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“Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics”
Glenn Greenwald
My new book examines the deceitful personality-based tactics the right uses to win elections, and the establishment media's vital role in enabling those tactics.
The audacity of free trade
Andrew Leonard
One month after NAFTA-gate, it's time to look back and see what exactly Barack Obama said about trade, in "The Audacity of Hope"
Paulson’s bogus plan to regulate the markets
Andrew Leonard
Derivative traders have nothing to fear: The "Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure" makes that crystal-clear.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Tracey Ullman takes on America, "Lost" imitates a bad Vin Diesel movie, and Lauren Conrad of "The Hills" shows us that mute, expressionless humans can be TV stars, too!
Meghan McCain is, like, totally a genius
Charly Wilder
A profile of the would-be first daughter manages to be both ingratiating and condescending.
A Portfolio interview on “True Enough”
Farhad Manjoo
My Skype-based video chat about the stolen election, Lou Dobbs, and Fox News.
Sweet Valley High goes on a diet
Sarah Hepola
The fluffy 1980s teen fiction series updates itself -- by making its heroines even skinnier.
Rum, Romanism and James Carville
Walter Shapiro
With no primaries in sight, campaign coverage goes amok over loose-lipped campaign surrogates shouting "Judas" and "McCarthy."
Bonfire of the Bear-Stearns vanities
Andrew Leonard
It's time to trim the fat on Wall Street. No more fancy curtains for "the wife"
Obama-Bloomberg ’08?
Alex Koppelman
A second photo op with the two men sparks renewed speculation about their connection.
The resurrection of John Maynard Keynes
Andrew Leonard
Eclipsed by the ascendancy of Milton Friedman, laissez-faire's most determined antagonist is back in fashion.
Reid, Pelosi get entangled in the presidential race
Vincent Rossmeier
Harry Reid says Democrats will have a nominee before the convention, while some of Clinton's donors admonish Nancy Pelosi.
Gravel joins the Libertarian Party
Alex Koppelman, Caitlin Shamberg
The fringe candidate gives up the Democratic Party, but not its presidential race.
Bye-bye, Antarctica?
Andrew Leonard
Another big chunk of ice starts to crumble way down south. But is the continent as a whole warming or cooling?
Tactics of the right-wing noise machine
Glenn Greenwald
The right expertly courts and promotes the most hateful, extremist elements with no consequences.
The light-bulb wars switch on again
Andrew Leonard
Wanna be warm? Get an electric heater, and get rid of your incandescents, say a chorus of compact fluorescent supporters.
Do childless women make the most productive lawyers?
Catherine Price
It depends on how you define the word "productive."
“It is possible … that she misspoke”
Alex Koppelman
Hillary Clinton's spokesman admits an account Clinton gave of her trip to Bosnia doesn't square with the evidence.
Stick-figure Web-comic Sanskritology
Andrew Leonard
The popularity of "xkcd" explained, courtesy of a 2,000-year-old Sanskrit text.
One of Instapundit’s favorite blogs speaks on race
Glenn Greenwald
"I am sick to death of black people as a group ... We're teetering at the edge of believing that you're a secret society, a massive collection of sleeper cells just waiting for your chance to do serious harm to the rest of us."
Various items
Glenn Greenwald
McCain's unexamined ties to religious extremists. Looking back at the media's Iraq failures. More media celebrations of their friend, John McCain.
Expel, expelling, expelled!
Gordy Slack
Richard Dawkins inadvertently smuggled into a private screening of pro-creationist documentary.
How did China learn how to spin Tibet?
Andrew Leonard
One well-known Chinese blogger suggests we can look to the White House for the answer.
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