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Zipcar and Flexcar started an economic revolution in urbanized America. But how much are we willing to share?

Guy Molyneux [“Can Obama Make the Pivot?” June 2011]argues that President Barack Obama must address the deficit and do so by contrasting more sharply Democratic and Republican priorities. In Molyneux’s telling, the public wants to cut the deficit and, moreover, believes that doing so would help the economy. This seems to afford the president no […]

September 11 was good for Washington, D.C.’s economy, but the expansion has not helped many on the bottom.

As someone who underwent ex-gay therapy for three years — and not because I was “going undercover” as gay to fancy myself an investigative reporter — I couldn’t care less if a clinic owned by Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and her husband, Marcus, practices ex-gay therapy. I’m not saying I don’t feel sorry for […]

When should the media cover politicians’ sexual improprieties? Adam Serwer: So, shortly after Arnold Schwarzenegger left office, we found out that The Governator fathered a child out of wedlock with an employee. Did the media fall down on the job here? Patrick Caldwell: No. The press already wrote about Arnold’s womanizing past when he first […]

p>What are some of the X-rated videos found in bin Laden’s compound? “Debbia Does Dubai.” –Judith Long, The Nation “72 Virgins Do Heaven.” –Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones “Girls Gone Staid.” –Eliot Nelson, Huffington Post “Abbotto-Bad Girls.” –Katie Halper, Laughing Liberally “The U.S. Defense Budget: Filthy! Hardcore! and Barely Legal!” –Baratunde Thurston, The Onion

A new right-wing magazine launches and inadvertently redefines the meaning of “diversity.”

Charles Murray surveys the crisis in white America and isn’t sure whom to blame.

Republicans have gotten the memo about diversity, but that doesn’t mean they want to talk about it.