Policy made plain.

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• Forgetting Afghanistan And forgiving John Walker.
  Michael Kinsley Dec. 14, 2001
  
• The Genius of Ari Fleischer Rummy's a dummy in comparison.
  Michael Kinsley Dec. 6, 2001
  
• The Incoherent Embryophile Bush's position on cloning makes no sense.
  Michael Kinsley Nov. 29, 2001
  
• Consuming Gets Complicated 
  Michael Kinsley Nov. 21, 2001
  
• Osama Done Told Me So how come media objectivity is suddenly a bad thing?
  Michael Kinsley Nov. 8, 2001
  
• Is Disappearing  What TV news doing to our precious verbs. 
  Michael Kinsley Nov. 1, 2001
  
• Bipartisanship Etiquette  
  Michael Kinsley Oct. 25, 2001
  
• An Agenda for Victory 
  Michael Kinsley Oct. 16, 2001
  
• New York Becomes Seattle Never mind anthrax—how should New Yorkers deal with their niceness epidemic?
  Michael Kinsley Oct. 12, 2001
  
• Defining Terrorism It's essential. It's also impossible. 
  Michael Kinsley Oct. 5, 2001
  
• Racial Profiling at the Airport Discrimination we're afraid to be against.
  Michael Kinsley Sept. 29, 2001
  
• Has Everything Changed? Maybe not. 
  Michael Kinsley Sept. 21, 2001
  
• Democracy Hypochondria A Presidential Commission endorses a nutty complaint.
  Michael Kinsley Aug. 3, 2001
  
• Social Security Magic Tricks  
  Michael Kinsley July 27, 2001
  
• Flagging Interest  
  Michael Kinsley July 20, 2001
  
• Unfair Shares  
  Michael Kinsley July 13, 2001
  
• Shining C Land of opportunity, Bush-style.
  Michael Kinsley July 6, 2001
  
• Two Little Words Hey, boys and girls, let's play "strict construction" with the words "advice" and "consent." 
  Michael Kinsley June 29, 2001
  
• Liberalism a la Mode The "patients' bill of rights" is the perfect piece of legislation for our time. Is that good?
  Michael Kinsley June 22, 2001
  
• Pandora's Cable Box  State-of-the-art customer relations.
  Michael Kinsley June 15, 2001
  
• Trent Lott's Stages of Grief  
  Michael Kinsley June 5, 2001
  
• Triumph of the Dorks 
  Michael Kinsley May 25, 2001
  
• Missile Defense: A Third Strike This column struck first. Charles Krauthammer struck back. The mutually assured deconstruction goes on. 
  Michael Kinsley May 18, 2001
  
• It's Not Just the Internet Almost no one pays for content in any medium. 
  Michael Kinsley May 11, 2001
  
• Still MAD "Mutually assured destruction" hasn't gone away, and neither has its logic.
  Michael Kinsley May 4, 2001
  
• There's More Than One Way To Peel a Shrimp (Old American saying.)
  Michael Kinsley April 27, 2001
  
• Poisoning the Well Bush is right about arsenic. Damn! 
  Michael Kinsley April 13, 2001
  
• Dead Wrong The estate tax doesn't double-dip, and they know it. 
  Michael Kinsley April 6, 2001
  
• Confessions of a McCain-Feingold Criminal If I go down, I'm taking the Washington Post down with me. 
  Michael Kinsley March 30, 2001
  
• Free Speech for George W. Let the president say what he likes about the economy. 
  Michael Kinsley March 23, 2001
  
• Quid Pro Quo Pros A little influence peddling between friends. 
  Michael Kinsley March 16, 2001
  
• O'Reilly Among the Snobs It takes one to know one.
  Michael Kinsley March 2, 2001
  
• Corporate Emotions If you prick IBM, does it not bleed?
  Michael Kinsley Feb. 23, 2001
  
• Reagan's Record II Did he win the Cold War?
  Michael Kinsley Feb. 16, 2001
  
• Reagan's Record Sorry to spoil the birthday party, but …
  Michael Kinsley Feb. 9, 2001
  
• Bush the Keynesian Oh, so the president does control the economy after all?
  Michael Kinsley Feb. 2, 2001
  
• God Bless You and ... You know the rest. 
  Michael Kinsley Jan. 26, 2001
  
• Confirmation: The Rules  What matters and what ought to matter.
  Michael Kinsley Jan. 19, 2001
  
• Microsoft à la Hollywood A new movie argues that software should be free. Try getting in without buying a ticket.
  Michael Kinsley Jan. 12, 2001