Word: wrongheadedness
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Yet his column has evolved over the past four years into a bully pulpit for criticizing George W. Bush and his administration, accusing the White House of pursuing wrongheaded fiscal policies and telling outright lies to promote them.
On May 2, a special three-judge panel struck down several key provisions of the landmark Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act. The act, popularly known as McCain-Feingold, closes loopholes in existing laws that allow wealthy special interest groups to spend unlimited sums of money on political candidates. McCain-Feingold...
Some influential Americans, including senior Pentagon political appointees, argue that Washington's current concerns are short-term, and that it is China that presents the abiding challenge to American might. In fact, the Bush Administration came into office focused on Beijing as its likely long-term security headache. At the...
Social unrest, militant unions, wrongheaded economic policy and rapacious local businessmen out to gain by hook or by crook contribute to what global investors call "political risk." It's something Indonesia has in spades. In June, in an apparent power struggle with its former Indonesian partner, a local unit of...
Still, I think I would rather have dinner--in Belgrade or Islamabad or Jerusalem--with people like Daniel Pearl than with either the faculty of Harvard University or the first 100 names in the Boston telephone book. Why? It's their knowledgeable, companionable talk, the stories that their curiosity has...