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Jon Chait is spot-on in this NY Mag piece. "Did liberals really expect more? I didn't." And neither did I.

Tax and spend........ Republicans?

This NYT piece on new research showing how increased decision making (even minor choices) can lead to a decrease in willpower to make fur...

Amazing New Yorker article on how we "got" Bin Laden . Tale for the ages....

( via Newk ) Chuck Klosterman does a great post on Led Zeppelin - how they can be so ostentatious, yet so awesome . ( via Meals ) An old Rol...

(via VH1) David Leonhardt explains in the NYT why the early states - Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada - totally skew federal ...

( via Meals ) Mother Jones has a good story on a program that allows inmates to train wild mustangs . A very cool program that touches also...

Ryan Lizza, one of my favorite political writers, has an expose in the New Yorker on Obama's foreign policy in light of the recent ...

( via Syd O ) Mother Jones reports on American Prairie Foundation's efforts to restore thousands of acres in the de-populated plains ba...

Heilemann describes how Boehner and is caught between a rock and the Tea Party on the budget standoff, and things aren't going to get b...

Christianity Today had a great article on " hipster churches " back in September - both the encouraging and the annoying aspects.

Last week's New Yorker has a very long - but very interesting story - about writer, Paul Haggis' resignation from Scientology . Wh...

John Heilemann has a great profile in New York Magazine about all the shake-ups in Obama's white house, his readjustments, his boosted...

....Think again. Read this interesting post in Forbes about the bill John Adams signed in 1798 whereby the government mandated that certai...

Guernica has a good article about how Lockheed has its fingers in the entire gov't and is all over your private life .

This is old news to me (and a source of a continuing headache). Kids should think long and hard about whether law school is really worth the...

" The John Hickenlooper Exception " runs in the NYT Magazine , profiling his unorthodox manner and rise to governor.

White House photographer Pete Souza's favorites from this year. Some wonderful frames.

I've never really liked Harry Reid ... but maybe that's because I never (like most Americans) really knew anything about him. This ...

Obama's press conference last week, announcing his much derived tax-cut deal with republicans ended on a massive note. This Daily Beast...

( via Syd O ) Check out Charles Hugh Smith's post on Baumol's Disease and productivity. It's a tour de force describing how prod...

I found this Pauline argument for a meat taboo based on global warming to be very convincing (unfortunately, because I love meat). Take a ...

( via VH1 ) Nick Kristof's op-ed describes how the inequality found in the US rivals that of any 3rd world nation .