We know you’ve all been waiting for it. Counting down the days and hours like a kid to Christmas morning or a virgin to prom night. And it’s finally here-the president’s budget. The big doc filled with $3.901 trillion of proposed government programs dropped this morning, and in contrast to years past, the White House […]
Clare Malone
Clare Malone is a freelance writer and member of the editorial staff of The New Yorker. Her work has appeared in The American Prospect, The Daily Beast, Slate, Bloomberg View, and Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology. She is a former Prospect web editor.
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Daily Meme: El Chapo and Our War on Drugs
Splashed all over this weekend’s news was the capture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera aka, El Chapo, the Mexican drug kingpin ranked #67 on Forbes’s “Powerful People” list who got his billions from the being the man in at the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, responsible for an estimated 25 percent of the illegal drugs that […]
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Daily Meme: White Men with Money—The Story of the 2014 Midterms
Since 2014 is already two months in and the November elections only a short nine months away, we figured a brush-up on where all the money will be coming from is in order. As you might have guessed, this will mostly be a list of wealthy white men. Enjoy! As Kermit the Frog once crooned, […]
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Daily Meme: Cold Days in Political Hell
Let’s face it: Despite the greeting-card companies’ efforts to convince us otherwise, February is the absolute armpit of the calendar year. But if you’re sitting underneath your happy lamp, swathed in layers of post-Christmas fat and long underwear, and thinking that things couldn’t get any worse, take heart-at least you’re not a politician in Georgia […]
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Daily Meme: The Afterlives of Public Officials
This week, Ben Bernanke turned in his magic wand of fiscal wizardry and officially stepped aside as Federal Reserve chair. So what next? What new heights does one scale, or what hills of money does one slide down, after you’ve conquered your own particular corner of the world? In Bernanke’s case, he’s headed into the […]
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Daily Meme: The State of Our Union? Super-Stoked, Apparently
State of the Union addresses used to be no-frills affairs-in 1790, George Washington delivered one that was probably around 6 minutes long to a joint session of Congress in New York City, leaving him plenty of time to swill a couple mugs of cider with his boys and get to bed at a reasonable hour.Thomas […]
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Daily Meme: It’s Complicated—The Wendy Davis Story
It’s not going to be all pink sneakers and inspiring grassroots action this week for the Wendy Davis gubernatorial campaign down in Texas. On Saturday, The Dallas Morning News broke the story that key facts of her hard-scrabble, single-mother biography had been “blurred” by the campaign: Davis was divorced at 21, not 19, the age […]
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Rob Ford’s Tragedy, Our Shame
There’s no question the Toronto mayor is unfit for office, but the way our culture treats addicts in the public eye is downright embarrassing.
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Jezebel Grew Up
The website used upstart humor to teach feminism to a generation. Now it’s a media “influencer.”
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On Seamus Heaney, Who Made Me Love Poetry
The Irish poet and Nobel laureate is dead at the age of 74.