Jill Lawrence National Journal Story Archive, 2012-2013 Republicans Might Be Mad at John Kasich, But Voters Won't

Be The Truthiness of Rand Paul Relax, GOP! You've Already Wounded Obamacare Senator Gridlock Rides to the Rescue, and Possibly Reelection Ted Cruz Is Almost Famous. That Doesn't Mean He's Almost President. What Happened to 'Compassionate' Conservatives? Why Delaying Obamacare Could Ultimately Do As Much Damage as Defunding Republicans Deserve Some Credit For Health Exchanges Virginia Isn't the Place Ken Cuccinelli Thinks It Is Former House Leaders Say the Current Group Has It Rough Obama Says Hes Not Worried About Style Points. He Should Be. How to Beat the Senate Minority Leader Obamacare Showdown Over a Ham Breakfast in Kentucky Business Tries to Tame Tea-Party Conservatives It Helped Elect This Townhouse of Cards Wait, Marco Rubio Would Shut Down the Government Over Obamacare? Why Is Martin O'Malley Channeling Jimmy Carter? What If John Kerry Outperforms Hillary Clinton as Americas Top Diplomat? Huma and Anthony Are Not Like Hillary and Bill What's Keeping Women From Getting Presidential Buzz? Hillary Clinton. Could Chuck Schumer Be the Next Ted Kennedy? Obamas Economic Plan: Circumvent Congress and Cross Fingers for 2014

Obama Had to Say Something about Trayvon Martin, and Americans Needed to Hear It Democrats Couch Time is Over on Obamacare The Senate Deal Doesnt Help Obama on Judges, and Thats What Matters Most Grant Colfax, Director, Office of National AIDS Policy Gil Kerlikowske, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy Cecilia Munoz, Director, Domestic Policy Council The Senate Deal Doesnt Help Obama on Judges, and Thats What Matters Most The Myth of Marco Rubios Immigration Problem Do Women Make Better Senators Than Men? How Conservatives are Helping Democrats for 2014 Is Hillary Clinton Peaking Too Soon? Are You Really Sure You Want to Block That Nominee? Memo to Snowden: Don't Try This in Ecuador (or Russia or Cuba or Venezuela or Hong Kong) Is It Time to Take Martin OMalley Seriously? Bob McDonnell Could Have Been a GOP MVP. But His Party May Have to Do Without Him. Argo and New Resolve on Capitol Hill Could Finally Bring Justice to the 1979 Iran Hostages Families of the 1979 Iran Hostages Write a Father's Day Letter to Senators Why PRISM is Different and Scarier Than Other NSA Spying Obama Won't Be the Last Wartime President to Break the Rules What Michele Bachmann Taught Women About Running for President Why Anthony Weiner Shouldn't Bank on Forgiveness in the New York Mayoral Race Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting for Public Opinion to Turn Against Obama Obama Goes on the Offensive, Hold the Charm

How Obama Could Start Fixing the IRS Why the AP Phone Records Bombshell Could Threaten Eric Holder's Job Will the Benghazi and IRS Probes Do More Damage to Obama or the GOP? Terry McAuliffe's Woman Problem The Most Bogus Argument Against New Gun Laws Has Washington Given Up on the Economy? The New Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy on Jobs Dennis Miller and Bill O'Reilly Counterprogram the White House Correspondents Dinner Hispanics Actually Don't Share Republican 'Faith and Family' Values Three Democrats Figure Out How to Praise Bush Will George W. Bush Ever Get Historians on His Side? Boston Bombings Create Three New Stress Points for Obama Why Law Enforcement Worked So Hard to Take Boston Bombings Suspect No. 2 Alive Why John McCain Is Barack Obamas New Best Friend The Boston Bombings Could Help a State Get Beyond Its Liberal Stereotype After the Gun-Control Defeat, How to Counter the Passion Gap Changing Sides on Medicare and Social Security Is a Time-Honored Tactic Tough Gun Votes Could End Careers on Capitol Hill CNN's Crossfire Revival Might Be the Worst Idea Ever GOP Health Experts Agree: Don't Count on 'Obamacare' to Fail Why Gay Marriage Is Getting Political Traction (And Why Gun Control Isn't) Obama Budget Vs. March Jobs Report: Timing is No Coincidence Hillary Watch: Her Book, the Mark Penn Test, and James Carville Signs On

