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Courtney Martin on the environmental impact of babies: Let’s be honest, babies aren’t known for being camera-shy, but they’ve really been hogging the spotlight as of late. There’s that new Focus Features film, Babies. And then last week The New York Times Sunday Magazine explored their morality in a cover story chock-full of images of […]

Mark Schmitt on the value of policy smarts: New political eras have a kind of Robert’s Rules of Order rhythm to them. First on the agenda: old business. Then on to the new. And that’s the point at which we find ourselves in the Obama era — we are about to bring the unfinished business […]

Gershom Gorenberg on Jerusalem Day: Lest it be said that I never agree with anything that Benjamin Netanyahu says, I actually concur with one clause — not a whole sentence — in the speech he gave Tuesday evening. “The struggle for Jerusalem is a struggle for the truth,” the prime minister of my country said. […]

Nisha Chittal gets answers on Skynet Facebook: If you’ve considered deleting your Facebook account within the last 30 days, you’re far from alone. Consumer backlash to Facebook’s recent privacy policy changes has grown so rapidly that Facebook called an all-hands meeting this week to discuss privacy issues. Marc Rotenberg, however, doesn’t want you to boycott […]

Adam Serwer travels to Guantánamo Bay: When you visit the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay as a journalist, you’re supposed to write about the McDonald’s. The McDonald’s means one of two things: It is either proof that Guantánamo Bay isn’t the evil place all the human-rights activists said it was, or it is the […]

Matthew Yglesias on the European Union’s unsolved economic problem: Last week, the United States got its first genuinely good jobs report since January 2008: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an increase of 290,000 jobs in April. By the weekend, however, the economic forecast was once again cloudy, this time due to renewed concern over […]

Gabriel Arana wonders how such a draconian anti-immigration bill passed in a state where the population is 30 percent Hispanic: Nogales, Arizona’s largest city on the Mexican border, is situated about 70 miles south of Tucson, along a desert valley spotted with Spanish-era missions. Home to 20,000 people, 97 percent of whom are Hispanic, one […]

Tim Fernholz on the midterm elections and the economy: The signs of an intraparty rift are easy to spot, and tensions are rising between a Democratic White House concerned with its own image and congressional allies facing their toughest election in years. A muted public (and political) reaction to the Democratic National Committee’s big 2010 […]

Laura McGann says goodbye to the ubiquitous social-networking site: The chorus of pro-privacy, anti-Facebook bloggers is getting louder. Facebook wants to keep track of everything you “like” — all over the Web and even in the real world. McDonald’s has signed on as Facebook’s first geolocation partner. Whatever that means. The Observer has a deeper […]

Paul Waldman on citizenship, Miranda rights, and American values: When Faisal Shahzad attempted to explode his absurdly amateurish car bomb in Times Square and was quickly caught, the response was one we’ve come to expect. It didn’t matter how forthcoming Shahzad was — some conservatives were terribly disappointed that he wasn’t being tortured and characterized […]