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- July 31st
- What do mass shootings and police killings have in common? America's sick gun culture.
- The astonishing weakness of Hillary Clinton
- Sandra Bland, and the national horror of jail suicides
- American presidential elections used to be 'manliness' competitions. What happened?
- America's economy is doing much better than you think
- Ta-Nehisi Coates' case against American exceptionalism
- Is there a bubble in digital media? On NBCUniversal's deal with BuzzFeed.
- July 30th
- How angry populism engulfed American politics
- The GOP is becoming the party of ideas again. Will the 2016 candidates notice?
- Why marijuana legalization is the rare issue that divides the 2016 Republican presidential field
- Why a massive wave of immigration is not a magic fix for the economy
- How Wall Street is ruining Twitter
- The massive contradiction in Rand Paul's immigration stance
- The GOP presidential field is four times larger than the Democrats' — and four times as boring
- July 29th
- Why liberals and conservatives keep talking past each other on abortion
- Does immigration really make American workers poorer? A response to Bernie Sanders.
- Why Americans workers are becoming less productive
- Why Republicans are obsessed with comparing Obama to Hitler
- How the Planned Parenthood videos expose abortion for what it truly is
- July 28th
- July 27th
- July 24th
- Why is so much of the internet still inaccessible to disabled people?
- Starving the space program
- Why Hillary Clinton can't just ignore marijuana in 2016
- If Jeb Bush were a real free market warrior, this is how he would fight climate change
- Is ObamaCare creating corporate behemoths in the health care market?
- For the GOP, Donald Trump may be evil incarnate — literally
- How we can use the Planned Parenthood video to start a better, less extreme debate about abortion
- Donald Trump did get one thing right about John McCain
- July 23rd
- Why even pro-choice Americans should be upset with Planned Parenthood
- How the obsession over Apple's stock plunge reveals our skewed view of the economy
- The frightening truth about the future of driverless cars
- Hillary Clinton needs to address the racist undertones of her 2008 campaign
- Is Bernie Sanders a Nazi? On our epidemic of bad analogies.
- Why the ISIS threat is totally overblown
- July 22nd
- What Black Lives Matter gets wrong about Bernie Sanders
- Hey, Democrats: Stop freaking out about the 'gig economy'
- John Kasich would be a great presidential candidate — if he weren't completely insufferable
- The 2016 GOP field is an even crazier mess than anyone predicted
- How ObamaCare's fiercest critic all but admitted the legal case against it was a scam
- Why John Kasich's moral concern for the poor isn't enough
- July 21st
- July 20th
- Why all Americans should support Obama on prison reform
- The quiet brilliance of Judy Blume
- Ted Cruz's insane plan for winning the presidency
- Can any 2016 Republican wrestle immigration away from Donald Trump?
- How do you solve a problem like Donald Trump?
- The human cost of sanctions
- Republicans need to stop childishly pretending that American power is limitless
- July 17th
- FX makes some of the best shows on TV. But the Emmys keep ignoring them.
- The Han Solo movie proves that prequels are the worst
- How Bernie Sanders can hammer Hillary Clinton on the Democrats' top issue
- Does Hillary Clinton have a small donor problem?
- Why privatizing marriage would be a disaster
- Is To Kill a Mockingbird racist?
- Tissue of lies: Why liberals and the media are in denial about the Planned Parenthood video
- The real reason Republicans oppose the Iran deal (it has a lot to do with Israel)
- Why Paul Ryan's welfare reform is always going to be a dead end
- July 16th
- Greece's populist powder keg
- The real lessons of that shameful Planned Parenthood video
- How a group of nuns inadvertently revealed conservative hypocrisy on the burden of government
- Why the Iran deal is a powerful new narrative for the Middle East
- Obama finally earned his Nobel Peace Prize
- How the IMF punctured the insane dreamworld of eurozone elites
- July 15th
- The literary crimes of Go Set a Watchman
- Hillary Clinton has a smart idea to fix the economy. Republicans should steal it.
- Why the 2016 candidates ignore the sharing economy at their own peril
- Why the Iran deal is a disaster
- What Hillary Clinton doesn't get about women and the workforce
- How the Iran nuclear accord underscores America's weakness
- It's time for Obama to shake some sense into the Germans about the Greek crisis
- What happens if China's economy is weak and its military is strong?
- July 14th
- Donald Trump is a crazy loudmouth. But he won't wreck 2016 for the GOP.
- Republicans have few good options left on the Iran nuclear deal
- I love To Kill a Mockingbird. That's why I won't be reading Go Set a Watchman.
- Scott Walker's biggest drawback: He's the most partisan Republican running for president
- July 13th
- Meet the banker who could save Greece
- How Germany defeated Syriza — and reasserted its hegemony over the eurozone
- Taxing churches is a form of religious persecution — and liberals need to stand against it
- If the GOP had settled the immigration issue, it wouldn't have a Donald Trump problem
- Yes, China's stock market woes are an embarrassment. But not in the way free marketers think.
- Why Jeb Bush (hopefully) can't just buy the Republican nomination
- Why Republican voters love Donald Trump
- True Detective episode 4 recap: Pulling the trigger
- July 10th
- Too much power for too long
- How Donald Trump pressured Hillary Clinton to sell out Latino immigrants
- Don't skewer Jeb Bush over half of a sentence
- Jeb Bush isn't a '47 percent' monster. But he still doesn't understand how the economy works.
- The GOP doesn't have a Donald Trump problem. It has an angry conservative base problem.
- Why Scott Walker's presidential campaign could be over before it's even begun
- July 9th
- July 8th
- The Chinese stock market debacle is a wake-up call about the exalted 'China model'
- Who cares if Kim Kardashian calls herself a feminist?
- Want to keep Greece in the EU? Conquer it.
- American manufacturing jobs are never coming back
- How Democrats are already pre-compromising their post-Obama political goals
- Why American conservatives should root for Greece's crazy socialists
- How a President Hillary Clinton could help end the death penalty
- The first 2016 GOP debate is coming up — and its biggest losers will be decided ahead of time
- July 7th
- July 6th
- Why Republicans should stop gloating over Greece
- What happened to Michael Lewis?
- Donald Trump is a complete lunatic on immigration. But he's no crazier than much of the GOP.
- How gay marriage paves the way for legal polygamy
- In 2015, America has a labor force from the 1970s. That's bad.
- How conservatives and liberals are both hijacking libertarian principles for partisan gain
- July 3rd
- July 2nd
- How the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling could destroy the United Methodist Church
- Want to save Puerto Rico? Make it a U.S. state.
- Chris Christie promised to tell it like it is. Here's what that would actually sound like.
- What The New York Times' Frank Bruni doesn't get about Big Business
- What the internet forgets about the Magna Carta
- Jeb Bush says he's going to tackle special interests in Washington. Don't believe him.
- July 1st
- The eurozone has become a murder-suicide pact
- No, your brain isn't a computer
- How the Democrats became the new party of liberty
- The real reason Chris Christie won't be the Republican nominee for president
- The Supreme Court takes on unions: Why the fight over labor is stacked against American workers
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