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February 2015
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- February 27th
- February 26th
- February 25th
- How net neutrality proponents beat Comcast and the GOP
- How GOP mega-donors burned the conservative base on immigration
- Are American Jews finally moving to the right?
- Why self-respecting atheists should ditch the New Atheists
- Democrats are overplaying their hand on unions
- It's the politics, stupid: Why Greece's Eurozone saga has little to do with the economy
- February 24th
- The GOP's state budget disaster is the best case for Big Government
- Scott Walker's warped view of his own party
- Republicans shouldn't have to answer questions about Obama's faith and patriotism
- Why the next religious revival in the West may be Islamic
- The pernicious ideology of personal finance scolds
- Jeb Bush and the return of the great Iraq War debate
- February 23rd
- February 20th
- Putin raises the stakes
- Walmart's schedule change could give American families a much needed break
- Republicans don't care about the deficit. Just look at Scott Walker.
- Reform conservatives are conservative!
- The GOP's scramble for the stupid vote
- Why the Latino community doesn't need a 'Ferguson moment'
- Obama’s immigration cynicism has endangered the Latino community
- The 3 stages of ObamaCare trutherism
- Your smartphone is really stupid
- February 19th
- Walmart's wage hike proves we don't need the government to raise the minimum wage
- This is Jeb Bush's most nonsensical anti-Obama talking point yet
- ISIS and the left's Vulgar Marxism problem
- Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, and the secret conservative obsession with celebrity
- Is inequality responsible for America's innovation gap?
- America is falling right into ISIS's trap
- How Obama can win the social media war against ISIS
- The Tea Party's big idea to shrink government is a vacuous nothingburger
- Don't fear the Chipotle burrito
- Why every American baby deserves a fresh diaper — courtesy of the U.S. government
- February 18th
- Why Kaspersky was right to reveal NSA secrets
- The perfectly logical reason for Obama's silence on Islamic terrorism
- Why Silicon Valley should be very, very afraid of the NSA
- The irony of ObamaCare: How liberals came to love Big Business
- Putin's biggest weapon is the threat of his own country's collapse
- Scott Walker, and the problem with valuing credentials over competence
- February 17th
- The shameful shaming of Twitter's digital mobs
- Why higher education won't solve our economic woes
- Gay marriage, racism, and what everyone misses about the inevitability of social change
- Obama's war-powers farce: If you want to limit presidential power, don't start illegal wars
- Jeb Bush cannot escape his brother's undeniably disastrous presidency
- February 16th
- February 13th
- Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is the most interesting man in the world
- To survive, the eurozone must become more like the United States
- In defense of the rom-com
- Democrats: Do not help Republicans carry out their sneaky anti-Social Security agenda
- Obama, gay marriage, and wrapping a lie in the cloak of faith
- Reform conservatism is a triumph of liberalism
- February 12th
- The gaffe that wasn't
- Hey, liberals: Conservatives don't have to be moderate to be smart
- The grand futility of the gay marriage standoff in Alabama
- Will free speech survive the digital mob?
- The evil of stock buybacks: How corporations became ATMs for the superwealthy
- The glorious return of the egg: Why Uncle Sam is a horrible nutritionist
- This oil worker strike shows how unions can boost the middle class
- February 11th
- Brian Williams, and the hero problem that's plaguing network news
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership: How Tea Party rage could actually help American workers
- Republicans are finally talking about income inequality. But they're getting it all wrong.
- The puerile fantasy of regime change
- A letter to Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on gay marriage
- The case for arming Ukraine
- The Democrats' child care proposals are a weak-sauce policy platform for 2016
- Amal Clooney is the celebrity we've all been waiting for
- February 10th
- The hypocritical fatuity of Brian Williams' media defenders
- America's invisible, intangible, interminable war
- Would America accept a president with no college degree?
- What polyamory can teach us about the economics of family life
- The U.S. arming Ukraine would be a horrible mistake
- What Hillary Clinton can learn from Teddy Roosevelt
- The immigration twist that could fell Jeb Bush 2016
- The problem with Barack Obama playing the professor in chief
- Everyone is gushing over this silver-tongued Middle Eastern strongman — and it needs to stop
- February 9th
- What the popularity of German brothels can teach us about the perils of a strong U.S. dollar
- Don't let Benjamin Netanyahu and his Republican allies dynamite a nuclear deal with Iran
- How America avoided Europe's Islamism problem
- The disaster of Kosovo should be a warning to all humanitarian interventionists
- February 6th
- The folly of Obama's National Prayer Breakfast comments
- The limits of personal liberty
- Mitt Romney should be the general manager of the conservative movement
- How ObamaCare can survive a knee-capping by the Supreme Court
- Mike Huckabee won't be president. But liberals still need to call out his anti-LGBTQ Bible shtick.
- Anti-vaxxers and the death of civic duty
- Why the GOP is forever doomed to try replacing ObamaCare with suckier versions of ObamaCare
- February 5th
- The road to serfdom logic of Obama's corporate tax plan
- America cannot retreat from our evermore perilous world
- Building a just social democracy takes money. Do Democrats have the political courage to pay for it?
- Is Scott Walker the hero the conservative movement has been waiting for?
- The GOP's 2016 field will be historically young. That won't make it any cooler.
- February 4th
- Rand Paul and Chris Christie's big whoops: The GOP isn't actually anti-vax
- France's unaccountable, incestuous, sexually exploitive political culture
- Pro-vaccine Republicans: Your country needs you!
- Your close-minded disdain for anti-vaxxers isn't helping anyone
- The GOP should become the Party of Math
- Rand Paul is dead wrong about vaccines. But he has a point about the Federal Reserve.
- February 3rd
- The deficit is shrinking — but it's still a huge problem
- The patronizing, phony morality of Super Bowl ad makers
- Why the greedy upper class loves the GOP
- Can't stop, won't stop: Paul Krugman's never-ending call for more spending
- The appalling, incoherent selfishness of Chris Christie's vaccine 'choice'
- February 2nd
- How conservatives can steal the left's thunder on maternity leave
- Why conservatives should embrace labor unions
- John Kasich has won two elections in a swing state. Why does he get no 2016 love from the GOP?
- The end of Europe? Why Greece's exit from the euro would have repercussions far beyond economics.
- The upper middle class needs to stop coddling the 1 percent
- In defense of 529s — and a culture of saving
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