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Will Wilkinson

In the Happy Shadow of the Jones’s McMansion - As happiness studies become more fine-grained, they become more useful. This paper, drawing on the 2008 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, on t...
40 minutes ago
The Plank

Making No Cents - President Obama has taken his fair share of flak for not following through on campaign promises--from renegotiating NAFTA to reforming immigration to endi...
49 minutes ago
Politico Top Stories

House Dems: Senate is 'dithering' - House Democrats' long-simmering frustration with the slow pace of the Senate has begun to boil over.
49 minutes ago
Ezra Klein

The 1960s, Refracted - While published decades ago, the works of writers like Stanley Crouch and Lisa Jones are still ferociously in the present.
50 minutes ago
Damon Linker

An Unexceptional Nation - Neocons have begun to warm to Barack Obama’s foreign policy vision. What they’ve liked about his recent speeches (at West Point, but far more so in Oslo)...
50 minutes ago
Balloon Juice

Suddenly, last summer - I hate to keep linking to the Kaplan blogs but E. J. Dionne’s piece on the demise of any sort of public option is well worth reading: Take yourself back to...
52 minutes ago
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Daily Wrap - Today on the Dish we saw DC formally embrace marriage equality, marijuana appeared to surpass tobacco use among the youth, Hizballah rebranded itself, and ...
57 minutes ago
FP Passport

Cheap talk on Pakistan - In recent days, a number of press stories have strongly conveyed U.S. officials' demand that Pakistan go after not just the Mehsud tribal grouping, a.k.a...
1 hour ago
Megan McArdle

Michael Cannon Explains it All to You - Regarding the memo from the CBO saying that raising the required medical loss ratio for health care plans would result in the CBO counting the insurers as ...
1 hour ago
AmSpecBlog

Poll Has Crist and Rubio Tied Up - A Rasmussen phone survey taken Monday and released on Tuesday shows Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio tied at 43 percent each for the Republican nomination for...
2 hours ago
The Moderate Voice

Ben Nelson… Meet Mayor Daley - So it looks like the White House is bringing some more of Chicago to Washington. Old Mayor Daley was well known for cutting off all city support to distric...
2 hours ago
Althouse

At the Oranges Hotel... - [image: DSC06182] ... write 4 inches. Do tell.
3 hours ago
Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Communes! - (In Which I Declare What I Could Have Said A Lot Less Complicatedly As An 8th-Grader Who Idolized Hippies …) It started with reading this Sandra Tsing Loh ...
4 hours ago
Talking Points Memo

Brown: I'm In - Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) says he's in for health care reform, even though his key initiative--the public option--and all of its alternatives, have been sw...
4 hours ago
Swampland

Amidst the Lieberman Drama, Some Wrangling Over Drug Prices - Tonight the Senate began voting on amendments to the health care bill for the first time in days. Near the top of the agenda: an amendment from Democratic ...
4 hours ago
Environment and Energy

Momentum Grows For A Shipping Tax--But Will It Work? - Here's one of the slightly-under-the-radar stories at Copenhagen: *The Wall Street Journal* has a piece about how any eventual climate agreement will lik...
5 hours ago
Matthew Yglesias

Endgame - Your little world’s based on lies, lies, lies: — Jon Cohn on Joe Lieberman. — Israeli police shoot 21 year-old tourist’s MacBook. — Dramatic emissions redu...
6 hours ago
The Corner

The Hockey Stick Over Time -- By: Rich Lowry - Over at PG, oddly compelling viewing. ------------------------------
7 hours ago
The Debatable Land

What on earth was Daud Abdullah doing on Channel 4 News? - What a bizarre decision by Channel 4 News to invite the Muslim Council of Britain's Daud Abdullah on to talk about the attempt to arrest the Israeli poli...
7 hours ago
Marc Ambinder

The Invisible Primary, 12/15 - *Tracking the GOP race to 2012* Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized Sarah Palin's climate change op-ed in an interview with the Financial Times; Palin will tr...
7 hours ago
The Spine

Pakistan Shoots Itself In The Foot, In Its Face, In Its Brain. Does It Want To Survive? The President Might Well Ask. - Long before he became president Barack Obama had carved out a reasonably aggressive policy towards Pakistan and its equivocating stance towards Al Qaeda....
7 hours ago
Taki’s Magazine

Tigergate Predictions - Yes, he will return to golf. No, the PGA will not die without him, though it will obviously suffer and each major tournament in which he fails to appear wi...
8 hours ago
Pat Buchanan

Poll Reveals Trauma of Joblessness in U.S. - by Michael Luo and Megan Thee-Brenan - New York Times Old photo from a local Chamber of Commerce telling men to keep walking -- don't ask for jobs here. ...
8 hours ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Lieberman's Vanity - This is a great catch by HuffPo. Here's Joe Lieberman on his opposition to the Buy-In: ...in the interview, Mr. Lieberman said that he grew apprehensive wh...
8 hours ago
Glenn Greenwald

