Xan White
Whoever wins, partisanship hurts Congress

The excessive partisanship of this year’s midterm election cycle was summed up for me by one Ned Lamont radio attack ad. The gist of the […]

Conservatism, religion work at cross purposes with Constitution

Peter Johnston’s claim that the modern conservative movement actually reflects “conservative” values (“Labels aid brevity but impede understanding,” 9/18) asks us to ignore either current […]

Partisanship has no place in mourning

Paul Krugman’s piece in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times offers a commemoration of the events of Sept. 11 that seems representative of the […]

Bush must govern with more than his beliefs

Speaking recently about the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush ’68 told the American people, “If I didn’t believe we could succeed, I wouldn’t […]

State of Union was missed chance for Dems

It’s easy to see George W. Bush’s recent State of the Union address as a call for bipartisanship from an increasingly unpopular second-term president. But […]

Confirmation hearings frustrate, obscure

The Senate’s rejection of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork in 1987 has sent the wrong message to nearly every prospective justice since then. Just ask […]

Antiwar movement is illogical

Antiwar movements don’t have to come across as isolationist and illiberal. Too bad America’s current one does. A group of so-called “liberals” organized behind a […]

Bush falls short on democracy

George W. Bush has committed much of the United States’ economic and military power to spreading democracy throughout the world. But the Bush Doctrine, as […]

Indictment a win for Dems, not democracy

Democrats will celebrate Tom DeLay’s recent indictment because, well, it’s Tom DeLay. Anything bad that happens to Tom DeLay is good for Democrats. But, more […]

For Bush, hurricane is enemy that wasn’t

In the past 15 years, America has fought wars in Iraq (twice), Yugoslavia (twice) and Afghanistan. We’ve declared war on poverty and war on drugs. […]