A reported deal between the countries once again reveals how American politicians who supported the Iraq invasion refuse to take responsibility for the fallout.
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Who Cares About Clarence Thomas’s Silence?
Criticisms of the Supreme Court justice should focus on merit, not trivia questions about when the last time he asked a question during oral arguments was.
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Daily Meme: The Collapse of Bitcoin, the Online Currency You Never Fully Understood
Yesterday, Mt. Gox, the world’s largest trading platform for bitcoins-the virtual currency that started circulating online in 2009-suddenly went blank. Bitcoin prices crashed. Bitcoin enthusiasts insisted that this was merely a minor hiccup on the currency’s path to world domination. For those of us who are not immersed in this confusing online culture, the collapse […]
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The Scourge of the Businessman Politician
Republicans are counting on a bunch of novices who were successful in arenas outside politics to win them back the Senate, which is good news for Democrats.
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In Shocker, GOP Proposes Cutting Taxes For the Wealthy
Don’t believe the baloney about “tax simplification.”
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Should We Call the Midwife?
How best to give birth is a topic of perennial interest—a conversation between Prospect staffers who stand on different sides of the home birth debate.
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The Home Mortgage Business, Where Cheaters Always Seem to Prosper
A company used by big Wall Street banks for loan servicing is awful at its job; now it’s pulling some pre-crash malarkey on its investors.
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The Size of the Army Tells You Almost Nothing About Our Military Strength
Forget what you’ve heard about “the smallest Army since before World War II.”
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Daily Meme: El Chapo and Our War on Drugs
Splashed all over this weekend’s news was the capture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera aka, El Chapo, the Mexican drug kingpin ranked #67 on Forbes’s “Powerful People” list who got his billions from the being the man in at the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, responsible for an estimated 25 percent of the illegal drugs that […]
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No Credit For Trying
Data from Pew surveys show that when a party loses, its members think it was because it didn’t stand up for its beliefs.
