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Month: July 2012
Serwer and Chait on how Mitt Romney's fact-checker endorsed stories about having left Bain Capital before outsourcing began aren't holding up. Chait's bottom line: So now factcheck.org seems locked in.
Pollitt: 1. As many as 10 million will get coverage in 2014 under Medicaid expansion, and by 2016, thanks to other provisions of the ACA, that number will grow to 13.5.
This is six weeks old, and might have been previously discussed here, but Forbes reports that the Obama Administration has had the slowest rate of increase in Federal spending since . . . Eisenhower. This leads to two questions. First, do conservatives still trust that...
The Times hosted a "Room for Debate" about forest fires. They address it in a silly way, asking "Does the Government Cause or Prevent Wildfires?" Um, both? Also, wrong question..
I'll leave the extended commentary to Paul, but the bottom line: Joe Paterno knew about and "followed closely" allegations that Jerry Sandusky abused a boy in a shower in 1998,.
Bill Moyers, Bill Fletcher, and Stephen Lerner talking about the decline of labor unions [link fixed]--you know this is going to be like 1000% more insightful than your average cable television news show. A very important excerpt: BILL FLETCHER, JR.: The difficulty in developing and...
To build slightly on Scott's post, let me recommend Lindsay Beyerstein's excellent piece today decrying those who use Jenny McCarthy's nude modeling as a reason to dismiss her crazy anti-vaccine.
Speaking of longreads, this is really a spectacular piece on police work and a '60s era extortion ring: In the year following the Western Union arrest, the NYPD and the.
I had never heard of Daniel Tosh before today, but when Dane Cook isn't the least funny or most offensive comedian on a bill, that's a pretty depressing achievement. ...see also.
Hopefully you've already read Monica Potts's Prospect cover story. If not, you no longer have to take my word for it, so what are you waiting for?
Never let it be said that I am not on the cutting edge of fashion, as my most distinctive stylistic choice has been endorsed by one of the nation's premier.