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Two Democrats stump for tax cuts.
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By Ronen Bergman
The WikiLeaks cables reveal that Egypt and Saudi Arabia can't decide if they fear a Shiite bomb more than they hate the Jewish state.
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By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
The president has been a case study of a man refusing to synchronize his agenda with his moment.
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By Matthew Mitchell
Balanced-budget rules work better than tax-and-expenditure limitations.
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An excerpt from Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's final statement.
Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson recommends novels about failure, including Mario Vargas Llosa's "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter."
Alan Riding's "And the Show Went On," is the story of the complex compromises made by French artists and writers in Nazi-occupied Paris. Modris Eksteins reviews.
Paul Di Filippo reviews alternate history novels, including Connie Willis's "Blackout," a book about time travel and war.
Robert Morrison's "The English Opium-Eater" is the biography of one of the first and best and most seductively dangerous of literary journalists, Thomas De Quincey, an opium addict who translated German ghost stories and covered the latest theology and political science. Lee Sandlin reviews.
A comprehensive collection of our editorials from the past two years.
No president has alienated his base the way Obama has.
Conservative opponents of the tax deal argue that it's better to start over in January with a new GOP House majority.
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By James Taranto
Barack Obama and the infantile delusions of the "progressive" left.
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Britain's safety elves have struck again.
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Golden Gloves for Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg and director David O. Russell for "The Fighter," writes Joe Morgenstern. Meanwhile, "The Tourist" traps Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
As is typical with government programs, eligibility and benefits were greatly expanded over the subsequent decades.
Alan Riding's "And the Show Went On," is the story of the complex compromises made by French artists and writers in Nazi-occupied Paris. Modris Eksteins reviews.
How eager is the Obama administration to trumpet positive reaction to its tax compromise with Republicans?
Golden Gloves for Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg and director David O. Russell for "The Fighter," writes Joe Morgenstern. Meanwhile, "The Tourist" traps Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
His life was not in danger under the Nazis, but his soul was. Violinist Adolf Busch chose exile over a devil's bargain.
When it comes to theater, "irresistible" is rarely true—but it's difficult to imagine anyone failing to fall for Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's "I Capture the Castle."
New viewers of Investigation Discovery's programs quickly make a key discovery of their own: They've clicked into a universe that delivers nothing but guilty pleasures. But it's more complicated than that.
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