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Rick Snyder, Michigan’s Reluctant Union-Buster
Bazooka Joe Has Been Honorably Discharged
Donald Ritchie Will Answer All Your Weird Questions About the Senate
There was a time when, if you asked Donald Ritchie how to smuggle a gun into the U.S. Capitol complex, he could give you an answer. The trick, he tells me, would have been to do it in a coffee can, as police used to allow staffers entering the Capitol to pass those around the metal detector. READ MORE >>
A Romney in Palin Clothing: The Political Style of Kelly Ayotte
DeMint: Farewell, Filibusteringest Senator
Fashionable Romanticism, stopping the presses, and Wilde's witticisms: Today's TNR Reader
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! Does the acid kaleidoscope of fashion month mark the return of Romanticism?Los Angeles Review of Books | 19 min (4,700 words) READ MORE >>
GOP Lacks Leverage, but It's Still Got Spin
GOPocalypse: A Guide to Republican Purges
“And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” —Revelation 9:6 READ MORE >>
How to Solve the Fiscal Cliff? Start With a Gag Order
Since election day, our polarized political parties have been sparring over the fiscal cliff in public. We’ve been treated to press conferences and campaign-style events, offers and counteroffers. The result has been very little, if any, tangible progress. READ MORE >>
The Legal Crusade to Undermine Obamacare—and Rewrite History
Can one very determined libertarian and one very distorted version of history keep millions of people from getting health insurance? We’re about to find out. READ MORE >>
