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Paterson sets wheels in motion
With sorrow, seriousness and a dollop of humor, Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson opened his first full day as governor-in-waiting on Thursday, pledging...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 03/14/08 by Nicholas Confessore New York Times News Service · More from publication -
Independent Counsel
It was around the time Rob Strain realized some of his teachers were confusing the University of Pennsylvania with Penn State that he decided he...
Atlantic, The, 10/01/04 by Nicholas Confessore · More from publication -
Paradise glossed: the problem with David Brooks
A few weeks ago, as news of the torture at Abu Ghraib made its way out to the wider world, David Brooks published a column that many of his readers...
Washington Monthly, 06/01/04 by Nicholas Confessore · More from publication -
Bush's secret stash: why the GOP war chest is even bigger than you think
Like the natural world, campaign finance is governed by inescapable laws of physics. One is that what goes up usually keeps going up: During every...
Washington Monthly, 05/01/04 by Nicholas Confessore · More from publication -
The myth of the democratic establishment: Howard Dean's grassroots rebellion against the power that isn't - Cover Story
It's not hard to discern the strengths that have turned Howard Dean from a dark-horse candidate to the clear frontrunner for the Democratic...
Washington Monthly, 01/01/04 by Nicholas Confessore · More from publication -
Meet the press: how James Glassman reinvented journalism—as lobbying
In the fall of 1999, journalist James K. Glassman and economist Kevin A. Hassett published a book provocatively titled Dow 36,000: The New Strategy...
Washington Monthly, 12/01/03 by Nicholas Confessore · More from publication -
Welcome to the machine: how the GOP disciplined K Street and made Bush supreme
WHEN PRESIDENTS PICK SOMEONE to fill a job in the government, it's typically a very public affair. The White House circulates press releases and...
Washington Monthly, 07/01/03 by Nicholas Confessore · More from publication -
G.I. woe: three years ago, George W. Bush charged that U.S. troops were being intolerably overburdened. Today, our men and women in uniform are stretched even thinner—and it's about to get much worse
DURING THE FALL OF 1999, GEORGE W. Bush, then the governor of Texas and a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, introduced...
Washington Monthly, 03/01/03 by Nicholas Confessore · More from publication -
Comparative advantage: how economist Paul Krugman became the most important political columnist in America
There have always been columnists who, for better or worse, commanded the greatest attention of their day. Think of Walter Lippmann during the...
Washington Monthly, 12/01/02 by Nicholas Confessore · More from publication -
One vote away: Republicans could win control of the entire federal government in November. So why won't the Democrats talk about it? - Cover Story
IF YOU WERE TO CHOOSE A SINGLE RACE that sums up what's at stake this fall, it would have to be the one in South Dakota. To political insiders in...
Washington Monthly, 10/01/02 by Nicholas Confessore · More from publication