Welcome to Gitmo North - *(updated below)* The Obama administration announced today that it will create a new "supermax" facility in Thomson, Illinois, and will transfer to it m...
9 hours ago
Obsidian Wings

Strange Connections - --by Sebastian Every now and then something happens that makes you see things a little bit differently. Not a major change, not a paradigm shift, but a chang...
10 hours ago
Stephen M. Walt

Dire Straits? - There is an old saying among military experts that "amateurs talk strategy; professionals talk logistics." I was reminded of that while reading a recen...
11 hours ago
Eunomia

Ignoring Reality - Iran is a case in point: Wishing to show flexibility, Obama put Iran’s demand for uranium enrichment on the table, effectively reversing three unanimous or...
11 hours ago
Jeffrey Goldberg

Max Weinberg's Mormon Hanukkah Surprise - Conan liked Orrin Hatch's Hanukkah song so much, he decided to have Max Weinberg return the favor:
12 hours ago
The American Conservative

Taliban Not Fit for Student Consumption - The Wash Post had an article today describing how an Arlington middle school had canceled a mock UN discussion in which one team would represent the Taliba...
13 hours ago
The Long War Journal

Bombing kills 33 in Pakistan's South Punjab - A bombing in a market in the southern district of Pakistan's Punjab province killed 33 people and wounded scores more. Police believe a car bomb was deto...
13 hours ago
The American Scene

Inevitable Tiger Woods post - A friend confesses that what he finds most disturbing about the Tiger Woods saga is the “Jacobinism of monogamy” on display in the public reaction. There...
1 day ago
In Medias Res

My Essential Christmas Albums - Say you're like us, and you broke out the Christmas music right after Thanksgiving (or the end of November, for those of you outside the U.S.), diving righ...
1 day ago
But, I am a Liberal!

Hitch Vs. Wright - But I am a Liberal! Words from a realistic liberal
3 days ago
The Diary of a Secular Conservative

Where Do We Draw The Line? - I was having a conversation with someone the other day and she took a very moderate position when it comes to taxation. “We shouldn’t be taxing people who ...
2 weeks ago
L'Hôte

El Hombre - by William Carlos Williams It’s a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
2 months ago
some political

On Palestinian Unilateralism - The always-savory bitterlemons is especially interesting this week: four essays that seem, for once, to converge in agreement. The topic at hand is Palesti...
3 months ago
Indistinct Union

Spiritual Lines and Action: A (Appreciative/Critical) Response to Craig Hamilton - Craig Hamilton’s new site Integral Enlightenment is worth a look. To say upfront: I really appreciate what Craig is doing and I wish him all the best. H...
3 months ago
Civitate

The City Summer 2009: Full Edition - The Summer 2009 issue of The City has been posted in full via zmags, and is now available below. We hope you enjoy it. var thumb = new Thumb(189236, "myThu...
4 months ago
Postmodern Conservative

We’ve Moved - To new digs getting newer, here. Adjust your bookmarks accordingly, and thanks for your continued readership.
7 months ago
Ross Douthat

A Goodbye - This has been my last week at *The Atlantic*. The magazine has been my home for seven years, under four editors, permanent and interim: The late Michael Ke...
7 months ago
Publius Endures

Can Judges Be Tyrants? - So, I'm returning to these old digs to promote a unique piece on which I'm the co-author over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. The piece is a conversat...
8 months ago
The Left Conservative

In Defense of McCarthyism - It's not online yet, but Dan McCarthy's piece for the first issue of Young American Revolution, is remarkable for a number of reasons. Aside from the fact ...
9 months ago
The Politics of Scrabble

Don’t Take Any Guff From These Swine - In two weeks The Politics of Scrabble will cease to be. The registration is up after one year and given that all of my writing has migrated over to The Lea...
9 months ago
Ladyblog

CPAC Adventures - I’m at the Conservative Political Action Conference in DC, an annual orgy of the right-leaning masses, laden with star-studded speakers and wide-eyed activ...
9 months ago
NeoConstant

A word or two more - Okay. So from a handful of Neo’s former writers I’ve gotten nothing but kind words and encouragement. Thanks to Courtney, Roland, Walker, Edward, etc. for...
10 months ago
The Confabulum

The Ladyblog Lives — Patronize, Please - There’s been some rumors about the fate of C11 now that we’re "officially" over. I can’t speak for the rest of the site, but for now, Ladyblog lives on. Pl...
10 months ago
Upturned Earth

Can I Still Announce My Support for the Journalism Bailout? - No doubt many of you have heard that Culture11 is shutting down, and if you hadn’t yet heard, well now you have. David Kuo and Conor have a pair of posts u...
10 months ago
Crunchy Con

Dhimmitude in Germany - This is a complete outrage: Police in the western German city of Duisburg have admitted they removed flags a student had hung in his apartment in support o...
11 months ago
The New Christians

Mission: Missouri Ministers' School - I've arrived on the shores of the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks in Osage Beach, Missouri, where I'll be addressing a couple hundred Methodist ministers over...
11 months ago

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