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Penn Jillette on Bush-Obama: "They both want to kill people, they both want the government to be bigger, and they both want less freedom for individuals."

Matt Welch | 6.21.2010 11:58 AM

Politics

Please Don't Save Us

Journalism doesn't need a bailout

David Harsanyi | 6.16.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

Kane!

Matt Welch | 6.15.2010 11:46 AM

Civil Liberties

Why the Helen Thomas Case Makes Me Nervous

Should a journalist lose her job over an offensive comment?

David Harsanyi | 6.9.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

The Global Grapevine

Sociologist Gary Alan Fine explains what rumors tell us about America's relationship to globalization

Brian Doherty | 6.4.2010 12:00 PM

Policy

Does the BP Spill Validate Socialism?

Matt Welch | 5.28.2010 10:46 AM

Politics

Who Doesn't Hate Libertarians?

Brian Doherty | 5.21.2010 4:50 PM

Policy

Lesbian Lord of the Rings Programmers Creating Open Source Star Wars Apps, or, Can Nonprofit Status Make Newspapers Any Less Lame?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.12.2010 10:35 AM

Politics

Put Him In Bed With the Captain's Daughter: J.K. Galbraith Binge-Drinks to the Death of the CBO

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.6.2010 12:01 PM

Politics

Two Items From the Department of DON'T SPEND A DIME ON THIS!!!

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.5.2010 5:38 PM

Politics

Where Do They Learn to Write Like This?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.27.2010 4:42 PM

Politics

He Ain't Beanbag, But He's My Friedman!

Matt Welch | 4.24.2010 10:27 PM

Politics

David Brooks: It's a Pity We Didn't Drive a Stake Through Barry Goldwater's Dead Heart When We Had the Chance

Matt Welch | 4.23.2010 11:04 AM

Policy

The Upward Spiral of Housing Intervention

Matt Welch | 4.22.2010 10:24 AM

Economics

Because Traveling Where and When You Want To Is So Unromantic

Matt Welch | 4.20.2010 1:17 PM

Economics

The Recovery You Haven't Seen Is Even Less Than Meets the Eye

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.14.2010 6:05 PM

Politics

Racism Updates

Matt Welch | 4.12.2010 10:58 AM

Economics

Gonna Kick Tomorrow, Paul Krugman Edition

Matt Welch | 4.9.2010 10:26 AM

Politics

Racism and Power Politics at The New York Times

Damon Root | 4.8.2010 5:37 PM

Politics

Snots for Teachers

Matt Welch | 4.8.2010 12:29 PM

Politics

Don't You Go Using the Phrase "Nanny State"! Think of the Children!

Matt Welch | 4.5.2010 9:18 AM

Politics

David Brooks, on Obama and the Deficit: "If he had some support, he'd do the right thing"

Matt Welch | 4.2.2010 11:44 AM

Culture

And After Just Two Hours Volunteering in a Chicago Soup Kitchen in 2003, He Developed the Weathered, Empathetic Eyes of a Mother Theresa

Radley Balko | 3.30.2010 1:02 PM

Politics

Frank Rich: Only Totalitarians Compare People to Totalitarians

Matt Welch | 3.29.2010 10:04 AM

Politics

Irritating Lede of the Day

Matt Welch | 3.26.2010 2:52 PM

Culture

From Genesis to Consternation

Robert Crumb's Bible stories

Brian Doherty | 3.26.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

Thomas Friedman's Tee Tea Party

Matt Welch | 3.24.2010 11:07 AM

Culture

Missing the Story

Where's Wikipedia in NYU's list of the decade's top journalism?

Greg Beato | 3.23.2010 4:30 PM

Culture

Don't Fear the E-Reader

Books are evolving, not dying.

Peter Suderman | 3.23.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

Bailing Out Big Brother

Media criticism goes from rebelling against media oligarchs to handing them a lifeline.

Matt Welch | 3.22.2010 3:00 PM

Culture

Reason Praised, Ignored, by List-Makers!

Matt Welch | 3.17.2010 12:05 PM

Politics

Serve the Servants, Especially When They Have Server Issues

Matt Welch | 3.16.2010 11:06 AM

Politics

We Are So Totally Out of Money

Matt Welch | 3.15.2010 4:53 PM

Culture

Kill Your Newspaper? Filloux Flings Fillip at Floundering Feuilletons

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.14.2010 5:29 PM

Politics

David Brooks: Obama "is still the most realistic and reasonable major player in Washington"

Matt Welch | 3.12.2010 11:46 AM

Politics

Mr. Brooks, Meet Mr. Smith

Matt Welch | 3.11.2010 10:34 AM

Politics

"Unanswered" Questions That Answer Themselves in the Very Next Line

Matt Welch | 3.11.2010 9:51 AM

Civil Liberties

"It was as if all he knew was what he had read in his own paper."

Damon Root | 3.4.2010 7:29 PM

Politics

Enough About Canada; Let's Shoot Some Anti-Baseball Terrorists, and Slap a Hockey Puck in the Nuts of Every Nostalgic Writer in New York

Matt Welch | 2.28.2010 11:44 PM

Economics

Friday Fun Link II: The Most Deranged Newspaper of Our Time, Co-Starring Matt Taibbi

Matt Welch | 2.26.2010 11:03 AM

Policy

Who Will Watch The Watchmen?

An interview with National Journal's Shane Harris, author of a new book on the rise of the surveillance state

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.25.2010 4:30 PM

Politics

The Tea Parties' Latest Fan: Bill Kristol!

Matt Welch | 2.24.2010 11:43 AM

Culture

Rosen to Grey Lady: Listen With Prejudice

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.24.2010 8:22 AM

Culture

Books: Still a Load of Crap

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.19.2010 2:02 PM

Politics

Angry Americans Confusingly Hate Both Bailouts and Bailouts

Matt Welch | 2.17.2010 3:23 PM

Politics

E.J. Dionne Discovers Strange Species That Apparently Doesn't Like Always-Expanding Government

Matt Welch | 2.16.2010 12:14 PM

Policy

Krugman's Inflation Incoherence

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.15.2010 3:21 PM

Culture

Save the Newspapers! Or Not.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.11.2010 11:42 AM