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America: A Repair GuideCharles Peters and James Bennet
Sixteen simple steps to national sanity that won't cost a cent.

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Political Booknotes (Review) Charles Peters
The Juror and the General, by M. Patricia Roth
- The Juror and the General by M. Patricia Roth

Assistant Secretary of What?Matthew Cooper, Jason DeParle, and Charles Peters, ...
The secret jobs that can really make a difference.


Besieged and Beleaguered on $200,000 a YearCharles Peters
Why the rich feel sorry for themselves. How to make them feel compassion instead.

Beyond Paper CutsCharles Peters
Eight smart ways to cut the budget--and make smart investments.

Blind Ambition in the White HouseCharles Peters
How the Nixon White House lives on.

The Brookings Budget: One Schultz is Like Another(e)Charles Peters and John Rothchild
Why the counterbudget created by Brookings' Charles Schultze doesn't differ much from t...

The Case Against Energy IndependenceCharles Peters and Glen Allerhand
Our bipartisan rush toward inflation, recession, and pollution.


Special Anniversary Section
CommunityCharles Peters

Concerns About Carter- and His Chief CourtierCharles Peters
Jody Powell and Jimmy Carter are extremely able men. Their mutual chemistry, however, m...

"Draft the Rich!" A debateWilliam Greider, Richard Harwood, and Charles Peters, ...
Some Modest Proposals to Democratize the Militia and Restore Virtue to the Republic.

Et Tu, Keisling?Charles Peters
The editor responds.

Filting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The cheating gene...Verbal methadone...Articles of Feith...The sex-crazed presss...A th...


The Culture of Bureaucracy
The Firemen First PrincipleCharles Peters
How the Clever Bureaucrat beats the budget cutter.

Five Days in Philadelphia (2005)Charles Peters
The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Sav...
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

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Political Booknotes (2 Reviews) Charles Peters
Mayday, by Michael R. Beschloss
- Mayday by Michael R. Beschloss
- Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi


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Further Study Needed (Review) Charles Peters
Memorandum for the President, by Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr. and Curtis A. Hessler, ...
- Memorandum for the President by Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr. and Curtis A. Hessler, ...

Golden HandcuffsGibson Cromwell and Charles Peters
A third-year law student writes to tell why all his classmates who'd dreamt of governme...

The Greatest ConventionCharles Peters
In 1940, the contest was never closer, the stakes never higher

How Carter Can Find Out What the Government is DoingCharles Peters
The truth about what's going on down below does not naturally rise up the regular chain...

How to Take Over The GovernmentCharles Peters
Elliot Richardson was at the top of four government departments within four years. This...

How Washington Really Works (1980)Charles Peters
3 Reviews

How Washington Really WorksCharles Peters
The simple equation that explains life in the Capital.

The Screwing of the Average Man
How Your Lawyer Does ItCharles Peters
Our lawyers are so busy getting fair treatment for the rich that they can't afford to w...

I Was a New York SnobCharles Peters
How the Dodgers, Don Quixote, and Allen Ginsberg saved me.

Avoiding the Issues
The Ignorant PressCharles Peters
Political reporters know about politics, but they don't know about government.
The Washington Monthly, May 1976, pp. 55-57

The Imperial PressTom Bethell and Charles Peters
The press has taken on a good many of the characteristics of its recent enemy, the impe...

Inside the System (1970)Charles Peters and Timothy J. Adams
A Washington Monthly Book
1 Review

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Irving Kristol's Life---and Mine (Review) Charles Peters
Beyond a dislike for mushy liberalism, our experiences have taken us in different direc...
- Neo-Conservatism by Irving Kristol

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Political Booknotes (Review) Charles Peters
The Antagonists, by James F. Simon
- The Antagonists by James F. Simon

On Political Books
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The Kennedy Hustle (Review) Charles Peters
How the Kennedys became America's royal family.
- The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Washington Monthly, May 1987, pp. 47-48

The Washington Sandbag Avoidance and Mine Detector Kit
A Kind Word For The Spoils SystemCharles Peters
Most people think civil service is good and politics is bad. They're wrong.


A Letter to Jimmy CarterCharles Peters
Carter the student will lose in 1980. Carter the teacher could win.

Lyndon B. Johnson (2010)Charles Peters
The American Presidents Series: The 36th President, 1963-1969

The Master BiographerCharles Peters
Robert Caro could do the same for contemporary history.

