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Erick Erickson Begins Tenure At Fox And Good Luck With That, Karl Rove!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.07.2013 | Politics

Erick Erickson, best known for being the Lord Grantham of conservative website RedState, is newly ensconced as an on-air contributor to the Fox News N...

What Is the Future of the New York Times as of Feb. 2013?

Daniel R. Schwarz | Posted 04.07.2013 | Media
Daniel R. Schwarz

My guess is that the Saturday Times will be the first to go, and that will happen within the next few years. The Sunday Times would then become the weekend edition. Probably some years later, the Times will cut back to three or four days in print, and perhaps eventually only the Sunday Times will appear in print.

Jason Linkins

Paul Krugman Battles The 'Beltway Deficit Feedback Loop,' And Not By Himself

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics

Paul Krugman has become the first human I've ever witnessed escaping from the gravitational pull of something with black hole-like density: Joe Scarborough and his gang of deficit hacks.

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Hillary Clinton Is Already Ruining 2016 For Everybody, Apparently

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.30.2013 | Politics

In the real world of actual human life and interaction, there are a lot of things to look forward to in the next four years. There are birthdays and g...

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Hillary Clinton Goes On '60 Minutes' And Unleashes A 2016 Frenzy: The Mediagasm

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.29.2013 | Politics

President Barack Obama sat down for a joint interview on "60 Minutes" with outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the weekend. This provided...

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Free Beacon Claim That New Republic Purged Jewish Contributors Doesn't Hold Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.29.2013 | Politics

The New Republic, over the weekend, unveiled a brand spanking-new website -- the most outward-facing symbol of the magazine's semi-relaunch under the ...

Jason Linkins

Let's Stop Pretending Obama Is To Blame For The 'Tone In Washington'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.26.2013 | Politics

Last Monday, President Barack Obama delivered his second inaugural address to a crowd of mostly contented huddled masses, and within hours of its deli...

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'Bobby Jindal Is Going To Totally Denounce Washington In A Speech' Is Today's Breathless Political Nonsense

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.24.2013 | Politics

Boy howdy, Washington had better barricade itself into The Palm for the next few days because a storm is a-brewin'. A storm of righteous truth, handed...

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Ladies, The National Review Has Got The Perfect Gun For All Your Needs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.23.2013 | Politics

I think that if the Atlantic gets to run what amounts to advertorial content about the Church of Scientology, it's only natural that the National Revi...

Pause to Recognize Global Progress

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 03.22.2013 | World
Howard Steven Friedman

There are most certainly major issues in the world and we need to remain constantly vigilant. At the same time, there is a lack of recognition that humanity has made great strides forward in the past few decades.

Jason Linkins

Aspiring For Renewal, GOP Struggles To Clear Some Low Bars

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.19.2013 | Politics

Because someone has to lose every election, the end of every election year brings a cascade of regret and recriminations upon the losers. And because ...

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Shifting 'Liberal' Attitudes On 'Gun Culture' Are Entirely The Fault Of Three Guys On The Internet Who Went To A Gun Range, Apparently

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.18.2013 | Politics

One of the things that might make passing any sort of gun safety legislation hard for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats is that over the...

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The Wall Street Journal Doesn't Actually Know Any Middle-Class Americans

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.16.2013 | Politics

Matt Yglesias highlights this infographic from a Wall Street Journal article that endeavors to explain how the fiscal cliff resolution will impact tax...

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Daily Caller: Bill Clinton Is Probably Just Watching Taxpayer-Funded Softcore All Day

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.15.2013 | Politics

Being the president of the United States of America is a pretty sweet gig. Heck, just running for president can be pretty lucrative. You don't see Ala...

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'Buckwild' Is What Happens When People Stop Being Polite And Start Producing Poverty Voyeurism

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.10.2013 | Politics

"Buckwild," the West Virginia-centered MTV reality show that's been compared to both "Jersey Shore" and "Jackass," is set for its second airing tonigh...

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United Way Finally Admits That They Do Not Possess A Time Machine

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics

The statement "went out the late evening hours of the 14th, probably between the hours of 10 p.m. and 11 p.m.," [United Way executive vice president I...

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Hillary Clinton Criticized For Long Hours And Travel Because It Supposedly Made Her Less Pretty

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics

Michael Kinsley has a piece out today in which he broadly complains about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton without first figuring out what, exactly,...

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Dick Armey Has A Pretty Weird Explanation For Why He Gave An Interview To Media Matters

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics

Last week, the ousted (but supremely well golden-parachuted) chairman of FreedomWorks, Dick Armey, gave an exclusive interview to the left-of-center M...

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Debt Ceiling Crisis 2013: How Did The Sunday Shows Do In Presenting The Stakes?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.08.2013 | Politics

The Sunday morning political talk shows from this past weekend had two big pieces of obvious chat-show schtick to choose from: the first being the pag...

Why Al Jazeera America?

Courtney C. Radsch | Posted 03.09.2013 | Media
Courtney C. Radsch

Most of America, however, sympathizes with Israel and supported the Iraq war. So what is the station's plan for the U.S. market?

What Do We Need Reviewers for Anymore?

Danny Groner | Posted 03.08.2013 | Media
Danny Groner

On some level, now that everyone has an opinion, nobody's opinion really matters.

Jason Linkins

The Media Needs To Be Trained To Treat Debt Ceiling Dead-Enders As Dangerous People They Are

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics

One of the things that I hope to successfully convey as Congress proceeds from the pooch punt that averted that "fiscal cliff" (that Congress created ...

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John Boehner Reelected Speaker And The First Terrible Predictions Of 2013 Are In

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.03.2013 | Politics

The residual anger of House GOP members that was holding over from the conclusion of the 112th Congress -- a combination of what some saw as a cave on...

2012 Was Not the Year of the Woman

Melissa Tapper Goldman | Posted 03.02.2013 | Women
Melissa Tapper Goldman

With 2012 closing, some are ready to declare a new Year of the Woman. Apparently, the first one did not do the trick. The anemically aspirational "Year of Whoever" trope reminds us how far whoever still has to go, having exceeded our self-defeatingly low expectations.

What Was the Most Underreported Story of 2012?

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 02.22.2013 | Media
Tom Engelhardt

The real reporting crisis involves the inability of the mainstream to connect the dots, almost any dots, or display any kind of historical memory, or include in its daily reporting the sort of information that would make real sense of the "news."