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Matthew Yglesias

• Chain Reaction I like skyscrapers. And DC has no skyscrapers. It does, however, have what’s basically an enor...
• For the Long Run Matt Miller writes the deficit hawk’s case for running a giant short-term deficit but says it ...
• What Might Have Been An interesting point from Ezra Klein: And though this is a direct victory for Waxman, it’s a ...
• Can’t Mention Someone Named Rudy Without a “Rudy Can’t Fail” Reference A lot of John Hollinger’s purported surprises thus far this season don’t seem very surp...
• The Fairness Scare Marin Cogan has a great piece on the right-wing’s mobilization against the phantom menace of ...

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

• E-Fax hell Some consumer venting. In 2006, I used E-Fax for several months, and then cancelled the service. At...
• 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...

Kevin Drum

• Thursday's Mini-Report THURSDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * It's hard to overstate ho...
• Rahm's Republican outreach RAHM'S REPUBLICAN OUTREACH.... No one seriously expects congressional Republicans to roll up th...
• 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...