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Bad DebtJonathan Chait
Bush's new budget claim? Deficits don't matter

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Bad PressJonathan Chait
Media ethicists focus largely on serial fabricators like Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair...

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Bait And...Jonathan Chait
President Bush's proposed "tax reform" isn't tax reform at all. It's the opposite. Just...

The Big Con (2007)Jonathan Chait
The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Econ...
5 Reviews, 2 Readable

Binge and PurgeJonathan Chait
Conservatives regurgitate George W. Bush

Bitter PillJonathan Chait
Dean's attacks on Beltway Democrats are unfair. And, if heeded, they'll bury the party ...

Blocking MoveJonathan Chait
Why it is imperative that liberals not compromise with Republicans on privatizing Socia...


Box PopuliJonathan Chait
The Democrats are at a crossroads. They can defend the Social Security surplus, which m...

Campaign '98: Dead Man WalkingJonathan Chait
Geoffrey Fieger used to be the unhinged, foul-mouthed, narcissistic lawyer for Jack Kev...

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The Case Against New IdeasJonathan Chait
Democrats and Republicans alike attribute the GOP's ascendancy to the popular supremacy...

Cloaks & DaggersJonathan Chait
Inside an inaugural coat riot

Color-BlindJonathan Chait
The quotas that dare not speak their name

Company ManJonathan Chait



Cooked BookJonathan Chait
Newt's defense is that he didn't line his pockets like Jim Wright did. Oh, yew he did. ...

Count DownJonathan Chait
Why Bushies shouldn't cheer the recount

The Crisis Comes AshoreJonathan Chait
How They Did It:The inside account of health care reform's triumph

Cut and RunJonathan Chait
Bush's strange, dishonest refusal to reduce the debt


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Dead Left (Review) Jonathan Chait
The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

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The Death of the Facts (Review) Jonathan Chait
The Battle, by Arthur C. Brooks
- The Battle by Arthur C. Brooks

Defense SecretaryJonathan Chait
Most press secretaries "spin." The current White House press secretary does something m...




Devil in the DetailsJonathan Chait, Edward Cohn, and Jason Zengerle

Dishonest LaborJonathan Chait
Alexis Herman is the worst Cabinet nominee in the Clinton administration's history, whi...

Don't Worry, Cut TaxesJonathan Chait
George W. Bush brings back Reaganomics and calls it "compassionate conservativism." And...

Dove TaleJonathan Chait
A liberal Iraq hawk defends himself. Sort of


The EnablerJonathan Chait
The GOP may be drunk on tax cuts for the rich, but it was Clinton who gave them the key...

Equality BitesJonathan Chait
The rich get richer, and the poor get...Alan Reynolds

Out of Iowa
Escape HatchJonathan Chait

Fact FindersJonathan Chait
The most important difference between liberal and conservative economics has nothing to...

False AlarmJonathan Chait
America's prospective war with Iraq isn't merely defensible. It's defensible on explici...

Fast OneJonathan Chait
Last quarter's economic growth was impressive. But it doesn't prove the Bush tax cut wa...

Feast of the WingnutsJonathan Chait
How economic crackpots devoured American politics

Feel My PainJonathan Chait
For five years, liberals grudgingly embraced Clinton because he could get things done. ...

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Fictional CharacterJonathan Chait
Republicans say John Kerry is a waffler who lacks core convictions. And, strangely enou...

The Flat Tax ScamJonathan Chait
The Republicans have a big new plan that will make everyone's taxes lower, simpler, and...

For RicherJonathan Chait
Conservatives v. the free market

FreakoutonomicsJonathan Chait
Were Clintonites wrong about the economy?

Geezer TeaserJonathan Chait
The Republican stealth-raid on your pension

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Giving Away the Farm (Review) Jonathan Chait
Why privatization won't solve social security's problems.
- Countdown to Reform by Henry J. Aaron and Robert D. Reischauer

Going for GoldJonathan Chait
Conservatives say the tax cut wil help waitresses. They say it will spur the economy. B...

