- Obama Is Right to Mess With Texas: Texas and NC prove the premise for the scotus decision was flawed. http://www.tnr.com/article/114062/obama-and-eric-holder-take-texas-and-other-states-voting# 94 comments politics
- Barney Frank proposes raising the payroll tax on individuals making at or near $250,000 in income http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111670/would-be-senator-franks-plan-soak-the-near-rich 66 comments politics
- One party, the Democrats, is already acting responsibly. And one party, the Republicans, is not. http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111451/fiscal-cliff-boehner-republican-caucus-tax-cut-increase-wealthy-obama#.unxlt2ss36e.reddit 190 comments politics
- "There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" — Ronald Reagan http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111266/franklin-roosevelt-the-father-gun-control# 44 comments politics
- Mass Shootings on the Rise--2012 Has Been Deadlier Than Ever Before http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111149/why-are-mass-shootings-the-rise 3 comments politics
- President Obama sent Republicans a message on Friday: I won. Get over it. http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109982/obama-fiscal-cliff-taxes-wealthy-boehner-medicare-deficit-jobs# 3 comments politics
- Paul Ryan Was Not The GOP's Savior. He May Even Have Been Its Albatross. | The New Republic http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109881/trust-me-conservatives-more-paul-ryan-was-not-the-answer#.ujvtf01ud6e.reddit 3 comments politics
- If Barack Obama Is Reelected, There Will Be A Freak-Out On The Right. Here Are Some Possible Forms It Might Take | The New Republic http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109647/what-denial-obama-win-would-look#.ujfyzsqtg7l.reddit 12 comments politics
- The Supreme Court exposes Obama's circular logic on wiretapping http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109359/the-supreme-court-exposes-the-obama-administrations-circular-logic-wiretapping# 2 comments privacy
- How the Republican Party (GOP) Destroyed its Moderates http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/108150/the-revolution-eats-its-own# 4 comments politics
- How the GOP destroyed its moderates http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/108150/the-revolution-eats-its-own# 5 comments politics
- The Bookless Library: Don’t deny the change. Direct it wisely http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/david-bell-future-bookless-library 7 comments books
- Obama's Challenge with Young White Voters: according to recent polls, Obama’s support among young white voters has collapsed, falling from 54 percent in 2008 to just 43 percent http://www.tnr.com/blog/electionate/104109/obamas-challenge-young-white-voters 10 comments politics
- Philip Kitcher: The Trouble With Scientism http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/103086/scientism-humanities-knowledge-theory-everything-arts-science?page=0,2 4 comments philosophy
- If Health Insurance Mandates Are Unconstitutional, Why Did the Founding Fathers Back Them? http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/102620/individual-mandate-history-affordable-care-act 378 comments politics
- Romeycare and Obamacare's coverage schemes are identical and Romney "can try to draw distinctions and stuff, but he's just lying." http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/101395/romney-health-mandate-obamacare-usa-today-meet-the-press#.t1ykx9ex45c.reddit 3 comments politics
- Too Big To Fail: How JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon Has Found A Loophole In Financial Reform http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/magazine/78563/way-too-big-fail?page=0%2C2#.tzfmyy2ouzs.reddit 3 comments investing
- A Long List Of The Most Terrible Things Rick Santorum Has Ever Said http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/99240/santorum-surge-2012-vetting-quotes#.twxqhmpo_2q.twitter 170 comments politics
- How George Will Misunderstands Both Elizabeth Warren and Liberalism http://www.tnr.com/article/the-vital-center/95926/elizabeth-warren-george-will-liberalism 3 comments politics
- Why Death Penalty Opponents Are Closer to Their Goal Than They Realize http://www.tnr.com/article/95378/troy-davis-death-penalty-abolish 3 comments politics
- Amid All Our Disasters, Why Are the Only Revolutionaries on the Right? http://www.tnr.com/article/out-time/95012/global-warming-revolutionaries-orwell-tea-party?page=0,1 3 comments politics
