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IRS Scandal
February 20, 2015
Brian Beutler
The Obamacare Subsidy Challenge Is Built on Fox News Soundbites
July 29, 2014
Danny Vinik
House Republicans Are Helping People (and Corporations) Cheat on Their Taxes
June 26, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Maddening Illogic of the IRS 'Coverup' Conspiracy Theory
March 5, 2014
Danny Vinik
A Democrat Just Blew Up at Darrell Issa Over the IRS Scandal: "It Is Absolutely Un-American”
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August 8, 2013
Molly Redden
The Next Darrell Issa? The House Already Has Dozens!
June 24, 2013
Tod Lindberg
The NSA Scandal Was Good for Obama
While no one was watching, the snooping story muscled all those other controversies out of the way
May 28, 2013
Tod Lindberg
Appointing an IRS Independent Counsel Is a Terrible, Terrible Idea
It's probably bad for Obama, probably bad for his enemies, and certainly bad for America
May 17, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
The IRS Scandal Has Nothing to Do With Obamacare
But that's not stopping laughable attempts to link them
May 16, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
It's the Technocratic Arrogance, Stupid
Obama isn't Bush or Nixon. He's in hot water for behaving too much like Woodrow Wilson.
May 15, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Notes on a Trumped Up Scandal
The IRS fiasco shows that conservatives can be PC too

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