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The Tom Frank Candidate
Jonathan Martin finds a political ad that he deems the basic playbook for Democratic challengers running this year: READ MORE >>
The Return Of The Rationing Scare
The conservative attack on health care reform has always been a highbrow-lowbrow combination. The lowbrow route attacked health care reform as a draconian cut in health care benefits, wantonly slashing costs and denying care to the elderly. The highbrow attack took the opposite line, insisting that health care reform was doing nothing whatsoever to control costs and blaming the Obama administration for its lack of steel. READ MORE >>
Dead, Man
There was a time when Dennis Hopper exulted in the reputation of being the first kid who knew what was wrong with Hollywood. What he said, more or less, was that the movies have gone dead, man, that it’s just old-timers doing it all on automatic pilot, that there’s no truth, anymore, man, and they won’t put me in lead parts. READ MORE >>
Gas Prices and Consumer Behavior
The discussion around the oil industry’s proposal for a linked carbon fee has raised some interesting questions about altering consumer behavior. Will a rise in the retail price of gasoline lead Americans to drive less or consume less fuel overall? READ MORE >>
The Republican Sprint Away From Sanity
Because Congress failed to adopt a bipartisan deficit commission on its own, President Obama created one through executive order on Thursday. This comes as a disappointment to members of both parties who had endorsed the Conrad-Gregg bill: that proposal would have forced the Congress to vote on the commission’s recommendations, while the administration’s initiative does not. READ MORE >>
The Tea Party Glossary
Here's one thing about the Tea Party movement everyone can agree on: It's confusing. With decentralization as a core value, the Tea Party phenomenon can seem like a baffling collection of individuals and organizations, often divided against each other. But with its first national convention now underway in Nashville, and as Tea Party groups gear up for campaigns around the country, it's time we met the movement's main players. Herewith, a handy guide. READ MORE >>
High Speed Rail Dollars Flow--But Not to the Desert
Conservative Crocodile Tears About "Corporatism"
The Civilian Surge Myth
How can we snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in Afghanistan? There's one solution that has attracted analysts of all stripes: a "civilian surge," where development and political advisers working for (or contracted by) the State department and the U.S. Agency for International Development flood the country and turn the tide against the insurgents. READ MORE >>
TNR’s Supreme Court Archive
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings begin this week. To get the juices flowing, we dug up some TNR articles, old and new, on the highest court in the land. DEEP IN THE ARCHIVES Felix Frankfurter, February 5, 1915: "Brandeis" READ MORE >>