Golden MeanJonathan Chait

The Great Liberal SmokeoutJonathan Chait
The cigarette tax probably can't cut teen smoking as much as proponents say, and it cer...

Group ThinkJonathan Chait
Why pollsters manufacture swing voters

Hide and SneakJonathan Chait
Why W.'s "war budget" isn't about the war at all

Hillary Was RightJonathan Chait
It has become conventional wisdom that Hillarycare was a political and policy disaster....

Home FrontJonathan Chait
Bush's hilarious efforts to connect his economic agenda to the war

The Home FrontJonathan Chait
Conservatives say September 11 makes protecting the Social Security surplus absurd. The...

Honest JohnJonathan Chait
Why the famously courageous and principled House Budget Committee chairman, Republican ...

Honest MistakeJonathan Chait
The White House has a problem. Its new press secretary doesn't know how to lie

Hud Sucker ProxyJonathan Chait
Washington's new scheme for public housing---keep out the poor

Idle WorshipJonathan Chait
Will Washington ever give up on Greenspan?

Illiberal ArtsJonathan Chait
You don't have to be a Philistine to dislike the NEA


IncommunicadoJonathan Chait
Why Democrats lose arguments

Invested InterestJonathan Chait
The SEC's chief foe takes over the SEC

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The Left's New MachineJonathan Chait
How the liberal netroots are remaking the Democratic Party in the image of the GOP

Less Is MoreJonathan Chait
What do you do if you're a supply-side economist and history proved you wrong? Cook the...

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Liar's PowerJonathan Chait
Why McCain just can't tell the truth


Lovey-DoveyJonathan Chait
How the Clinton White House and the Republican Congress became budgetary Valentines

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Mad About YouJonathan Chait
Most commentators describe Bush hatred as an irrational, even incomprehensible, malady....

Makeup CallJonathan Chait
When Katherine Harris was throwing the 2000 election to George W. Bush, conservatives d...


Means of ConsentJonathan Chait
There's nothing Washington admires more than bipartisanship. None of the definitions ma...




On CampusJonathan Chait
Bad Examples

On the Hill: Gucci GooJonathan Chait
I was a teenage lobbyist

On the Hill: Losing BalanceJonathan Chait
Democrats and Republicans dared each other on the Balanced Budget Amendment, and both lost

On the Hill: Money ManJonathan Chait
How Mitch McConnell found out that campaign contributions can't buy happiness

On the Hill: Pie in the SkyJonathan Chait
What budget surplus?

On the Hill: Stump SpeechJonathan Chait
Republicans have discovered the perfect way to stop global warming---chop down the forests

Painted BlackJonathan Chait
Black Entertainment Television CEO Robert Johnson has spent his career exploiting race ...

Peer ReviewJonathan Chait
William F. Buckley's rip-off

Penalty BoxJonathan Chait
The Republicans' hopeless crusade agianst the "marriage tax"

Penny WiseJonathan Chait
President Clinton's pledge to save the surplus for Social Security was masterful, both ...

Pie in the SkyJonathan Chait
Why aid agencies oppose U.S. food drops

Pol TestedJonathan Chait
Ameicans don't like racial preferences. Why do pols?

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Power from the PeopleJonathan Chait
President Bush isn't an aspiring dictator, and he's not planning to rig the election. B...

Power StripJonathan Chait
How liberals decided that only the U.N. can authorize wawr

Praised Be GreenspanJonathan Chait and Stephen Glass
The cairman of the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates down and the economy on an e...

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Primary Errors (Review) Jonathan Chait
Politics Lost, by Joe Klein
- Politics Lost by Joe Klein

Private ClubJonathan Chait
The Democrats keep bashing the Republicans on Social Security, but they won't propose a...

Private SchoolJonathan Chait
Think Harken's a scandal? Look at Bush's budget

Prophet MotiveJonathan Chait
Jude Wanniski is, respectable conservatives agree, a Farrakhan-loving, LaRouche-associa...

Race to the BottomJonathan Chait
This election year, all the presidential candidates are playing dumb. Of course, some f...

