Did he suddenly become worse at his political commentary and writing?

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With expert commentary by the journalist Jim Dwyer, who was writing for at the time, and the social psychologist Saul Kassin.

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Political commentary, meanwhile, has been dominated by three kinds of writing.

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In opinion writing categories, Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal received the commentary award for columns on American foreign policy and domestic politics.

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Through decades of scholarship, writing (including numerous books and almost innumerable articles) and public commentary, he has helped to define the difference between peaceable, law-abiding, tolerant and pro-Western Muslims and "Islamists" who are none of the above.

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When Paul Allen isn't busy writing memoirs or suing everyone, he's... providing insightful operating system commentary?

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