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The Colbert Report

Gates, McChrystal, and Some Really Cool Boomerangs

The Debates We Are Not Having on Iran

An Afghanistan Poll That Should Worry Obama

The Stimulus Paradox

U.S., Egypt Co-Sponsor a Resolution on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. What the Hell is Going on? Only the A.P. Reported This: I Wonder Why.

Why Charter School Advocates are Excited by a New Study

A Hero Dies in Afghanistan

What Health Care Reform Must Deliver This Year

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Apple Unplugs Itself From Chamber of Commerce

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Does It Matter If the World Loves Us?

The Bloodlust State, Ctd.

Opposite Directions