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The nation’s full faith and credit is not a ‘leverage point’ – The Maddow Blog 22 Aug 2013 | 11:24 pm
What’s more, the fact that Cantor’s office sees this as a "leverage point" says something important about how Republicans perceive their duties to the nation.The Majority Leader’s unnamed aide would p...
Why Obamacare is good for young people 19 Aug 2013 | 10:07 pm
Health insurance isn’t like other forms of insurance. It’s not protection against the unlikely; it’s insulation against the inevitable. Most people never use their fire insurance. Almost everyone uses...
What’s the Difference Between Apple and AOL? 7 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
Two companies, both launched in the early days of the Information Age, with two dramatically different fates. Apple is today one of the world’s most valuable companies, while AOL is a miniscule fracti...
Why Jeff Bezos Bought the Washington Post–Six Theories 7 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Spectacular news broke yesterday that Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post.Why WaPo was sold is obvious: running a newspaper sucks. It really, really, really sucks. Let’s count the ways: • Craigsli...
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos 6 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news or...
This One Tweet Reveals What’s Wrong With American Business | LinkedIn 1 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
If you watch TV, you’ll be led to believe that the problem with the U.S. economy is that one political team or the other is ruining the country. A sharp drop in government spending this year is, in f...
THE CONTRADICTION at the heart of the GOP campaign to sabotage Obamacare 26 Jul 2013 | 09:17 pm
Do Republicans believe that Obamacare is a disaster in the making? Or is it such an appealing program that they have to take extraordinary steps to undermine it? If they really believe that the Affor...
Boehner, Cantor wax Orwellian on health care 11 Jul 2013 | 01:06 am
Yet there’s no other way to view the latest Republican assault on Obamacare. The GOP sees blood in the water because the White House (sensibly) put off the employer mandate for a year. The truth is th...
Useful reminder: They don’t believe what they’re saying. 3 Jul 2013 | 07:31 pm
That said: The whole story really is a good reminder that the Republican Party’s standard operating procedure is to invent talking points out of whole cloth, broadcast those talking points through the...
E.J. Dionne: The Supreme Court furthers conservative goals 27 Jun 2013 | 08:47 pm
We prefer to think of the Supreme Court as an institution apart from politics and above its struggles. In the wake of this week’s decision gutting the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, its actions ...
