By today’s Obamacare deadline, 7 million Americans will have signed up for health-care insurance through one of the Obama administration’s online exchanges-despite continuing technical difficulties that have plagued HealthCare.gov since its launch. Shortly after midnight last night, site operators discovered a bug in the system that required them to take the site offline. Things were […]
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Daily Meme: Nate Silver’s Fickle Friends
Yesterday, former New York Times numbers nerd Nate Silver-who just launched his own site, FiveThirtyEight.com-set off panic among Democratic leaders by changing his projection about the makeup of the Senate after the midterms from “tossup” to “slight GOP advantage.” Cue the denounciations. In an unusual move, today the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) issued a […]
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Daily Meme: Happy Straight Pride Day!
It’s not just the scores of 30-somethings who revert to their frat-boy days and fill the streets with their drunken antics on March 17 that have led some in the gay community to call St. Patrick’s Day the straight holiday. For a long time running, parades across the country celebrating Ireland’s patron saint-including the New […]
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Daily Meme: Three Weeks and Counting
President Obama’s plot to turn the United States into a paradise for the proletariate is going precisely as planned. According to a survey conducted by the Gallup organization last month, the percentage of Americans without insurance has dropped to 15.9 percent-the lowest rate since 2008. Left-leaning analysts like The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent are cautioning […]
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Daily Meme: Do SOMETHING!
With tensions escalating in Ukraine-according to reports that are disputed by the Russian government, Moscow has issued an ultimatum to soldiers in Crimea-the Washington Post weighs in with an urgent exhortation: The president needs to do something. “For five years, the president has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world […]
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Daily Meme: Is Arizona the New Kansas?
As if Arizona didn’t have enough of a PR problem. Four years after igniting outrage for passing anti-immigrant law SB 1070, the Grand Canyon state is going after the gays. Under the guise of protecting “religious liberty,” on Friday Arizona passed a law that would allow for-profit companies to deny service to gays and lesbians […]
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Daily Meme: Death by Metadata
Backed by billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Edward Snowden confidant and NSA antagonist Glenn Greenwald launched his superblog The Intercept today with a bang: new revelations about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) role in targeted drone strikes. The quick take? They’re going after SIM cards instead of people, which has led to the killing of […]
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Daily Meme: A Slow GOP March Back to the Center
Lindsey Graham just doesn’t get what’s stopping his colleagues in the House from passing immigration reform. “When you ask primary voters in a poll would you support a pathway to citizenship where you have to learn English, pay a fine and go to the back of the line … it’s over 70 percent.” For a […]
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Daily Meme: Music for Marriage Equality
Last night’s 56th Annual Grammy Awards featured Queen Latifah, deputized by Los Angeles County, performing 34 marriages that included both straight and gay couples as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s “Same Love” played. With its full-throated endorsement of same-sex marriage, the song became an anthem of the marriage-equality movement last year. The ratings rundown? 28.5 million […]
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Our Best Longreads of 2013
Revisiting our top pieces from the magazine this year