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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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Our broken health-care system
feature “If we don’t act, we’re surrendering our future to runaway health spending,” said Robert Samuelson at The Washington Post.
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Were our ancestors stupid?
feature Over the past century, Americans have gained three to five IQ points per decade, on average.
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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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Executions should be televised
feature If we are to continue executing criminals in the U.S, we ought to do it in an open and accountable way, said Zachary B. Shemtob and David Lat at The New York Times.
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Vlad Putin's favorite president
feature In seizing total control of his nation
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Bin Laden’s secret stash of porn
feature “Islam has a very rich tradition of sacred sexuality and eroticism,” but extremists have turned that tradition rancid with their misogyny, said Asra Q. Nomani in TheDailyBeast.com.
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Feeling free to hate Mormons
feature Disdaining all Mormons is “simple prejudice”—no better than hating all Catholics or Jews or blacks, said James Fallows at TheAtlantic.com.
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The global plague of tourism
feature Tourism may be most people’s idea of fun—but the world can’t take much more of it, said Elizabeth Becker in The Washington Post.
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Quote of the week: Jason Gay
feature From The Wall Street Journal: “Remember when golf was going to save Tiger Woods? That was the dubious pop-psych theory last winter ...
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When love is just another commodity
feature The old courtship narrative has been fundamentally altered by texting and vast, virtual networks, said David Brooks in The New York Times.
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The pedophile nobody suspects
feature In most molestation cases, the predators have true affection for kids, and seek a role as their champions, said Frank Bruni at The New York Times.
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