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Race to the BottomJonathan Chait
President Bush's first tax cut has sent the country deep into debt just when we need fu...

ReactivatedJonathan Chait
President Clinton's latest policy proposals may look modest on paper. But taken togethe...

Read No EvilJonathan Chait
Why the press buys Bush's tax cut lies

RecountJonathan Chait
Bush, taxes, and truth: Here we go again

Red HandedJonathan Chait
The deficit grows worse, and so does Bush

Reform PlaceboJonathan Chait
Republicans and Democrats agree that Clinton's new health care proposals are nothing mo...

Reform SchoolJonathan Chait
At first glance, the Enron scandal suggests we need campaign finance reform. Upon close...

ReformulationJonathan Chait
Democrats always pretended they were for campaign finance reform. Now they mean it, for...

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Refuting the Establishment (Review) Jonathan Chait
The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman
- The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman

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Remembrance of Things Passed (Review) Jonathan Chait
How my friend Stephen Glass got away with it.
- The Fabulist by Stephen Glass

Revolution of '96Jonathan Chait
The Consumer Price Indes and the world you thought you knew

Right ReverentJonathan Chait
The worshipful conservatism of Peggy Noonan

The Rise of Republican NihilismJonathan Chait
What happened to all those GOP ideas?

Rogue StateJonathan Chait
From its rapacious toll-collecting to its bottom-feeding corporate law to its disreputa...

Rubinomics ReduxJonathan Chait and Robert J. Samuelson
The myth of the myth of deficit reduction---a debate

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Rummyache (Review) Jonathan Chait
Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait, by Midge Decter
- Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait by Midge Decter

Security GuardJonathan Chait
The Republicans have a principled argument for keeping Social Security off-budget. They...

Security RiskJonathan Chait
Is Social Security privatization the key to saving the system---or the first step towar...

Set AsideJonathan Chait
The GOP supergovernors lose their luster

Slick RalphieJonathan Chait

The Slippery CenterJonathan Chait
The Third Way has worked well as a political strategy. Now its adherents want to turn i...

Cover Story: There's More at Stake
Social SelectionJonathan Chait
Support for Roe v. Wade does not a moderate justice make

Special KJonathan Chait
Who makes policy in the Bush White House? No one (except the lobbyists down the street)

Speed KillsJonathan Chait

Spilled MilkJonathan Chait
Jim Jeffords, dairy socialist

State of the DebateJonathan Chait
Quayle Hunting

Steep HillJonathan Chait
Don't buy those Clinton inaugurla tickets just yet

StorylinesJonathan Chait
The Ideologically Invested

The Agenda
Sunny Side Up?Jonathan Chait
The Atlantic Monthly, May 2004, pp. 29-31


Tax StealJonathan Chait
It's July, do you know where the lockbox is?


Thomas PainJonathan Chait
A hack journalist's strange rise to liberal icon

TRB: A Non-Fighting FaithJonathan Chait
Where Obama should shove his plea for civility

TRB: American PieJonathan Chait
White-collar crooks, dictatorships, and other conservative causes

TRB: BloomsdayJonathan Chait
A New York mayor and the David Broderization of America

TRB: Bush 36,000Jonathan Chait
The invisible hand slaps conservatives again

TRB: Capital OffenseJonathan Chait
How the rich rolled Barack Obama

TRB: Cartoon CharacterJonathan Chait
Why is the Democratic candidate always a flip-flopper?

TRB: Character FlawJonathan Chait
Republicans go weak-kneed for tough guys

TRB: Color CommentatorJonathan Chait
Rush Limbaugh's race obsession

TRB: Corporate ShrillJonathan Chait
Is Obama a stooge of big business?

TRB: Crazy TrainJonathan Chait
The GOP welcomes the fringe on board

TRB: Dangerous LiaisonJonathan Chait
Clinton flirts with Republican tax-cutters who want to squander the budget surplus

TRB: Dear LeaderJonathan Chait
The oil spill and the cult of the presidency

TRB: Deficit JamJonathan Chait
Why is Obama getting creamed in the budget debate?

