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Measuring Measurements: Rising GDP in the Great Recession

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Statistics, Free Market, Harper's, Gdp, Ayn Rand, Economy, Economic Recession, Recession, Business News
Harry Moroz

It is so easy in our current political environment to forget that GDP, the unemployment rate, the income tax burden -- a whole slew of measurements -- are freighted with judgments.

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Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment

Ari Melber | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Condi Rice, Msnbc, Harpers, Television Torture, Philip Zelikow, Truth Commission, CIA Torture, 9/11 Commission, Jack Balkin, John Yoo, Sheldon Whitehouse, Moveon Special Prosecutor, John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Cenk Uyger, Bush Administration Torture, Special Prosecutor, Jay Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, Scott Horton, Waterboarding, Pat Leahy, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Torture, Youtube Politics, Youtube Media, Media News
Ari Melber

Rice's recent incident shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment -- using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes.

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I Wish Obama Would Kiss Me

Julia Moulden | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Year of the Ox, Michelle Obama, Harper's, Lewis Lapham, President Obama, Eat Pray Love, Julia Moulden, Elizabeth Gilbert, Michael Valpy, Globe and Mail, New Radicals, The Giving Life, Featured Contributor, Living News
Julia Moulden

Blame it on the Year of the Ox - or the year of hugs and kisses, "ox", as I'm calling it. What got me started was seeing how so many commentators are...

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Food Allergy Deaths: Less Common Than You Think

Meredith Broussard | Posted 01.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Food Allergies, Childhood Allergies, Personal Health, Peanuts, Health, Allergies, Faan, Harpers, Meredith Broussard, Harpers Food Allergies, Living News
Meredith Broussard

Only eleven people died from food allergies in 2005, the last year for which we have data available. More people died from lawnmower accidents.

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Britney For Smart People! Britney Spears Makes Cover Of The Atlantic

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Us Weekly, Harper's, Britney Spears, Atlantic, Naked Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay Lohan Breasts, Jessica Simpson's Rack, Jessica Simpson, America's Next Top Model, Jessica Simpson Breasts, Media News

Via Gawker, we learn that the decline of Britney Spears is the subject of the highbrow academic treatment in the latest Atlantic magazine, after Rolli...

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