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Political Booknotes (Review) Charles Peters
Lost Victory, by William Colby and James McCargar
- Lost Victory by William Colby and James McCargar

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Mild About Harry (Review) Charles Peters
How Truman ushered in the end of liberal idealism.
- Truman by David McCullough

A Neoliberal's ManifestoCharles Peters
Community, Prosperity, Democracy: A platform for the future.
The Washington Monthly, May 1983, pp. 8-18

No Dollars, Common SenseCharles Peters
Eighteen cost-free steps to a better America.

Now You're Thinking Like a LawyerMichael Kinsley and Charles Peters
Lawyers already run the country. Now the public interest movement wants to create a WPA...

Annual Political Book Issue
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The Old Pro and the Comeback Kid (3 Reviews) Charles Peters
World War II produced a generation of historians willing to get out of the library. A ...
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- American Caesar by William Manchester
- In Search of History by Theodore H. White


The Others We ForgotCharles Peters
Why didn't we plan for the inevitable?

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The Man from Ida Grove, by Harold E. Hughes and Dick Schneider
- The Man from Ida Grove by Harold E. Hughes and Dick Schneider

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First Lady's Lady, by Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld
- First Lady's Lady by Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld

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Flying White House, by Jerald F. terHorst and Ralph Albertazzie
- Flying White House by Jerald F. terHorst and Ralph Albertazzie

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Political Booknotes (Review) Nicholas Lemann and Charles Peters
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story, by Peter Wyden
- Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story by Peter Wyden

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Confession and Avoidance, by Leon Jaworski and Mickey Herskowitz
- Confession and Avoidance by Leon Jaworski and Mickey Herskowitz

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Martha, by Winzola McLendon
- Martha by Winzola McLendon

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The Shadow Presidents, by Michael Medved
- The Shadow Presidents by Michael Medved

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Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance, by Michael R. Beschloss
- Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance by Michael R. Beschloss

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Palace Politics, by Robert T. Hartmann
- Palace Politics by Robert T. Hartmann

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Blitzkrieg, by Len Deighton
- Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton

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Naming Names, by Victor S. Navasky
- Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky

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Party Politics, by Leonard Lurie
- Party Politics by Leonard Lurie

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Inflation-Proofing Your Investments, by Harry Browne and Terry Coxon
- Inflation-Proofing Your Investments by Harry Browne and Terry Coxon

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A Life in Our Times, by John Kenneth Galbraith
- A Life in Our Times by John Kenneth Galbraith

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The Litigious Society, by Jethro K. Lieberman
- The Litigious Society by Jethro K. Lieberman

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One Third of a Nation, by Lorena Hickok, Richard Lowitt, and Maurine H. Beasley, ...
- One Third of a Nation by Lorena Hickok, Richard Lowitt, and Maurine H. Beasley, ...

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How Courts Govern America, by Richard Neely
- How Courts Govern America by Richard Neely

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Portrait of an Election, by Elizabeth Drew
- Portrait of an Election by Elizabeth Drew

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John Foster Dulles: The Road to Power, by Ronald W. Pruessen
- John Foster Dulles: The Road to Power by Ronald W. Pruessen

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The Kennedy Imprisonment, by Garry Wills
- The Kennedy Imprisonment by Garry Wills

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The Rise and Decline of Nations, by Mancur Olson
- The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson

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FDR: A Centenary Rememberance, 1882-1945, by Joseph Alsop
- FDR: A Centenary Rememberance, 1882-1945 by Joseph Alsop

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B.S.---The Bureaucratic Syndrome, by Byron L. Johnson and Robert Ewegen
- B.S.---The Bureaucratic Syndrome by Byron L. Johnson and Robert Ewegen

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Planning a Tragedy, by Larry Berman
- Planning a Tragedy by Larry Berman

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Voices of Protest, by Alan Brinkley
- Voices of Protest by Alan Brinkley

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Clare Boothe Luce, by Wilfrid Sheed
- Clare Boothe Luce by Wilfrid Sheed

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America in Search of Itself, by Theodore H. White
- America in Search of Itself by Theodore H. White

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Years of Upheaval, by Henry Kissinger
- Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger

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Taking Care of the Law, by Griffin B. Bell and Ronald J. Ostrow
- Taking Care of the Law by Griffin B. Bell and Ronald J. Ostrow

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Marie, by Peter Maas
- Marie by Peter Maas

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Eisenhower, Vol. II, by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Eisenhower, Vol. II by Stephen E. Ambrose

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Finest Hour, by Martin Gilbert
- Finest Hour by Martin Gilbert

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Lost Honor, by John W. Dean, III
- Lost Honor by John W. Dean, III

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Distant Water, by William W. Warner
- Distant Water by William W. Warner

