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Civics Minded (opens the original)
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Here’s a fun fact sure to raise eyebrows at your next dinner party: one of the most popular sources of information about our thriving capitalist economy is a public organization. About 12 million listeners tune in weekly to hear Kai Ryssdal “do the numbers” on public radio, with another two million or so following on podcast and digital platforms. The irony is thick: people eager to succeed in the marketplace turn to the non-market Marketplace. Granted, public broadcasting is clearly not the onl
Don’t Tank our Think Tanks (opens the original)
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Getting to consensus for our Declaration of Independence was hard work, as anyone who has participated in group writing exercises will appreciate. Late in the game, a testy debate threatened to bring down the whole project: in describing “these truths” about certain unalienable rights, Ben Franklin proposed changing sacred to self-evident.What a difference a word makes.As Jill Lepore wrote in her sweeping history of the United States, this was more t
IDF Blues (opens the original)
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No, this is not one of those awful swipes at the heroes of the Israel Defense Forces, whose courage and bravery against barbarism and planned annihilation vastly exceed my facility to express proper admiration and gratitude.Here I’m worried about the other IDF, short for Israel Derangement Fetish, an epidemic that afflicts people on all sides of the proverbial aisle. It is an equal-opportunity enemy of the Jewish people, and like many infectious diseases has no known cure or vaccine and crosses
Playing Horseshoes with American Politics (opens the original)
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As a kid at summer camp, I played horseshoes, but that was long ago and honestly I don’t remember the rules. The game piece is an almost complete oval, left and right tips separated, which you heave across a pit about 40 feet long. If it lands properly it hooks itself around a spike in the ground. If it doesn’t, it drops with a thud on the sand. I had low scores and lots of thuds.All this came to mind while reading David Suissa’s recent article on the state of democratic (
Receptor Sites (opens the original)
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Dana Milbank is a respected Washington Post columnist with a wide following especially among the paper’s “progressive” readership, so it was disappointing to read his recent piece about the state of Israel-US relations. He’s right that Bibi Netanyahu and the right-wing zealots in his government have caused a lot of damage to the soul of Israel and are testing the love and loyalty of man
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