The New Republic

Peter Harbage is a Washington DC-based health policy analyst who worked with both Senator John Edwards and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on their individual mandate proposals. He has also worked at both the Center for American Progress and the New America Foundation. READ MORE >>

The Biggest Flaw in Cap-And-Trade? Follow the Power Lines. by Bradford Plumer The Unintended Consequences of the UN’s Latest Indictment of Israel, by Yossi Klein Halevi READ MORE >>

Michelle's already flagged Ben Smith's Politico piece on the Andrew Young-John Edwards soap opera, but I just wanted to add my two cents--or, at the very least, get a blog post out of my one Andrew Young story. READ MORE >>

Politico is spotlighting a long piece about the pathos of Andrew Young, the former John Edwards staffer who made the ultimate sacrifice for his beloved boss: publicly claiming to be the baby daddy of Rielle Hunter's child, only to be later kicked to the curb by his idol. READ MORE >>

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right By Jennifer Burns (Oxford University Press, 459 pp., $27.95) Ayn Rand and the World She Made By Anne C. Heller (Doubleday, 559 pp., $35)  I. READ MORE >>

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right By Jennifer Burns (Oxford University Press, 459 pp., $27.95) Ayn Rand and the World She Made By Anne C. Heller               (Doubleday, 559 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>

Norm Coleman. John Edwards. Ursula Plassnik. READ MORE >>

The News & Observer reports that Rielle Hunter showed up at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, today to speak the grand jury investigating whether John Edwards misused campaign funds to buy her silence about their affair. Who knows what Hunter told the grand jury, but it's curious she brought her 18-month-old daughter with her. --Jason Zengerle READ MORE >>

Alan Wolfe is a TNR contributing editor and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. His latest book is  The Future of Liberalism (Knopf, 2009). READ MORE >>

The Washington Post's Alec MacGillis gets on the phone with John Edwards, who says: "The two things I'm on the planet for now are to take care of the people I love and to take care of people who cannot take care of themselves." I'm in no position to assess how he's doing on the first score, but he's failing on the second--at least judging from the rest of MacGillis's article: READ MORE >>