Ruth A. Marcus
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Ruth Marcus is an editorial writer for The Post, specializing in American politics, campaign finance, the federal budget and taxes, and other domestic issues. She writes a weekly column that appears on Wednesdays.
Marcus has been with The Post since 1984, beginning as a reporter on the Maryland staff, covering local development and other issues, and then transferring to the District staff to cover lawyers and legal issues. She joined the national staff in 1986, covering campaign finance, the Justice Department, the Supreme Court and the White House. From 1999 through 2002, she served as deputy national editor, supervising reporters who covered money and politics, Congress, the Supreme Court, and other national issues. She joined the editorial board in 2003.
Articles by Ruth A. Marcus
Why a health-care mandate is constitutional (November 25, 2009)
Ruth Marcus on fallacies over abortion and health reform (November 18, 2009)
Ruth Marcus on debunking health reform myths (November 11, 2009)
Ruth Marcus on empty harbingers in Virginia and New Jersey (November 4, 2009)
Today's women cling to domestic tasks while bemoaning them (October 28, 2009)
For parents, everyday life is full of balloon moments (October 21, 2009)
Sadly, There Are Still Many Glass Ceilings Yet to Crack (October 14, 2009)
The Senate Is Holding Up a Long List of Obama Nominees (October 7, 2009)
President Obama's Slow but Steady Progress on Education (September 23, 2009)
From an Obama Ally, Alarm Bells on Health Reform (September 16, 2009)
Let's End the Fear-Mongering Over Abortion (September 9, 2009)
Labor Squanders Opportunities on 'Card Check' and a Health-Care Public Option (September 6, 2009)
Behind Bob McDonnell's 'Macaca' Moment (September 2, 2009)
Paging Grassley's Gumption (August 26, 2009)
What Happened to Obama's Campaign Promises? (August 12, 2009)
On Health Care, Obama's Advisers Whisper Hard Truths (August 5, 2009)
Will the High Court Resist Activism on Campaign Finance Law? (August 2, 2009)
Two Bipartisan Paths to Health-Care Reform (July 29, 2009)
The F-22 Model for Medicare (July 22, 2009)
Obama and Deference for a President's Supreme Court Pick (July 15, 2009)
Bailout, Palin-Style (July 5, 2009)
Jenny Sanford, Role Model (July 1, 2009)
Health-Care Reform's 'Public Option' Obsession (June 28, 2009)
Deja Vu on Health Care? Maybe Not. (June 24, 2009)
The Fine Line of Anti-Bias Law (June 10, 2009)
Sotomayor: The 'Radical' Who Isn't (June 3, 2009)
The Many Wrongs of Dick Cheney (May 27, 2009)
An Easy Choice for Obama (May 27, 2009)
Obama's Terror Policies -- and No One Else's (May 24, 2009)
Tank, the Pet Accompli (May 20, 2009)
Why More Women Are Needed on the Supreme Court (May 13, 2009)
Behind the Judicial Blindfold (May 6, 2009)
A Family-Friendly White House: An Oxymoron for Staffers? (April 29, 2009)
The Easy Part Is Over (April 26, 2009)
Sarah Palin's Personal Choice Not to Have an Abortion (April 20, 2009)
Obama's budget -- is he willing to fight for his priorities? (April 15, 2009)
Hypocrisy of a Filibuster (April 8, 2009)
Parenting, One Byte at a Time (April 1, 2009)
Crunch Time for Health-Care Reform (March 22, 2009)
Grin and Bear the Bonuses (March 18, 2009)
The Left Turn That Wasn't (March 11, 2009)
A Test Case for Marriage (March 4, 2009)
