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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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Viewpoint: Tom Carson
feature From The American Prospect: “If you wonder who made [liberal] hauteur respectable, try Adlai Stevenson. The most celebrated exchange...
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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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Searching for a libertarian paradise
feature Not one of the world’s 193 sovereign states—not even a tiny one—has adopted a full-on libertarian system.
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Seeing racism for what it is
feature Riley Cooper’s case shows just how poorly he and most other Americans understand “what a racist is.”
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He’s not the liberal Reagan yet
feature Will President Obama realize his goal of becoming the liberal Ronald Reagan?
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Our culture’s worship of celebrity
feature It was in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age that the modern concept of celebrity was born.
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Viewpoint: Juliette Kayyem
feature From The Boston Globe: “It is now clear that the Tsarnaev brothers had no strategic plan but to kill in a very public fashion....
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A House that’s stuck in the 1950s
feature The House of Representatives doesn’t represent America as it really is today.
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The vital role of shame in society
feature Liberals are horrified by a new New York City ad campaign to discourage teen pregnancy.
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The irrelevance of the United Nations
feature Once again, the United Nations has been “rendered impotent by a small group of thugs.”
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Snowden’s silence on Putin
feature If Edward Snowden truly is a moral paragon, then he should announce that he can no longer stomach Vladimir Putin’s oppressive behavior.
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Viewpoint: Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay M. Winter
feature From The New York Times: “Nearly half of all people now live in countries where women, on average, give birth to fewer than 2.1 babies...
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