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In our November 29 issue appeared “The Presidential Aptitude Test,” a proposed snap quiz for candidates inspired by George W. Bush’s flunking a test on the names of certain foreign leaders.

The giddy adoration of Alan Greenspan has come to resemble the stock market bubble itself and, when one phenomenon comes to its end, so will the other.

Boris Yeltsin’s sudden resignation as President on New Year’s Eve provoked ritual praise of his legacy by the same editorial voices that have been championing him for nine years as Russia’s great

Isn’t it curious how often the policy disaster that is posited as the thing that will never happen takes place within minutes?

Conservatives cannot explain
Just why reporters boost McCain.
It seems an odd way to express
The liberal bias of the press.

Our New Year’s number is a mother goose with three eggs tucked behind. It could be a sign of cryptic rhymes and unhatched possibilities–or maybe of silliness, tailed by a lot of nothing.

The Color of School Reform represents the kind of scholarship that by rights should influence the design of smart policy.

The cold war has been over for a decade but it lingers on the American home front.

Dentists and cardiologists warn their patients about plaque, harmful to both teeth and arteries.