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How I outsourced my brain; Only the media thinks Sharpton is a leader; Hating Hillary won’t save the GOP; Censoring the bad news abou
feature How I outsourced my brain; Only the media thinks Sharpton is a leader; Hating Hillary won’t save the GOP; Censoring bad news about global warming
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Gays are leaving their ghettoes; The real problem with electing another Clinton; Is pornography a catalyst of sexual violence?
feature Gay neighborhoods in New York City and San Francisco are slowly dissolving, with straight couples with young children moving in next door to male couples.
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Best columns: The real lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis
feature If the Cuban Missile Crisis is to be used as an example of presidential leadership during a nuclear showdown, then it's necessary to separate history from mythology, said Michael Dobbs in The Washington Post.
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The selling of Dr. King’s message
feature For years, Martin Luther King Jr.'s surviving four children have shamelessly mined their father’s image for private profit, said Jonathan Turley in the Los Angeles Times.
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The GOP’s do-nothing agenda
feature When President Obama gave his health-care address to Congress last week, Republican legislators waved copies of their own health-care bill at him, said Steve Chapman in the Chicago Tribune.
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Viewpoint: Rebecca MacKinnon
feature From Slate.com: “Companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, and many other digital platforms and services have created a new, virtual public sphere...
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Viewpoint: Kerry Egan
feature From CNN.com: “I am a hospice chaplain. I visit people who are dying—in their homes, in hospitals...
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The lesson from Kim’s divorce
feature Kardashian's farcical marriage has finally drawn back the veil on “reality TV’s fairy-tale narratives,” and exposed them as “hollow and manipulative” shams, said Jennifer L. Pozner at TheDailyBeast.com.
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Viewpoint: Alexandra Petri
feature From in The Washington Post: “The wealth gap between young and old Americans has never been so huge. Households headed by 65-and-ups have 47 times the net worth...
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Telling the truth about the deficit
feature If we are to be serious about the deficit, we’ll have to accept both large, painful spending cuts and substantial tax increases, said Robert J. Samuelson at The Washington Post.
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Viewpoint: Michael Gerson
feature From The Washington Post: “In a season of curious political phenomena, one development is curiouser than most: the buoyancy of Barack Obama....
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Facebook users should give up on privacy
feature Marking that shot “friends only” won’t prevent an online buddy from copying the picture and distributing it, said Farhad Manjoo at Slate.com.
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Privacy dies with a whimper
feature It may sound Orwellian, but GPS tracking is just the next step in the rapid erosion of privacy that followed 9/11, said Jonathan Turley at The Washington Post.
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Gingrich’s total lack of scruples
feature Throughout his career, Gingrich has demonstrated an almost total lack of “character, temperament, and personal rectitude,” said Jennifer Rubin at the WashingtonPost.com.
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