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Press Watch, by David Shaw
- Press Watch by David Shaw

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Dark Horse, by Steve Neal
- Dark Horse by Steve Neal

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First Lady from Plains, by Rosalynn Carter
- First Lady from Plains by Rosalynn Carter

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The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940, by William L. Shirer
- The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940 by William L. Shirer

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Caveat, by Alexander M. Haig
- Caveat by Alexander M. Haig

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The Other Side of the Story, by Jody Powell
- The Other Side of the Story by Jody Powell

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The Decline of American Political Parties, 1952-1980, by Martin P. Wattenberg
- The Decline of American Political Parties, 1952-1980 by Martin P. Wattenberg

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Children's Hospital, by Peggy Anderson
- Children's Hospital by Peggy Anderson

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The Trouble With America, by Michel Crozier
- The Trouble With America by Michel Crozier

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Another War, Another Peace, by Ronald J. Glasser
- Another War, Another Peace by Ronald J. Glasser

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President Kennedy: Profile of Power, by Richard Reeves
- President Kennedy: Profile of Power by Richard Reeves

The Prince and His CourtiersRussell Baker and Charles Peters
At the White House, the Kremlin, and the Reichschancellery


Putting Yourself on the LineCharles Peters
Conservatives and liberals are becoming indistinguishable in their support of the state...


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Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust, by Robert H. Ferrell
- Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust by Robert H. Ferrell

Special Health Section
A Revolutionary Answer to Medical CostsCharles Peters
A way to extend the benefits of Medicaid and Medicare to everyone without driving the c...

The Right Priorities for the NinetiesCharles Peters
Let's not get hypnotized by the Persian Gulf: Let's start fighting the battles that rea...

Senator Baker and the Bureau Chief: Why They're Wrong About WatergateCharles Peters
Everyone wants to find out whether the President actually knew what his men were doing....

The Solution: A Rebirth of PatriotismCharles Peters
America has become a nation of lobbies, where narrow interests have become more importa...

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The Summer that Saved the West (Review) Charles Peters
Hard Bargain, by Robert Shogan
- Hard Bargain by Robert Shogan


Tiltin at WindmillsCharles Peters
You'll just love Timbuktu...Dumb intelligence...Cheaper chic...The decline of the A-cup
The Washington Monthly, May 2005, pp. 4-7

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
A new column of comment and opinion.
The Washington Monthly, May 1977, pp. 5-8


Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Whom the CIA should really protect... why the judge did it on TV... and other odds and ...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The perils of Short Arm Inspection... stories we did and didn't run... And other odds a...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
What was worse than Janetgate... what the rich will do with tax-cut money... and other ...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Why Democrats need religion... Why politicians will look good in the Eighties... and ot...
The Washington Monthly, May 1981, pp. 6-12

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The phantom freeway... The importance of being Winston... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Where to find the Buck Finns of today... how Reagan is subsidizing communism... and oth...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Some good words for civil servants... Reagan's balletomanes... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Russell Baker's no-hitter.... trusts you can't trust.... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Struggling through on $500,000 a year... vacationing burglars... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Thieving cabbies... Harry the Hawk... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Ships that melt... Loveseats from Daddy... and other odds and ends

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Defending Ann Landers... The most cynical Cabinet member... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Embargoing Toyotas... Clipping Volcker's wings... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Washington Monthly, May 1982, pp. 4-9

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Charming Mrs. Cook... Small car snobbery... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Beating the rap... rapping the Post... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Oenophilia at the White House... Orthopedists on the stand... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
A nun who knows massage... A Reaganite who can't write a letter... and other odds and e...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Estee Lauder's gift to the Pentagon... up Cabin Creek without a paddle... and other odd...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Japanese war crimes... good advice from the Joints Chiefs' chairman... and other odds a...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The trouble with leg warmers... Trafficking bureaucrats... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Navy's interior decorating... The mayor's ulterior motives... And other odds and en...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The eulogized mobster... the dreaded Washington dinner party... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Scuba wars in New York... Rotarians in Grenada... and other odds and ends...
The Washington Monthly, May 1983, pp. 4-7

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The politician who couldn't remember names... the judge who wouldn't fix blame... and o...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The crooked society lady... the lawyers in the limousine... and other odds and ends...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Lessons from the Flash... warnings from the nurses... and other odds and ends...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Goldilocks's sin... Mike Royko's good example... and other odds and ends...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Cowards in the House of Representatives... the surgeon in the cafeteria... and other od...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Reflections after 15 years... Rochester goes Japanese... and other odds and ends...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The return of red-baiting... Bob Dylan's new cause... and other odds and ends...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Greedy celebrities... looking for Luce... and other odds and ends...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
A California quiz... whispering at lunch time... and other odds and ends...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Samaritan landlord... tending the wigs on Broadway... Halberstam on McNamara...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The lawyer who sued the hero... the return of Willy Loman... and other odds and ends...
The Washington Monthly, May 1984, pp. 6-11