6 Big Questions About Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert Busch Don't Give Up on Guns, Immigration, or a Debt Deal How Democrats Could Finally Win the 'Obamacare' Debate Hillary Clinton's Global Feminist Legacy 6 Reasons for Hillary Clinton's Gay-Marriage Move How to Shrink the Dangerous Republican Empathy Gap Christie and McDonnell Aren't the Only Governors Missing From CPAC Obama Just Wasted a Big Chance to Sell His Economic Vision Ashley Judd Is a 30-Second Ad Waiting to Happen Paul Ryan's Obamacare Repeal Fantasy Canceled White House Tours Are Fun to Talk About, but Jobs Are the Real Sequester Casualty Can Lunches and Dinners Break the Corrosive Fiscal-Cliff Cycle? Why Lindsey Graham Isn't Acting Like a Worried Man Veering Is Jeb Bush's Real Immigration Issue Jeb Bush's Real Immigration Problem Republicans Need to Think for Themselves, Even in Election Years Former Iran Hostages Are Still Seeking Justice Obama, Cantor, Woodward, and Lizza: Who Really Gave Us the Sequester? Risk Is the Sequester's Only Certainty Chris Christie is a Republican Without a Party 'Argo' Is Great, but 52 Former American Hostages Are Still Looking for Justice Federal Charges Against Jesse Jackson Jr. End Dreams of a Dynasty Obama and Unions Could Cause GOP Heartburn in 2014

What History Tells Us About the Future of Obamas Agenda Obama's Long List Gives Us a Handy Scorecard for Judging His Success Who's Stronger on Syria, Obama or McCain? Obama's Best Jobs Play for the State of the Union: Think Big Bush's Paintings and the Art of Projecting Guilt Gun-Control Success Is in Sight for the Brady Campaign John Brennan Shows Hagel How It's Done Grading 13 Ideas From Eric Cantor's Big Speech Scott Brown's Special GOP Role: He Came From the 47 Percent Obama's Bad-Cop Act is Working Obama to Congress: No Repeat of Obamacare on Immigration Why Clinton and Biden Won't Run in 2016 Sarah Palin and the End of an Era The Case for Jennifer Granholm as Labor Secretary Is Obama Trying to Destroy the GOP? For 9/11 Relatives, Newtown Brings Grim Sense of Deja Vu Mass Exodus Leaves Obama Administration with Dearth of Diversity Second-Term Exodus Leaves Zero Hispanics in Cabinet, Few on Dems' Bench What the Sandy Hook Families Can Learn From 9/11 Families Obama's New Frame: Gun Rights Vs. The Right to Life Republicans Spurned 'Lincoln' Screening, State Dinners in Obama First Term Party Guy Obama Defends His Social Skills What Does Jay Rockefeller Have to Say Now That He Doesn't Have to Face Voters?

Obama Has Already Cemented His Legacy, Like It or Not Why Obama's White-Guy Problem Seems Worse Than It Is Can You Lead on the Environment if You Bypass Climate Change? 6 Reasons Obama Chose Chuck Hagel Senator Barney Frank Would Be Best Reality Show in Town What Does It Even Mean to Be a Republican These Days? Don't Despair (Yet) Over Next Fiscal Cliff Professor Romney? What Lies Ahead for 2012 Republican Nominee? To Save Itself, the Republican Party Needs a Deal With Obama Newtown Rampage Proves a Turning Point for Obama Bloomberg Super PAC Gun-Control Push Off to Strong Start Picking a Fight Over Susan Rice Would Not Serve the Country Four Ways Campaign 2012 Might Have Led to a Different President Voting Reform: Good for the GOP, Too Spielbergs Lincoln: A Lesson in Realpolitik for a Squeamish Age What's Next for Gay-Rights Advocates? Will Obama Finally Keep His Promise to End Tax Cuts for Wealthy? Obama Voters Shake GOP Vision of Electorate Obama, Romney Stay Above the Fray in Final Videos Obama Rebuts Romney's Jeep, Auto Claims in Ohio Romney Ad Wrongly Implies Chrysler is Sending U.S. Jobs to China 'Optimal' and 'Bullets': Obama, Biden Hand Ammo to GOP Why Debate Moderators Matter

Romney Edges Obama in Presidential Optics Obama's 2007 Video: 'Bombshell' or Old News? Romney Goes Half-In Against Obama Foreign Policy Romney Tax Rate 14.1 Pct in 2011 Romney's Campaign Undercuts His Competence Pitch Stimulus: The Law That Dare Not Speak Its Name Five Most Surprising Things About the Democratic Convention Obama: We Can 'Rebuild' Clinton: Obama Has Earned Reelection Why Democrats Flubbed 'Better Off' Question Democratic Convention A Chance to Sell Obamacare Obama Jumps Into National Security Void Left by Romney Five Most Surprising Things About the GOP Convention (Besides Clint Eastwood) The Battle of the Bailout Sutton, Renacci Offer Voters a Stark Contrast in Ohio Race New Obama TV Ad Hits Romney on Outsourcing, Offshore Tax Shelters Cecile Richards: Republicans Aren't Abandoning Planned Parenthood Obamacare Vs. Obamascare: Will Health Care Swing the Election? Hiding the Ball Imagining a World Without Obamacare 'Obamacare' May Fail Someday, But GOP Is Jumping the Gun Making a Better Mitt Conventional Wisdom

Pining for Another Obamas Message to GOP Rivals: Im No Sitting Duck