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Day's End and Night Watch 27 Aug 2013 | 04:11 am
We published WaMo's "Best Bang for the Buck" rankings of colleges on Friday, but can now offer profiles of some of the "standout" schools. Check it out. Here are some final items of the day--the firs...
Votes For Women 27 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
Ninety-three years ago today, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allowing women a right to vote in federal and in state elections was finally ratified. The amendment cleared Congress o...
Another Kind of Early Voting 27 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
Late-cycle party primaries were for many years common in the South, presumably a legacy of the Solid South days when Democratic primaries were "tantamount" to a general election and there was no need ...
Iowa GOP Not Conservative Enough? 27 Aug 2013 | 01:27 am
At the New York Times yesterday, Jonathan Martin wrote a catch-up piece for those who haven't been paying attention (or reading Political Animal) to the early 2016 GOP skirmishing over and in Iowa. Lo...
Lunch Buffet 27 Aug 2013 | 12:09 am
It's natural when something like the Washington Monthly's 2013 College Guide comes out to just check and see how Alma Mater or your favorite football school did and leave it at that. But you will be r...
It's All Very Simple 26 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Like Jonathan Chait, I thought much of David Farenthold's big WaPo weekend piece on federal spending was "weirdly biased." Jon's right that it used "crude, badly deployed statistics" to convince us go...
When Does the Awful Specter of ObamaCare Truly Appear? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
One of the conceits behind the sputtering conservative drive to make a Final Apocalyptic Stand against ObamaCare in the appropriations process is that the new law becomes effective on October 1, the d...
TRAP Is Working 26 Aug 2013 | 09:42 pm
So the big switch in antichoice tactics to a combo platter of late-term abortion restrictions and TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) provisions allegedly justified by late-term abortions...
Dr. Dumb-Down's Race Lecture 26 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
Over the weekend Gov. Bobby Jindal continued his campaign to translate his insights as the Smartest Guy In Every Room to the poor unwashed in overtly patronizing prose, just short in condescension to ...
More Equal Than Others 26 Aug 2013 | 07:43 pm
If you haven't tuned out the "de-fund Obamacare" talk altogether, you may have heard that the self-appointed ringleader of the "shut 'er down" cult determined to force a government shutdown if the Aff...