Ruth Marcus -- Bailout II: Obama's Hardest Sell (March 1, 2009)
Obama's Big Bets (February 25, 2009)
The Party of No (February 18, 2009)
Obama Has Bad Week, But Good Start (February 11, 2009)
The Scarlet Lobbyist (February 4, 2009)
'Sweet Sasha' and 'Marvelous Malia' in Another Light (January 27, 2009)
Re-Creating America (January 21, 2009)
Hearings and Evasions (January 14, 2009)
Treating the Downturn (January 7, 2009)
U.S. Torture Trials Might Do More Harm Than Good (December 31, 2008)
Mark Felt and the Dilemma of Rights vs. Security (December 20, 2008)
States Should Amend the Process for Filling Senate Vacancies (December 17, 2008)
Caroline Kennedy as a Possible U.S. Senator (December 9, 2008)
Was Larry Summers Right About 'Intrinsic Aptitude'? (December 3, 2008)
Michelle Obama's 'Mommy' Stamp (November 26, 2008)
Ruth Marcus -- Barack Obama and the BlackBerry Solution (November 19, 2008)
Democrats' Impulse Test (November 5, 2008)
'A New Kind of Politics'? Good Luck With That. (October 29, 2008)
In W.Va., Lingering Doubts on Obama (October 27, 2008)
The 'Socialist' Scare (October 22, 2008)
When Life Hands You Deficits . . . (October 15, 2008)
Whose Health Plan? (October 7, 2008)
McCain vs. Palin (September 30, 2008)
Make Room at the Table (September 25, 2008)
Closing the Whopper Gap (September 22, 2008)
True Whoppers (September 17, 2008)
Palin Hits The Motherload (September 10, 2008)
The Lesson of Bristol Palin (September 2, 2008)
A Heartbeat Away From Cynicism (August 31, 2008)
Obama's Feel-Your-Pain Moment (August 28, 2008)
Pocketbook Issue (August 20, 2008)
A Tad Short Of 99% (August 12, 2008)
Pivoting to Populism (August 7, 2008)
Crude Campaigning (August 6, 2008)
Professor Obama's Questions (August 1, 2008)
Goodlings Amok (July 30, 2008)
From Berlin to Baghdad (July 23, 2008)
Scandal In Plain Sight (July 16, 2008)
Free This Detainee (July 9, 2008)
When a Flip Isn't a Flop (July 2, 2008)
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Bundlers (June 25, 2008)
The Court McCain Wants (June 18, 2008)
Billing The Grandkids (June 11, 2008)
For Obama, The Right Way to Win (June 4, 2008)
Barney Unleashed (May 30, 2008)
Our Own Glass Ceilings (May 28, 2008)
The Ground Clinton Broke (May 21, 2008)
High Court Caricature (May 14, 2008)
The Mitzvah and the Mania (May 7, 2008)
Dreams on a Collision Course (April 30, 2008)
Supple-Side Economics (April 23, 2008)
Why John Yoo Must Stay (April 16, 2008)
When a Watchdog Isn't (April 9, 2008)
Too Soon To Stop This Movie (April 2, 2008)
Hijabs at a Harvard Gym (March 26, 2008)
Debate Dream Team (March 19, 2008)
Spitzer's Tragic Flaw (March 12, 2008)
The Force of Gender (March 5, 2008)
Universal Coverage's Mavericks (February 27, 2008)
The Democrats' To-Do Lists (February 20, 2008)
The Democrats' Undemocratic System (February 13, 2008)
Defrosting the Republican Base (February 8, 2008)
Worth the Paper It's Printed On (February 6, 2008)
Kumbaya Caucus (January 30, 2008)
Whose Stimulus Makes the Grade? (January 23, 2008)
Parsing Tsunami Tuesday (January 16, 2008)
The Man Who Won't Go Away (January 9, 2008)
The Magnetism of a Message (January 5, 2008)
Learning From Jamie Lynn and Juno (December 26, 2007)
Who Elected Iowa? (December 19, 2007)
Gentlemen First (December 12, 2007)
In Iowa, They Like Mike (December 5, 2007)
Social Security: Five Myths and a Slur (November 28, 2007)
Krugman vs. Krugman (November 21, 2007)
