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Adam Serwer
Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the Daily News. Follow @adamserwer
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What’s Up Geithner’s Sleeve
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner can rely on a few tricks to keep spending after the debt-limit is reached, but it won’t be a long-term solution.
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Is Obama The Greatest Moderate Republican President Ever?
Ezra Klein makes the case: Perhaps this is just the logical endpoint of two years spent arguing over what Barack Obama is — or isn’t. Muslim. Socialist. Marxist. Anti-colonialist. Racial healer. We’ve obsessed over every answer except the right one: President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican from the […]
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Islamism And Egypt, Ctd.
Last week I flagged that YouGov poll from last week showing that only 25 percent of Egyptians want an Islamic state and only 27 percent support overturning the Camp David peace agreement with Israel. Today, Pew released a new poll of Egyptian residents that has considerably different results on religion and Islamic law: Likewise, Pew […]
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DOMA And Gitmo
Yesterday, former Solicitor General Paul Clement resigned as a partner from the firm King & Spalding after they reneged on defending the constitutionality of the ban on federal recognition of same-sex marriage in court. Clement offered this rebuke to the firm. Brian Beutler reports that pressure came from one of the firm’s corporate clients, Coca […]
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Obama, Manning, And Guilt
This video flagged by Michael Whitney last week, which contains an exchange between President Barack Obama and a supporter of alleged leaker Bradley Manning in which Obama flatly states Manning broke the law, makes me uncomfortable. On the substance of this exchange, I largely agree with the president when he says, “I can’t conduct diplomacy […]
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GoT And Sexism
I think it’s obvious to me and everyone who has read the books that the frequent scenes of sexual violence in Game of Thrones are a commentary on gender in fantasy in general. Where frequently fantasy stories focus themselves on the heroism of the male rescuing the damsel in distress, George R.R. Martin lingers with […]
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On Hell
I find this from Ross Douthat pretty unpersuasive: Atheists have license to scoff at damnation, but to believe in God and not in hell is ultimately to disbelieve in the reality of human choices. If there’s no possibility of saying no to paradise then none of our no’s have any real meaning either. They’re like […]
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Jennifer Rubin Never Stops Being Classy
Jennifer Rubin offers this insight on the role of speculation in driving oil prices: The president’s search for the bad guys reminds me of O.J. Simpson’s search for his ex-wife’s “real killer.” In fact, there is no bogeyman in the oil industry; to the extent there is market distortion it is of the administration’s own […]
