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I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.
Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world... →
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Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.
When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
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Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it... →
As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the... →
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