For his entire career, he sought untrammeled power. The Bush presidency and 9/11 finally gave it to him -- and he's not about to give it up.
Shipwrecked
Bush has so thoroughly destroyed the Republican establishment that no one, not even his dad, can rescue him now.
No longer the "Right Man"
Conservatives are raging against Bush to hide the utter failure of their ideology.
Fall of the Rovean empire?
Drunk on power, the Republican oligarchs overreached. Now their entire project could be doomed.
What Michael Moore (and the neocons) don't know about Saudi Arabia
The left and the right have both crudely demonized the desert kingdom. But the ascension of King Abdullah gives the U.S. a chance to solidify relations with this flawed but key ally.
What's next -- Spiro Agnew Avenue?
Not satisfied with an airport, two office buildings and a hospital emergency room, a GOP congressman wants to name a D.C. street for Ronald Reagan.
Generation Bomb
Once again, a clutch of new books on the atomic bomb get the history and intrigue right. But where's the guilt, dread and helplessness of living under the cloud of nuclear annihilation?
Political crackup
By intervening in the Schiavo case, Bush moved the religious right into the heart of the GOP. Now there will be hell to pay.
Can Bush deliver for conservatives?
Lacking Reagan's pragmatic streak, the president may find it impossible to unite a party deeply divided on social, foreign policy and budget issues.
History of complicity
Did the first President Bush, in 1991, and President Reagan, in the late '80s, cynically choose to ignore Saddam's use of chemical weapons against Iraqis?
Four poor years?
Bush backers boast that his victory gives him a chance to join the greats. But most reelected presidents have been far less effective in their second term than in their first.
How John Kerry exposed the Contra-cocaine scandal
Derided by the mainstream press and taking on Reagan at the height of his popularity, the freshman senator battled to reveal one of America's ugliest foreign policy secrets.
"You can't run the world on faith"
Some Reagan conservatives decry Bush's "Messianic" approach and preference for dogma over evidence.
The city of light, and the city of stoplights
What Table Talkers are saying about Paris merchants and Boston drivers, and some final thoughts on Reagan.
Mixed feelings
Nostalgia replaced reality at the unveiling of the official portraits of the Clintons, but the truce didn't last long.
Abolish the terror tax
People who hate America are flush with money from oil sales -- we should stop subsidizing them by becoming more energy independent.
Reagan worship
The "liberal media's" unprecedented 24/7 gushing over a controversial and divisive president caps a quarter-century of fawning.
The fat lady sings and the Gipper passes on
What Table Talkers are saying this week about American optimism and the "sin" of obesity.
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