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Getting a cab in Seattle.... the lonely Japanese worker.... and other odds and ends....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The paseo in San Francisco.... the professor who took over the orphanage.... and other ...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The British civil servant who revealed the truth... movies at the French embassy... sel...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Umpires and the seniority scam.... Brynner and the Marlboro Man.... making it and ghett...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Idi Amin's American friends... the war hero who did needlepoint... and other odds and e...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The virtues of jock journalism... suing American Express... and other odds and ends....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Ivy League locks out Asians... Margaret Heckler goes to Paris... the left and the d...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Rainmaking... maiden aunts... Amtrak... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Fraudulent foundations... altruistic Eskimos... and other odds and ends....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Greedy corporate kids... spies in our embassies... Bradlee's monopoly... and other odds...
The Washington Monthly, May 1985, pp. 4-9

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Kids and porn... salaries and senators... computers and chaos... and other odds and end...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Greedy eye doctors... doggie health spas... phony FAA tests... and other odds and ends....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Life at the World Bank... Jackie Presser's deal... Finnish stools... and other odds and...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Playing taps all night... NASA's toxic waste... L.A!s tunnel to nowhere... and other od...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Software kings... nerve gas... a writer's creed... and other odds and ends.

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Meeting mania... review thine enemy... buppie taste... and other odds and ends....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Whacko tax credits... vanishing reservists... business myopia... and other odds and end...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Phony jobs... greedy lawyers... interservice insanity... and other odds and ends.....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Frozen snobs... cabbies and cowboys... the Manila Hotel... and other odds and ends....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The shrink who played the market... the rising cost of luxury... boycotting J. C. Penne...
The Washington Monthly, May 1986, pp. 6-11

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Why I almost rooted for the Raiders... gutless hawks... Deep Throat gets religion... an...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Ugly Americans... social snobbery... bumper cars... and other odds and ends....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
A poker playing mayor... bribery at American Express... nuclear terrorism... and other ...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Demeaning employees at the Post... anatomy for attorneys in Las Vegas... Essence d'Elli...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Robert Penn Warren's mom... the firechief goes to Singapore... learning to be handcuffe...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Karl Marx's contributions to capitalism... Warren Burger's dirty laundry... practical p...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Nuclear depth charges... terrorists in the parking lot... Meg Greenfield's secret fear....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Yuppie fingernails.... Gary Hart's greatest tragedy.... keeping up with the orthodontis...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Fawn Hall's autograph... Modigliani heads and reporters' insecurities ... tax-deductibl...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The case against ironing... Van Gogh's ear... JFK's "fascism"... and other odds and end...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Beware of young dentists... Oklahoma's naval base... making Jello for the networks... a...
The Washington Monthly, May 1987, pp. 6-12

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Attack of the tiger mosquitoes... the Pope's Mickey Mouse watch... Ben Franklin on Joe ...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The man with the orange sleeves... wine critics for sale... counting bedrooms... and ot...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Doctors on welfare three minesweepers... . Armand Hammer's medical bills.... Playgroun...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The pre-school valedictorian... in praise of two-hand touch.... the mayor's phone bill....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The happy orangutans... the congressman's football game... senatorial sodomy... and oth...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The bore at the front door... the soprano's Ph.D.... the drug dealer's passport... the ...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The linebacker who couldn't sleep... professors on the take... Phyllis Schlafly's liber...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The quote The New York Times couldn't get... spelunking at the Pentagon... the cigarett...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Ginger Rogers's aching feet... CEO puffery... Boswell's missing facts... the woman in A...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The teacher's face lift ... the dirt about the celebrities... the reporter's Mercedes.....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The naked state's attorney... remember Wendell Willkie... the stewardess's jokes... put...
The Washington Monthly, May 1988, pp. 6-10