- Neocon Reporter Allowed to Call in Air Strike in Libya http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/94245/the-ultimate-in-neoconservative-war-reportage 7 comments politics
- Republicans Say The Stimulus Failed. Independent Forecasters, Non-partisan Experts Disagree. | The New Republic http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/94041/failed-stimulus-recovery-act-worked-obama-infrastructure-investment 6 comments politics
- "Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive." http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/90657/romney-death-watch-reconsidered 4 comments politics
- Obama could simply ignore the debt-ceiling limit, call it unconstitutional, order the Treasury to continue to pay our bills, and Republicans could not stop it http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/91211/congress-really-could-not-stop-obama-ignoring-the-debt-ceiling 12 comments politics
- Kill the economy. Blame the Democrats. For GOP, it's the perfect crime. http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/89465/peter-diamond-fed-shelby-senate-republican-stimulus 6 comments politics
- Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy http://www.tnr.com/book/review/intern-nation-ross-perlin 16 comments business
- Post-Post-Imperialism - Arab uprisings show the power of ideas, power of democracy. Arabs must liberate themselves, and they are doing so. US can't take credit for these revolutions, but it should be at their backs. That's not imperialism, it's friendship http://www.tnr.com/article/84439/post-post-imperialism-arab-uprising-democracy?passthru=zdgxmmi1nguyoge4nzm2yziyodg2ndnhngnmzdizy2e&utm_source=editors+and+bloggers&utm_campaign=d5b174fbda-edit_and_blogs&utm_medium=email 3 comments worldnews
- FDA Rejects Cancer Drug, The Right tarts Screaming About Obamacare http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/80868/fda-avastin-rationing-health-reform 6 comments politics
- The Wikileaks revolution is... about dismantling large organizations—from corporations to government bureaucracies. It may well lead to their extinction. http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/80481/game-changer 16 comments politics
- Does the GOP want the economy to fail? http://www.tnr.com/article/magazine/79739/washington-gop-opposition-quantitative-easing?passthru=yjc4yjhkmjkwzwvjmmnjndcxzdhhyjnlymflztllmtm&utm_source=editors+and+bloggers&utm_campaign=83163618ea-edit_and_blogs&utm_medium=email 6 comments politics
- Almost none of the GOP Senate candidates seem to believe in the idea that humans are heating the planet. http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/magazine/78208/gop-global-warming-denial-insanity?page=0,0 5 comments politics
- Why Kofi Annan's envoy to Africa's last colony resigned in protest http://www.tnr.com/article/world/77562/justice-undone 5 comments worldnews
- Zizek Strikes Again http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/76531/slavoj-zizek-philosophy-gandhi 19 comments philosophy
- It may be hard to hear over the World Cup plastic trumpets, but there are whispers in South Africa that the aftermath of apartheid isn’t working out as planned. Can Jonathan Jansen succeed where Mandela failed? http://www.tnr.com/article/75564/the-healer 4 comments worldevents
- Did it Just Become Legal to Bribe Judges in America? http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/judging-dollars 4 comments politics
- On Sunday, David Frum dared disapprove of the all-or-nothing strategy the GOP pursued to defeat health care reform. It would have done better to engage with Obama and cut a compromise, he wrote, calling the bill's passage "our Waterloo". Now he is unceremoniously booted from his job at the AEI. http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/frum-here-eternity 8 comments politics
- A Strong Public Option Would Actually *Save* Taxpayers $150 Billion Over Ten years http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-treatment/exclusive-early-cbo-score-public-plan-its-good 70 comments politics
- Are we in the early stages of an American-Israeli crisis? http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=00fd8e08-4699-4c30-a42a-bf4daa5680a7 5 comments worldnews
- "I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill." -Biden on the Patriot Act in 2001 http://www.tnr.com/columnists/story.html?id=ba9b09bb-ed01-4582-b6ec-444834c9df73&k=93697 102 comments politics