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No, Kids, Do Not Listen To The Lady Who Thinks You Should 'Run At The Guy With The Gun'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.18.2012 | Politics
Read More: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Sandy Hook Solutions, Eat the Press, Media Criticism, Video, Sandy Hook, Sandy Hook Shooting, Megan McArdle, Bad Ideas, Politics News

You know what the dumbest thing I've read since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is? It's the same thing everyone else is calling the dumbest...

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Shanah Tovah: It's Not About Being Happy -- It's About Doing Good

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman | Posted 11.16.2012 | Religion
Read More: Dan Ariely, Rosh Hashanah, Sonya Lyubomirsky, Russ Harris, Goodness, Megan McArdle, Happiness, Religion News
Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman

There are two Hebrew words that we say many, many times over these High Holy Days. Those two Hebrew words are, of course, shanah tovah. And yet we almost always mistranslate them.

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Newsweek's Numbers Are 'Alarmist,' Economist Says

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 09.10.2012 | Home
Read More: Newsweek, Megan McArdle, College, Megan McArdle Newsweek, Newsweek College, Newsweek College Education, Justin Wolfers Newsweek Megan McArdle, Justin Wolfers Megan McArdle, Justin Wolfers Megan McArdle Newsweek, Justin Wolfers, Justin Wolfers Newsweek, Home News

Newsweek just published a cover story arguing that college is not worth it for many young people. But there is little evidence to support that claim. ...

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TV's Show Depiction Of D.C. Irks 'Atlantic' Blogger

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2012 | DC
Read More: Television, Video, Megan McArdle, District of Columbia, Homeland, The Atlantic, Showtime, Movies, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Yet another TV show gets D.C. wrong. The latest offender? Showtime's "Homeland," the critically acclaimed show about a troubled if lo...

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The Transformative Power of Failure?

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Success, American Enterprise Institute, BAM Radio Network, Michael Jordan, Education, Ted Williams, School Leadership, Megan McArdle, Rick Hess, The Atlantic, Frederick M. Hess, Thomas Edison, Failure, Holly Elissa Bruno, Jean Twenge, Impact News
Justin Snider

Can failure transform us in important -- and healthy -- ways? Should we champion failure as much as we do success? And in the field of education, should we learn not just to live with but to love leaders who fail?

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As the Aging Stoop to Their Labors, Prosperous Pundits Lecture Them About Sacrifice

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Deficit Commission, Alan Simpson, Megan McArdle, Tom Friedman, Anne Applebaum, Media News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The aging American workforce is being vilified, in much the same way the poor were in previous decades. Politicians and pundits who once might have spread myths about "welfare queens" are now describing retired people as "greedy geezers."

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There Are Zero Good Reasons to Block Elizabeth Warren

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Middle-Class Squeeze, Wall Street Reform, Wall Street, Megan McArdle, Financial Reform, Regulation, Obama, Subprime, Cfpb, Consumer Protection, Mike Konczal, Business News
Zach Carter

The political case for appointing Warren is even stronger than the policy case. Choosing anybody other than Warren will not make Obama appear reasonable or moderate--it will make him look weak and corruptible.

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Elizabeth Warren and Her Discontents

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Elizabeth Warren, The Two-Earner Trap, Megan McArdle, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Atrios, Cfpb, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

President Obama must choose between appointing Ms. Warren or placating the big banks. There is no Third Way. Unfortunately for the President, Elizabeth Warren is a yes or no question.

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Who Duped Rolling Stone Gonzo Reporter Matt Taibbi?

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Goldman Sachs, The Atlantic, Matt Taibbi, Naked Short Selling, Fraud Files Blog, Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Economic Policy Journal, Diane Tucker, Short Sellers, Clusterstock, Penson Financial Services, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Don Imus, Obama Wall Street Bonuses, Banks, Economy, Regulation, Merrill Lynch, Ceos, Magazines, Taibbi Victim of Hoax, Short Selling Hoax, Investment News, Dan Jamieson, John Carney, Megan McArdle, Gary Weiss, William K Wolfrum, Robert Wenzel, Penson's Letter to SEC, Tracy Coenen, Kid Dynamite, sequenceinc.com, Citigroup Stock, Citigroup, Naked Short Sellers, Matt Taibbi Teaches Short Selling, Bear Stearns Collapse, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Bear Stearns, Youtube, Business News
Diane Tucker

Taibbi, Rolling Stone magazine's teen heartthrob, became a sensation last month after calling Goldman Sachs "a giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity."

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The Atlantic: Taibbi Is 'Becoming The Sarah Palin Of Journalism'

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Rolling Stone, Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Megan McArdle, Taibbi-Goldman-Sachs, Business News

Matt Taibbi's much-discussed take down of Goldman Sachs in Rolling Stone has begun to get its share of criticism. Today, Joe Weisenthal at Clusterstoc...

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NY Times Writer and His Mortgage Woes

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Subprime Crisis, Mortgage, Subprime Mortgages, Megan McArdle, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Oprah, Financial Crisis, Financial Journalism, Edmund Andrews, Media, Foreclosure, Foreclosure News, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

It does make you wonder: What would this story read like if his wife wrote it? And I'm not convinced that Andrews' airing of his dirty laundry is such an act of bravery.

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The iPhone Refugee

August J. Pollak | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Iphone, Technology, Libertarian, Megan McArdle, Refugees, Business News
August J. Pollak

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