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The Strange Bedfellows of the Anti-Contraception Alliance
Evangelicals and Catholics didn’t always share the same views on contraception and abortion. A look at how their alliance came to be and how it’s shaping crucial legal battles.
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Daily Meme: Happy Straight Pride Day!
It’s not just the scores of 30-somethings who revert to their frat-boy days and fill the streets with their drunken antics on March 17 that have led some in the gay community to call St. Patrick’s Day the straight holiday. For a long time running, parades across the country celebrating Ireland’s patron saint-including the New […]
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Daily Meme: The Conspiracy Theorist Inside All of Us
In 2014 we are used to stories that have neatly-defined, if contradicting narratives, and which resolve themselves relatively quickly, fading into the ether. Which is what makes the story of the Malaysia Airlines flight that has been missing for a week such an engrossing one. The narratives are muddled, the experts all seem to be […]
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The Imagined Reagan Will Live Forever
John McCain accuses other Republicans of being insufficiently Reaganish, despite what Ronald Reagan actually was.
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Tolerance For the Non-Religious, Here and Around the World
As on most things religious, the United States is an outlier.
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The Magnificent Anderson
Yes, Wes Anderson’s films are hyper-stylized, but they’re rich in meaning too. None more so than The Grand Budapest Hotel.
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Daily Meme: Outrage City
Washington runs on many things-power, bureaucracy, and the frenzied exchange of business cards, to name a few-but if there’s one resource we have more of than any other city in America, it’s outrage. True, most of Washington’s outrage is utterly insincere, offered up in an attempt to get people angry at one’s political opponents over […]
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Ezra Klein’s Queer New Hire
Vox Media’s decision to bring Brandon Ambrosino on board is click-bait contrarianism at its worst.
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Tesla, Car Dealers, and Anti-Competitive State Laws
Auto sales are governed by state laws written by car dealers, which Tesla wants to change. Will the advocates of free enterprise rush to their side?