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Turn Off the TV? Scalia's Baffling Civics Lesson

Todd Brewster | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: New England Patriots, South Carolina Bar Association, Ralph Waldo Emerson, New York Giants, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Antonin Scalia, Citizens United, Super Bowl, Politics News
Todd Brewster

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia offered this advice about our political process: if you do not like the rash of intensely negative campaign commercials on television this year, the ones made possible by the court's 2010 decision in Citizens United, then turn off the television.

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Crisis Philanthropy: Partnerships & Co-Investment

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, State Department, Epa, Bill Clinton, Judith Rodin, Rockefeller Foundation, Public/Private Partnerships, Clinton Global Initiative, Hud, Luis Ubinas, Ford Foundation, Melinda Gates, Hillary Clinton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dot, Michelle Obama, Impact News
Michael Likosky

Tough economic times demand that not only foundations but also individuals and governments embrace this leveraging. I call this new approach to giving Crisis Philanthropy.

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Books: David McCullough's Latest Tackles Americans in Paris

Michael Giltz | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: History, David McCullough, Paris, Books, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Sumner, Mary Cassatt, Samuel Norse, Oliver Wendell Holmes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Michael Giltz

In his new book, David McCullough looks at the many artists, scientists, people of medicine and thinkers who made the voyage back across the Atlantic to find inspiration and knowledge in the City of Lights from roughly 1830 to the end of the century.

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If Works of Art are 'Strikingly Similar,' Is That a Problem?

Daniel Grant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Childs, Trade Dress, Artwork, Joshua Kaufman, Plein-Air, Richard Prince, George Harrison, Business of Art, Copyright Law, Thomas Shine, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Arts News
Daniel Grant

One talks of "drawing from life," perhaps of being a "plein-air" artist, but the fact remains that most art looks more like other art than like life, ...

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More Fowl Talk for the Holidays

Hugh Rawson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drumstick, Euphemisms, Table Manners, Language, Civilized America, Dark Meat, Oliver Wendell Holmes, White Meat, Diary in America, Dickinson, Food News
Hugh Rawson

The terms "white meat" and "dark meat" are used so commonly today that most people forget that they started out as euphemisms, popularized by our Victorian ancestors, who shied away from uttering the dreaded word breast.

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Promoting Infrastructure Investment on the Cheap

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Lazard, Charlie Rose, p3s, Michael Bloomberg, Morning Joe, Felix Rohatyn, Building America's Future, Infrastructure Bank, Clean Energy, Afl-Cio, Texas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Transportation, Public-Private-Partnerships, Msnbc, Infrastructure, Joe Scarborough, Ed Rendell, John Kerry, Bernard Schwartz, Rosa DeLauro, BLS Investments, Rick Perry, Mika Brzezinski, US Chamber of Commerce, Seiu, Business News
Michael Likosky

If members of Congress vote on their policy preferences instead of politics, the National Infrastructure Bank will enjoy broad-based bipartisan support in the New Year.

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Only About the Law?

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pastor Terry Jones, Chief Justice John Roberts, First Amendment, Margie Phelps, Dignity, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Westboro Baptist Church, Sean Summers, Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., Snyder v. Phelps, Respect, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Privacy, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News
Jim Lichtman

In Snyder v. Phelps, what of the grieving families? Are they not entitled to the respect, privacy and dignity accorded individuals at a time of great anguish?

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The (Mis) Information Age

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthers, First Amendment, Death Panels, 9/11, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cognitive Bias, Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Sarah Palin, 9/11 Truthers, Misinformation, Media News
Dr. Jim Taylor

The problem is that there is no longer any source of objective and trusted information. These days, you can't find "fair and balanced" news anywhere.

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Why Sotomayor Couldn't Really Save Baseball

Michael Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nfl, Baseball, Branch Rickey, Lamar Hunt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor Baseball, Sonia Sotomayor Baseball, Entertainment News
Michael Shapiro

In 1995, Cal Ripkin did not save baseball, and nor, for that matter, did Sonia Sotomayor. They both helped the game, mightily. But salvation remains elusive.

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Stimulus: Republicans Screw Car Makers and Buyers

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lexus LF-A, Captive Imports, Maryland, President Barack Obama, Detroit Three, Ford Taurus, Cars, Congress, Joe Biden, Toyota, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Code Pink, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Japan, Chrysler, Tokyo Motor Show, Economic Stimulus Package, Tesla Roadster, Wall Street, Bob Nardelli, Republicans, Uaw, Senate, Business News
Steve Parker

The bill passed by Congress yesterday throws a one-two punch at our auto industry and consumers.

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What Issues? It's About Personality!

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dalai Lama, John McCain, 1932 Depression, Presidential Campaigns, George W. Bush, Obama, Mccain, Franklin Roosevelt, Barbecue Guy, Missile Gap, Barack Obama, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lifetime TV, Richard Nixon, John Kennedy, John Kerry, Stanford University, Every Woman Counts, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
Tom Alderman

Whether we admit it, or not, presidential campaigns are more about personality than policies, temperament over brains, and has been since broadcasting began.

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