What about the appeal of fresh faces and new ideas? Nah.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
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Border insecurity and the cheapening of life
Cheney’s appalling defense of torture a depressingly suitable end to the political season
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Laughing all the way at the eggheads from Harvard and MIT
What do over-priced Chinese food and the Affordable Care Act have in common?
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How big can America get before its political system starts to buckle?
Demographic shifts may put consensus out of reach.
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Protesting our lack of purpose
Landing on Mars won’t distract the nation from racism, inequality and environmental threats.
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Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and the perversity of political triage
How geography and economics explain the disparate reactions to grand jury decisions.
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Getting manic in pop culture and politics
Television critic Willa Paskin writes in Slate about quick-burning obsessions in popular culture including public radio 39 s true-crime podcast ldquo Serial rdquo the first season of ldquo True Detective rdquo and the last season of ldquo Breaking Bad rdquo and hellip cronuts ldquo We ar
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Disabled seniors could be a powerful voting bloc
New report estimates that there are 16 million Americans over the age of 65 that are disabled.
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Respecting protest, from Ferguson to Hong Kong
Americans admire act of bearing witness to injustice in other nations more than our own.
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Anti-immigration cartoon too rich with irony for Thanksgiving
Stoking fear of newcomers on the day of the Pilgrims