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The GOP’s search for Conan
feature Romney just doesn’t reflect the “rage and paranoia” that have deformed the GOP since Barack Obama’s election, said Michael Medved at TheDailyBeast.com.
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Libya’s lesson for North Korea
feature Once again, the U.S. has proved that dictators have only one “true security guarantee”: nukes, said Mira Rapp-Hooper and Kenneth N. Waltz at TheAtlantic.com.
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Viewpoint: Ezra Klein
feature From the WashingtonPost.com: “The next president, whoever he is, will enjoy a ‘recovery presidency,’ and so too will his party....
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How to save the U.S. Postal Service
feature Unlike the post office, which has a monopoly on letter delivery, FedEx and UPS have had to compete for customers by boosting quality and holding prices down, said Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe.
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California can’t afford bullet trains
feature High-speed rail is nothing but a gold-plated fantasy, and “it’s still not too late to hit the brakes,” said Charles Lane at The Washington Post.
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The most entertaining drama on TV
feature Ratings for the GOP debates are setting new records, and no wonder: They’re “the best thing happening in pop culture right now,” said Rob Walker at The New York Times.
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Romney’s $10,000 mistake
feature Romney’s rivals quickly pounced on his wager as proof that he’s “out of touch,” said Garance Franke-Ruta at TheAtlantic.com.
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The peril of domestic drones
feature Local police have begun using unmanned Predator drones like those used in Afghanistan and Pakistan to conduct surveillance of criminal suspects right here in the U.S., said Glenn Greenwald in Salon.com.
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The smearing of Zero Dark Thirty
feature Kathryn Bigelow's film has become “collateral damage” in the political debate over the morality of torture.
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A lesson in how to die
feature In my father-in-law’s final six days, he joked and laughed, said good-bye, then peacefully slipped away surrounded by his family.
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The drug problem we ignore
feature In our “censorious’’ public discussions about substance abuse, drinking often gets a pass, said Frank Bruni at The New York Times.
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Best Columns
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Viewpoint: David Brooks
feature From The New York Times: “Fitness inequality is acceptable. It is perfectly fine to wear tight workout sweats to show the world that...
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The price we paid for torture
feature A former U.S. military interrogator in Iraq says it isn't necessary to use torture to extract information from hardened terrorists; it instills foreign jihadists with a desire for revenge and costs the lives of American soldiers.
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