washingtonpost.com - Harold Meyerson -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com)Harold Meyerson writes about politics and policy for The Washington Post's op-ed page.McCain on the Red Phone- March 26, 2008 It is 3 a.m., and the stillness of the White House night is shattered by the ringing of the red phone. President John McCain, rousing himself from a deep sleep, turns on the light and picks up the receiver. A U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country, he is told, has been blown up, and al-Qaeda is taking credit.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032502294.html?nav=r... A New New Deal- March 20, 2008 Putting together everything we've learned over the past 10 days about high finance in Manhattan, one thing is clear: If Eliot Spitzer had saved all the money he apparently paid"Kristen" and her co-workers at the Emperors Club, he could have bought Bear Stearns.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031902779.html?nav=r... What $5,500 an Hour Buys- March 12, 2008 Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace (and very soon, it seems, from power) raises a host of serious concerns, not least our ongoing and often ludicrous conflation of the personal and the political in matters of morals. But flawed mortal that I am, I confess I keep coming back to one detail as this gloomy tale unfolds: $5,500.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102463.html?nav=r... Where's the Exit Strategy- March 6, 2008 In "The Exterminating Angel," a 1962 film by Luis Buuel, the great Spanish anarcho-surrealist director, the guests at a dinner party find that, mysteriously, they cannot leave. Though there are no external constraints to their exiting, none can cross the threshold of the music room to which they've adjourned. For days and days they stay, some growing to hate one another, some lapsing into despair and most eventually determining to sacrifice their host in the hope that killing him will set them..http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030502891.html?nav=r... |