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Affirmative action for boxers... the old Cafe Society... the millionaire's pension... s...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Wisconsin's blind hunters... my favorite hippie game... Republican blood pressure... th...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
1,953 meals on Air Force One.... what John Lehman did right... Cory Aquino's unused bil...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The admirals' hidden golf course... the Hot Tempered Executive... Saab stories for the ...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
A nonrefundable ticket... the Calvin Coolidge Brigade... from the Left, I'm Mike Kinsle...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Learning from Henry Higgins... Lloyd Cutler's hustle... Poolside with Al D'Amato... and...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Putting Kissinger in his place... the Eastern Media Conspiracy... the Reagan rule I lov...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Iraqi's Mercedes... the baby boomer's backpack... the lineman who couldn't read... ...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The embezzler on the board... Yuppie thrift... the doctor's kickback... Watt's hypocris...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Surgeons on safari... the lawyer's hit man... and other odds and ends....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The archeologist's P.R. man... the basketball fix... billable hours in the Bahamas... t...
The Washington Monthly, May 1989, pp. 8-11

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Korean counterattack... stressed-out mobsters... Harvard's missing money... HUD's h...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Gucci exemption... Congress in the Caribbean... the mayor's naked women... the nota...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Republican soul... beer ads for boys... hard hearts in Santa Cruz... the turkey far...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Antique airliners... Bill Bradley's big mistake... The Max Bialystock Award... and othe...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Phil and Marion show... the congressman's free Lincoln... the anchor-woman's missin...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The incompetent interpreters... featherbedding in Nicaragua... Texans for Santa Anna......

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Kissinger connection... America's House of Lords... the Playtex pay-off... and othe...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The chancellor's secret cars... the wet bar association... the Watergate alumni reunion...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Bad bets... mistaken medals... And other odds and ends... .

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Nickel and diming the IRS... Panama's Colombia connection... the shell game at CBS... H...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Satan's press release... deadly doctors... Harvard lawyers... James Baker's big mistake...
The Washington Monthly, May 1990, pp. 8-11

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Battle of Britain fallacy... snobby sex... sanitation spokespeak... the lawyers' la...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Secrets of the Senate dining room... The peaceful way to stick it to Saddam... The NFL'...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Ted Koppel's money worries... the Navy's nose jobs... the Cheap Chic bandwagon... and o...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The phone call to Ferdinand... "Tokyo Law"... parking for the homeless... and other odd...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Pathological partisanship... the senators' porn scandal... God and man in the Gulf... a...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Reckless radiology... the FAA's foggy thinking... limousine litigators... Darman's pers...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Democrats' moral majority... killing off consumer news... the Pope's sex problem......

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Betting on Aunt Betsy... the sweet-and-sour stock option... Les Aspin's joy ride... the...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The chemical-biological-pacifist complex... collegiate con men... five-star foxholes......

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
What Pam Smart did all day... buying a fan club... the Kuwaiti chandelier crisis... Sta...
The Washington Monthly, May 1991, pp. 6-9

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Double agents at the CIA... why liberals love lawyers... the Doggie Diner scare... Dick...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
L.A. Sex... the Peters Post-Game Color Commentary... Ted Kennedy's retirement scam... t...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Homewrecking at The New York Times ... unsettling Eleanor Clift... of Mormons and mammo...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Lit crit for kids... hospital haute couture... Bill Clinton's national debt... and othe...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Pampered chimps... criminal cops... UnAmerican cars... and a quake too soon....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The spa subsidy... felonies with a feminine touch... poultry power!... joyriding with G...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Ken Follett's Perot job... the mayor's palm trees... Watergate's best lesson... and oth...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
The Grand Marquis scam... the CIA's open secret... the 237 missing planes... and other ...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Hill & Knowlton's baby boom... cable TV's Cosa Nostra... conservative cattle rustlers.....

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Cable News Nonsense... the sultan shuttle... doctors' drug money... and other odds and ...
The Washington Monthly, May 1992, pp. 4-8

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Fifty-six nervous Republicans... your free haircut... Stanford's pricey perks... and ot...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Does God smoke?... what George Bush and Hurricane Andrew have in common... Clinton's gu...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
An endorsement... Quayle's toxic emissions... the girls on the bus... and other odds an...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
What McNamara got right... What the Post got wrong... What OMB still doesn't know... An...

Tilting at WindmillsCharles Peters
Florio's missed opportunity... what the Pentagon could learn from General Aideed... the...

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Panetta's pork barrel... Clinton's thin skin... Reno's bad rap... and other odds and en...
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The rich's new tennis racket... Cardiologists on the Lido deck... Clinton's favorite ja...

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Toasters in Grenada... . Shalala's shenanigans.... Scalia in Venice... . Washington's d...

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Whitewater vapids... Three Stooges at the CIA... what the rich worry about... the $3,80...

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The case against campaign ads... what Clinton could learn from FDR... cigarettes, race,...

