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The Real Problem With Ann Romney

…campaign, here vapidity, shallowness and utter self-absorption seem to me striking—and undeniable. When she talks about her own (very serious) medical problems, she gives no indication at all that she’s…

Romney’s Tax Views

…lobbying organizations–less regulation, more privatization, more reductions to earned benefits like Medicare and Social Security, and more tax provisions that favor the rich that the GOP labels–without empirical support– as…

Rick Perry’s 20-20 Vision

…are going to have to find a way to square the utter abandonment of the progressive income tax, a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, a return to explosively inflationary health-care…

Children of Tragedy

labeled his planned attack on Giffords as an “assassination.” So while it is disingenuous to suggest that Loughner’s motivations were primarily political, it is equally insincere to assert that he…