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Fixing Congress and Finding Peace: An Interview with Jack Abramoff

Jack Abramoff helped break Congress, and now he’s trying to fix it.In the mid-2000’s, Abramoff was earning $20 million a year selling his clients access to the Republican House leadership. He owned...

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I’m Pretty Sure Rick Santorum Lied to My Face on Friday

I was in Manchester, NH for one of Santorum’s “Faith, Family, and Freedom” town hall meetings. As the event was getting underway, I asked Bill Boyd, one of Santorum’s spokesmen, about an event earlier...

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On Newt Gingrich’s Warm-Up Music

At His “Hispanic Town Hall Meeting,” Don Quijote’s Restaurant, Manchester, NH, January 8, 2012The first time that the Gingrich campaign played Joe Esposito’s “You’re the Best,” (viz. Karate Kid I) I...

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On Newt Gingrich’s Warm-Up Music

At His “Hispanic Town Hall Meeting” at Don Quijote’s Restaurant, Manchester, NH, January 8, 2012The first time that the Gingrich campaign played Joe Esposito’s “You’re the Best,” (viz. Karate Kid I) I...

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At a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was Removed and Arrested. I Still Don't Know Why.

I’d been in New Hampshire for the past several days to follow the campaign and see some of the candidates in-person. Yesterday morning, I was chatting up a Romney campaign staffer before an event at...

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What I Just Wrote to the Romney Campaign About My Arrest on Monday

On Monday, I was removed from a Romney event in Hudson, NH and then arrested. I then had a deeply disturbing conversation with the police about my civil liberties while sitting in a holding cell at the...

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“Lock Yourself in Your Bathroom and Then Imagine You Have to Stay There for...

This article screams to be shared. In it, The New Yorker‘s Adam Gopnik describes the intense, time-warping agony of life in prison:“It isn’t the horror of the time at hand but the unimaginable sameness...

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Five Disturbing Things About Mitt Romney’s “I’m Not Concerned About the Very...

Yup, not a typo. Romney made those remarks in an interview with Soledad O’Brien Wednesday morning.After all, he said, “We have a very ample safety net and we can talk about whether it needs to be...

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Carlo Rotella on The Wire, How Clinton Was Like a Spielberg Character, and...

Carlo Rotella is Director of the American Studies Program at Boston College. He writes for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Boston Globe. He is also a regular...

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Artur Davis on Life in a Fiercely Partisan Congress, and Why it Might Not Get...

Hey all - just published this interview on my blog, and I thought I'd share it here too.Beginning in 2003, Democrat Artur Davis represented Alabama’s 7th District for four terms in Congress. Following...

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Philosopher Christopher Robichaud on Truth and Knowledge in the American...

Christopher Robichaud’s office at Harvard Kennedy School is filled with role-playing board games, at least one giant John F. Kennedy action figure, and hundreds upon hundreds of books. Most are...

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If You Have $250 Million, You Shouldn’t Be President

Just for a moment, let’s put aside questions of economic policy. Let’s also put aside questions about how Mitt Romney made his money, or about the moral legitimacy of the system that allowed him to...

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