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Suzanne Fields (May 11, 2012)
Rick Santorum endorses Mitt Romney, the man he once described as the "worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama." The presumptive nominee... more
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Suzanne Fields (Apr 27, 2012)
President Obama waxed eloquent at the Holocaust Museum in Washington this week, speaking of the men and women commemorated there as "a testament to the endurance and... more
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Suzanne Fields (Apr 20, 2012)
Rosen vs. Romney is not exactly high noon at the Powder Puff Arena. But it provides an insight or two in the gender games at the center of the culture: Trendy lesbian working... more
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Suzanne Fields (Apr 13, 2012)
BERLIN -- Three Jewish women, each the wife of a German Christian, celebrated Passover together this year and invited me to the feast.
One of the wives is a classical... more
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Suzanne Fields (Apr 06, 2012)
No one ever would call Mitt Romney a rock star, even onstage with a Gibson SG Standard finished in vintage sunburst with a mahogany body, baked maple fingerboard and two... more
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Suzanne Fields (Mar 30, 2012)
The Internet is the latest tool for compassionate activism. When the sights of Angelina Jolie's leg goes viral, she magnifies her female celebrity by focusing attention on... more
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Suzanne Fields (Mar 23, 2012)
"Moderate Republican" wasn't always an oxymoron, but now it is. Politics is about opposites in search of compromise, and moderates only make fat targets in crossfire, shot by... more
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Suzanne Fields (Mar 16, 2012)
You don't have to be an elderly Aunt Agatha to remember when feminism was about equal rights and equal pay. In those heady days of righteousness unbound, not all women... more
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Suzanne Fields (Mar 09, 2012)
The Republicans still have a lot of bullets in the magazine. Mitt Romney's tin ear, Rick Santorum's gag reflex, Newt Gingrich's endless pomposity and Ron Paul's narrow-minded... more
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Suzanne Fields (Mar 02, 2012)
Rick Santorum is making social conservatives look bad. While President Obama sets off class warfare and exploits natural income inequality, Santorum appeals to the lowest... more
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Suzanne Fields (Feb 24, 2012)
If you're tired of watching the Republican debates, tune in Sunday night to the Academy Awards presentations. The night will show off beautiful eye candy for both men and... more
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Suzanne Fields (Feb 17, 2012)
Only Americans of a certain age remember what the holiday on the third Monday in February is all about. I asked a few high-school students the other day what it is, exactly,... more
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Suzanne Fields (Feb 10, 2012)
Every campaign has a storyline, a theme -- one written by the candidate's spinners, another by the opposition's trimmers and one, usually the accurate one, hidden... more
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Suzanne Fields (Feb 03, 2012)
"I don't smoke, and I don't chew, and I don't go out with girls who do." My, how times have changed since kids amused each other with schoolyard... more
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Suzanne Fields (Jan 27, 2012)
There's a debate just behind the Republican search for a winning candidate, just at the edges of President Obama's campaign for re-election, about whether America is... more
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Suzanne Fields (Jan 20, 2012)
Presidential campaigns are notorious for unleashing scurrilous rhetoric. Only George Washington was elected as an uncontroversial reflection of the nation's will. Then we got... more
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Suzanne Fields (Jan 13, 2012)
Mitt Romney is learning what candidates before him learned. Small mistakes count, but usually not for much. But big ones can put a man down for the count. Right now, his... more
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Suzanne Fields (Jan 06, 2012)
What a country. Between the tears and triumphs, the angry accusations and the grudging admiration, the repetitive epithets and the evocative patriotism, the race in Iowa ends... more