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The lesson from Kim’s divorce
feature Kardashian's farcical marriage has finally drawn back the veil on “reality TV’s fairy-tale narratives,” and exposed them as “hollow and manipulative” shams, said Jennifer L. Pozner at TheDailyBeast.com.
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Viewpoint: Alexandra Petri
feature From in The Washington Post: “The wealth gap between young and old Americans has never been so huge. Households headed by 65-and-ups have 47 times the net worth...
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Telling the truth about the deficit
feature If we are to be serious about the deficit, we’ll have to accept both large, painful spending cuts and substantial tax increases, said Robert J. Samuelson at The Washington Post.
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What teens don’t know about Google
feature Other studies have also shown that students really don’t bother trying to assess the credibility of information found online, said Clive Thompson at Wired.com.
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Privacy dies with a whimper
feature It may sound Orwellian, but GPS tracking is just the next step in the rapid erosion of privacy that followed 9/11, said Jonathan Turley at The Washington Post.
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Giving up all hope for Mideast peace
feature Israeli leaders don’t believe peace is possible, Palestinians have given up on dealing with Israel, and President Obama “has turned his back on the issue he once championed,” said Trudy Rubin at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Gingrich’s total lack of scruples
feature Throughout his career, Gingrich has demonstrated an almost total lack of “character, temperament, and personal rectitude,” said Jennifer Rubin at the WashingtonPost.com.
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Deporting parents to win votes
feature In the first half of this year, the Obama administration deported 46,000 parents with U.S.-born children, said Ruben Navarrette Jr. at the San Jose Mercury News.
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Viewpoint: Scott Adams
feature From Dilbert.com: “You are what you learn. If all you know is how to be a gang member, that’s what you’ll be, at least until you...
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Zombies are feasting on our fears
feature Zombies are a perfect metaphor for the nation’s economic “horror show,” capturing white-collar workers’ worst fears, said Torie Bosch at Slate.com.
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Shed no tears for Qaddafi
feature For all the suffering the tyrant inflicted over decades, he suffered “perhaps an hour of torment” and a bullet to the head, said Charles Krauthammer at The Washington Post.
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Steve Jobs’s final moments
feature Just before he closed his eyes for the last time, the man who spent his life in search of beauty looked past those of us at his bedside at something only he could see, said Mona Simpson at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: Michael Kinsley
feature From the Los Angeles Times: “Did you know that four of this year’s Republican candidates were personally recruited by God to run for president? Rick Perry, Herman Cain...
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How kids learn to hate real food
feature Thanks to ConAgra and its pals in Congress, our schoolkids’ right to feast on frozen pizza and fries has been protected, said Kristin Wartman at HuffingtonPost.com.
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