View image | gettyimages.com That, of course, is Venus Williams. At the age of 34, and despite suffering from Sjogren’s syndrome, a chronic autoimmune disorder, Williams is staging a mini-comeback of sorts. She just beat former world #1 Caroline Wozniacki to reach the quarterfinals at the Miami Open.
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Mitch McConnell Is Still Mitch McConnell
The strategy may shift, but he’s the same politician he always was.
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A Taxonomy of Torture Defenses
The people who created, executed, and defend the torture program don’t want history to declare them the villains of this story. But that’s what they are.
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Honor Lincoln and MLK by Getting Yourself an AR-15
An Oregon county GOP shows the world just how experts do their trolling.
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Romney’s Impossible Debate Challenge
It won’t be easy to turn the debates into a turning point.
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Mitt Romney Is Not Courting Black Voters
Don’t believe your eyes.
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Obama Doesn’t Need a CEO.
Now that Larry Summers is departing as head of the Council of Economic Advisors, speculation has begun about who will be “the president’s chief economic advisor.” Ezra Klein tells us that the name being mentioned most is Anne Mulcahy, the former CEO of Xerox. Supposedly, appointing a business leader to the post will reassure the […]
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A Little Reminder
There are quite a few people who work in the health-insurance industry, and I’m sure they don’t like being criticized by politicians and pundits. And I’m also sure that in their personal lives, most of them are kind to small animals and friendly to their neighbors. But for whatever combination of reasons — the need […]
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Cyber Lynch Mobs in China.
For some reason, James Fallows hasn’t commented on this, so I’ll pick up the ball. Last week’s New York Times Magazine had an article (also discussed on NPR’s “On The Media”) about the latest strange trend in China, the “human flesh search engine.” Whatever you thought that might refer to, it actually refers to a […]
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ARE THINGS GOING TO GET DIRTY?
Mark Ambinder reports that Democratic field operations wizard Michael Whouley is working behind the scenes with the Clinton campaign, mixing up his magic potions and casting his spells. Since this is the first time we’ve heard Whouley’s name during this campaign, it made me think back to the come-from-behind win Whouley engineered for John Kerry […]