Policy made plain.

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• Sold! Goodbye, Bill G. Hello, Don G.
  Jacob Weisberg Dec. 21, 2004
  
• Show Us Your Ballots Our case for journalistic disclosure.
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 26, 2004
  
• 350 Tax Increases? President Bush applies the Powell Doctrine to running for re-election.
  Michael Kinsley March 23, 2004
  
• The Pragmatists' Primary Desperately seeking electability.
  Michael Kinsley Feb. 5, 2004
  
• Never Say Die Candidates who aren't conceding anything.
  Michael Kinsley Jan. 29, 2004
  
• The State of Compassion After four years of "compassionate conservatism"—what is it?
  Michael Kinsley Jan. 22, 2004
  
• Blind, Deaf, and Lame No one listened to Paul O'Neill. Here's why.
  Michael Kinsley Jan. 15, 2004
  
• Free Trade Butters "I'm for free trade but" usually means you're not for free trade at all.
  Michael Kinsley Jan. 8, 2004
  
• Novak Agonistes When two Washington dramas intertwine, the result is comedy.
  Michael Kinsley Jan. 2, 2004