Most Americans think it would be a bad thing if robots provided aid for the sick and elderly. Here’s why they’ll come around.
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Where the Death Penalty Stands
Yesterday, New Hampshire narrowly failed to eliminate its death penalty. We offer some charts about capital punishment in the United States and abroad.
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A Song for Gabriel García Márquez–and the Rest of Us
One Hundred Years of Solitude didn’t just crystalize who García Márquez was; it crystalized who I was.
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The Circle of Scam Keeps Turning
Tea Party groups pay conservative radio hosts, who tell their audiences to contribute to Tea Party groups. Everybody wins, except the people forking over their money.
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Daily Meme: Voting Machinations
We’re all about voting and elections today, starting with this Fox News poll showing a wide-open race for the 2016 GOP nomination. Chris Christie leads with 15 percent, followed by Jeb Bush and Rand Paul with 14 percent each, going all the way down to Bobby Jindal with room to move at 2 percent. Looks […]
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Judging Obama’s “Evolution” on Marriage Equality
Will history remember only where he arrived, or also what it took him to get there?
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Did Jesus Have a Wife?
An ancient fragment doesn’t prove that Jesus was married—but it does raise questions about Christians’ attitudes toward sex.
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Daily Meme: The Passion of Kathleen Sebelius
Let’s just say that this has not been Kathleen Sebelius’s year. As secretary of Health and Human Services, she absorbed much of the blame for the botched rollout of the Obamacare website. Even after the White House exceeded its health insurance signup goal–the chance for a victory lap if there ever was one–Sebelius announced last […]
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The Culture War Goes On
Give this to Southern Republicans: they’ll keep fighting even after they’ve lost.
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Uncivil Disobedience and the Opposite of Patriotism
What the conservatives defending that Nevada rancher don’t seem to understand.