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Merry Christmas! Here are Emmylou Harris and the McGarrigle sisters performing “Golden Cradle.”
By Ed Kilgore
Merry Christmas! Here are Emmylou Harris and the McGarrigle sisters performing “Golden Cradle.”
The untold story of how the administration tried to stand up to big agricultural companies on behalf of independent farmers, and lost.By Lina Khan
Right-wing operatives have decided that prisons are a lot like schools: hugely expensive, inefficient, and in need of root-and-branch reform. Is this how progress will happen in a hyper-polarized world? By David Dagan and Steven M. Teles
Industry giants are threatening to swallow up America's carefully regulated alcohol industry, and remake America in the image of booze-soaked Britain. By Tim Heffernan
The Washington "experts" who shape public opinion have private clients and hidden agendas. By Bruce Clark January/ February 2010
President George W. Bush's faith-based policies turned out to be neither compassionate nor conservative. By Amy Sullivan November/December 2008
Should the South just be its own country? By Colin Woodard July/August 2012
The House GOP is the ACME Corporation—selling products that fail at the worst possible time. By Sarah Binder 12/21/2012
The real bargain in the grand bargain. By Ezra Klein 12/21/2012
Allen West takes whackjob Hillary Clinton theory to new height of ugliness. By Samuel Knight 12/20/2012
What the Big Dog achieved and what Barack Obama should do now. Susan Ginsburg 12/20/2012
Major group lobbying for social welfare has major ties to defense contracting. By Samuel Knight 12/19/2012
For starters, let’s look at the way the federal government now does business. By Kathleen Geier 12/19/2012
A very, very long career has finally ended. By Jonathan Bernstein 12/18/2012
It’s a political problem; fix it with politics. By Seth Masket 12/18/2012
How can the Senate function effectively again? By Jonathan Bernstein 12/17/2012
How quickly do we forget? Pretty damn quickly. By John Sides 12/16/2012
Republicans aren’t sure about what they want from Medicare spending cuts. By Ezra Klein 12/16/2012
Getting behind the GOP’s union problem. By Michael Kinsley 12/14/2012
Here we go again. Check out one creative way out of this crisis. By James Wimberley 12/13/2012
The difference between talking about problems and addressing problems. By Ryan Cooper 12/12/2012
Why raising the Medicare eligibility age would be harmful. By Aaron Carroll 12/11/2012
Scholars have discovered some foods played pivotal roles in history of civilization. Peanut butter is not one of them. By Justin Peters 12/11/2012
Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health, but it doesn’t necessarily save money. By Aaron Carroll 12/10/2012
Help Republicans rescue their party from itself. By Jonathan Alter 12/10/2012
Lincoln: Best film ever about . the House of Representatives. By Sarah Binder 12/09/2012
Two assessments of the Jim DeMint era and its aftermath. By Adele Stan 12/09/2012
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navarro on December 25, 2012 8:12 AM:
mr. kilgore--i don't know what it looks like on your browser but to me it seems that you have accidentally posted the daylight video 3 times.