The thinking behind the news.

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• Obama's Brilliant First Year By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt.
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 28, 2009
  
• The End of Prohibition Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal.
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 31, 2009
  
• Neo-Neo-Cons Irving Kristol saved the right from intellectual bankruptcy in the '60s. Who will save it now?
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 2, 2009
  
• First They Came for the Marlboros The hazards of Michael Bloomberg's paternalist utopia.
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 19, 2009
  
• The Republican Death Machine Who's really pulling the plug on Grandma?
  Jacob Weisberg Aug. 29, 2009
  
• New President, Old Mistake Is Obama trying too hard not to be like his predecessors?
  Jacob Weisberg Aug. 1, 2009
  
• Health, American-Style Americans get the care they deserve: innovative, expensive, and wasteful.
  Jacob Weisberg July 18, 2009
  
• How To Lean on Israel There are three ways for Obama to pressure the Israelis. Each is incredibly difficult.
  Jacob Weisberg June 13, 2009
  
• Republican Rescue Plan Step 1: Dump Cheney. Step 2: Call David Cameron.
  Jacob Weisberg May 30, 2009
  
• Notes Toward a Theory of Obama What we've learned so far about the president.
  Jacob Weisberg May 16, 2009
  
• All the President's Accomplices How the country acquiesced to Bush's torture policy.
  Jacob Weisberg May 2, 2009
  
• A Tale of Two Lobbyists What's wrong with Obama's order barring lobbyists from his administration?
  Jacob Weisberg April 18, 2009
  
• What Else Are We Wrong About? The danger of nuclear proliferation and other possible fallacies.
  Jacob Weisberg April 4, 2009
  
• Rascal Flatts The kings of Midwestern prom rock.
  Jody Rosen April 1, 2009
  
• Prince's New Album A new protégé and a lot of love for Salma Hayek.
  Jody Rosen March 31, 2009
  
• Book End How the Kindle will change the world.
  Jacob Weisberg March 21, 2009
  
• It Can't Happen Here Why Obama won't bring European social democracy to America.
  Jacob Weisberg March 6, 2009
  
• The New Hybrids Why the debate about financing journalism misses the point.
  Jacob Weisberg Feb. 21, 2009
  
• The Case for Bankers They're not all villainous scum. And besides, we really need them.
  Jacob Weisberg Feb. 7, 2009
  
• What Does Obama Think Government Should Do? He still hasn't told us. That's worrisome.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 24, 2009
  
• The Enigma in Chief We still don't know how or why Bush made the key decisions of his administration.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 10, 2009