The New Republic

This would be akin to Henry Waxman declaring health care reform dead: READ MORE >>

With Liz Cheney's gradually rising profile, does anyone else smell a new political dynasty in the making? I know. I know. She has a toxic last name (for now). But she's bright, attractive, and (at least when I chatted with her several years ago) exceedingly personable. Plus, she's a chick (with five adorable kiddies, no less) in a party that's desperate for XX voters. READ MORE >>

My last name--and that of the police sergeant who arrested the Harvard professor--becomes a verb at the end of the audio now at the top of Boston.com. For the record: No relation. "Crowley" consumes about three pages in the Boston phone book. --Michael Crowley READ MORE >>

Tennessee GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn wants to make sure we don't expand the definition of "emergency" to include trifling inconveniences that kill thousands of Americans or hundreds of thousands of people abroad: READ MORE >>

I'm not holding my breath: READ MORE >>

I feel like this episode isn't getting the attention it deserves: The recent aborted voyage of a North Korean ship, photographs of massive tunnels and a secret meeting have raised concern that one of the world's poorest nations may be aspiring to join the nuclear club — with help from its friends in Pyongyang. READ MORE >>

In reviewing a new collection of essays by Timothy Garton Ash, John Gray writes: READ MORE >>

Elsewhere on the site, John McWhorter discusses Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's arrest last week. McWhorter notes that he, too, has been racially profiled, and he urges conservatives and others skeptical of "identity poiltics" to take the issue seriously. Here's another interesting thought that he develops: READ MORE >>

This overstatement of the day comes courtesy of Neil Cavuto, Fox Business host, during an interview with South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint: MR. CAVUTO: You are now, by virtue of these comments [about healthcare being Obama's waterloo] and others in recent months, perhaps the most prominent Republican in the country. --Isaac Chotiner READ MORE >>

She tried to resist: She also offered fresh details on Mr. Obama’s political courtship of her in the days after the election to join his cabinet, saying she had first declined and given him names of people she thought would do a good job. Mrs. Clinton said the president, with repeated phone calls, wore down her resistance. --Michael Crowley READ MORE >>