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...chemical weapons in Iraq. “People always misremember their own views,” Allison said. This is why the man who once worked next to Colin Powell likes to make his own “track record” to keep himself and his colleagues honest about the quality of their judgment. Allison’s preferred form is a betting book in which he records the wagers he and his fellow policy experts are willing to make about the future. His colleagues “place small bets” on their predictions—just...
...honest about the worry that lies behind that reticence: What happens when the public finds out the press is full of Democrats? (An msnbc report last year found that of more than 100 journalists who made political donations, the vast majority gave to the Dems.) If people knew this-or knew, say, that a certain cable-news network tilted pro-Bush-would they trust us less? Hey, maybe they should. And maybe we should view their criticism as a help, not an annoyance...
...constituency’s feeling of betrayal is made all the more potent by his duplicity, and his reputation is all the more tarnished by the lies at its base. Simply put, it comes as a bigger blow to discover that Spitzer was a crooked man wearing an honest man’s mask than if we had known him to be crooked all along. New York is surely weary of sanctimonious politicians who say one thing and do another. Incoming governor David A. Paterson has inherited a difficult situation from Eliot Spitzer, but hopefully he will assume the office...
...drugs combined with an incisive view of the internal workings of politics. Season four examined the crumbling schools and the children who No Child Left Behind leaves behind. And season five, which ended Sunday night, wrapped up the series with a penetrating look at the death of honest journalism...
...honest, I do feel a little guilty about not supporting the first woman with a legitimate chance of becoming the most powerful person in the world. But if I were to vote for Hillary Clinton solely on the basis of her gender, is that really a vote of confidence for the feminist movement? In fact, it’s reverse discrimination—a problematic solution to a serious problem...