TRB: Defining Barack DownJonathan Chait
In which we separate the mandates from the boy-dates

TRB: DoughfacesJonathan Chait
What's Obama's big problem? Liberals

TRB: E.P. YayJonathan Chait
Only bureaucrats can solve global warming

TRB: EconomaniacJonathan Chait
The crazy Rudy you don't know

TRB: End of an ErrorJonathan Chait
The twilight of conservative rule

TRB: EntanglementsJonathan Chait
Ignore what candidates say about foreign policy

TRB: Extreme MakeoverJonathan Chait
How Heather Mac Donald's stolen bicycle led to Gauntanamo Bay

TRB: Fear FactorJonathan Chait
Entitlement hysteria grips the capital

TRB: Flipping OffJonathan Chait
The GOP presidential bloodbath begins

TRB: French DressingJonathan Chait
How the right smears Hillary and justifies tax cuts

TRB: General ElectionJonathan Chait
Wesley Clark, Democratic messiah

TRB: Gipper's FlippersJonathan Chait
Now at the GOP revival house: how Ronald Reagan slayed the deficit. Please check histor...

TRB: Half-BakedJonathan Chait
The latest in global-warming denialism

TRB: Hurry Up and WasteJonathan Chait
Why Obama should have built more crap

TRB: Impeachment LogicJonathan Chait
Republicans change their minds on perjury

TRB: Irregular JoeJonathan Chait
The Zell Millerization of Joe Lieberman

TRB: Lawyer UpJonathan Chait
Liz Cheney: Guilty 'til proven innocent

TRB: Loan WolvesJonathan Chait
Conservative con men corrupt campus!

TRB: Losing ItJonathan Chait
Political defeat and the Republican mind

TRB: Mad MenJonathan Chait
Rick Santelli and the decline of the angry Republican everyman

TRB: ManservantJonathan Chait
George W. Bush, slave to K Street

TRB: Middle of NowhereJonathan Chait
Splitting a baby is actually a bad thing

TRB: Mind the GapJonathan Chait
What the right wing really thinks about inequality

TRB: Miss GuidedJonathan Chait
Carrie Prejean and other anti-gay-marriage intellectuals

TRB: MisteredJonathan Chait
Obama's second most importer reform

TRB: Nam DisclosureJonathan Chait
The scandalous secret in John McCain's past---revealed

TRB: Night of the Living BushiesJonathan Chait
Karl Rove wanders the night in search of vindication

TRB: Nowhere ManJonathan Chait
The vain search for Harold Ford's principles

TRB: Numbers RacketJonathan Chait
The truth about reverse discrimination at the University of Michigan

TRB: Old FlameJonathan Chait
Why I still kinda like John McCain

TRB: One for AllJonathan Chait
What does Bradley really believe?

TRB: Panic!Jonathan Chait
Why Democrats need to take a deep, deep breath. Maybe two

TRB: Partners in CrimeJonathan Chait
Rudy Giuliani, ethicist to the underworld

TRB: Patronage SaintsJonathan Chait
The reactionary Congressional Black Caucus

TRB: Pay CheckJonathan Chait
Letting stockholders set CEO pay and other communist plots

TRB: Pop FictionJonathan Chait
How to demagogue health care and feel good in the morning

TRB: Popular WillJonathan Chait
Conservatives perfect working-class p.c.

TRB: Popularity ContestJonathan Chait
Has Obama gone too far?

TRB: Present DangerJonathan Chait
Bill Kristol unwittingly joins the left's campaign against Israel

TRB: Right Said FredJonathan Chait
Fred Thompson, humble country lobbyist

TRB: Sarah QuaylinJonathan Chait
Actually, Dan Quayle is looking pretty good right now

TRB: Save Donald Trump!Jonathan Chait
Is now a really bad time to soak the rich?

