January 2011
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5 things everyone in the U.S. should know about... →
Al Jazeera English: Live Stream →
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Obama isn't caving to business. He's co-opting it. →
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“One joke imagines a deathbed scene, the ailing Mubarak lamenting, ‘What...”
– Foreign Policy:
Egyptians mock their President mercilessly. But after three decades of authoritarian rule the jokes are getting old…
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“Long form is not dead! The New Republic debuts online cover stories...”
– Nieman Journalism Lab
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A 'complicated piece of good'
Murray Kempton on the essential Sargent Shriver (1964).
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Join us at 1pm EST for a live conversation with... →
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What is health care repeal really about? →
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The Worst Case: How the Courts Might Decide On... →
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It revolves around a novel philosophical twist: a distinction between activity and inactivity that, repeal advocates say, makes the insurance requirement an illegitimate exercise of federal authority. It’s an arcane legal point, but, suddenly, a consequential one, and not just because of its relevance to health care. Some experts believe that a ruling striking down part of the...
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“Deadspin has more power in its toe nail shavings than in every newspaper...”
– Buzz Bissinger (via soupsoup)
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Tumblr Tuesday...like our blog?
Recommend us in politics or history…or better yet, work for us!
The New Republic (TNR) is looking for reporter-researchers for its 2011-2012 program. Job duties include reporting, researching, writing, and fact-checking for TNR’s print magazine and TNR Online; as well as assisting with web production and performing occasional clerical tasks. Reporter-researchers work closely with...
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Tumblr Tuesday...like our blog?
Recommend us for politics or history…or better yet, work for us!
The New Republic (TNR) is looking for reporter-researchers for its 2011-2012 program. Job duties include reporting, researching, writing, and fact-checking for TNR’s print magazine and TNR Online; as well as assisting with web production and performing occasional clerical tasks. Reporter-researchers work closely with...
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The Afterlife of David Foster Wallace →
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The Conservative Galaxy
Who has power and who doesn’t in today’s GOP.
Neoconservatives like Bill Kristol, Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz, have had to stand in the corner since the Iraq War fiasco.
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Martin Luther King Jr., political iconoclast
Any attempt to free King from myth must begin by emphasizing that though he frequently lauded the country’s avowed ideals, he honed his own moral vision on deeply felt grievances against American society. King spent his youth in the Deep South, where he felt both anguish and anger at segregation, “partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of...
Detroitism: What Does 'Ruin Porn' Tell Us About... →
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The third major subgenre of the popular Detroit narrative is a backlash against the pornographic excesses of the Lament and is, at best, an attempt to find a new definition of urban vitality. The Utopians are well-meaning defenders of the city’s possibilities. Locally, they are often politically active, often young, and, it should be noted, often white. This class of Detroit story...
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Martin Luther King Jr., political iconoclast
Any attempt to free King from myth must begin by emphasizing that though he frequently lauded the country’s avowed ideals, he honed his own moral vision on deeply felt grievances against American society. King spent his youth in the Deep South, where he felt both anguish and anger at segregation, “partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of...
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David Frum and Andrew Breitbart debate whether the...
@davidfrum: @AndrewBreitbart So tired of this junk about cocktail parties. Pls recall Andrew, you sought (and got!) an invitation to one of MY parties.
@AndrewBreitbart: @davidfrum I did NOT seek invitation to a David Frum party. Roger L. Simon invited me to his book party that happened to be at your house.
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Maybe find a better defense of Michele Bachmann...
Chait:
A few days ago, Paul Krugman noted that famously unhinged member of Congress Michele Bachmann urged her constituents to be ‘armed and dangerous.” Wall Street Journal right-wing bloggerJames Taranto calls this a “lie,” and insists the the context of Bachmann’s full quote is very different. Here, per Taranto, is the context:
But you can get all the latest...
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A few days ago, Paul Krugman noted that famously unhinged member of Congress Michele Bachmann urged her constituents to be ‘armed and dangerous.” Wall Street Journal right-wing bloggerJames Taranto calls this a “lie,” and insists the the context of Bachmann’s full quote is very different. Here, per Taranto, is the context:
But you can get all the latest...
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“Jared Loughner was considered too mentally unstable to attend community college....”
– Nicholas Kristof (via azspot)
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“Jared Loughner was considered too mentally unstable to attend community college....”
– Nicholas Kristof (via azspot)
“You can trust us. We’re journalists. And we’re armed.”
– According to The Dallas Morning News, journalists in Texas are applying for handgun permits in droves. Find out why. (via utnereader)
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“You can trust us. We’re journalists. And we’re armed.”
– According to The Dallas Morning News, journalists in Texas are applying for handgun permits in droves. Find out why. (via utnereader)
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