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Articles in April 6, 2009 issue of National Review

• Girly from the start
  by Michael J. New
• Movies with messages
  by Sonja Rossett
• Perhaps somebody should advise the suave diplomats in the Obama administration
• David Broder sounded the call, just before the spring peepers: "The Obama honeymoon is over."
• In his first weeks on the job as chairman of the RNC, Michael Steele has been a gaffe-production factory
• The Rush wars continue with a Newsweek cover story by David Frum
• Charles Freeman withdrew his name from consideration for the chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council after being criticized, mostly for his ties to the Saudis and his support for China's crackdown on democracy activists in Tiananmen Square
• On the matter of insurance giant AIG, President Obama has been milking two issues—employee bonuses and payments to foreign counterparties—but he is talking through his hat
• As usual, Congress failed to pass its annual appropriations bills on time
• Obama's budget director, Peter Orszag, said the administration might be open to taxing employer-provided health benefits
• Diplomacy by bumper sticker: the Obama administration should reset its Russia policy
  by John R. Bolton
• University aid: it is education bureaucrats, not students, who will profit from the president's proposals
  by John Hood
• Bush's India triumph: an overlooked achievement
  by Duncan Currie
• Eastern exposure: the economic downturn will be much worse for China than for America
  by Gordon G. Chang
• Black and white and dead all over: the decline of newspapers—and what it portends for conservatives
  by James V. Delong
• Democrats and businessmen, sitting in a tree … big corporations love free enterprise, as long as it isn't too free
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Media realism: how the GOP should handle increasingly biased journalists
  by Edward W. Gillespie
• Out of the freezer: at last, some questions on in vitro fertilization
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• 'The war that has to be won': but will our soldiers be given the chance to win it?
  by Bing West
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Obama's new Math
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Mexico threatened to impose new tariffs on American products in response to a move by Congress to block Mexican truckers at the border
• While rescinding President Bush's stem-cell-research funding policies, President Obama congratulated himself for keeping politics out of science
• At his March 10 speech on education, Obama was not so bold as to take credit for inventing the Internet
• Obama's wartime detention policy takes cynicism to new heights
• During the campaign, then-Senator Obama ripped Bush's use of executive signing statements, issued upon the signing of legislation into law
• For decades the Voting Rights Act has been read to forbid any changes to the borders of congressional districts that would "dilute" the political power of blacks and Hispanics
• Not many people get excited about "federal preemption," but what is at issue is how much of the national economy trial lawyers get to carve up
• With at least 3 percent of the population infected with HIV, possibly twice that number, AIDS stands at epidemic rates in Washington, D.C
• China has enjoyed a surge of growth comparable to the biblical seven fat years, fueled largely by exports to the United States
• The first foreign-policy crisis of George W. Bush's presidency came in April 2001, when the Chinese forced down a U.S. surveillance plane
• When British prime minister Gordon Brown called on Barack Obama
• France is rejoining NATO, Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy has announced
• Two British soldiers stationed in Northern Ireland were members of a unit on the eve of being posted to Afghanistan
• Obama has sent what the New York Times describes as a "secret letter" to Russian president Dmitri Medvedev
• There are few U.S. ambassadorships as important as the one in Iraq
• You know what the Obamites say about their predecessors, the George W. Bushies: They were a bunch of diplomatic blunderers, when they were deigning to try diplomacy at all
• Our great friends the Saudis have a way of setting the highest standards in cruelty
• For years, people have feared that Pakistan is about to become a failed state
• Back in 1985 the Hanshin Tigers, a Japanese baseball team, won their first Central League championship in 21 years
• Our bathroom correspondent alerts us to the growing popularity in East Asia of the Modern Toilet restaurant chain
• Adidas has been marketing a hat showing the hammer and sickle
• Through her 50 years on toy-store shelves, Barbie, the ectomorphic doll who goes Hollywood starlets one better by being made entirely of plastic
• Great hopes have been invested in President Obama, and those hopes can be a little creepy
• It's an age-old story: A law is passed; bureaucrats devise a blizzard of rules to enforce it
• Ross Douthat, a former NR intern and our current film critic, was tapped to be an op-ed columnist for the New York Times
• Ron Silver had a splendid career on screen , on stage , and on TV
• Schuyler Chapin was many things in life: Jascha Heifetz's tour manager, head of the Metropolitan Opera, dean of the Columbia School of the Arts, and so on
• Did NR, Inc., ever have a more cheerful employee than Jerry Garvey?
• Signs of life
• The truth of Chile
  by Mark Falcoff
• Golden idyll
  by Meghan Cox Gurdon
• Take five
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Shelf life
  by Michael Potemra
• From Sonnets from the Dark Lady
  by Jennifer Reeser
• Who will watch them?
  by Ross Douthat
• Shooting like a gentleman
  by John Derbyshire