The fact that a law is controversial doesn’t absolve them of their resonsibility to guide the public through it.
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Who Knew Nerd Click Bait Was So Sexy?
Media outlets are racing to attract the wonkiest and the geekiest to crunch numbers for their publications. How did that happen?
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Insurance Companies Got You Down? Stupid Obamacare!
If your insurance company behaves like a rational capitalist actor, it’s obviously Barack Obama’s fault.Â
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Why Lara Logan Won’t Lose Her Job
She’s a rising star, and CBS doesn’t fear liberals the way it fears conservatives.
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Twitter Is Neither Our Salvation Nor Our Doom
Don’t believe the hype, or the dire prophesies either.
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Two Days until Brief Explosion of Christie Mania
Reporters are eager for him to run for president, particularly given the cast of duds currently looking at 2016.
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Double Down to Dullsville
The latest behind-the-scenes account of the 2012 presidential campaign is about to come out, and it looks like there just isn’t that much to tell.
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Boob Jam: Keeping Abreast of a Changing Gaming World
The debate over depictions of women in video games has basically boiled down to “big boobs bad, small boobs good!” A few developers hope to change that.
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Facebook Is Watching You
And they want to watch you more closely than you could have imagined. Will people be comfortable with it?
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The “War of the Worlds” Myth
It didn’t actually cause a mass panic. So why do we like the story so much?
