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Shorter Bobo: I find the “technocrats” in the Obama administration demoralizing because they don’t understand the core of any successful anti-poverty formula: unplanned pregnancies,
As you might expect, Ross Douthat is unhappy about the backlash against the Komen Foundation’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Much of his argument consists of assertions of media bias th
David Brooks has an argument that the co-winner of yesterday’s caucuses is a different type of conservatism. Unlike that upper-class swell Mitt Romney, you see, Santorum offers a frothy agenda d
Shorter Bobo: “There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. Also, too much premarital sex. I am not a crackpot.”
Tom Friedman has a column about the folly of open-ended military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least its bottom line, it must be noted, is correct. Omitted: and recognition of the colu
Shorter Bobo: “‘Stagnant social mobility’ and the concentration of wealth within a self-perpetuating plutocracy are completely separate problems. And people without college degrees
Jamelle has dealt with Bobo’s hilarious attempt to get in on Friedman’s radical centrist racket, but there’s a bit I can’t help but quote. As Jamelle says, Brooks is co
Yesterday LGM’s palatial capital region offices received their copy of Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind. If I understand correctly, one of the book’s main arguments is that att
- Explaining the concept of hearsay to Gym Jordan
- This is not a scandal
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,134
- It’s the crime
- The convergence of the twain
- “Every crime imaginable”: ketchup with today’s 1/6 hearings
- “They’re not here to hurt me”
- How International Trade Agreements Could Decimate Carbon Emission Targets
- There are too many lawyers on the Supreme Court
- Sam Alito’s woman problem