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Avoiding Congress’s fiscal bombs
February 05, 2012 11:00 
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A grim surprise was tucked inside the Congressional Budget Office’s latest budget outlook. Economic growth, it said, would be only 2 percent in 2012, falling to 1.1 percent in 2013. That’s horrible. It’s far beneath the growth rate required...
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In funding battles, Planned Parenthood’s silver lining
February 05, 2012 08:00
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About a month ago, I started working on a long story about the state of abortion politics. It is published in the Outlook section of today’s Washington Post and, given the past week’s events, I hope it makes for a timely read: Read full...
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Value Added: Building a business built on intelligence
February 05, 2012 07:36
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I am sitting in a basement office in Rosslyn, staring at Google Earth satellite images on a giant flat-screen monitor as computer geeks show me how a SEAL team would take out a drug factory — which in this exercise happens to be my home in...
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Forget Super PACS. A modest proposal for legalizing vote buying
February 05, 2012 01:36
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Who says government can’t get anything right? It was just two years ago that the Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, scraped away decades of barnacled case law obscuring our beloved Constitution and unequivocally established the right of...
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Study: Income inequality may boost your ego
February 04, 2012 08:00
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A new study finds that countries with more income inequality tend to have more people who believe that they are better than average — a psychological phenomenon known as “self-enhancement.” The study, published in Psychological Science,...
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The GOP’s ‘Europe’ is a land of make-believe
February 04, 2012 07:31
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Lately it seems that not a day goes by without a Republican presidential candidate portraying Europe as a socialist nightmare. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum paint a picture of the Old World as unfree, strangulated by bureaucratic...
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Forget super PACs. A modest proposal for legalizing bribery
February 04, 2012 05:16
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Who says government can’t get anything right? It was just two years ago that the Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, scraped away decades of barnacled case law obscuring our beloved Constitution and unequivocally established the right of...
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‘Irrevocable’ damage: 24 hours in the life of a Komen executive
February 04, 2012 01:29
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Around 7 a.m. on Friday, a woman in Laura Farmer Sherman’s office started screaming. “Oh my God,” Farmer Sherman heard from the next office over. “They’ve changed their mind.” Farmer Sherman is the executive director of the Susan G....
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About the Planned Parenthood chart
February 03, 2012 04:11
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Charlotte Allen says it’s misleading: One way Planned Parenthood massages the numbers to make its abortion business look trivial is to unbundle its services for purposes of counting. Those 10.1 million different medical procedures in the last...
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Time for the Fed to double down
February 03, 2012 02:26
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I’ve been meaning to write a longer post disagreeing with some of Matt Yglesias’s calls for a total “regime change” in how we think about monetary policy, but he’s right about this: The incipient strength in the economy strengthens the...
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