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Brian M. Goldsmith
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Moving On
This column, now in the hearse on the way to its burial, has been lucky. Except for those few appearances
To End a Wobble
Any smart politico will tell you: the fundamental reason Democrats lost in 2004 is because the party seemed wobbly on
I-Bankers and TV Weathermen
If you were having lunch with Ken Mehlman, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, and you asked him,
Mighty Casey Gets to Bat
One of politics’ best-known urban myths is almost ready for its Bar Mitzvah. Twelve years and nine months ago, Bob
Something About Larry
Let’s be clear about one thing: 218 Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors (out of 690) secretly voted lack-of-confidence in
Innate-gate
If politics is the world’s second oldest profession (and one that—as Ronald Reagan said—bears a “striking resemblance to the first”),
“Yeeeeaaaaggggh!”
First of all—and, oh, how I wished I would never write these words again—Howard Dean matters. Yes, the governors and
New Year's Party
If Angus King worked in Washington, he would have a hard time celebrating the New Year. The sixty year old
Terminating California's Future
Apparently everybody’s heard of this Arnold Schwarzenegger fellow, my home-state elected governor. And everybody’s heard how he dead-lifted that hapless
Our America
A warm and generous friend of mine, a Harvard alumna, worked 18-hour days on President Bush’s re-election campaign. She sacrificed
Campaign Postmortem
Alex Sanders—the South Carolina judge, humorist, and politician, and a hero of mine—likes to say that “those who cannot remember
All the President's Manicures
Two weeks ago, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” “reported” the Bush campaign’s latest discovery about John Kerry’s past: that “he
The Democrats' Innovation Gap
In the 1980s, Democrats used to get accused of Blaming America First—siding with some socialist guerilla, U.N. potentate or foreign
Zell Miller's Disease
Let’s not get former Al Gore supporter/current George W. Bush supporter Zell Miller any angrier about those cynical political flip-floppers.
Harvard's Convention
BOSTON—Are we sure the FleetCenter isn’t in Harvard Square? Headstrong about avoiding the I-banker/consultant pack and charting a more solitary
