Rejoice! Congress won at not ruining the Constitution today! The Super Committee won at doing nothing. NERD FIGHT. Round Two. Or three. This has been going on for a while. The Monkey Cage’s John Sides added his two cents to the Economics v. Campaigns election forecast debate, saying that it’s difficult to assess how effective […]
Jaime Fuller
Jaime Fuller is a former associate editor at The American Prospect. Follow @j_fuller
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What to Read Before You Unwonk Tonight
The Super Committee doesn’t have much time left to make a decision on deficit reduction. As November 23 approaches, the media coverage of its inability to agree on anything will grow exponentially. Someone should do a graph on that instead of focusing on what the possible outcomes of the Super Committee could mean for the […]
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What to Read Before You Unwonk Tonight
The GOP candidates are turning the Republican Party into a Toyota with its brakes on fire. They realized too late that their math on how many debates were essential to show off that they were 1) not Obama and 2) really conservative, was a bit off, but it’s too late to stop now, and the […]
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What to Read Before You Unwonk Tonight
The big story of the day was the surprise evacuation of Zuccotti Park early this morning, prompted because the “health and safety conditions became intolerable,” according to Mayor Bloomberg. Although the situation seems dire, with journalists being arrested, protesters injured by aggressive police officers, and the vibrant camp being dismantled, nobody should interpret this as […]
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What to Read Before You Unwonk Tonight
Catch up on the day’s biggest news.
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Tweets from Last Night’s GOP Debate
The Prospect rounds up the top quips made on Twitter.
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Ohio’s in the Bag, but Mississippi and Maine are Toss-Ups in Referendum Votes
Polling is a mixed-bag for controversial initiatives from around the country.
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You Say Tomato, I Say Potato
Yesterday, The New Republic‘s Alec MacGillis arrived at the conclusion that Mitt Romney’s famous flip-flopping and President Obama’s pragmatism were one in the same: A politician who considers himself driven more by case-by-case pragmatism than any overarching philosophy, who likes to get all the smartest people in the room to hash out an issue, probing […]
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A Scary Guide to the GOP Tax Plans
We rate the Republican candidates’ tax plans on a creepy Herman Cain grin meter.
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Chump Change We Can’t Believe In
Tomorrow night is the third-quarter fundraising deadline and the speculation games have already begun. The New York Times looked at 2008 Obama supporters who are now fed up with Obama and unwilling to sacrifice even $3 because Obama didn’t deliver the change they believed in. This line of thinking will likely frame how the new […]
