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October 2015
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- October 30th
- Donald Trump, and the bogus myth that foreign tech workers steal American jobs
- Why outrage over police brutality isn't enough
- CNBC failed American voters. Here's how future debate moderators can do better.
- Legalize all drugs
- Why Republicans are hell-bent on destroying Medicare
- The blatantly illiberal snobbery of the liberal Catholics
- October 29th
- Speaker Paul Ryan is the Tea Party's greatest triumph
- Republicans displayed their passion for the little guy at Wednesday's debate. It was a total scam.
- CNBC is the perfect scapegoat for the GOP's 2016 problems
- The withering of GOP economic thought
- Tipping is awesome. Trust me, I'm French.
- The case for more tax brackets
- Face it: America is terrible at nation-building
- October 28th
- October 27th
- What Paul Ryan doesn't want you to know about the budget deal
- What defines conservatism today?
- Iraq is still an absolute disaster. And the Obama administration can't fix it.
- How Ben Carson's snoozy demeanor masks his bonkers views
- How squishy moderates are knee-capping the climate change debate
- Hillary Clinton's indefensible defense of the scandal-stained VA
- October 26th
- It's time to shut down the Export-Import Bank
- Why 'climate justice' has India and the West at each other's throats
- How the conservative swindle machine could lead to global financial Armageddon
- The GOP hates egalitarianism so much it's willing to torpedo the economy to fight it
- How the invisible hand of the market literally saves lives
- Why Republicans keep missing the giant Benghazi scandal right before their eyes
- October 23rd
- October 22nd
- What the Russell Simmons RushCard fiasco reveals about our unequal economy
- 3 reasons why Paul Ryan would be a speaker for the ages
- Hillary Clinton will finally slay the controversy in Thursday's Benghazi hearing
- The Paul Ryan conundrum: Is he too much of a chameleon to be speaker?
- Time to admit it: The war in Afghanistan is lost
- October 21st
- Could Pope Francis break apart the Catholic Church?
- Why the middle class should want to pay higher taxes
- Jeb Bush's newest headache: Is his brother really to blame for 9/11?
- Is Amazon really a hellish place to work?
- The Catholic Church divided against itself
- Rand Paul's last, best chance is to run against Hillary the hawk
- October 20th
- Don't judge me
- Why the raging dysfunction in Washington is the new normal
- Are Republicans really 'cooked' if they lose in 2016?
- Bernie Sanders doesn't need to pay for his socialist utopia
- 4 issues where the GOP must move to the middle in 2016
- This is a perfect example of why politicians' sex scandals matter
- The left-wing plan to rescue the Democratic Party
- Professor, heal thyself: In praise of the college lecture
- October 19th
- October 16th
- Why gun laws don't pass
- Democrats' 2016 strategy assumes America is lurching left. Are they wrong?
- Is a genuine market in health insurance even possible?
- Why won't Democrats attack Hillary Clinton for her hawkish foreign policy?
- Republicans have a serious electability problem — and Marco Rubio is not the answer
- 3 bits of conventional unwisdom about the 2016 election
- October 15th
- October 14th
- Why Playboy's pornography failed
- How the media will manipulate your memory of the first Democratic debate
- The surprising conservatism of the first Democratic debate
- Do secular Americans secretly pine for religion?
- The great Budweiser-ization of the global beer market
- Democrats saw two fighters in their first 2016 debate — but only one winner
- Why does anyone care who Esquire thinks is the Sexiest Woman Alive?
- How Hillary Clinton won the Democratic debate and thwarted a Joe Biden candidacy
- October 13th
- 4 debate questions for Hillary Clinton, courtesy of Black Lives Matter
- Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, and the value of mundane economic scholarship
- Hillary, Hillary, Hillary: Why the first Democratic debate will be all Clinton, all the time
- Grand Old Faction: How the GOP stopped acting like a party
- How conservatives can harness the power of science to solve the prison crisis
- Why everyone will be a winner at the first Democratic debate
- What the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics can teach us about fighting global poverty
- October 12th
- October 9th
- October 8th
- Why did Kevin McCarthy quit?
- Why Hillary Clinton deserves credit for changing her mind about TPP
- How TPP cements Obama's corporatist legacy
- China's tyrannical new 'credit score' is a warning to America
- Barack Obama, Kevin McCarthy, and why we should politicize everything
- India's savage religious zealotry is Silicon Valley's shame
- Biden-mania shows the utter weakness of the Democratic Party's bench
- Us against them? Why globalization doesn't have to pit American workers against the world's poor.
- Empire episode 3 recap: 'Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we war'
- October 7th
- The big problem with liberal solutions to America's horrible gun violence problem
- Republicans for Hillary: How Trump-hating GOP voters could hand the election to Clinton
- In praise of California's new assisted-suicide law
- What Ben Bernanke could learn from liberal conspiracy theorists
- How the TPP boosts corporate power at the expense of national sovereignty
- What Bernie Sanders' gun control plan reveals about the power of political parties
- Pope Francis and the Catholic vision of marriage
- October 6th
- How Ben Carson can win the presidency
- What would the 2016 race look like without Donald Trump?
- Why it will be almost impossible for the TPP to help U.S. workers
- Why Republicans will face the same disaster no matter who they crown speaker
- Why Rand Paul is fizzling
- Amazon, Apple, Google, and the monopolization of the American economy
- Men and mass murder: What gender tells us about America's epidemic of gun violence
- October 5th
- Capitalism is the best economic system ever devised. That doesn't make it perfect.
- Does Pope Francis fear God? On the Synod of the Family and the fracturing of the Catholic Church.
- How Russia outplayed America in the Middle East's great game
- You know who likes lackluster economic growth? The rich.
- Why the American death penalty system is broken
- October 2nd
- The Oregon shooting: This is what America's Founding Fathers wanted?
- Ben Carson is ready for the coming American apocalypse
- Can more contraception really reduce poverty?
- What this new experiment in Chicago can teach us about combating poverty
- Can anything stop the crippling rise of housing prices?
- Putin isn't humiliating Obama in Syria. He's doing the U.S. a favor.
- October 1st
- Shame on the GOP for saving Planned Parenthood
- This 35-year-old Republican congressman could revolutionize the House. He should be speaker.
- How Obama can one-up Putin in the Syria crisis: Support an independent Kurdistan
- The end of the European nation-state?
- How Bank of America exposes the false promise of the shareholder revolution
- Why Kevin McCarthy's 'gaffe' enraged reporters
- The GOP campaign to destroy Planned Parenthood has nothing to do with the videos
- Why the media lost its mind over Kim Davis meeting Pope Francis
- Empire recap: No steps forward, two steps back
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