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When the Dubai debt crisis broke over the long Thanksgiving weekend, it was like a gruesome flashback to the fall of 2008: panic buying of dollars, government bonds, and gold; falling stocks in emerging markets; bankers pleading for a government bailout. [ more ... ]
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Tiger Woods' car crash last week caused $3,200 in property damage—$3,000 to a fire hydrant and $200 to a neighbor's tree, the Florida Highway Patrol announced Wednesday. How do you assess monetary damages to a tree? [ more ... ]
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Become a fan of the Political Gabfest on Facebook. We post to the Facebook page throughout the week, so keep the conversation going by joining us there. [ more ... ]
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Beyond his profuse talents as a hard-right media star—as a master of the paranoid style, a fear-mongering clown, a skilled entertainer basing his act on a deliberate misunderstanding of Enlightenment thought—Glenn Beck has a soft side. This time last year, he published The Christmas Sweater, a ...
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Is our health system primarily private, or primarily public? [ more ... ]
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Brothers (Lionsgate), Jim Sheridan's remake of a 2004 Danish film about two siblings separated by war, does one thing brilliantly well: It casts Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal as brothers. It wasn't until the time Spider-Man 2 came out that I could reliably tell the two apart, and the ...
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Thanksgiving, Afghanistan, and the Salahis' next big stunt. [ more ... ]
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Introducing an occasional series answering real questions from fake people about the Senate floor debate on Obamacare. [ more ... ]
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The vice president produced two fresh Bidenisms this week. Please continue to send your nominations (with a link, please) to slatebidenisms@gmail.com. For more, and our stab at a definition, see "The Complete Bidenisms." [ more ... ]
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1) "Par for the Course: Why we can't get enough of the stories about Tiger Woods and the Salahis," by Jack Shafer. Plus: Did Woods lie to Florida law enforcement to keep his wife out of jail? And a history of social climbing. [ more ... ]
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It's Tuesday as I write this—that means the entire Buenos Aires subway system is shut down for the third time this month because of a fight between the subway union's leadership and the workers they supposedly represent. Tomorrow, about 20 groups of piqueteros—groups composed of the poor and ...
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In the 1990s, the evangelical men's ministry the Promise Keepers packed 50,000-seat football stadiums and even stuffed the Mall in Washington, D.C., with close to 600,000 sweaty, Jesus-loving males. Marshaled by Bill McCartney, a former University of Colorado football coach, the group took the ...
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In the Dec. 2, "Supreme Court Dispatches" Dahlia Lithwick misspelled Edwin Kneedler. [ more ... ]
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The thrill of taking a Motorola Droid or iPhone 3GS out of the box comes with a measure of anxiety. This phone, so perfect and so pure—in your clumsy, sweaty hands. How will you keep it safe? What if your precious gets scratched, or scuffed, or broken? [ more ... ]
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Less than 48 hours after seeing Up In the Air (Paramount Pictures), I've mentally downgraded it from sparkling to smug. Jason Reitman's third film has the lifespan of a state-fair churro: tasty at the point of consumption, it congeals soon afterward into its component ingredients of sugar and ...
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(Notice: In July, the Sci Fi Channel rebranded itself as Syfy. This writer joins the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in boycotting this unsupportable offense against orthography.) [ more ... ]
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Europe will add 5,000 soldiers to its contingent in Afghanistan, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced Wednesday. It's not yet clear, however, which European countries will send troops. Georgia, the former Soviet republic, may be the largest contributor. England, Poland, and ...
