Conservatives Beware
By E.J. Dionne —
What’s the matter with conservatism? Its problems start with the failure of George W. Bush’s presidency but they don’t end there.

Greed Is Not Good
By Marie Cocco —
The housing crisis brings to mind Gordon Gekko, that fictitious ambassador of Wall Street whose words, then and now, reminds us why uninhibited capitalism just doesn’t work.

The Next 4,000
By Eugene Robinson —
Four thousand. When U.S. military deaths in Iraq hit a round number, as happened Sunday, there’s usually a week or so of intense focus on the war—its bogus rationale, its nebulous aims, its awful consequences for the families of the dead. Not likely this time, though.