TRB: Scandal TBDJonathan Chait
The coming impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama

TRB: Scared Yet?Jonathan Chait
The Wall Street Journal's punctuation fetish

TRB: Screw JobJonathan Chait
How Obama became the unemployment fall guy

TRB: Sink or SwimJonathan Chait
The GOP's Dickensian fix for health care

TRB: Slow LearnersJonathan Chait
What part of "overwhelming electoral defeat" does the GOP not understand?

TRB: Spare the RodJonathan Chait
In defense of Blagojevich (kind of)

TRB: Spin At All CostsJonathan Chait
The pernicious comedy of Frank Luntz

TRB: Split EndsJonathan Chait
The myth of divided government

TRB: Steele CageJonathan Chait
Republicans find their inner Al Sharpton

TRB: Stock AnswerJonathan Chait
No, Obama didn't destroy your 401(k)

TRB: Sub-StandardJonathan Chait
The thuggery of William Kristol

TRB: Summers of Our ContentJonathan Chait
Budget hawks and neo-Keynesians: a love story

TRB: Superiority ComplexJonathan Chait
What if they held a war of ideas and nobody came?

TRB: Sympathy for the LevelJonathan Chait
Who should finance government: Paris Hilton or her maid?

TRB: Terror FirmaJonathan Chait
John McCain returns to Ground Zero

TRB: The Case Against AwardsJonathan Chait
Why the wrong person always wins

TRB: The Flack GapJonathan Chait
Once, the Bush administration's apologists were the envy of the world. Now, we have Alb...

TRB: The IllusionistJonathan Chait
Watch John McCain saw the budget in half!

TRB: The Messiah-Complex ComplexJonathan Chait
The right's silly obsession with the Obama "cult"

TRB: The Michael 1 ManJonathan Chait
Is Jack Kemp an android?

TRB: The Nixon-Obama DebatesJonathan Chait
Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. Oh wait---actually, you war

TRB: The Obama MethodJonathan Chait
First he did it to Boehner, now Ahmadinejad

TRB: Thought RationingJonathan Chait
Republican health care spendaholics gone wild

TRB: Tortured LogicJonathan Chait
Hit me Bybee, one more time

TRB: Tough LoveJonathan Chait
So who are you calling "pro-Israel"?

TRB: Vacuity and FarceJonathan Chait
Our idiotic Supreme Court confirmation process

Up and AwayJonathan Chait
Is "opportunity society" just one more meaningless Bush slogan? Unfortunately, not

Very PatJonathan Chait
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's (not so) courageous plan to (not exactly) save Social...

Victim PoliticsJonathan Chait
Bernard Goldberg, author of the best-selling book Bias, is right that the media sometim...

Wages of SinJonathan Chait
Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay aren't just a couple of bad apples. They're the inevitable ...

Washington DiaristJonathan Chait
Upside-down Cake

Washington DiaristJonathan Chait
Zombies

Washington DiaristJonathan Chait
Fool's Gold

Washington DiaristJonathan Chait
Blue State Blues

Washington DiaristJonathan Chait
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Wasting Away In Hooverville (3 Reviews) Jonathan Chait
The Forgotten Man, by Amity Shlaes
- The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes
- Herbert Hoover by William E. Leuchtenburg
- Nothing to Fear by Adam Cohen

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Wealthcare (2 Reviews) Jonathan Chait
Goddess of the Market, by Jennifer Burns
- Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns
- Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller

Weld WishersJonathan Chait
Why the ex-Massachusetts governor isn't a Democrat

Welfare QueensJonathan Chait
What's so bad about corporate subsidies?

What Went Right: Formula WonJonathan Chait
Clinton developed a coherent economic policy that made America boom. Who cares if the i...

What's in a Name?Jonathan Chait
John McCain has a real shot at the White House in 2004. But not as a Republican or an I...

Why the Democrats Can't GovernJonathan Chait
Look who's killing Obama's agenda now

The Yes ManJonathan Chait
The Congressional Budget Office is an outpost of dispassionate, objective analysis on C...

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The 9/10 PresidentJonathan Chait
George W. Bush says homeland security is his "highest priority." But, by clinging to hi...
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