What is the likelihood that the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and Iranian nuclear talks both end well? Let’s test the odds.
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Obama’s Lie
The president’s untruths about the Affordable Care Act will continue to haunt him.
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Technology’s Invisible Future
When technology gets so advanced, it disappears.
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Daily Meme: America’s Ever-Complicated Affair with Guns
Saturday will be the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that left 20 small children dead. Gun policy in the United States has changed markedly in that year, with 109 new state laws being passed. Seventy of those laws loosen pre-existing gun regulations. Gun-rights groups spent seven times more money lobbying legislatures […]
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The Minimum Wage: A Crash Course
Fast food workers will be striking in 130 cities around the country to demand a higher minimum wage on Thursday.
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Mandela on the Campaign Trail
A memory of Nelson Mandela’s presidential campaign, from his former pollster.
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The Year in Preview: The First Amendment Takes Center Stage
Can we look forward to another year of less than wonderful decisions from the Roberts Court?
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Out of Birth Control—At Least the Long-Term Kind
Lots of women are getting free birth control, thanks to Obamacare. But there are still glitches in the system.
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Conservative Anger Over Budget Deal Now Purely to Save Face
The Tea Party may not be irrelevant, but for the moment they’ve been defanged.
