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The Strained Attack On Mitt’s Mass. Record
The New York Times Can't Figure Out Millennials, Part 43
This is me giving a great big eye-roll to yesterday’s New York Times op-ed titled “The Parent Trap.” Written by researchers Karen L. Fingerman and Frank F. Furstenberg, it’s the latest in a long line of tedious pieces appearing in national newspapers that diagnose “millennials” with adult infancy syndrome and describe the attendant symptoms. READ MORE >>
Jonah Goldberg Replies!
My most recent TRB column ("Trite Makes Right") took on Jonah Goldberg's contention that liberals, because they make their arguments less openly, recite clichés more often than conservatives do. READ MORE >>
Your Tax Dollars At Work, Wall St. Edition
Editor's Note: We'll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy! There are many ways to cause a society's decay. Treating everything as a commodity is one of the fastest. More>> New Statesman | 5 min (1, 168 words) READ MORE >>
Have Mitt’s Women Troubles Been Overstated?
Religion And Mobility
Richard Florida has an interesting post on the Atlantic’s “Cities” Web site playing with some new state-level data from Pew about economic mobility. Wealthier states tend to have higher mobility, and poorer states tend to have less. READ MORE >>
Crony Capitalism, Minus the Cronies
Attacks on President Obama's "crony capitalism" are a major theme of Mitt Romney's campaign. And the stimulus typically figures prominently in these attacks. As Romney and his allies tell is, the Recovery Act was full of shady, wasteful giveaways to the administration's friends and benefactors. READ MORE >>