Turning Up the Heat in Iowa (November 12, 2007)
Meet The Press (November 7, 2007)
Damsel in the Debate (November 2, 2007)
A Drive-By Swift-Boating (October 31, 2007)
Daughter Knows Best (October 24, 2007)
Son of SCHIP (October 17, 2007)
Between a Veto and the Base (October 10, 2007)
One Angry Man (October 3, 2007)
The Two Obamas (September 26, 2007)
Mukasey at the Bat (September 17, 2007)
Still Waiting for Thompson (September 12, 2007)
The Empress's New Purse (September 5, 2007)
A Precedented Scandal (August 31, 2007)
Bush's Immovable Man Moves On (August 28, 2007)
Democrats' Purity Primary (August 22, 2007)
Attack Ads You'll Be Seeing (August 8, 2007)
Short of Perjury (July 31, 2007)
Pretty Formidable in Pink (July 25, 2007)
Private Sin, Public Matter (July 18, 2007)
From Barack Obama, Two Dangerous Words (July 11, 2007)
Bush's Supreme Moment (July 4, 2007)
Rules? For Fools. (June 27, 2007)
Mystery Of the Girl Sleuth (June 20, 2007)
Atypical Evangelical (June 13, 2007)
The Democrats' Leap of Faith (June 6, 2007)
The Attack Ads Will Come to Order (May 30, 2007)
Guilty of Insufficient Overreaching (May 23, 2007)
A Fine Romance (May 16, 2007)
Flipping Out (May 9, 2007)
A Law Day Unto Himself (May 1, 2007)
Court Knows Best (April 25, 2007)
Missing The Exit Signs (April 18, 2007)
Calling Fred Fielding (April 11, 2007)
Fox-in-the-Henhouse Government (April 4, 2007)
Family Matters (March 28, 2007)
Time to Go, Mr. Gonzales (March 14, 2007)
Can Rudy Get Past the First Date? (March 7, 2007)
The Princess and the Playmate (February 28, 2007)
Mitt Romney's Extreme Makeover (February 21, 2007)
The War She Hasn't Won (February 14, 2007)
Bush's Stealth Tax Increase (February 7, 2007)
The Clintonian Candidate (January 31, 2007)
The Knee-Jerk Opposition (January 24, 2007)
The Second 100 Hours (January 17, 2007)
Grandma With a Gavel (January 10, 2007)
The Audacity of Nope (January 3, 2007)
No-Toy Story (December 20, 2006)
The Foley Fallout (December 13, 2006)
It's a Cheney! (December 8, 2006)
A Commission Made in Heaven (December 6, 2006)
A Slide Toward Segregation (November 29, 2006)
One Syllable of Civility (November 22, 2006)
Unfit for Majority Leader (November 15, 2006)
Pelosi's Unintelligent Choice (November 1, 2006)
Where It's Always Christmas (October 25, 2006)
Why I'm Not Under The Tuscan Sun (October 18, 2006)
Giving Up Too Much On Choice (October 11, 2006)
Democrats' Jersey Barrier (October 4, 2006)
All The King's Earmarks (September 20, 2006)
ABC's 'Path' Not Taken (September 13, 2006)
Lieberman Redux in Rhode Island? (September 6, 2006)
'Gifting' the Talented (August 28, 2006)
Hollywood's Cowardice (August 9, 2006)
All the Spam You Can Eat, $1,000 (August 2, 2006)
Ashcroft Nostalgia (July 26, 2006)
Camping Alone (July 19, 2006)
Still Their Cup o' Joe? (July 10, 2006)
The Kennedy Center (July 5, 2006)
Reasonable Doubt at Duke (June 28, 2006)
Is Decency Going Down the Tubes? (June 21, 2006)
DeLay Exits, Stage (Hard) Right (June 12, 2006)
A Positive In Going Negative? (June 7, 2006)
How to Do Nothing, Washington-Style (May 30, 2006)
The New Temptation Of Democrats (May 23, 2006)
The Family as Firing Offense (May 14, 2006)
Finally, Something From Mary (May 9, 2006)
A Passage to Harvard (May 2, 2006)
Tyrannosaurus Ted? (April 25, 2006)
First Family Shakeup? (April 18, 2006)
Legislating While Black (April 11, 2006)