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Why banks love rubber checks... the C.I.A.'s Haitian S.I.N... the attack of the Bulgari...

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Nixon's dirtiest trick... How Jackie O lost half a million votes... The Colonial Dames'...

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The law seminar at the Kentucky Derby... the White House correspondents' masseuse... wh...

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How the right blew up Afghanistan... trouble in River City... Double martinis and the B...
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Versailles in the Ozarks... the case for Jimmy Carter... unplug OJ.... what women will ...

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White House tempers... golf's real hazards... Hollywood's sacred cows ... the political...

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Idi Amin and the C.I.A... . OJ.'s trump card... Milton Friedman's love letters... Sun, ...

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Holding court at the Breakers... Uncle Ben in Pakistan ... El Caudillo's cojones... and...

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D'Amato's full house... Unsafe at high speeds... Why "Murder" is number one... Congress...

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Newt takes off... what George Patton could teach Al Gore... What Webster Hubbell should...

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Hospital horrors... Venetian dreams... Kennedy's best and worst... the Roach in the May...

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Iron Mike's babysitters... Steak knives for stockbrokers ... The case for upsizing... a...

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Betsey's complaint... Bruce Babbitt and the private bath... The GOP and the Mob... and ...

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Burning brides for color TVs... Ito's credo... the case against ambulances... and ambul...
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Where Clarence Thomas is Right... The INS and the Playboy Bunny ... The Right Strike......

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Gingrich's broken promises... the fine print of lobbying reform ... legal aid for the c...


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Patty's Revenge... Pushing the Polls ... Blowing the Whistle... and Paying the Price......

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Of Bullets and Nikes... Hitler's Plan for America... Jenny Rodham Jones... David and th...

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The right vouchers... Unsafe at any age ... Ollie's follies... Bring in da tap... and o...

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The Case of the Missing Prints... Pastrami and Pickles... Mrs. Astor and Sunday Styles....

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News-week's ecstacy... Eau d'ACLU... LAPD D.O.A.... The right three strikes... and othe...

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The Post's electric car... The Times's olive oil... UPS's speed-up... Hillary's congeni...

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Madame Chiang Kai-Sean-Penn... The Monthly goes to bat... Massaging the law... and othe...
The Washington Monthly, May 1996, pp. 4-7

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A New Soulmate... The Cali Cartel as a Buy... More on Mrs. Astor... A Comeback for Ferr...

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Lamm-Chopped... The CIA's Trivial Pursuit... Lobbying With Love... The First Beat

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Humidity and Hosiery... Reefer Madness... Shrinking Psychiatry... An Ode to the Zeppeli...

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LBJ's Fear of Impeachment... The CIA's Numbers Game... The Buddy System... The Non Prof...

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Hush Kits... Legal Literati... Buckin' Bagels... Remembering Robinson... The Humphrey D...

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Barry Brings Home the Duck... Come Back, Dolly ... Primal Gere... Hooray, for Cheap Chic

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Rampant Rottweilers... Cheap Coke... Cheap Chic ... Credit-Crazed Juveniles... Yogi Law...

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Remembering Allen... The Ambassador's Secret... Lawyers to the Stars... Looney Libertar...

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Psychic Spooks.. The Breaking Point Task Force... Bubble-Gum Mechanics.. Tom Cruise at ...

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William III... Clean Favors... Dialing for Dollars... The First China Lobby... Natural ...
The Washington Monthly, May 1997, pp. 4-7

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The Joy of Jaywalking... Beauty School Dropouts... How Luciano Got Lucky... D.C.'s Unde...

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Carrot Addiction... The Price of Pro Bono... Downward Devolution... All in the Family.....

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The Nazi's Retirement Plan... Big Wheel Mammas... Gandhi's Sweet Tooth... The Bell Atla...

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The Return of the House Call... FDR's Affairs ... Black and White Justice... The Case o...

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A King's Compliment... Hinckley's Holiday .. Tripp's Step... Ground Truth ... The Case ...

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Julia's Choice... Designing for Polygamy... Auditing the IRS... When the Royalton Wasn'...

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Supreme Procrastinators... Near Misses ... Newt and Bibi... Rudy's Casino ... Rememberi...

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Hillary's Billing... Media Ignorance ... Mountaintop Removal... The Army's Art Speciali...

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Gambling Addicts... Volunteer Slavery... The Pentagon as Turkey Farm... Clinton's Real ...

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Junketing Judges... Killers on the Loose ... Bill Gates, Bully... The Man Who Brought U...
The Washington Monthly, May 1998, pp. 4-7

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Clinton's Candor... Surplus Scientists... Libertarian Lunacy... Push-Polling... Starr's...

