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Susan Milligan »
Crowdfunding Zack Braff's Film And Robert Griffin's Gifts Is a Mistake 1 minutes ago

It's understandable that not everyone gives money to the poor. Sometimes people can't spare enough from their own budgets to give to the needy. Some people believe their tax dollars should serve this purpose in a more targeted manner. And there are those who believe that we are all responsible for ourselves and should make our own economic futures.

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Peter Roff »
Poll Shows Americans Find Obama's IRS Story Barely Believable Yesterday

You don't have to believe in the tooth fairy or that the U.S. government has hidden the bodies of space aliens at Area 51 to think something is fishy in the way the news broke that the Internal Revenue Service had been singling out conservative political groups for special, even extraordinary, scrutiny.

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Keith Lee Rupp »
Do Benghazi, AP and IRS Scandals Reflect Obama’s Leadership Style? Yesterday

"Remember, a fish always rots from the head down," a colleague of mine would cackle loudly in his Baltimorean accent. He would do this every time he observed an organizational foul-up at the magazine where we worked decades ago. His voice began ringing in my head last week as we watched a trifecta of scandals wash over the West Wing.

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Susan Milligan »
In Marine Umbrella Incident, Republicans Still Deny Obama Is President Yesterday

Have we become so obsessive-compulsively, potato chip scarfing-like addicted to scandal that we are really having some sort of national discussion about umbrellas?

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Jamie Stiehm »
Obama Isn't Nixon, but Needs More Friends in Washington Yesterday

President Obama survived a terrible week in Washington unscathed in the eyes of the American people. Out there in the rest of the world, his poll numbers are still high.  

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Boris Epshteyn »
Republicans Can't Forget the Economy During Obama Scandals May 17, 2013

The federal government and the media spent the last week digging through the myriad of scandals that besiege President Obama and his White  House. And it is undeniably important to delve deeply into the issues of Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department seizing the Associated Press' phone records. The GOP has been strong in outlining the pattern of government overreach, incompetence and cover-up.

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Q&A

Why a College Degree May Not Be Worth It

Former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett explains why a college degree may not be worth the cost.

Two-Party Politics Is Failing the U.S.

Professor Charles Wheelan explains how centrists could change the Senate landscape.

The Rover Has Landed

NASA scientist Roger Wiens talks about the role Mars Rover Curiosity plays in the future of space exploration.

World Report

Liberia Moves Back from the Brink

President Ellen Sirleaf has made huge strides in turning around a war-torn nation.

Economic Intelligence

What Apple Gets Wrong About Taxes

Apple's CEO is pushing for a big tax giveaway to already hugely profitable companies.

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Robert Schlesinger

An End to the NRA’s Angry Swagger

Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans, and even of NRA members, favor universal background checks.

Mary Kate Cary

Washington’s Toxic Stew

President Obama's burgeoning problems affect more than this week’s three scandals.

Mort Zuckerman

Meeting the Growing Threat of Cyberattacks

We have yet to establish security standards to prevent large-scale cyberattacks on the nation’s critical infrastructure.

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