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Matthew Yglesias

• The Fairness Scare Marin Cogan has a great piece on the right-wing’s mobilization against the phantom menace of ...
• The Napolitano Future There’s some interest in what becoming Homeland Security Secretary would mean for Janet Napol...
• Henke on CAP Jon Henke has a smart post at The Next Right about CAP/CAPAF and the role these institutions have p...
• I Am Terrifying I may not be as hot as Ezra Klein, but I’m really smart: Whatever their provenance, the publi...
• Wonking Out on Somali Pirates Most of the coverage I’ve seen of the Somali pirates issue has viewed this primarily through ...

Glenn Greenwald

• Five detainees ordered released "forthwith" after seven years at Guantanamo (updated below)� A federal district judge, Richard Leon, today ordered the�Bush administration &quo...
• Salon Radio: Scott Horton on war crimes prosecutions (updated below w/transcript) Scott Horton wrote the cover story for the current ed...
• Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder (updated below - Update II) Even before there has been a single Cabinet selection announced, ...
• Has there been too much bipartisanship or too little? (updated below - Update II) As Senate Democrats this morning prepare to reward Joe Lieberman ...
• The mind of the Democratic leadership (updated below - Update II) An article in The�Hill, describing how profoundly House Democrats...

Crooked Timber

• All Free Songs Considered My free music posts have been generally well-received, so here’s another. First, if you don&#...
• What do SUVs and luxury cars have in common? The answer: they are too big for the afwerkplekken that were built around 1986 in Dutch cities suc...
• You Little Bobby Dazzler Soc Blogger Jeremy Freese won this year’s Interactive Fiction Competition, where the goal is ...
• Global rules and regulators Dani Rodrik had a provocative blogpost a little while back: Here is the dilemma we cannot evade. ...
• Make-work I’m so far behind on this one. Here’s a figure based on a table Eric sent me. Ther...
• Grading Education Richard Rothstein’s new book Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right just got added t...
• Book cover My first book is coming out with Cambridge next year, The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, In...
• Furious agreement, parts II and III It’s an analysis familiar to most on the Left. Support for laissez-faire is a hypocritical p...
• When old age shall this generation waste …. Bowl Originally uploaded by Chris Bertram I bought a Song dynasty Qingbai bowl at the week...
• Reading Cohen I’ve suggested to some of the other CTers that we should have an online reading group on G.A....

Kevin Drum

• From religion to recession FROM RELIGION TO RECESSION.... Two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed castigating...
• Rove's odd advice ROVE'S ODD ADVICE.... I'm trying to pick my favorite part of Karl Rove's latest colum...
• We're hiring WE'RE HIRING.... In case you missed the ad on the right, you may be interested to know that the...
• That's one unpopular party THAT'S ONE UNPOPULAR PARTY.... It seemed at least possible that in a post-election environment,...
• A world-class snub A WORLD-CLASS SNUB.... CNN's Rick Sanchez did a brief segment yesterday, highlighting a video t...