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Indianapolis Star photo/ Matt Kryger D AVID Hyde Pierce joins Carmel Center for the Performing Arts Artistic Director Michael Feins...

S URE sure, it's Politico . But then we're the country that hosts Politico , and worse, like agar-agar hosts the pneumococcus bacill...

W AS it depressing, or just depressingly familiar, when David Leonhardt told Stephen Colbert Tuesday night that "Medicare is by far the...

Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake, "Liberals hate the deal. So what?" August 3 David Weigel, "Bachmann vs. Romney". Aug...

Alec MacGillis, "Angry liberals seek silver lining in debt-limit deal". August 1 F IRST thing we do is add "vertebrate...

Chris Cillizza, "The debt-ceiling deal: Winners and losers". July 31 Peter Wallsten and David Nakamura, "Did Obama capitulat...

Ben Harper and The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Take My Hand Fountains of Wayne, Please Don't Rock Me Tonight Leon Russell, Dixie Lullab...

Paul Krugman, "The Centrist Cop-Out". July 28 So what’s with the buzz about a centrist uprising? As I see it, it’s coming from p...

I S there any reason I shouldn't just imagine that everything in this country not originally constructed of shit has been turned into sh...

Richard Cohen, "The GOP's real headache: a lack of courage". July 25 Amy Gardner, "Pawlenty struggles to step out of B...

• Anybody seen the Inhofe family lately? I do hope they're enjoying their summer. • Yeah, it's been hot here, too--it's the fuck...

Ross Douthat, "Anders Behring Breivik May Be a Euro-Conservative, But He's No Fundamentalist Christian, So There. Plus Bill Clinto...