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FiveThirtyEight

Everyone Loves a Parade. Especially When It’s on a Military Base. - As Washington grumbles about President Trump’s order to hold a military parade in the capital, the Army’s 82nd maxes out the potential for a show of might.
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Politico Top Stories

Schiff: Trump’s spy theory ’a piece of propaganda’ - The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Sunday dismissed claims by President Donald Trump that an FBI informant was used to undermine his pr...
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Matthew Yglesias

Whiplash as White House now says North Korea summit is back on - Just days after President Trump canceled the Singapore summit with North Korea in a signed letter, the White House is already back to talking as if the sum...
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The Moderate Voice

How Christian media is shaping American politics - President Donald Trump with televangelist Rev. Pat Robertson. AP Photo/Steve Helber Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University For Americans growin...
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League

The orgastic future recedes before us - Matthew Stewart's piece on "the 9.9 percent" in the Atlantic is more interesting (and probably easier to remember) than jeremiads about the "one percent"...
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Hit & Run

Will a New Question Scare Illegal Immigrants Away from the Census?: New at Reason - When the idea of measuring the United States' population every 10 years was first codified, the mission was pretty straightforward: Tally up the "Number...
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Talking Points Memo

White House Gift Shop, TPM Investigation Continues! - Earlier today I told you about the curious story of “The White House Gift Shop”. It has a nice built...
1 day ago
Cato-at-liberty

Counterterrorism Spending - The Stimson Center’s new study group report found that the federal government spent about $2.8 trillion on counterterrorism (CT) activities since 9/11. ...
2 days ago
George F. Will

The best way to tell if someone is a conservative - The 1912 strife between conservative and progressive-populist Republicans feels familiar.
2 days ago
Secular Right

New Era, New Priests: E.R. Dodds, Rome, Christianity and Intersectionality - Writing in the American Conservative, here’s Gilbert Sewall on the Oxford classicist, E.R. Dodds. Read the whole thing, really, but here is Sewall discuss...
1 week ago
Marc Ambinder

What Are Heartburn Home Remedies - Are you suffering from heartburn? Are you in search for the effective heartburn remedies that will solve your problem? You’re in luck! Continue reading for...
4 weeks ago
The American Scene

Cassandra's DeLorean - Consider a policy that, in retrospect, proved to have pretty severe downsides. Now recall that there was probably someone who predicted this at the time,...
2 months ago
Volokh Conspiracy

Move to the Reason site - (Eugene Volokh) We’ve moved to the *Reason* site — at http://reason.com/volokh — as part of a new joint venture with *Reason*; if you aren’t redirected au...
5 months ago
Megan McArdle

Adjust contrast of a pdf free - Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are saving. the proce...
8 months ago
The Daily Dish

It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...
2 years ago
Will Wilkinson

Libertarianism and the Politics of Everything - It is a precept of Athenian philosophy in the Socratic tradition that the impetus to philosophy begins with wonder at the heavens, but the attempt to act...
3 years ago
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Think Progress

Whiplash as White House now says North Korea summit is back on - Just days after President Trump canceled the Singapore summit with North Korea in a signed letter, the White House is already back to talking as if the sum...
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Al Jazeera

Israel begins building marine barrier along Gaza border - Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman says the new barrier will prevent the 'possibility of infiltrating' Israel by sea.
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memeorandum

NFL shows who and what it values with new anthem policy (Jemele Hill/The Undefeated) - Jemele Hill / The Undefeated: *NFL shows who and what it values with new anthem policy* — Rather than let things play out, the league created a new con...
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NYT Home Page

The Evangelical Fight to Win Back California - As the primary approaches, Franklin Graham brings Jesus — and a conservative political message — to a state with a vast pool of evangelical voters.
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NYT International

A One-Eyed Québécois ‘Rambo’ Captures Imaginations in Canada - The superhuman wartime exploits of Léo Major, a Quebec soldier, are inspiring a new generation of Canadians. “If he were American, there would’ve been a do...
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Playbook

U.S. team arrives in North Korea to prep for potential summit -
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Democracy in America

Stacey Abrams’s historic win - THIS WEEK, Stacey Abrams became the first African-American woman ever to win a major-party nomination for governor when she beat Stacey Evans in Georgia’s ...
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TAPPED

The EU Leads the Way to Internet Privacy Over Profit - (Yui Mok, AP Images) Today begins a revolution in how personal data is collected and managed online. The European Union implements its General Data Prote...
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Free exchange

How to interpret a market plunge - FOR much of the past two years, market watchers have had little to write about, apart from the passing of one stock-index milestone after another. The ev...
3 months ago
Haaretz Diplomacy

Palestinian killed by Israeli army gunfire in West Bank - In separate incident, Palestinian man seriously wounded by IDF in clashes near Hebron.
3 years ago
Haaretz News

Local authorities complain of high cost of waste recycling - Cities say cumbersome and inefficient bureaucracy to blame.
3 years ago
American Conservative

ISIS, the Neocons, and Obama’s Choices - Though Congress and the president are out of town, the final weeks …
3 years ago
Ben Smith

Remainders: Onward - Remainders: Onward
6 years ago
Glenn Thrush

Cantor 'stunned' by Virginia Tech shootings - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Thursday that he was “saddened and stunned” at the news that two people, including a poli
6 years ago
Economix

Q&A: The Fed’s Rate Cut - Answering some basic questions, and some big ones, about today's rate cut.
9 years ago
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