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Gershom Gorenberg says that a new book makes sense of why Israel’s prime minister repeats his errors: By all accounts, Benjamin Netanyahu devoted very little thought to the two final sites added to a list of designated heritage sites set to benefit from a large government restoration budget. Never mind that the Tomb of the […]

Adam Serwer explains why the news that the embattled community-organizing group will restructure has the right in mourning: On Monday, news broke that the embattled community-organizing group ACORN had “dissolved as a national structure,” with individual chapters severing their relationship to one another. It turned out not to be true — ACORN still exists as […]

Michelle Goldberg explains that the case of a pregnant Nicaraguan woman who has been denied treatment for cancer is yet another instance of how women’s health is disregarded by anti-abortion advocates: In the Nicaraguan city of Leon, a 27-year-old, known only as Amalia, is being denied treatment for cancer because she’s 10 weeks pregnant and […]

Tim Fernholz argues that if you want financial reform, you want a partisan bill: Over the weekend, Sens. Chris Dodd and Bob Corker took a trip to Honduras and Costa Rica, visiting with political leaders and assessing the political situation after a coup disturbed Honduras’ government last year. But the more pressing issue is closer […]

Eamonn Fingleton explains why the German model has held up even as so many other major economies have collapsed. American and British commentators have told three stories about the German economy over the past decade, all of them derogatory. Articulating a standard conservative view, Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 2006 […]

Shani O. Hilton explains that women of color need more reproductive health services — not scaremongering ad campaigns: In Atlanta, Georgia, a billboard campaign that started this month proclaims that “black children are an endangered species.” On the campaign’s Web site, TooManyAborted.com, the Radiance Foundation alludes to Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger‘s support of eugenics […]

Courtney Martin finds that the field of architecture is still full of Howard Roarks: Architect Jeanne Gang‘s new tower, Aqua, stands in the center of Chicago with an attention-grabbing facade that appears to undulate like a wave reaching for the sky rather than the shore. It’s a nice surprise to find that the critics have […]

Paul Waldman on the recent Founding Fathers mania: As a connoisseur of conservative politics, I was fascinated by an event that occurred last week when a group of movement graybeards got together to sign what was described as a new manifesto for the political right. The document itself wasn’t that interesting — it contained not […]

Mark Schmitt notes that right-wing populist fads catch our attention — but they burn out quickly: As the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) overtook Washington this past week, the cheering for Dick Cheney, the sessions promoting “nullification” (the concept that states can opt out of federal laws, last heard from John C. Calhoun in the […]

Peter Steinfels reviews Ian Buruma‘s Taming the Gods: Three years ago, Ian Buruma published Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence, an analysis of the shocking public slaying by an Islamist extremist of a Dutch filmmaker who, working with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, self-declared atheist and fugitive from Islam, had provocatively attacked […]