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- August 31st
- The repugnance of moral scolds
- The appeal of Trump: Why immigration may be the defining issue of the 21st century
- Why African independence was such a disaster
- Why the identities of Ashley Madison's clients are none of your business
- Donald Trump, and the unsettling rise of white identity politics
- How McDonald's puts the squeeze on both franchise owners and workers
- August 28th
- I hate scary movies. But I can't get enough of NBC's Hannibal.
- How Hurricane Katrina was like the Great Recession
- Is Donald Trump leading a proto-fascist movement?
- John Oliver is right: If you follow the 'prosperity gospel,' you're doing Christianity wrong
- Why Jeb Bush should pledge to roll out the welcome mat for Asian birth tourists
- 4 tips from Pope Francis for Christians engaging in politics
- Why there is no viable solution to America's gun problem
- August 27th
- Here's a safe, dead simple way for the U.S. to play a useful role in Syria's civil war
- This is the sharpest debunking of pro-choice arguments I've read
- China's turmoil shows how the world is turning into a bizarro European Union
- Why not Donald Trump?
- The conservative case for reforming America's sick gun culture
- August 26th
- The case for Joe Biden
- Donald Trump v. Fox News: Why nothing can bring The Donald down
- The real reason hawks hate the Iran nuclear deal
- Why the U.S. and Japanese militaries want to be BFFs
- The Republican presidential field's embarrassing response to China's financial shock
- How the Federal Reserve could affect the 2016 presidential election
- Mr. Robot is the best show on television
- August 25th
- The problem with 'boyfriend' jeans
- Why are we denying that women used Ashley Madison?
- How the U.S. can take advantage of China's stock market crash
- The stock market just blew up the last argument for the Fed to raise interest rates
- The kids are not all right: The bleak future of the millennial generation
- How America's political and economic elite gave birth to the Trump campaign
- August 24th
- August 21st
- Amazon and the price of inventing the future
- Could Latinos actually warm up to a caudillo candidate like Donald Trump?
- Why North Korea's collapse is inevitable
- Why the oil industry is doomed
- The GOP candidates are pledging to undo the Iran nuclear deal. Don't buy it.
- Why Obama's refusal to pardon more prisoners reeks of cowardice
- How the presidential race is making the GOP's health care ideas even worse
- August 20th
- Why 2016 Republicans are happy to shoot themselves in the foot over birthright citizenship
- How sex work explains the economy
- How the heroin epidemic finally changed people's minds about drug abuse
- How Donald Trump hurts the cause of other GOP immigration hawks
- Why eliminating annual performance reviews will make your job worse
- August 19th
- Why China will never be as rich as America
- What Scott Walker and Marco Rubio don't want you to know about their health care plans
- How Hillary Clinton squandered a savvy campaign on an idiotic scandal
- Why do Republicans want to besmirch the Constitution with bad European ideas?
- Was Carly Fiorina really a bad CEO?
- Fear the Walking Dead: AMC's bold, gutsy step toward self-cannibalization
- August 18th
- August 17th
- August 14th
- August 13th
- A family affair: Why Jeb Bush's foreign policy is just as bad as his brother's
- Here's the nightmare scenario that could lead to Bush/Trump 2016
- Donald Trump and the myth of the free man in politics
- Why the media can't stop talking about Trump
- Hillary Clinton and America's higher education racket
- Let's talk about sex: How Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg revealed America's squeamishness with women's bodies
- Lawrence Lessig, and how not to run a single-issue campaign
- August 12th
- Trump'd: How words became louder than actions in the 2016 race
- In the Trump era, Republicans can learn a thing or two from the decline of mainline Protestants
- How America's alliances could drag it into nuclear war with Russia or China
- How to run for president if you're not a politician (or Donald Trump)
- Love and sex in the age of Tinder
- What Google learned from Warren Buffett
- The EPA messed up the Animas River. But the real threats are still private industry and the GOP.
- August 11th
- What I learned about Donald Trump at the RedState Gathering he was uninvited from
- How the riveting Vidal v. Buckley debates paved the way for an era of idiotic TV punditry
- Can Republicans learn to talk about the American workplace?
- Did you like George W. Bush? Then you'll love Marco Rubio.
- How Nietzsche explains the rise of Donald Trump
- The hard work of chill parenting
- Is the Iran nuclear deal really about the U.S.-China rivalry?
- August 10th
- Why poor whites should rally behind Black Lives Matter
- The rise of Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio
- Hillary Clinton: One-term president?
- What Donald Trump gets right about bankruptcy
- Are Republicans falling out of love with Ronald Reagan?
- What True Detective could learn from Mr. Robot, the real best show on television
- August 7th
- Why Fox News' GOP debate was such a smashing success
- Why Fox News was surprisingly hard on the 2016 GOP candidates
- The death of pro-choice Republicans
- The biggest winner of the first GOP debate? Fox News — in a landslide
- Donald Trump would actually only be America's 6th worst president
- Nobody is talking about the world's most underrated economic policy
- Why your salary should be public knowledge
- The moderate's defense of abortion rights: A reply to Ross Douthat on Planned Parenthood
- We don't much like our candidates
- The Trump Show: How Donald Trump won the GOP debate and stole the presidential election
- August 6th
- Bernie Sanders wants the U.S. to be more like Norway. Is that even possible?
- Get ready for the raw lunacy of the media's 2016 debate coverage
- The first GOP presidential debate: What every candidate has to accomplish
- The shame and horror of nuclear weapons
- What stops us from talking about miscarriage
- Democrats and Republicans love government wage subsidies. But they might have it all backwards.
- August 5th
- Why it's too late to prevent the robot apocalypse
- Do American cops have a race problem? Or a class problem?
- Donald Trump's immigration policy is insane. But at least he has one.
- The real irony of Scott Walker's messy personal finances
- What Democrats get wrong about the middle class
- The evidence is in: Solitary confinement is unconstitutional torture
- August 4th
- Is Bernie Sanders actually too conservative for the Democratic Party?
- The glaring hypocrisy of the pro-life movement
- The GOP's big problem isn't Donald Trump — it's immigration
- The U.S. is enabling a terrible mistake in Yemen
- Obama's new clean power plan almost certainly won't raise your electric bill. That's a bad thing.
- Why every 2016 candidate will go soft-focus in their quest for authenticity
- How Biden-mania exposes the desperation of Democrats
- Why every American should watch the Planned Parenthood videos
- August 3rd
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