Born and bred in New York, John Podhoretz is the editor of Commentary Magazine, and a former editorial-page editor of The Post. He is also the co-founder of the Weekly Standard, where he serves as film critic. He is the author of three books, including the bestselling Bush Country.
If Barack Obama loses next November, we'll look back on Sunday -- July 31, 2011 -- as the day he became a one-termer. He demonstrated the one key quality common to all unsuccessful leaders: Haplessness. In the...
August 02, 2011 12:00 AM
Pull up a chair and grab some popcorn, because it looks like Washington is about to light a match and burn the economy to the ground, and I'm sure you want a front-row seat. Oh, you think Washington already did...
July 27, 2011 12:00 AM
The debt-ceiling crisis is a perfect example of a man made political disaster: Both parties have summoned a whirlwind upon themselves. Earlier this year, conservative Republicans in and out of the House of...
July 22, 2011 12:00 AMBarack Obama says the federal debt ceiling must be raised, that it would be calamitous and unprecedented and horrible and nightmarish and terrible if it were not raised. Then he says he won't agree to raise it...
July 12, 2011 12:00 AMIt's a complex story that looks like a simple one. The simple version goes like this: Four years ago, The People Who Know Better Than You decided Americans should no longer be allowed to purchase an incandescent light...
June 28, 2011 12:00 AMYes, the footage is horrible, and the vulgar confrontation it depicts deeply discomfiting, but the truth is that Anthony Weiner got what he deserved yesterday in a resignation event almost as gross as his personal and...
June 17, 2011 12:00 AM
David Mamet tells me he's like the character in one of the greatest comedies ever written, Moliere's "The Bourgeois Gentleman," who declares: "Good heavens! For more than 40 years I have been speaking prose without...
June 10, 2011 12:00 AMCongratulations, Anthony Weiner. You are now officially the Twit of the Millennium. It was once said of Weiner's mentor that the most dangerous place in Washington was between Chuck Schumer and a camera. Yesterday,...
June 07, 2011 12:00 AM
You, being an upstanding person and a credit to society, probably haven't sought out the notorious photograph of a man's crotch that appeared on Twitter under Rep. Anthony Weiner's name last Friday. Alas, I have seen...
June 02, 2011 12:00 AMThe score: Bibi 3, Bar ack 0. In a demonstration of political and policy haplessness almost without precedent, the president of the United States decided last week for the third time in three years to go after a...
May 25, 2011 12:00 AM
President Obama gave a very important address yesterday on the Middle East, with some stuff thrown in. Afterward, the stuff thrown in was getting all the attention. At the end of a very long and powerful speech on...
May 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself. I first encountered the newly de clared presidential candidate in 1985, as he was breaking out as an insurgent Republican in the House. What I...
May 12, 2011 12:00 AMHe has paid. Osama bin Laden spent nearly a decade scurrying on spindly legs like a hairy arachnid through a web of his own construction to avoid American justice -- until, at last, as President Obama said last night...
May 02, 2011 12:00 AMIt would be bad enough to compare the Obama White House to the New York Mets of today -- but right now, the Obama White House would be lucky to be merely that bad. What it resembles most closely is the fabled rookie...
April 28, 2011 12:00 AMThe reliably liberal New Yorker magazine isn't usually in the habit of presenting gifts to the Republican Party, but it has just published three little words that may prove central to the GOP effort to defeat President...
April 26, 2011 12:00 AMPresident Obama spent 40 minutes yesterday treating the ambitious, far-reaching but completely unofficial long-term budget plan of an unknown Republican congressman as though it were the platform of his 2012 GOP rival...
April 14, 2011 12:00 AMCall it the greatest story ever oversold: the government shutdown that wasn’t. You would have thought, if you had gone on Twitter this week and followed the minute-by-minute commentary of the Washington pundit class,...
April 10, 2011 12:00 AM
After three months of hell, Mayor Bloomberg finally put Cathie Black out of her misery as schools chancellor -- a fiendishly difficult and complicated job that he was foolish to have offered her and that she was...
April 08, 2011 12:00 AMIf president Obama had given the speech he gave last night 10 days ago when he committed our military forces to enforce the no-fly zone over Libya, he would have had the best week of his presidency since the fall of...
March 29, 2011 12:00 AM
Throughout the Arab world, ordinary people by the thousands and millions are clamoring for political change that will alter their lives for the better. Meanwhile, in the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the...
March 24, 2011 12:00 AM
This past week, Hillary Clinton and a political analyst who famously called her a “monster” teamed up to convince President Obama to act in Libya. When Samantha Power said Mrs. Clinton was a monster, Power was working...
March 20, 2011 12:00 AMWhere is the president? The world is beset. Moammar Khadafy is moving relentlessly to crush the Libyan revolt that once promised the overthrow of one of the world's most despicable regimes. So where is the president?...
March 16, 2011 1:38 PM
Where is the president? The world is beset. Moammar Khadafy is moving relentlessly to crush the Libyan revolt that once promised the overthrow of one of the world's most despicable regimes. So where is the...
March 16, 2011 12:00 AM
The White House is worried: The Libyan crisis and the general instability in the Middle East have led to spiraling gas prices. The president wanted to show the American people he knows it's a problem. So he staged...
March 12, 2011 12:00 AM
Once again, The New York Times is carrying water for a terrorist -- in this case, Lori Berenson, who openly acknowledges she was a "collaborator" with one of the two groups that plunged Peru into what may have been the...
March 04, 2011 12:00 AM
For months now, Republicans have turned to each other and said, "Who's the candidate?" President Obama is vulnerable in 2012, clearly, but you can't beat something with nothing, and right now, the GOP field looks...
February 23, 2011 12:00 AM
Everybody is baffled by President Obama's budget proposal. Even, it seems, President Obama. He said on Tuesday that it was full of "tough choices," even as he was acknowledging that he'd refused to make any choices...
February 17, 2011 12:00 AMNow comes the hard part. The glori ous spectacle of a non-violent upris ing that has deposed a 30-year des pot in 18 days without firing a shot is giving way to the most delicate and most complicated foreign-policy...
February 12, 2011 12:00 AMThe anti-Mubarak revolution won't only topple an authoritarian regime. It will also topple 40-plus years of wrong-headed thinking about the causes of Middle East instability among the world's foreign-policy cognoscenti...
January 31, 2011 12:00 AMNever before in the annals of national moments of mourning have the words spoken been so wildly mismatched by the spirit in which they were received. The sentences and paragraphs of President Obama's speech last...
January 13, 2011 12:00 AM
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