We need to start asking the question now, because if the Supreme Court strikes down all contribution limits, disclosure will be the justification.
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Roberts Court: Government Must Be By, and For, the Wealthy
Everyone who thinks that the rich don’t have enough influence on American politics can rest easier. In an expected but still depressing decision today, the Supreme Court struck down aggregate limits on how much an individual can donate to politicians and political parties within a 2-year window as a violation of the First Amendment. Having […]
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The News Isn’t the Silencing. It’s the Debate
The strange idea of keeping American Jews from arguing about Israel is going out of fashion.
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Plowed Under
Across the northern plains, native grassland is being turned into farmland at a rate not seen since the 1920s. The environmental consequences could be disastrous.
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Laying It All Out On Medicare
Paul Ryan’s budgets may contain a lot of fuzzy math. But unlike most in his party, he’ll say exactly what he wants to do to Medicare.
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Daily Meme: Spy Games
Cold War nostalgia is hot these days. Everyone who’s anyone is watching The Americans, FX’s taut drama about Soviet sleeper cell spies living in the the suburbs of Washington, D.C., during the 1980s, making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for their kids by day and carrying out hits by night. Vladimir Putin got geopolitcally retro […]
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The CIA and the Moral Sunk Costs of the Torture Program
Once they sold their souls, they had to justify the sale, even if it meant misleading everyone about what torture was achieving.
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Soldiering on an Empty Stomach
The number of military families seeking food assistance has risen; even more need the help but are afraid to ask. Something’s wrong.
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Daily Meme: Obamacare’s Computer Problems
By today’s Obamacare deadline, 7 million Americans will have signed up for health-care insurance through one of the Obama administration’s online exchanges-despite continuing technical difficulties that have plagued HealthCare.gov since its launch. Shortly after midnight last night, site operators discovered a bug in the system that required them to take the site offline. Things were […]
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Jeb Fever Sweeps GOP; Symptoms Likely to Be Mild, Temporary
The GOP establishment is looking for a savior. But does Jeb Bush have fire in his belly?
