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Ronald Reagan
December 26, 1988
Vint Lawrence
Eraserface
George Bush, cartoonist's nightmare.
September 28, 1987
Morton Kondracke
Who Wants Peace?
August 30, 1987
Morton Kondracke
Cool Hand Duke
March 15, 1987
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
The Imperial Temptation
Reagan’s presidency succumbs.
February 16, 1987
Eric Alterman
Inside Ollie's Mind
September 1, 1986
Brit Hume
Mighty Mouth
Joe Biden turns up the volume.
June 30, 1986
Fred Barnes
White House Watch: Free Lunch Fans
February 3, 1986
Taylor Branch
Uneasy Holiday
How should we honor a man we still don't know?
July 1, 1985
Michael Barker
The End of the Reagan Boom
March 11, 1985
Leon Wieseltier
Nuclear Idealism, Nuclear Realism
May 28, 1984
Michael Kinsley
Home Truths
April 23, 1984
Hendrik Hertzberg
The Mushy Center
March 26, 1984
Christopher J. Matthews
Your Host, Ronald Reagan
From G.E. Theater to the desk in the Oval Office
January 30, 1984
Robert Weisbrot
Celebrating Dr. King’s Birthday
October 30, 1983
Dennis Wrong
Two Cheers For Irving Kristol
August 8, 1983
Henry Fairlie
Scripts for the Pageant
May 16, 1983
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George Shultz, The Nowhere Man
Shultz is a repairman, but we need a strategist.
October 25, 1982
Richard Brownstein, Nina Easton
The Culture of Reaganism
July 12, 1982
Stephen Cohen
It’s a Mad, Mad Verdict
Hinckley got off, but the verdict on the insanity defense is guilty.
November 11, 1981
Samuel H. Beer
The Democratic Temper

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