Gene Healy

R.I.P. National Greatness Conservatism, 1997-2012

R.I.P. National Greatness Conservatism, 1997-2012

Gene Healy · November 26, 2012 5:00 am

FILE - In this June 29, 2010 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Let’s hear it for scandal!

Gene Healy · November 19, 2012 5:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks at the annual Veterans Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The Right should re-rethink presidential power

Gene Healy · November 12, 2012 5:00 am

People putting political symbols in box

Election 2012: Let’s hear it for cynicism

Gene Healy · November 5, 2012 5:00 am

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. Drones are often called the weapon of choice of the Obama administration, which quadrupled drone strikes against al-Qaida targets in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, up from less than 50 under the Bush administration to more than 220 in the past three years. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Drone-war double-think

Gene Healy · October 29, 2012 4:00 am

President Barack Obama waves as he returns to the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, after campaigning in Iowa and Ohio. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

A false idol, a loaded weapon

Gene Healy · October 22, 2012 4:00 am

President Barack Obama makes phone calls to volunteers at an Organizing for America field office with Suzanne Stern, right, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

’90 Days’ and no good reasons

Gene Healy · October 15, 2012 4:00 am

Hubris is not a strategy, either

Hubris is not a strategy, either

Gene Healy · October 8, 2012 4:00 am

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein delivers her acceptance speech at the Green Party's convention in Baltimore on Saturday, July 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Laura-Chase McGehee)

Open up the debates!

Gene Healy · October 1, 2012 4:00 am

United States Electoral College Map

Down with politics

Gene Healy · September 24, 2012 4:00 am

The unholy spirit of presidential activism

The unholy spirit of presidential activism

Gene Healy · September 17, 2012 4:00 am

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: (SEPTEMBER 11 RETROSPECTIVE) Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images)

9/11 and its legacy of fear

Gene Healy · September 10, 2012 4:00 am