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The Folly of Impeachment... Lee's Miserables Shortchanging Students... The Booze Boys ....

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Clever Polluters... Forgotten Films ... Stone Wall Fever... Movers and Shakedowners , U...

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Troops to Teachers... Lawmakers to Lobbyists... Ivy League Cops... Precocious Campaign ...

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Brand Name Schools... Freeh's Favorites... The Missing Macintosh... The Gym Teacher's D...

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Consensual Monitoring... Impecunious Victors A Teacher Who Taught... Detroit's Nazis......

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The Scent of a Rose... Cheapskate Chic... Pornography 101... The Casket Store... Predat...

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A Possible President... Celebrity Journalism... Credit Card Companies Crow... The Toile...

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SAT Tutors... Deadbeat Dads... Protecting Pedestrians... Mitch McConnell's Maker's Mark...

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Bewildered Paratroopers... Blind Truckdrivers... Rampant Nepotism... Paula's Nice Mortg...
The Washington Monthly, May 1999, pp. 4-8

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Beatty vs. the Broadcasters... Florence Nightingale vs. the Bureaucrats... The Septembe...

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Bruce The Innocent... Alms for Buffett... Culinary Cowardice... Brigadier Gigolo... Tak...

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Marxist Medicine... Bankrupt in Bushland... Permanent Temps... Two Sleepy Pilots... Lit...

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Hillary's Pink Blouse... Alan's Threat To Albert... Greed on PBS... The Boomer Space Ra...

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Professional Eyebrow Pluckers... Pruned Tree Trimmers . Drunken Gamblers . . . Zogby th...

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Cyanide in the Fridge... The 36-Hour Stretch... Naomi and Jocelyn... Tips for Terrorist...

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Fleeing Fort Detrick... Dancing at Fort Blossom... Sir John and Lady Bracknell... New P...

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The Beresford's Backyard... Mandy Does It Right... Cracking the Cynic's Code... Switchi...

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Nader's Monks... The Louisiana Sell-Off... The Next Revolution... Red Barns in Iowa... ...

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The Cat Who Kept Me Cool... The Magic of 527... Stickin' It To the Dick Morrises... The...
The Washington Monthly, May 2000, pp. 4-7

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Botox In Botswana... Wise Choices In West Virginia... Gays For the Draft!... Gender-Ben...

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A Dirty Tricks Primer... The Summer of 1940... When Conventions Counted... Five Star To...

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Lady Rilke and Mrs. Miro... The Steward's Daughter... Johann, George Frederick, and Les...

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Snow Jobs... Giant Spies... Hungry Consultants... Jilted Lobbyists... Broken Bridges......

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Lucy Underthings... The Big Number... Competition for the CIA... Terrorism: The Marriag...

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Drunken Pilots . . . Keystone Cops . . . Snobbish Diplomats Balls and Strikes... W as P...

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Royal Credentialism... Rebates for the Rich... Blockbuster Legal Fees... Dangerous Poli...

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Monolingualism at the CIA... The Hazards of E-mail... Rove's Jag... Spy Planes Off Cata...

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The Misery of Coach... Cell-Phone Dementia... Equal Protection for Republicans... Reces...

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Red Light Runners... Ivy Singles... Lady Lawyers... Suspicious Surpluses... Corona and ...
The Washington Monthly, May 2001, pp. 4-8

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The Big Story the Handful of Marshals Fleeing to the Hamptons a Smart Tax Cut the Actor...

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The Right Response to Terrorism... Phlebotomized Uranium Celebrity Chicken Soup... Twee...

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Viagra and the Performing Arts... The Rebate that Isn't... Virtuous Salads and Naughty ...

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Rummy's Retreat... Rural Tribeca... Respirators for Rangers... 43's Four Failures... Th...

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Vice City... Unread Cables... $50 Cocktails... H2 as 007 If W Were Bill... What Democra...

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False Whoops... Senior Screeners... Amorous Profs... Palm Trees in Jalalabad... Canned ...

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Father Pedophile... Four Thrusts... Elderly Terrorists... Atta at Agriculture... Full-F...

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The Reduction of Tom Ridge... Sympathy for the Devil... Tummy Tucks and Templelifts... ...

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Outed Farmers... Plane Too Far... Careless Cooks... Philby of the FBI?... NEC's Shame.....

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Bureaucratic Buddies.. .Pentagon Payoffs.. .White's Flights... Mrs. Iron Triangle.. Jud...
The Washington Monthly, May 2002, pp. 4-7

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The Case for Class Warfare... Piggybacking Plaintiffs... Buena Vista Social Club... By ...

