PostPartisan Archive: Applebaum
Why Should We Care About the Nobel?
Why did they give it to him, did he deserve it, should he have accepted it, who else should have gotten it: The nation is speaking of nothing else except President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. Here is a...
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October 9, 2009; 5:25 PM ET |
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Reaction to Roman Polanski
Of all the many and unexpected responses I received to my four-paragraph blog post on Roman Polanski, two struck me as worthy of reaction. Here is the first, from an online comment: Hey Ann Applebaum do you have a...
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September 29, 2009; 7:28 AM ET |
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The Outrageous Arrest of Roman Polanski
Of all nations, why was it Switzerland -- the country that traditionally guarded the secret bank accounts of international criminals and corrupt dictators -- that finally decided to arrest Roman Polanski? There must be some deeper story here, because...
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September 27, 2009; 3:13 PM ET |
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The Art of the Insult in the House of Commons
Can you call the British prime minister a liar when he is speaking in the House of Commons? As a former holder of a House of Commons press pass, I have been asked by my colleagues to rule on...
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September 11, 2009; 7:55 AM ET |
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Obama at Buchenwald
I do realize that President Obama was in Buchenwald yesterday to celebrate the concentration camp’s liberation by American troops in 1945. He might, however, have given more than a split second’s attention to what happened at that camp immediately...
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June 6, 2009; 6:20 AM ET |
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That Nancy Reagan Crack
His first press conference! His first gaffe! President-elect Obama, asked whether he had spoken to any of his predecessors since the election said he'd talked to all of those who were alive. However, he joked, "I didn't want to...
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November 8, 2008; 1:17 PM ET |
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