 |
 The Week - A run on Kabul Bank — the nation's largest — is triggering fears of an Afghan financial meltdown. Should the U.S. step in? |
| A bank bailout for Afghanistan?
(The Week)
|
 The Atlantic Wire - The options could hardly be starker for Labor Day movie-goers. On one hand, there's the blood-stained Machete,
which seems to revel in the number of body-parts it dismembers for the pleasure of audiences. And, of course, there's also that
European-tinged, art-house hitman movie with the relatively unassuming poster
of George Clooney furrowing his brow. What's that one about, exactly?
It appears that nearly half of our nation's finest critics lost their
patience with the slow-burning film before trying to figure that out. |
| How Old School Is George Clooney's 'The American'?
(The Atlantic Wire)
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 The Atlantic Wire - |
| Why Are the Feds Suing Brash Arizona Sheriff?
(The Atlantic Wire)
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| The Week - With increasing numbers of moderate Democrats balking, Obama's plan to let tax cuts for the rich expire hits a serious snag |
| Do enough Democrats want to extend Bush tax cuts?
(The Week)
|
 The Week - The U.S.-brokered talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority got off to a better-than-expected start — but is resolution really within sight? |
| Mideast peace talks: Reason to be optimistic?
(The Week)
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 The Week - The waters have started to drain in Pakistan, but the country's problems are far from over. The world reacts: |
| Pakistan floods: World reactions
(The Week)
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| The Week - All signs point to big Republican gains in November, enabling the GOP to implement its agenda. But what agenda is that? |
| Is the GOP ready for prime time?
(The Week)
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| The Atlantic Wire - "I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have
come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a
hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues. ... In our online debates, we not only fail to cultivate
charity and humility, we come to think of them as vices: forms of
weakness that compromise our advocacy. And so we go forth to war with
one another."--Alan Jacobs, professor of English at Wheaton College, writing at Big Questions Online. (Via ArtsJournal.) |
| Quote of the Day: Why Internet Debates Are So Awful
(The Atlantic Wire)
|
| RealClearPolitics.com - On Friday, at a town hall in small town Oklahoma, conservative Sen. Tom Coburn said Newt Gingrich is "the last person I'd vote for, for president."Gingrich is "a super-smart man but he doesn't know anything about commitment to marriage."Gingrich lacks, in Coburn's view, "the character traits necessary to be a great president." |
| Newt's Faint Presidential Prospects
(RealClearPolitics.com)
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| The Christian Science Monitor - After the arrest this week of one of MexicoâÂÂs most ruthless drug lords, âÂÂLa Barbie,â media coverage has highlighted his American-born, football star origins. |
| Guns, drugs, and La Barbie: Why America is responsible for Mexican drug cartels
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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| The Nation - The Nation -- "Transformational politics is the work we do today to ensure that the deal we can get on gun control or immigration reform in a year—or five years, or twenty years—will be better than the deal we can get today. Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities." |
| Schneiderman for Attorney General
(The Nation)
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| Huffington Post - Read Sen. Tom Carper's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com |
| The Latest Oil Platform Accident Is a Grim Reminder of Our Energy Challenges
(Huffington Post)
|
| The Atlantic Wire - A Friday op-ed from labor secretary Hilda Solis
tries to strike a delicate balance. At USA Today, Solis attempts to
acknowledge the bad unemployment rate, point to how far we have come,
encourage workers to retrain, and assert that "there are jobs out
there."That's a tough set of points to make while hitting the right
tone, particularly on a day when a terrible July jobs report is
released. Did she pull it off? Over at National Review,
Jonah Goldberg
summarizes the piece as "maybe you're not looking hard enough,"which
probably isn't the message the administration wants to send. Here's the
breakdown so you can see for yourself: |
| Labor Secretary Asserts 'There Are Jobs Out There'(The Atlantic Wire)
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| The Atlantic Wire - Just in time for the long weekend, Rachel Maddow stopped by Late Night to teach Jimmy Fallon the proper way to mix a sazerac, that most beloved of New Orleans blackout specials. Maddow's ideal version of the drink? One that tastes "like liquorice and I'm-not-hung-over-anymore."That sounds reasonable to us. Very reasonable. |
| Happy Hour Vid: Rachel Maddow and Jimmy Fallon Mix Up Some Sazeracs
(The Atlantic Wire)
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| The Atlantic Wire - Citing a Pew Research Poll, The New York Times'Kirk Johnson surmises
that college students, who once swooned for President Obama, are now
beginning to distance themselves from the Democratic Party. The "college
vote,"which traditionally skews Democratic, may be marginalized
this year as young adults become disillusioned with the
administration. The trend comes
at a particularly poor time for Democratic candidates, as Republicans and
Tea Party "insurgents"have been building momentum toward significant congressional gains this November. Pundits parse the numbers, explaining the implications of the latest electoral wrinkle. |
| Young Adults Shy Away From 'Democrat'Label
(The Atlantic Wire)
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