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Market Chic... Meritocratic Mating... 42's 43 percent... Refinancing the Redskins... Si...

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My Favorite Gays... The Grand Conspiracy... Cutting the Tax Cut... Minutes Men... Nixon...

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Zip from Zacarias... Incurious Inspectors... 911 Unplugged District Dysfunction Wall St...

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Above it all... Admiring Cher... Drugless medics...

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Rummy's Doomed Reform... Saddam the Sissy... Woodward the Protector... Broadway's Bad R...

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Sins of Commission... Gubernatorial Lotharios... Drinking With DeLay... The Lobbyist's ...

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Merry Moms... Lieberman's Sex Appeal... Howell's Reign Deep Doo-Doo in Baghdad... Buckl...

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George the Uncurious... Ein News Channel... Draft the Rich Do Maids Really Make It?... ...

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Ashcroft's Approval Rating... The Five-Star Loophole... Osama's Miniskirted Niece... Yo...
The Washington Monthly, May 2003, pp. 4-7

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Pulling out... Tabling the problem. Promoting the messenger...


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Airport Heart Attack Sex and the Sexes The Art of Redefinition Diplomatic Courage

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Coulter v. Cleland...Rich Trippi...Few friends in Fez...Mahatma Arafat...Friedman's Wol...

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Bush v. Jesus...Go directly to jail...Bible Belted List-less...When monster trucks attack

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Guerrillas in the missed...High and mighty...Green zone blues...Monday, bloody Monday

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Full sovereignty?...Our man in Fallujah...Picking on Pickering...Gay old time...What li...

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Hiding the wounded...The SEC-FBI connection...Liberal evangelicals...Fannie's falsie......

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Who buys Viagra?...Media tilt...Both sides...Doctored ratings...Render unto Caesar
The Washington Monthly, May 2004, pp. 4-8

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Faster than a speeding snail...Ahead of the curve...Side effects...Pretty in pink...Bus...

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New Bush lies...The Dixie Chick vote...JFK's in the clutch...Staying the wrong course.....

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The GOP's madam...Bush's light duty...Sweet revenge...The comfort class...Shallow backg...

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The Ayatollah as Miss Manners...Ladies of the night...Ya gotta get up...What would E.B....

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John Roberts, hired gun...the case for political appointees...the Coast Guard, Katrina,...

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The Ostrich Syndrome...Securing Waikiki...Girly-men...Class warfare...Hissing fits

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The biggest junket of all...Chutzpah indeed...When I grow up, I wanna be...The case for...

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What John Bolton got right...Justice belied...Starting over...When Buffett speaks

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King of the Freebies...Lunatics and Dermatologists...What's not to like?...The pussycat...

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On Hurricane Katrina and President Bush

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Why Cheney changed...the CIA's three-car convoys...Finding fresh beer

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The executive ranch...A good lawsuit...It's Obama time

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"Curveball" as sex offender...In defense of Harriet

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Hospital Confidential...Colbert's retort...Going public

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Let them live in cars...Pardon us, Mr. Ford

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Karl's lawyer's earring...Baseball and sex

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The great contracting scandal...Golf course seduction...The Wal-Mart effect

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The Democrats' dilemma...polarization at the Post...the slot machine

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Why they don't fight...Ben Stein's advice

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Get well by 2009...La causa incorrecta...Who knew ethics could taste so good?

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Where would Jesus jet?...I'm sure I saw that anthrax around here somewhere...Obama vs. ...

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Fighting terror in Copenhagen...Milton and me...The new proletariat

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What Bill should have said to Colin...AEI's crusade for human rights...improbable triumphs

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Rove and Gonzales...Barack and Adlai...Olmert and Bush

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Kookoo for Kofi...The battle of the beds...Jesus and Cervantes

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Viva the VA...The Christian left...Good grade inflation
The Washington Monthly, May 2007, pp. 7-10

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Good capitalism...The evils of access...Honest Obe

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Carrie vs. Kerouac...Incompetence: a textbook case...Four thousand funerals and a wedding

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Bush and Lincoln...the unretiring AARP...the responsibles

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Lies and sex...The best and the greediest...We're fresh out of butter---care for more g...

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Correcting Obama...Fire on the flight deck is the least of your concerns...The Golden R...

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What worries me about Obama...Aural sex appeal...Cotton Mather would be proud...By stop...
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A highly paid and able group of journalists failed to get a glimmer of the political st...

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Why Sancho Panza is needed at the White House, and elsewhere.
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